Bobcats make life so much easier!

[OH_Varmntr]

I was fortunate enough to use a Bobcat to move logs around my yard today. A good sized skid loader is on my list of must-haves but I'm not in the position to own one yet. So I borrow when I can.

Uncle was in the loader, my dad and I cutting the logs up into a pile. Once the logs were gone, used the bucket to condense the pile into a smaller footprint so it doesnt take up so much of my backyard. Bunch of oak, some ash, cheery and some other junk mixed in.

Have a few good hours of splitting ahead of me.

 

[flyboy553]

Life is so much easier with a skidsteer on the worksite! I have one in the woods and one here in the yard. I maybe should get another one as I do not always work in the same woods as the bobcat is in!

Have read some comments on other threads about how they are limited as to where they can go, but having operated them and owned them for 25 yrs, have only found a couple places I couldn't go with one- unless I wanted to tip it over, that is!:msp_tongue:

Ted

 

[srb08]

Hydraulics are our friend.

 

[artbaldoni]

AMEN BROTHER!

Skid Loader is the best piece of equipment out there. I use mine several times a week. I was in the excavating business for 10 years. When I sold out I kept the backhoe thinking it would be the most useful. I was wrong. Sold the hoe and got another skid with a hoe attachment. My first addition was a set of over the wheel tracks. The tracks make it like a little Cat. I figured I could rent or purchase any implement imaginable. Next on my list is a root grapple.

 

[memory]

Where is your helper at? Or are you climbing in and out of the bobcat? To me that would be more of a pain then putting it on the splitter by hand.

Can't tell from the pic but can you open the door with the bucket raised? I know my uncle has a newer bobcat and if the bucket is raised, you can not open the door at all, one of those safety features. I am sure not all bobcats are like that though.

Just realized, that bobcat doesn't have a door, does it?

 

[artbaldoni]

No door. Had a guy at work raise the bucket with the door open on a New Holland; no more door. The little green man in the kitty is my 14 year old son. He does a great job operating. I'm running the splitter and camera.
If you could lift that chunk onto the splitter you are more of a man than me!!

 

[shawnw]

A T series Bobcat is on my short list once I buy my next house. I'm shopping for that house now, but can't justify that sort of equipment on my .5 acre property. It's bad enough I have a super garden tractor with a loader. A bobcat would be complete lunacy.

 

[sb47]

I’ve had a few, there great, until it breaks down!
Try changing or jumping the battery when it goes bad.lol
Everything is so crammed in there its hard to work on them.
When there working, they are great, with so many attachments there very versatile.
The other down side is if you turn sharp they till up the ground and leave a mess.
Tracks are better in most cases but they all tear up the ground.
Also they eat tires.

 

[PEKS]

Sweet Load of Timber you have there..
Let the splitting begin..

 

[zogger]

....... A bobcat would be complete lunacy.

Which means, you should get one!

I mean, everyone here is *nutz* anyway....

I'd like a bobcat, too! Of course on my budget, any bobcat I get will have a stubby tail, spots, and would be making the yard jackals a little nervous...

 

[zogger]

I was fortunate enough to use a Bobcat to move logs around my yard today. A good sized skid loader is on my list of must-haves but I'm not in the position to own one yet. So I borrow when I can.

Uncle was in the loader, my dad and I cutting the logs up into a pile. Once the logs were gone, used the bucket to condense the pile into a smaller footprint so it doesnt take up so much of my backyard. Bunch of oak, some ash, cheery and some other junk mixed in.

Have a few good hours of splitting ahead of me.

That right there is a bonafide grade A heap 0 wood!

 

[woodman6666]

Bobcats are the chore tractor of yesterday. When I was a kid on the farm we had a chore tractor as most all small farms did it was used everyday for everything grinding feed, scooping snow or crap, pulling wagons just about everything nowdays a bobcat proves to be better in 90% of situations at least for me anyway, I own a few of them and they get used for many many tasks.

 

[shawnw]

Bobcats are the chore tractor of yesterday. When I was a kid on the farm we had a chore tractor as most all small farms did it was used everyday for everything grinding feed, scooping snow or crap, pulling wagons just about everything nowdays a bobcat proves to be better in 90% of situations at least for me anyway, I own a few of them and they get used for many many tasks.

