New Holland
New Holland L328
The bright segment is what New Holland L328 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.
Super Boom, New Holland's patented vertical lift linkage, gives the L328 class-leading dump height and reach at a value price. It's a medium-frame wheeled skid steer powered by an FPT diesel.
Also sold as
The same machine is sold as the Case SV280B — different paint, different dealer network, same hardware, so the choice is usually about which dealer is closer and which one you would rather owe a service call to.
Suits: Truck loading on a budget, where dump height and reach decide it Its vertical lift path reaches highest at full extension, for loading high-sided trucks and stacking.
Lifting and reach
- Rated operating capacityWheeled rating convention
- 2,800 lbs
- Tipping load
- 5,600 lbs
- Lift height to hinge pin
- 129 in
- Lift path
- Vertical Lift
- Operating weight
- 7,895 lbs
Power and hydraulics
- Engine power
- 74 hp
- Engine
- FPT
- Auxiliary flowStandard circuit
- 24 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.
Truck loading is the job this machine is built around, and it is unusually good at it for a wheeled skid steer of its size: 100 in of dump height with 31.9 in of reach puts a load into the middle of a box rather than over the edge. The 232 lb-ft the 74 hp engine makes at 1,800 rpm is a bigger jump over the smaller L machines than the horsepower gap implies, and it is the number that explains why operators describe it as feeling like more machine than its weight.
Roominess in the cab and a genuinely good service layout carry the daily experience - cab and boom tilt forward as one, checks are grouped, intervals are 250 and 500 hours. What owners actually report going wrong is plumbing and electronics rather than structure: a drive hose failing at the crimp at 2,070 hours, a return-line barb-and-clamp joint that one owner considers under-designed, and the same display, camera and valve-driver faults that turn up across this generation of New Holland and Case machines. The last of those is the expensive category, because it needs the dealer's diagnostic software.
Hard ground and daily truck loading or pallet stacking define the right buyer for a wheeled machine, who is comfortable that a wheeled loader's capacity figure needs no percentage conversion - 2,800 lb here means what 2,800 lb means on a Bobcat or Cat. At roughly $66,000 it undercuts the identical Case SV280B by a wide margin in this catalog, so get both quotes. Before signing, inspect every hose at its crimps, work the auxiliary circuit through its range, and confirm which dealer within sensible driving distance actually has the diagnostic software.
What owners like
- Torque is the quiet headline: 232 lb-ft at 1,800 rpm, against 153 on the L320 and 135 on the L318. That is a much bigger step than the horsepower figures suggest, and it is what you feel crowding a pile or driving a cold planer.
- Super Boom vertical lift gives 100 in of dump height with 31.9 in of reach, which is enough to place a load in the middle of a high-sided truck box rather than over the near rail. For a wheeled machine under 8,000 lb that is unusual geometry.
- Its 2,800 lb rating is quoted at 50 percent of tipping load, which is the ordinary convention for wheeled skid steers across the whole industry. Unlike New Holland's track loaders, this number needs no adjustment before you set it beside a Bobcat, Cat or Deere wheeled figure.
- High flow at 37.6 GPM is available over the 24.2 GPM standard circuit, and the two-speed option roughly doubles travel speed from the 7.0 mph low range to about 11.6 mph - worth real money on sites where you move between work areas all day.
- The cab and boom assembly tilts forward as a unit for service, daily check points are grouped behind one door and hood, and the intervals are sane at 250 hours for engine oil and 500 for the hydraulic filter. Owners who do their own service rate the access.
- It is the same machine as the Case SV280B, which is worth knowing before you negotiate - in this catalog the New Holland badge lists around $14,000 below the Case one, and either dealer can support it.
What owners complain about
- Hose routing is a reported weak point. One owner at 2,070 hours had a drive hose let go right at the crimp, and flagged the hydraulic return line separately: the barb the hose clamp is supposed to grip, in his words, does not have much of a chance. Both are worth inspecting on any used machine and worth watching as yours accumulates hours.
- New Holland's own published figures for this model contradict each other - the page blurb claims 103 in of dump height while the Super Boom section on the same page says 100 in. Work from the downloadable specification sheet rather than the marketing copy, especially if you are sizing the machine to a specific truck.
- Low-range travel is 7.0 mph, the slowest of the L-Series despite this being the largest of them; the lighter L316 manages nearly 8 mph. Without the two-speed option, moving across a large site is genuinely tedious.
- The electrical architecture is shared with the rest of this generation, and so are its faults - display and camera trouble and short-to-power codes at the boom and bucket valve drivers. Chasing them needs CNH's dealer-locked EST software, and owners who have gone looking for independent scan tools find mostly unauthorised copies.
- A main frame harness replacement on this platform is a genuinely frightening bill - around $3,900 for the OEM part, with dealer quotes of $6,000 to $7,000 before labour, on a job that takes more than a day and tends to break connectors and fasteners along the way.
Drawn from construction.newholland.com, skidsteerforum.com, brokentractor.com, aglist.ca.
What buyers ask
Does the 2,800 lb rating need converting like New Holland's track loaders do?
How high does it actually dump?
Is it worth paying for the two-speed option?
What breaks on these?
Is it the same machine as the Case SV280B?
What should I check on a used one?
Put the New Holland L328 against
Machines in the same range
The rest of the New Holland line
New Holland
New Holland L334
$65,000
Also sold as the Case SV340B
- Engine
- 90 hp
- Aux flow
- 24.2 GPM
- Weight
- 9,100 lbs
The New Holland L334 is the flagship wheeled skid steer of the 300 Series, pairing a 90 hp FPT diesel with the patented Super Boom vertical lift and 3400 lbs of rated capacity. It's built for heavy truck-loading and high-flow attachment work.
Full sheet & owner reports
New Holland
New Holland L320
$48,000
- Engine
- 67 hp
- Aux flow
- 20.6 GPM
- Weight
- 6,470 lbs
2000 lbs of capacity, standard dual-range travel, and a 91.7-inch dump height put the New Holland L320 at the sweet spot of the smaller 300 Series frames. It's a mid-size wheeled skid steer with the patented Super Boom vertical lift and a 67 hp FPT diesel.
Full sheet & owner reports
New Holland
New Holland L318
$45,000
- Engine
- 60 hp
- Aux flow
- 20.6 GPM
- Weight
- 6,230 lbs
Super Boom vertical lift comes down to the 1800 lb class in the New Holland L318, a small-frame wheeled skid steer powered by a 60 hp FPT diesel. It offers truck-loading reach that radial small frames can't match.
Full sheet & owner reports