Bingham Equipment: Three Generations and Three BFC-Approved Brands Across Arizona's High Desert

Walk into any one of Bingham Equipment Company's eleven Arizona locations and you are looking at a dealer that has outlasted three generations of ownership and nearly seventy years of desert construction cycles. Bingham is not the biggest name in compact equipment, but it carries a detail worth knowing before you finance your next Kubota skid steer or track loader in the Southwest: it is one of a shrinking number of dealers that still represents three separate BFC-approved manufacturers under one roof, Bobcat, Kubota, and New Holland, alongside Case and Toro.

That combination matters for a very practical reason. A contractor financing equipment across Arizona's high desert, from the Phoenix metro down through Tucson and Yuma, does not have to choose a single brand loyalty just to keep one service relationship. Bingham's footprint lets a fleet mix Kubota compact track loaders with Bobcat or New Holland iron and still deal with one dealer group for parts, warranty, and service across all of them.

A Family Business Older Than Most of Its Competitors

Bingham Equipment Company was founded in 1956 by Norm Bingham, which makes it nearly seventy years old in an industry where dealer consolidation has swallowed most independents of that vintage. Norm's son Blaine Bingham started as a salesman for the company in 1977, became president within about a decade, and has run the business as president and CEO for most of its modern history. Blaine's own son, Brant Bingham, returned to the company as a general operations assistant after completing a full-time MBA program, timed deliberately to be in place ahead of a wave of staff retirements, the kind of succession planning that family-owned dealers rarely get to execute this cleanly.

That three-generation continuity is not just a nice origin story. A dealer that has planned its own leadership transition for decades is a dealer that is still going to be answering the phone, and stocking the parts, for the full working life of whatever machine you finance there today. Compare that to the dealer-consolidation wave that has absorbed many independent, single-family compact equipment dealers into larger regional or private-equity-backed groups over the past decade. Those larger groups are not inherently worse, but they do not carry the same built-in incentive to think in decades rather than quarters that a founder's grandson, already planning the next handoff, tends to bring to the job.

Eleven Locations, Five Brands, Three You Can Finance Through BFC

Headquartered in Mesa, Bingham now operates eleven locations across Arizona, including Buckeye, Casa Grande, Cottonwood, Lakeside, Mesa, Parker, Phoenix, Prescott Valley, Roll, Tucson, and Yuma. Kubota is represented specifically at the Buckeye, Mesa, Parker, Tucson, and Yuma stores, putting Kubota coverage across most of the state's population centers and a meaningful stretch of its agricultural and construction corridors along the Colorado River and I-10.

The group's full brand lineup also includes Case Construction and Toro, neither of which BFC finances, alongside Bobcat, Kubota, and New Holland, which are three of our thirteen approved manufacturers. That mix is unusual. Most of the multi-brand dealers covered in this series carry one BFC-approved construction brand, sometimes with a second ag-adjacent line. Bingham carries three, which means a contractor financing equipment through BFC in Arizona can realistically shop Bobcat, Kubota, and New Holland compact equipment against each other at the same dealer group, rather than driving to three different towns to compare machines.

One thing worth knowing before you assume a multi-brand dealer blurs every line between manufacturers: each OEM's warranty, parts network, and service bulletins still run on that manufacturer's own system, even inside a single dealer group. A Kubota machine's warranty claim still routes through Kubota's own warranty administration, not some blended Bingham-wide program, even though the same service bay and the same front counter may be handling a Bobcat or New Holland warranty claim an hour later. The convenience is real, one location, one relationship, but it is a convenience of logistics and scheduling, not a merging of each manufacturer's actual coverage terms, and it is worth asking any multi-brand dealer to confirm that distinction clearly before you finance a machine through them.

Why a Multi-Brand Dealer Actually Changes the Financing Conversation

Most equipment-financing guides assume you have already picked a brand before you start shopping for money. In practice, a lot of contractors in markets like Bingham's are brand-flexible, especially on compact track loaders and skid steers where Bobcat, Kubota, and New Holland machines genuinely compete on specs, not just price. A dealer that carries all three removes the pressure to commit to a brand before you have actually compared the machines side by side on your own jobsite's ground conditions, which in Arizona's high desert usually means caliche, decomposed granite, and long stretches of hardpan that chew up undercarriages differently depending on track design.

