Here is my 2016 Bobcat Toolcat 5600 demonstrating the Bobcat "Hydrostatic Traction Control" (HTC) that is on the 2014+ Toolcats (optional on 5600, standard on 5610). I specifically picked a worse case scenario for the toolcat; no weight/payload. slick ground (wet melting snow) and climbing a hill at an angle from a stop. I show the traction control on and off so you can see how it helps.
Skid Steers (with tires) are known for their poor mud/soft ground performance and the Toolcat is better but still not great. The toolcat's longer wheelbase helps spread the ground contact and also avoids the issue of the front tire building a hill for the rear tire to climb that happens on a skid steer. Another advantage of the toolcat is the 4 wheel steering that allows you to try to climb out the side of ruts if needed. However these typical skid steer/toolcat R4 tires are not he best for mud since they clog up easy and do not self clean well.
Older Toolcat generations had a mix of limited slip and locking diffs to aid traction in rough/slick conditions. These newer ones have limited slip front and rear diffs but they must be Torsen (gear) style that send a fixed torque bias from the low traction side to the high traction side but that only works if both tires have some level of traction. If one side has no or very little traction then the torsen effectively acts as an open diff. See more info about torsen here: auto.howstuffworks.com/differ...
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