Gehl
Gehl VT360
The bright segment is what Gehl VT360 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.
Gehl 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 19 track loaders within 15 per cent of its capacity list between $92,000 and $114,464. That is a fact about them, not a quote for this one.
Flagship of Gehl's track range and the largest machine the brand sells, rated 3,600 lbs at 35% of tipping load on a 12,161 lb frame. It shares the 114 hp Deutz TCD3.6 and 40 GPM high-flow option with the wheeled V360 launched beside it in September 2025.
Also sold as
The same machine is sold as the Manitou 3600VT, which we do not list separately. Different paint and a different dealer network, same hardware.
Suits: Land clearing and heavy production work at the top of the compact track loader class Its vertical lift path reaches highest at full extension, for loading high-sided trucks and stacking.
Lifting and reach
- Rated operating capacityTrack loader rating convention
- 3,600 lbs
- Tipping load
- 10,287 lbs
- Lift height to hinge pin
- 136 in
- Lift path
- Vertical Lift
- Operating weight
- 12,161 lbs
Power and hydraulics
- Engine power
- 114 hp
- Engine
- Deutz TCD3.6
- Auxiliary flowStandard circuit
- 25 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.
Topping Gehl's track loader range, this is built for the contractor who wants one machine to grade, clear, load and mulch rather than a dozer plus a CTL plus a rental. Manitou's product manager described an industry demand for a larger frame - what the company calls internally an extra-large frame - and pitched the range against Caterpillar, JCB, Takeuchi and Case in the super skid steer class. The 114 hp Deutz is the largest engine Gehl fits to anything.
Where the design attention went shows up from the seat and underneath. Lift arms slope away from the operator so soil and mulch fall off instead of building up, hoses run inside or under the arms, and the roof slopes forward into a large skylight. The undercarriage received forged hardened sprockets, dual-flange idlers and triple-flange rollers, with boom suspension made standard. Hydraulics are load-sensing with variable rate flow control, letting an operator meter flow to what an attachment actually wants, and there is an adjustable creep mode with a boost pedal for planers and brooms. Controls are seat-mounted pilot joysticks rather than electro-hydraulic, and the IdealAccess bi-folding door stores in front of the operator instead of needing swing clearance.
As a production machine for land clearing, forestry and heavy truck loading it only makes sense if it works most days. Gehl publishes no price, so everything is a dealer quote, and the platform is too new for a used market to check one against - get competing numbers on a Case, Takeuchi or JCB of similar capacity first. Before signing, confirm the high-flow and hydraulic boost options are specified, ask exactly which track options exist and what a set costs, and establish how far away the nearest dealer stocking large-frame parts really is.
What owners like
- Rated 3,600 lbs on the conservative 35% basis against a 10,287 lb tipping load, so the headline understates the machine - the same loader reads over 5,100 lbs on the 50% basis that wheeled skid steers use.
- The undercarriage was redesigned for this platform with steel-forged hardened sprockets carrying a corrosion inhibitor, dual-flange idlers front and rear to resist de-tracking, and triple-flange rollers to cut vibration.
- Comfort ride control - boom suspension - is standard rather than optional, which reduces spillage and matters on a machine expected to carry loads any distance.
- IdealTrax automatic track tensioning is managed from the in-cab display, tensioning on start-up and relieving tension at shutdown, which is what extends track life and removes a scheduled tensioning chore.
- 40 GPM high flow with up to 82 hydraulic horsepower on the boost puts it in genuine forestry-mulcher territory, and Gehl sells a purpose-built forestry package with impact-resistant doors, guarding, a swing-out cage and an integrated recovery winch.
- A 136-inch hinge pin height alongside 10,624 lbs of bucket breakout covers both halves of the job - loading high-sided trucks, and digging the pile in the first place.
- The patent-pending sloped lift arms shed material rather than collecting it and open sightlines above and below the boom, the clearest single change from the previous large-frame Gehls.
What owners complain about
- New in September 2025, so there is no accumulated owner experience of this undercarriage, these final drives or this cab - every durability claim is the maker's, not a service history.
- At 12,161 lbs before attachments, transport stops being an afterthought: trailer rating, tow vehicle and licensing all have to be planned around it.
- Undercarriage and final-drive replacement scale with machine weight and this sits near the top of the class, so budget tracks as a recurring line item rather than a surprise.
- Two-speed travel runs to roughly 9 mph against the 12 mph the wheeled large-frame machines manage, so long carries are genuinely slow.
- The Deutz engine means a second parts and service relationship for anyone whose other Gehls are Yanmar-powered, and Deutz coverage is a separate question from Gehl's own.
Drawn from constructionequipmentguide.com, compactequip.com, heavyequipmentguide.ca.
What buyers ask
Why does the VT360 quote 3,600 lbs when the wheeled V360 quotes the same?
What does IdealTrax actually do?
Can it run a forestry mulcher?
Is two-speed travel worth having on a machine this heavy?
What should I check before buying this early in the platform's life?
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- Engine
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- Aux flow
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- Weight
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- Engine
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- Aux flow
- 17 GPM
- Weight
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- Engine
- 70 hp
- Aux flow
- 18.7 GPM
- Weight
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