Skid Steer and Track Loader Rental in Arlington, TX

A skid steer has no steering axle; it turns by driving its left and right wheels, or rubber tracks, at different speeds. In Arlington the choice between wheels and tracks usually comes down to ground and rain. Size follows rated operating capacity, the load the maker rates the machine to carry: Bobcat lists 2900 lbs for its S76-2 and DEVELON 3806 lb. for its DTL35 compact track loader. Tracks spread the weight: DEVELON prints 6.5 psi of ground pressure for its DTL26. Clay that the USDA calls "very slowly permeable" takes water in slowly, so a graded pad can stay soft after a storm, and that is when tracks earn their higher rate. Here are the makers' figures, the published national rates and terms, OSHA's rollover and seat belt rules, and what a wet Arlington site does to a loader job.

Two machine types share this page. A wheeled skid-steer loader such as Bobcat's S76-2 (8014 lbs, 74 hp, rated for 2900 lbs) is quickest on pavement and firm base, with a high range Bobcat lists at 11.8 mph; the larger S86-2 is rated for 3500 lbs and lifts to a 144 in hinge pin. A compact track loader (CTL) puts the same layout on rubber tracks. DEVELON's DTL26 and DTL35 use a vertical lift path, meaning the arms raise the bucket close to straight up rather than in an arc, and Bobcat's all-electric T7X offers "Up to six hours of continuous runtime" from a 72.6 kwh battery. Attachments run on auxiliary hydraulics: Bobcat lists 23.3 gpm standard and 30.3 gpm high flow on the S76-2.

Published loader rates are national and come from guides of different ages, so read each with its date. HomeGuide's yard-leveling guide (January 16, 2026) lists "Skid-steer loader rental | $200 - $550 | $750 - $1,300" per day and per week, and Angi's excavator-rental price page (updated July 2026) lists "Skid steer: $200 to $600 per day". Two older marketplace guides price the types apart. The one modified on November 8, 2023 prints wheeled daily rates of "$200-$450" and tracked daily rates of "$300-$500"; the other, from July 31, 2023, puts compact track loaders at "$3,000 to $5,000" a month. The November 2023 guide adds that "pallet forks, snow blowers and augers generally cost extra." Tax follows the Comptroller's Rule 3.294, which makes "Receipts from the lease of tangible personal property without an operator" taxable along with the damage waiver and delivery; Arlington's combined rate is 8.25 percent. Compare classes on our equipment and crane cost page.

Federal and state rules both reach a compact loader. OSHA's rollover rule, 29 CFR 1926.1000, names "crawler-type loaders" among the machines it covers and reaches "rubber-tired skid-steer equipment" manufactured after July 15, 2019; 29 CFR 1926.1000(c) has the material handling machinery described there, if built on or after that date, carry rollover protective structures that satisfy section 1926.1001(c). Seat belts on earthmoving equipment are mandatory under 29 CFR 1926.602, which also wants a reverse alarm or a signaler before a machine with a blocked rear view backs up. Texas adds Utilities Code chapter 251: an auger, bucket or grading pass that removes or disturbs soil 16 or more inches down counts as excavation, so Texas 811 needs the request two business days before work, and weekends and holidays do not count toward that.

Rain on clay is the condition to plan around. Tarrant County gets "a little more than thirty-two inches" of rain a year (Handbook of Texas), and DEVELON prints track ground pressures of 5.1 to 6.5 psi for its two loaders; low pressure is the reason to pay for tracks on soft ground. Summer heat is the other limit: DFW reached 100 degrees F on 27 of August 2026's days, the second-highest August count on the NWS Fort Worth/Dallas list, behind 2011 and tied with 2000 and 1952. Nearby cities publish site work at a loader's scale: Cedar Hill's Historic Downtown has "ongoing streetscape improvements" (Cedar Hill's districts and projects), and Mansfield's Fields at Station 63 adds "eight turf baseball/softball fields" to the Staybolt Street district (Mansfield's Staybolt Street work).

Tell us what the loader will do (grade, load trucks, carry pallets, bore post holes), the attachments and their hydraulic flow, the surface underneath, how the machine gets in, and the dates. The quote is free; it itemizes the loader, each attachment, the rental period, delivery, any damage waiver and sales tax. If an auger or bucket will reach 16 inches, the 811 locate request is placed first, two business days out, by our office or yours, and every loader goes out with its manufacturer's operating information.