The skid steer loader has often been referred to as the Swiss army knife of construction equipment — switch out the attachment and you can have a compact backhoe, an auger boring machine, a snowplow or a pallet mover. The industry’s move to standardized attachment interfaces between manufacturers made this all possible. Now, we’re seeing a similar standardization across excavators, which makes for some exciting possibilities.

In other words, excavators are the new skid steers.