It also means one service relationship covers a mixed fleet. A contractor running a Kubota SVL97-3 alongside an older Bobcat loader does not need two separate parts accounts and two separate warranty contacts if both machines came through the same dealer group. That is a real, if underappreciated, efficiency that belongs in the financing conversation, not just the buying one.

The Machines: Kubota SVL97-3 and SSV65

Kubota's current flagship compact track loader, the SVL97-3, runs a 96.4-horsepower Kubota diesel equipped with a diesel particulate filter for Tier 4 Final compliance, a detail worth noting because several of Kubota's smaller engines skip the particulate filter entirely, so this is not a uniform company-wide strategy. Operating weight runs 11,676 pounds in open-cab configuration and 11,989 pounds enclosed, with a rated operating capacity of roughly 3,500 pounds, an 8 percent jump over the prior SVL97-2 generation. A 300-pound counterweight option adds another 200 pounds of ROC for contractors running heavier attachments. Auxiliary hydraulic flow tops out at 40 gallons per minute, enough to run higher-demand attachments like cold planers or mulching heads without starving the system.

For contractors who want a wheeled machine on Arizona's paved lots and finished commercial sites rather than a tracked one, Kubota's SSV65 wheeled skid steer runs a 64 gross-horsepower V2607-CR-TE4 engine, a 1,950-pound rated operating capacity, 66.5-inch overall width, a two-speed transmission, and a 41-degree bucket dump angle. On hard, abrasive surfaces, wheels generally outlast tracks and move faster between tasks, which is exactly the tradeoff a desert commercial-site contractor should be weighing against a track loader's flotation advantage on looser ground.

Desert Conditions Change the Rent-vs-Own Math

Arizona's high desert is hard on rental equipment in ways a lot of national rental chains do not price in. Extreme heat accelerates hydraulic fluid breakdown and hastens belt and hose wear, caliche and decomposed granite chew through undercarriages faster than softer regional soils, and dust infiltration shortens air filter and cooling system service intervals across the board. A machine you own and maintain on a known schedule, through a dealer that understands those local conditions, holds up better over a multi-year workload than a rotating cast of rental units that may have come from a very different climate.

That is the core case for ownership over renting in this market: predictable maintenance, a known service history, and a dealer relationship that already understands what Arizona ground does to undercarriages and cooling systems, rather than hoping a rental fleet manager three states away has kept up with it. Phoenix and Tucson have both seen sustained construction growth over the past several years as population and warehouse development push outward, which means more contractors competing for the same subcontract work, and a machine sitting idle waiting on a rental return is a margin a competitor with owned equipment does not have to give up.

Financing Through BFC, Wherever You Buy

BFC Equipment Loans finances construction equipment for startups and existing businesses nationwide, with good or bad credit, regardless of which approved manufacturer or dealer you buy from. Whether you are financing a Kubota SVL97-3 through a multi-brand dealer like Bingham in Arizona or a single-brand dealer somewhere else in the country, the equipment itself and your business's credit profile drive the decision, not the dealer's showroom. Our Kubota equipment financing page covers how that financing works across the current SVL and SSV lineups.

If you are comparing the SVL97-3 against John Deere's 333 P-Tier for a flagship-class track loader decision, our second-look comparison of the two machines is worth reading next. Contractors weighing a wheeled machine specifically should also see our breakdown of the case for a wheeled skid steer on paved and finished surfaces.

The Bottom Line

A dealer that has survived three generations of family ownership and still carries three separate BFC-approved brands under one roof is a genuinely unusual combination in today's consolidated dealer landscape. For a contractor in Arizona's high desert, that means real brand flexibility and a single service relationship that already understands what the local ground and climate do to equipment. For everyone else, it is a reminder to weigh dealer structure, not just sticker price, before financing your next machine.

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