New Holland Skid Steer Loader Financing: Inside the L Series and the L328's Real Numbers

We've already covered New Holland's C-series compact track loaders and its E37C compact excavator on this site, but the skid steer is where a lot of New Holland fleets start — a wheeled machine that's cheaper to maintain, faster on hard surfaces, and simpler to service than a tracked loader, which makes it the right first call for plenty of contractors even in an era when compact track loaders get most of the attention.

What the L Series Lineup Delivers

New Holland's L Series skid steers, headlined by the L328, carry forward the vertical-lift boom geometry that's become the New Holland compact-equipment signature — the same lift path philosophy that shows up across the brand's track loaders and excavators. A vertical-lift boom keeps the bucket closer to the machine through the lift and reaches higher at full extension than a radial-lift design, which translates directly into better dump clearance over a truck bed or a wall. New Holland also builds these machines with a wide-opening cab door and a lap-bar or seat-bar operator restraint system designed to get the operator in and out quickly between short cycles — a small detail that adds up over a full day of repetitive loading and unloading.

Real Numbers, Real Jobsite Capability

The L328 carries an operating weight right around 7,900 pounds, putting it solidly in the mid-frame skid steer class that most general contractors and landscape crews reach for as an all-purpose machine — big enough to run a full-size grading bucket or a set of pallet forks loaded with a pallet of block, but still small enough to trailer easily and maneuver on a residential lot. Auxiliary hydraulic flow on the higher-output L Series models is sufficient to run augers, cold planers, and rotary brooms without starving the attachment of oil, which is the difference between an attachment that actually pays for itself in production and one that just adds wear without adding output.

Who Runs a Machine Like This

General contractors keep a wheeled skid steer on hand for material handling, site cleanup, and grading on firm ground where a track loader's extra cost isn't necessary. Landscape and hardscape crews run them daily with forks and grading buckets. Snow and ice contractors favor wheeled machines for their speed on plowed and salted surfaces compared to tracks. If wet or soft ground is more of a factor on your sites, our skid steer and track loader financing guide and our New Holland compact track loader financing guide both help frame that decision.

Own It Instead of Renting It

A skid steer is one of the most frequently rented machines on any jobsite, and that's exactly what makes the rental math sneaky — a few hundred dollars here, a couple thousand there, and by the end of a busy year you've often paid more than half the machine's value without ever owning it. We break down the real numbers in our rent vs. own comparison, and financing instead means every payment builds equity in a machine you keep using on the next job.

BFC can help you finance an L Series skid steer and structure the deal around your seasonal cash flow, and we can help fund your next machine — a compact track loader or the New Holland E37C compact excavator — before this one's paid off. If you're buying before year-end, our Section 179 in 2026 guide shows how much of the purchase price you can deduct.

Financing It the Smart Way

BFC isn't just here to write a check and disappear. We've financed New Holland skid steer loaders for contractors who needed the machine working fast, and we structure the deal around your cash flow instead of a one-size payment schedule. Because we're also in the business of buying and selling equipment ourselves, we know what a used machine like this is actually worth — which means straighter answers on trade-in value than you'll get from a lender who's never set foot on a jobsite.

Ready to move? Apply for equipment financing and we'll build terms around your business. Looking to buy instead of finance new? browse BFC's own equipment inventory for machines ready to go to work. Got a machine sitting idle? List it for sale through BFC for free — no commission, real buyers. Visit our home page any time to see everything we finance.