ASV
ASV VS-75
The bright segment is what ASV VS-75 is rated to carry; the grey run past it is the rest of its tipping load. Bar length is tipping load drawn to the same scale on every machine on the site, so a short bar is a smaller machine and not a conservative rating.
ASV publishes no list price for this machine, and we found no dealer listing worth quoting, so there is no number here to give you. What we can say is what the machines around it cost: the middle half of the 9 wheeled machines within 15 per cent of its capacity list between $67,909 and $90,000. That is a fact about them, not a quote for this one.
Vertical-lift sibling to the RS-75, the VS-75 lifts 3,500 lbs to a 130-inch hinge pin on the same 74 hp Deutz TD2.9L4 and adds a 26.1 GPM standard circuit at 3,335 psi. It is ASV's answer for truck loading on pavement and firm ground, where wheels beat tracks on cost per hour.
Suits: Truck-loading contractors on firm ground who want vertical lift and 74 hp without a track undercarriage Its vertical lift path reaches highest at full extension, for loading high-sided trucks and stacking.
Lifting and reach
- Rated operating capacityWheeled rating convention
- 3,500 lbs
- Tipping load
- 7,000 lbs
- Lift height to hinge pin
- 130 in
- Lift path
- Vertical Lift
- Operating weight
- 8,910 lbs
Power and hydraulics
- Engine power
- 74 hp
- Engine
- Deutz TD2.9L4
- Auxiliary flowStandard circuit
- 26.1 GPM
- Flow type
- Standard
- Warranty
- 2 yr / 2,000 hr
Fitted or available
What this machine can be ordered with. Some of these are standard and some cost extra, and which is which moves between trim levels, so check them against the quote rather than against this list.
What owners report
Summarised from the sources listed below. Nothing here was tested by us.
Every other machine in this lineup sells on its undercarriage, and this one is the exception - wheels, a Deutz engine, and a deliberate pitch at the buyer who wants ASV's cab and serviceability without a track bill. It is the vertical-lift half of a two-model wheeled range, and the strongest lifter ASV offers on paper.
Where it earns its keep is ground clearance and simplicity. At 10.5 inches it sits more than two inches higher than the class norm with a 24-degree departure angle, which is a real advantage loading onto trailers and crossing rough yards. The Deutz meets Tier 4 Final without regeneration, exhaust sensors or diesel exhaust fluid, quietly removing the emissions-system failures that fill owner complaint threads about competing machines. Service access reflects the same thinking - drain plugs on the chain cases, hydraulic tank, radiator and oil pan, and greaseable pins throughout. The cab carries the frameless door and roof escape hatch from the MAX-Series track machines. What it does not carry is the suspended rubber-track undercarriage, and on wet ground, snow or finished turf that absence is the whole difference.
Hard surfaces, yards and established sites suit it, for a contractor who wants the ASV cab and service story and has no use for flotation - and who has an ASV dealer nearby, because that dealer's parts shelves and the used market both revolve around the track machines. Because no price is published, get quotes from more than one dealer and from the wheeled machines you would otherwise buy. Check whether your quote includes the higher-flow auxiliary circuit, and compare rated capacity honestly against tracked machines: a 50% basis and a 35% basis are not the same number.
What owners like
- 10.5 inches of ground clearance is more than two inches above the class norm, and with a 24-degree departure angle it climbs onto trailers, over windrows and out of ditches without dragging the belly - the one place a wheeled ASV still has a terrain argument.
- The 2.9-litre, 74 hp Deutz makes 192 ft-lbs and meets Tier 4 Final with no regeneration, no exhaust sensors and no diesel exhaust fluid, which removes the emissions-system failures that dominate owner complaints about rival machines this size.
- 5,920 lbs of breakout force with a vertical lift path means it loads a high-sided truck cleanly rather than making the operator creep the bucket forward at full height.
- Serviceability was designed in rather than tolerated: drain plugs on every service item including the chain cases, hydraulic tank, radiator and oil pan, and zerk fittings on the end of every pin.
- The frameless door gives floor-to-ceiling glass and about 52% more clear cab area than earlier ASVs, and a roof escape hatch - rare on a skid steer - is included rather than optioned.
What owners complain about
- Choosing the wheeled machine means giving up the suspended Posi-Track undercarriage, which is the reason most buyers look at ASV at all - on mud, snow and soft turf this has no flotation advantage over any other skid steer.
- The 3,500 lb rated capacity is quoted at 50% of tipping load, the normal basis for wheeled skid steers but not the 35% basis ASV uses on its own track loaders - so it is not the same 3,500 lbs as a VT-100's.
- ASV publishes no list price and routes its configurator to a dealer quote, so there is no posted number to anchor a negotiation against.
- The auxiliary circuit is single-speed as standard with the higher flow an option, so a base quote will not run the attachments the brochure photographs suggest.
- ASV's roughly 200 dealer locations are stocked and staffed around track loaders, and a wheeled ASV is a thin used market with few comparable sales to price a trade-in against.
Drawn from constructionequipment.com, compactequip.com, ownrops.com, asvi.com.
What buyers ask
Why buy a wheeled ASV instead of a Posi-Track?
Is 3,500 lbs really the same as a track loader's 3,500 lbs?
What does the Deutz engine change day to day?
What does the VS-75 cost?
How good is the ground clearance claim in practice?
Will the standard hydraulics run a brush cutter or a snow blower?
Put the ASV VS-75 against
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Dealer quote onlypeers $60k–$68k
- Engine
- 74 hp
- Aux flow
- 21.3 GPM
- Weight
- 7,595 lbs
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Full sheet & owner reports
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$47,000
Also sold as the Yanmar TL50RP
- Engine
- 54 hp
- Aux flow
- 13.3 GPM
- Weight
- 5,180 lbs
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Full sheet & owner reports
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$61,000
Also sold as the Yanmar TL65RP
- Engine
- 67 hp
- Aux flow
- 21.4 GPM
- Weight
- 7,405 lbs
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Full sheet & owner reports