Best-known for its compact tractors, Kioti has been teasing the construction world for the past few years with plans to roll out its first skid steer and compact track loader.
After the long wait to market, the new TL750 compact track loader and SL750 skid steer are here.
On this episode of The Dirt, we hear from Kioti Product Manager Justin Moe about what sets the new loaders apart and what customers can expect.
Some features on the new models include hydraulic pilot controls, a roll-up door and wide cabs.
To find out more about why Kioti decided to enter the construction market and its first products in the segment, check out the latest edition of The Dirt.
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In This Episode:
00:00 - Kioti Compact Equipment
00:35 - What Kind of Company Is Kioti?
02:01 - Is Kioti a New Company?
03:17 - What Sets Kioti Compact Equipment Apart?
05:15 - EH vs Pilot Controls
06:49 - Roll Up Door
07:42 - Larger Cab Size
09:09 - Value in the Right Places
09:40 - Warranty
10:28 - Final Thoughts

Video Transcript:
Bryan Furnace:
Today we're here to talk about a name that might not come to mind first. When you're thinking of compact equipment, it's KIOTI. If you haven't heard of them, you're not alone, but don't write them off because they're getting into the compact equipment market, and one of the things I like about their stuff is they have true pilot controls. Here to talk more about this is Justin from KIOTI.
Well, Justin, thank you so much for your time. Thanks for being on the show today. I appreciate it.
Justin Moe:
Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having me on the show. I'm really excited to be on and talk about KIOTI's new offerings.
Bryan Furnace:
So you guys aren't one of the bigger names in the industry. In fact, I would venture to say most of my audience probably hasn't heard the KIOTI name. Could you give us just kind of a quick overview of who you guys are?
Justin Moe:
Yeah, absolutely. KIOTI is the North America brand name of our parent company, Daedong. We've been around building our brand for 30 plus years now here in the US. And you're right, we're not as large as some of those bigger manufacturers, but we're expanding really quickly and we're really building out our dealer network. Traditionally, we've been pretty heavy in the East Coast here, but we're starting to expand out to the West Coast, Midwest, opening up new dealerships every year and it's been really exciting, especially with this new construction line of equipment we're coming out with as well.
We started out with tractors has been our specialty for a long time. The compact tractor sector, especially, going from that kind of residential garden tractor all the way up to, now, we have some larger scale utility tractors getting all the way up to that 115 horsepower going to the larger agriculture like some of those custom hay guys that you have.
Yeah. We've really been building our brand, building our name within the industry, especially in the tractor. Now we got UTVs, zero turns and like I said, the construction line as well with the skid steers and the compact track loaders.
Bryan Furnace:
Got you. I do think it's important to let the audience know, while you guys are kind of new getting into the construction sector, you guys aren't strangers to the dirt. I mean one of your core business products is the compact tractor line and like you said, even getting into that 115 horse model, you've got some bigger dirt machines out there in the market currently.
Justin Moe:
Correct. Correct. That was one of our big pushes for moving into the construction line is some landscapers use compact tractors within their normal operations, sometimes interchangeable with how they use a skid-steer. Maybe they put some sort of a plane or a grader off the back of the tractor to do fine grade on finishing some jobs. When we started looking in this construction sector as an opportunity for us, we found that our dealers and our customers were already really demanding it. They're like, "You guys have been building this great tractor for years." We have our own engines, we put in all our own units, so anything diesel that's KIOTI, it's our own engines we put into it. We've had these proven engines out there for years, which has been fantastic. Yeah. That was a big push for us to move into this track loader and skid-steer market was we already had that demand from our customers and our dealers, them knowing our product already within tractors.
Bryan Furnace:
Interesting. What would you say, on the compact equipment side, what sets KIOTI apart from some of your competitors?
Justin Moe:
That's a great question. For me, one thing that stands out...