Bobcat E63 Compact Excavator Financing: What the Jump from the E60 Really Buys You

If your crew has been running a Bobcat skid steer or a compact excavator for years, you already know the brand doesn't redesign a machine just to slap a new decal on it. The Bobcat E63 replaces the E60, and this isn't a paint job update — Bobcat moved the undercarriage, bumped the horsepower, and rebuilt the blade geometry in ways that change what this machine can actually do on a tight urban lot or a utility trench.

The E60 to E63 Jump, Spec by Spec

The E63 runs a 59.4 HP Tier 4 diesel, a 13.5% jump over the E60's engine output, and Bobcat didn't spend that horsepower on marketing — it went straight into arm force and cycle speed. Arm crowd force is rated at 5,767 foot-pounds and bucket breakout force at 9,731 foot-pounds, both meaningful gains that let the E63 rip through compacted clay and broken concrete that would have made the E60 stall and hunt for a different angle of attack.

Max dig depth sits at 13 feet 6 inches, putting the E63 solidly in second-largest-excavator territory in Bobcat's compact lineup — deep enough for most utility and foundation trenching without stepping up to a full-size crawler excavator with the transport headaches that come with it. Operating weight is 13,779 pounds, still light enough to move on a standard tag trailer behind a one-ton pickup, which matters more than most spec sheets admit when you're bouncing between three jobsites in a week.

Why the Undercarriage Move Actually Matters

The detail that gets buried in most coverage of this machine is that Bobcat shifted the undercarriage rearward on the E63 to rebalance the machine and improve digging efficiency — and paired it with an 11.6-inch tail swing overhang built specifically for side-slope stability. On a residential lot where you're digging a foundation three feet from a neighbor's fence, or benching a slope where one wrong lean means a tipped machine, that stability margin is the difference between finishing the cut in one pass and creeping the bucket back and forth all afternoon second-guessing the ground under you. Blade height is also up 21% over the E60, which sounds like a footnote until you're backfilling a trench and realize the old machine's blade couldn't push enough material in one pass to keep pace with the digging.

Who Actually Needs This Machine

The E63 lands squarely in the sweet spot for utility subcontractors, landscape and hardscape crews, demolition outfits working occupied residential blocks, and general contractors who need one machine to handle footings, utility trenching, and site grading without renting a bigger crawler excavator every time the scope creeps. If your business already runs a Bobcat skid steer for material handling, the E63 shares enough hydraulic DNA and attachment compatibility that cross-training your operators between machines is a non-issue — one more reason contractors standardize on Bobcat's compact equipment lineup instead of juggling parts and service relationships across three brands.

The Real Cost of Renting This Machine Instead

A compact excavator this size rents for real money by the week, and every one of those rental dollars disappears the moment you return the machine — no equity, no resale value, nothing to show a bank or a bonding company when you're trying to grow past your current size. Financing the E63 instead means every payment builds toward a machine your business owns outright, one you can keep running jobs with long after the note is paid, sell when you're ready to upgrade, or borrow against when the next opportunity shows up. And BFC doesn't make you wait until the E63 is paid off before helping you fund the next piece of equipment your business needs — that's the whole point of a financing partner instead of a landlord for your equipment.

What This Means for Your Bid Margins

A faster-cycling compact excavator doesn't just feel better to run — it changes what you can competitively bid. Shaving even 10-15% off cycle time on repetitive trenching work means you can either take on more linear feet per day at the same crew cost, or bid tighter on a job and still protect your margin, because the extra arm force and breakout power mean fewer stalled cycles and less time repositioning the machine to attack the same spot twice. Over a season of utility and foundation work, that adds up to real money, not just a nicer machine to sit in.

What to Ask Before You Buy

Before you sign for any compact excavator, walk through a few practical questions with your dealer and your lender: does the attachment coupler match what you're already running on your skid steer, so hammers, augers, and grapples cross over without buying duplicates? What's the actual transport weight fully fueled with a bucket attached, and does that fit your existing trailer's rated capacity? And critically — what's the manufacturer's warranty on the hydraulic system specifically, since that's the component most likely to see real wear on a machine running daily crowd and swing cycles. Getting straight answers on all three before you finance the machine saves you from surprises six months into ownership.

BFC structures financing terms around how contractors actually use equipment — seasonal payment structures for businesses with predictable slow months, terms that match the useful life of the machine instead of a generic loan template, and the flexibility to add a second machine to your fleet as your business grows instead of forcing you to wait until the first one's paid in full.

Ready to Put This Equipment to Work?

Renting keeps you writing checks forever with nothing to show for it. Financing or leasing-to-own through BFC puts every payment toward equipment your business actually keeps — and unlike lenders who make you wait years until one machine is paid off, we can help fund your next project before this one is. Apply for equipment financing today, or if you'd rather see what's already on the lot, browse BFC's equipment inventory for sale. Got a machine sitting idle? List it for sale on BFC's site for free — no commission. Learn more about BFC Equipment Loans on our home page.