Case
Case SR240B
The bright segment is what Case SR240B 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.
Large-frame performance with medium-frame running costs is Case's pitch for the SR240B, the current B-series successor to the popular SR240. It's a large-capacity radial-lift wheeled skid steer with a 74 hp FPT 3.4L diesel that skips both DPF and DEF entirely, 2,400 lbs of capacity, an 8,680 lb breakout force, and a heavy-duty hydraulic coupler standard.
Suits: Heavy digging and grading with large-frame muscle but no DEF, DPF, or big-frame fuel bills Its radial lift path reaches furthest at mid-height, for digging, grading and backfilling.
Lifting and reach
- Rated operating capacityWheeled rating convention
- 2,400 lbs
- Tipping load
- 4,800 lbs
- Lift height to hinge pin
- 125.1 in
- Lift path
- Radial Lift
- Operating weight
- 7,400 lbs
Power and hydraulics
- Engine power
- 74 hp
- Engine
- FPT
- Auxiliary flowStandard circuit
- 24.2 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.
Digging force is the whole argument for this machine. At 8,680 lb of standard bucket breakout it out-pries every other wheeled loader Case builds, including the 90 hp SR270B, and it does it on a 74 hp engine that needs no diesel exhaust fluid and has no particulate filter to regenerate. Owners describe it as the sweet spot of the range rather than a compromise between the 210 and the 270.
What comes standard and what does not defines the practical experience. The heavy-duty hydraulic coupler is standard from this model up, which is the single most useful piece of standard equipment on the machine if you change attachments often. Standard auxiliary flow is 24.2 gpm - the same as the 90 hp machines - with 37.6 gpm available on the high-flow option. Mechanical control machines get servo-assisted joysticks, so the cheaper control choice is not a punishment. Against that, the enclosed cab, electro-hydraulic controls, ride control and self-levelling are all options, and the 8-inch display is effectively bundled with the electro-hydraulic choice rather than sold separately.
Digging, grading and pushing on firm ground all day, with emissions hardware avoided entirely, is the brief it answers. It undercuts an equivalent Bobcat S76 or Cat 262 build on price, at the cost of a thinner dealer network and softer resale. Before signing, price a cab into the quote rather than comparing canopy-to-cab, decide the control pattern early because the display follows it, and get a New Holland quote on the same platform - the machine is identical and only the dealer differs.
What owners like
- 8,680 lb of bucket cylinder breakout is the highest standard figure anywhere in Case's wheeled range - higher than the 90 hp SR270B's optional cylinder at 8,677 lb, and 1,200 lb above that machine's standard one. For digging, this is the model to buy.
- The 74 hp FPT meets Tier 4 Final on cooled EGR and a diesel oxidation catalyst alone: no diesel particulate filter, no regeneration cycles, no DEF tank and no lifetime filter service. Owners rank this among the least intrusive emissions setups still sold.
- 232 lb-ft of peak torque from 3.4 litres is the number that does the work rather than the 74 hp rating, and operators report it lugs through hard pushing where smaller-displacement rivals fall on their face.
- 24.2 gpm standard auxiliary flow with a 37.6 gpm high-flow option is the same hydraulic hardware Case fits to its 90 hp machines, so a great many attachments run without paying to upgrade.
- The heavy-duty hydraulic attachment coupler is standard from this model upward; the SR210B and everything smaller get a manual coupler and charge extra for the hydraulic one. On a machine changing tools several times a day that is real money and real minutes.
- Servo-assisted joysticks are fitted to mechanically controlled SR210B and larger models, so choosing mechanical controls to save money does not condemn the operator to heavy levers all day.
- Its 7,400 lb operating weight and 69.6 in width sit it just under the 90 hp machines while keeping a 125.1 in hinge pin identical to the SR270B - the same reach for less weight and less money.
What owners complain about
- Radial geometry pulls the load back toward the machine near the top of the arc and caps dump height at 98.3 in, so loading high-sided trucks is the vertical-lift SV280B's job, not this one's.
- An enclosed cab with heat and air conditioning is optional, as are electro-hydraulic controls, ride control and self-levelling. The list price describes a canopy machine, and a well-equipped build lands a long way above it.
- The 8-inch display with the split-screen backup camera comes with the electro-hydraulic control option; mechanical machines can add the screen but it then only shows camera and operating data.
- Case sells around 800 new skid steers a year against Bobcat's 2,672 and Caterpillar's 1,830, so parts stocking and service response depend heavily on the density of Case dealers where you work.
- Resale trails Bobcat, Cat and Deere, which hands back part of the lower purchase price at trade-in - though Case's long-running position in the used market means mechanics and parts suppliers do know these machines.
Drawn from casece.com, hillsmachinery.com, constructionequipmentguide.com, blog.ritchiebros.com.
What buyers ask
Does it really dig harder than the bigger SR270B?
Does it need DEF or have a DPF?
Is the hydraulic coupler standard?
Do I have to take electro-hydraulic controls to get the display?
How much dump height do I lose to the radial arm?
Put the Case SR240B against
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- Engine
- 74 hp
- Aux flow
- 24.2 GPM
- Weight
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- Engine
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- Aux flow
- 24.2 GPM
- Weight
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- Engine
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- Aux flow
- 24.2 GPM
- Weight
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