• Engineered & Manufactured in Mound House, Nevada

Home of the Ultimate Trail Machine.

Sutter Equipment Company builds the world’s leading specialized trail dozers — engineered for precision, torque and uptime in the most demanding terrain.

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Flagship
Tier 4

Kohler

100K

in-lb

Sutter 500

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#1

Trail Dozer manufacturer worldwide

39+

Years of trail-building
expertise

Tier 4

Retrofit program available

USA

Manufactured in Mound
House, NV

Equipment

The Trail Force Lineup.

Purpose-built systems engineered, manufactured and supported from Mound House, Nevada.

01 // Lightweight

Sutter 300

Compact, agile and precise — designed for narrow passages and technical trail grooming.
Class

Compact

Engine

Tier 4 Diesel

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No. 01

02 // Heavy Duty

Sutter 500

Our flagship. Maximum blade control and displacement for heavy cut and technical forestry.
Engine

Kohler Tier 4

Torque

100,000 in-lb

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No. 02

03 // Attachment

Sutter Rock Rake

Proprietary sorting system for perfect trail surfacing. Sorts rock from soil in a single pass.
Mount

Universal

Build

Hardened Steel

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No. 03

04 // Infrastructure

Retaining Walls

Engineered retaining wall systems for trail and slope stabilization — built to last in the harshest terrain.
Application

Trail & Slope

Build

Stone & Steel

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No. 04

Why Sutter
Purpose-Built

Every machine is engineered specifically for singletrack, forestry and steep-slope work — never a compromise.

Made in Nevada

Designed, welded and assembled in-house at our Mound House plant. One team, full accountability.

Lifetime Support

Direct-from-manufacturer parts, service, rentals and Tier 4 retrofits for the life of your machine.

Three reasons crews keep coming back.

Regulatory Compliance

Tier 4 Final Retrofit Program.

Update your existing engine to a new Kohler Tier 4 without modifications to the dozer body —
saving thousands over comparable retrofits.
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Our Heritage

Welcome to Sutter
Equipment Company — trail equipment specialists since 1986.

1986
We are currently the number one Trail Dozer manufacturer in the world! Sutter Equipment has sold hundreds of Trail Dozers, starting with the Sweco models we designed and had manufactured for us, and now the Sutter models we manufacture at our Nevada plant — a claim no other company can make.
1991
It all started in 1986, when previous owner John Mueller created the Pacific Crawler trail maintenance machine. After meeting with the U.S. Forest Service, the 450 Trail Dozer came into being in 1991. The line evolved through the Sweco 450, the 480, and in 2008 was re-branded to the SUTTER 480 when manufacturing was brought in-house.
2008
In October 2008, production began in Rocklin, California under the guidance of Tony Dipino, who has been building and servicing the Trail Dozer since the initial 450 model. In mid-2010 the Sutter 500 Trail Dozer was introduced with a Tier 3 EPA-compliant engine. That same year, operations relocated to Mound House, Nevada — six miles east of Carson City.
2016
When John passed away in 2016, Tony and his wife Debbie became the owners and President and Vice President, respectively, of Sutter Equipment Company, Inc. In 2018 the Sutter 500 was upgraded to a Tier 4 final Kohler engine with standard 100,000 in-lb torque hubs.
Check back often as new improvements are in the works for the next generation of the SUTTER Trail Dozer — THE ULTIMATE TRAIL MACHINE™!
Sales & Service

Full lifecycle support.

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01

Sales

Expert guidance on equipment selection, configuration and delivery — direct from the manufacturer.

02

Rentals

Short- and long-term rental options for specialized trail construction and forestry projects.

03

Parts

Full inventory of OEM parts shipped nationwide from our Nevada facility for maximum uptime.

04

Service

Factory-trained technicians for field maintenance, Tier 4 retrofits and complete rebuilds.

How It Works — first call to first pass.

01

Consult

Talk directly with the manufacturer about terrain, scope and budget.

02

Configure

Spec the right dozer, attachments and delivery for your project.

03

Deploy

Take delivery — or rent — and put the Ultimate Trail Machine to work.

04

Support

OEM parts, factory service and Tier 4 retrofits ship from Nevada.

From the Field

Client results.

“We did more trail work with our Trail Dozer in the first two weeks than my crew of five did all last year!”
Fishlake National Forest
Richfield, Utah
CONTACT

Talk to the manufacturer.

We build every machine ourselves and stand behind every serial number.

Telephone

775-246-8689

Email

tony@sutterequipment.com

Headquarters

25 COWEE DRIVE
MOUND HOUSE, NV 89706