Bingo. This is a fact I try to drill into everyone's head....no one seems to understand it no matter how much we discuss it. My dad wants a new 3520, a coworker wants a new 2320. Buy a used S/T190 for a comparable price and do more, and in greater comfort.

 

[memory]

Bobcats are the chore tractor of yesterday. When I was a kid on the farm we had a chore tractor as most all small farms did it was used everyday for everything grinding feed, scooping snow or crap, pulling wagons just about everything nowdays a bobcat proves to be better in 90% of situations at least for me anyway, I own a few of them and they get used for many many tasks.

But with a bobcat you couldn't pull that wagon.

 

[Hddnis]

But with a bobcat you couldn't pull that wagon.

Sure you can.




Mr. HE

 

[AIM]

Cheaper to just turn the stat up and burn propane.... Kinda like deer hunting for the free meat...

Keep it simple folks!!!!! If ya dont, wood is more than gas.

 

[ponyexpress976]

I recently purchased a ramrod 900T. Its only a mini skid steer but my back has never felt better! Not sure how I lived without it. Like going from a rusty crosscut misery whip to a 3120xp.

 

[GeeVee]

I’ve had a few, there great, until it breaks down!
Try changing or jumping the battery when it goes bad.lol
Everything is so crammed in there its hard to work on them.
When there working, they are great, with so many attachments there very versatile.
The other down side is if you turn sharp they till up the ground and leave a mess.
Tracks are better in most cases but they all tear up the ground.
Also they eat tires.

I've got an RC-30. I don't tear up grass. A battery is no sweat, and I've had no issues.

I live on the beach here on 75X105'.....

I use it to trim my Elae Agnus Hedge here at home instead of a ladder, and grapple the trimmings, I move 2 x 55 gal water barrels and pump, down at the ranch. I pull and use the 6x12' 6 ton dump trailer full of whatever I put in it.

I have driven through plastic mud 2' deep with 12' of oak 30" around in the grapple, and can climb 1:2.5 sand dunes pushing 1.5 yards up slope. I get specifically called to move windblown sand off of turf grass and back over the seawall, because I don't tear up grass.

Its a handy trailer jack... Concrete buggy.

I don't do anything by hand I can get done with my RC.

Naturally, the root rake/grapple is my cutting cross buck and pile maker, I don't file and stack firewood.

I will never own a Bobcat with foot control or wheels, ever again. They suck, by comparison. I don't care how much tracks may cost to replace, whenever that might be, tires were no cheap date, and they sucked bad in my kind of mud. Always needing air, and it takes a serious air compressor to set the beads.

I kind of like the suspension, too.

Say what you want, but I'm the guy that can grade flat or swale, by eye, faster than a tractor and box, not everyone can, but I can do flat grading blindfolded. Done some for fun.... A friend with a very similiar hp and size FEL and box and I did two places for him at a rental he had. We graded new driveway aprons. He had to buy the steaks and I had the pleasure of cooking them while he finished.

 

[GeeVee]

Cheaper to just turn the stat up and burn propane.... Kinda like deer hunting for the free meat...

Keep it simple folks!!!!! If ya dont, wood is more than gas.

I take a job every once in a while, just to keep my wife from telling everyone if I didn't have my RC-30, I'd probably walk around all day with my hand on my penis.

I really don't do anything by hand I can do with power, and Pedro has never let me down.

I'm spoiled. I don't have to have bonfires, I don't heat with wood. But if I did, I'd have a track loader.

I'm about to rip the roof and trusses off my new beach house with it.

I'm going through the french door opening with my forks, and with a 6 foot tall 6x6" bolted to my forks frame, after I pull the ceiling sheet rock down, I'll poke the roof sheathing in full sheets up and off the trusses, with the shingles still on them, let them slide down the roof to the ground. Change to the rootrake/grapple and the sheathing will go right in the dump trailer. Switching back to the forks, I'll bolt a 16' 4x6" to the frame, and hoist the trusses off the block walls for use down at the ranch, they are 26', but Ill have them halved while still up, and may grab three at a time.

With the bucket, I'll clean up the interior sheetrock and debris, probably use the root rake to shred the sheetrock off the block interior too.

 

[ponyexpress976]

I take a job every once in a while, just to keep my wife from telling everyone if I didn't have my RC-30, I'd probably walk around all day with my hand on my penis.

Now that there is funny. I gotta remember that one the next time the wife wants to make a crack about another new tool/toy.