What do you use your skid steer for?

[jazak]

The small wheel and lack of visibility. I did not feel safe having a crew member in the area but needed them to direct the cutting. This was the CAT grinder. The QuickAttach unit looks like it might be a better tool.

I know a guy who has built his own and is starting production. Everyone that has used them and has bought one off of them love them and say they're WAY better then the ones sold by CAT, Bobcat, Case, etc, etc.

I've used a skid steer for,

~ Rough/final grading
~ Lot clearing
~ Moving brush/logs/firewood
~ Snow removal/plowing
~ Excavating
~ Moving materials

 

[GOINGBROKE]

I use my Cat MTL for one purpose only, the most important reason of all.



..........................TAX WRITE OFF.............................

Now why would someone with the screen name bobcat ron have a Cat? Is it because it was a larger tax write off than a Bobcat?

 

[bobcat ron]

Now why would someone with the screen name bobcat ron have a Cat? Is it because it was a larger tax write off than a Bobcat?

Nope, I switched over to Cat after seeing the glow of the yellow paint and the huge monthly payment savings.

 

[snowboarder54]

Driveways and lot clearing with a little logging here and there.

 

[Seaside LPS]

I have a Gehl 5640 Turbo I use mine for dirt work, sweeping (parking lots) moving pallets of stone, snow removal off the tops of parking garages. I rent attachments from time to time.
My wish list:
auger with 36" bit
grapple
Harley rake
snow blower

 

[mikef87]

I have a Bobcat S250, 553, Cat 226 and 252. We mostly use ours for plowing, but sometimes we'll use one inside a building to grade off and area or to backfill in a tight area.

Attachments:
72" Pickup sweeper
72" Rotary sweeper
72" snowblower
Breaker, Asphalt Milling Machine
48" Snowblower

 

[StPat]

We use our 753 for general work around the sawmill, cleaning up sawdust, snow removal, moving cut lumber and logs, etc. Was wondering if anyone has or knows where to get a cross reference between the old model Bobcat designations ( 753,853 Etc) and the new ones (180, 280, etc.)? Don't need a real detailed one, just enough to get an approximation between models.
Thanks
Patrick

 

[williethekidd]

What is the best grapple for my S250?

I use my bobcat for brush control, road repair, post hole digging, tree planting, landscaping, drainage, rock moving, beaver dam intervention, and just about anything else.

I need a good grapple, anyone used a quickattach eagle talon or the skidsolution GRX-TREME?

 

[Steve Frazier]

Welcome to Heavy Equipment Forums!!:drinkup

Take a look at this thread.

 

[williethekidd]

Thank you for that link. Do still feel the same way about the grapple and the company. I was looking at the Talon that they produce, but if the Claw is good enough and tough enough it would save $1000 bucks.

Willie

 

[Steve Frazier]

I've got two Quick Attach attachments, my grapple rake and snow blower and both have always done everything I've asked. I've had the blower now 7 years and in that time have replaced one coil on the hydraulic manifold and a couple fittings I broke when the hoses got caught in branches. I do sidewalks and have a 10' discharge chute, when I pass under trees occasionally I encounter branches.

The grapple has had one fitting come loose and leak when a hose got caught in some brush and tugged at the fitting. A simple twist of a wrench took care of that.

These attachments are very well built and as I mentioned in the other thread, Quick Attach has been very easy to deal with. I wouldn't hesitate to purchase from them again.

 

[redkat]

Use my bobcat for nearly everything.............on my own property........i dont hire out...................over the years i just got sick of ordering hire bobcats........some with good operaters and some not , which would allways be late, sometimes days..............thus i decide just to buy my own.....................best think i ever did! no more waiting, or dodgy operators.

 

[Dusty]

they r great for snow and land prep

 

[BIGBEN2004]

I use mine for just about any thing I can think of doing. They have so many attachments for them they can replace almost any special type of machines and at a better cost. Once you buy a skid steer you really start to wonder how you could live with out it.

 

[redkat]

thats if you can get attachments.........................nearly every type of attachment i try to get here i have trouble obtaining..................

 

[bonanno23]

I use mine for just about everything, digging small foundations, grading, moving pallets of brick and sod, concrete/asphalt ripouts, demo and the list goes on.

Here's a pic of my newest skid/loader

 

[stuvecorp]

Nice bucket, looks like that would dig.

 

[bobcat ron]

Good choice!

 

[bonanno23]

thanks. yeah that bucket is great. it has bolt on cutting edges in 3 spots so there is less damage to the bucket. the pistons are almost double the size compared to my cat 287 with the 4 in 1

 

[icex]

I use my cat 236b to just play around with haha.. but if I do a job for someone then its leveling, gravel spreading or filling in. Right now a friend is renting it monthly until he buys one to load gravel and sell it.