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What Size/Model CAT for General Contracting?

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You could talk to your CAT dealer salesman to narrow it down. Will you use it more for Digging or Lift and Carry? The 262C has been a dynamite machine with very few problems. It has a tremendous lift capacity (2700lbs). If you don't need a vertical lift machine, I would check into the 256C, which has the same power train, but radial lift - better for digging. If you could find a C series 1 instead of a C series 2, you will get about 10 extra HP. The advantage of the C over D series is no regen nor DEF. Saving Maintenance and $$. Another option is the 246C. Any of these machines would work great.

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