What do you use your skid steer for?

puredieselpower · May 30, 2006

Yeah i am new here and just wanted to know what are the different uses you all use your skid steers for? mine i use for building pole sheds and leveling off.

Steve Frazier · May 30, 2006

There's not much I don't do with my Cat. Grading, excavating, lawn prep, planting, lifting, brush clearing, road maintenance, drainage and snow removal are just some of the things I've done. A very versatile tool.

Dwan Hall · May 30, 2006

Like Steve, just about everything. I have even suspended our 9' light materials bucket about 33" above the ground for a welding table. also use it for a power source for my Power Ram. For all you guys that lay conduit for utilitys, did you know you can warm the PVC pipe by sliping it over the exaust for a short time making it bendable. I lay a lot of 2" pvc and never buy sweeps any more.
48" trencher, 14' (914) backhoe, 6 different size buckets, pallet forks, 8' extentions for forks. single shank riper 36", 8' sweepster broom.

3 ea. 975 bobcats.

CGSI · Jun 1, 2006

As you can see it is a very versatile tool and only limited by its owners imagination. Skids are probably the most versatile tool out there if you really want to benefit from its ownership.

itsgottobegreen · Jun 2, 2006

Just about anything and everything. :yup

ranger · Jul 6, 2007

I use mine for:
moving dirt, gravel, etc.
-cutting cedar & mesquite trees with a shear
-picking up trees after they are cut and brush with a grapple
-lifting anything and everything on and off of a pallet with pallet forks
-post holes with auger
-grade the roads with a grademaster

......and I will do more as I obtain more attachments.

Rocket · Jul 9, 2007

Steve what attachments do you have? I have the general use bucket and forks. I have rented other tools like the stump grinder (not that useful compared to a true standalone grinder), auger (nice tool), rotodarian (very nice tool), leveler (I might not have gotten the hang of that one, didn't see much use for it).

To answer the question, I use it for landscaping and snow removal. Wish I had more work for it. It's sort of expensive sitting in the shop

I've been wondering if it is the best tool. What about a Kubota tractor with loader and backhoe? That would get used a bit here!

Steve Frazier · Jul 9, 2007

I've got a 4 way bucket, pallet forks, Bradco 611 backhoe, jib boom, Harley Rake, grapple rake and high flow snowblower with truck loading chute.

On my wish list are an auger and breaker hammer. I've been considering a stump grinder since I get calls to do that work often enough to think about it. I've been subbing a guy who gets about $350 per job to do this work. It wouldn't take long to recover the attachment cost at that rate.

What about the stump grinder disappointed you?

Rocket · Jul 9, 2007

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.

Steve Frazier · Jul 9, 2007

My grapple rake and snowblower are made by Quickattach, I'm very impressed with them both. I got their catalog this past spring and would love to order a couple more things. The rough winter (or lack of) put a damper on that.

cat320 · Jul 9, 2007

I find i use mine alot more than i thought i would with just the bucket I have a long list of things i would like to get but want to get the things that will produce and not just sit on the shelf.

Serv · Jul 10, 2007

here again, I use mine for the tire business. Loading and unloading trailers, stacking tires, moving tires, offsite tire cleanup jobs, feeding the tire processing equipment, etc. I need to see about getting a new one soon, but after 5000 or so hours, this one just won't quit.

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thejdman04 · Jul 10, 2007

as you can see very versitile tool, it wont do it as productive as a dedicated machine (ie you can put a backhoe on it but wont dig as good as a dedicated real excavator,) but you can pretty much do anything w/these machines

EZ TRBO · Aug 19, 2007

Before we owned a skid loader we would rent one a few times a year for job specific task and only when we really needed one. Finally we bought a 773G series Bobcat and now, very seldom go on a job without it. Somtimes we don't even charge for the use, as it pays for itself in the time it saves us and helps with things we would have to do by hand otherwise. I've cleared brush, backfilled garages and other walls, leveled dirt and gravel, removed fence, made roads and trails, trenched in silt fence, even took a truck mounted snow plow and fabricated a frame for it to use on the skid loader, can even remove the plow and use the frame as a small cherry picker. With all the attachments you can get and different type of buckets, its really awesome with all you can do with one machine.

Noose · Aug 19, 2007

I use ours for basic landscaping.
we have used it for digging basments, augering pilings, pushing in fenceposts, a man lift (with an actual basket), moving trees, and trenching. all in the last three months.
The new 300 is dedicated to the mulcher, but able to do the heavier jobs that the 185 "shouldn't do"

Sterlclan · Dec 6, 2007

drive way maintenance....................snow plowing..........log splitting......stump digging...lawn prep.............demolition.........moving damaged cars and trucks...........pulling engines.............anything and everything....Jeff

bobcat ron · Dec 6, 2007

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

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

wayne186 · Jan 6, 2008

I use my 753 for just about anything I can get an attachement for. My neighbour once told me to buy one because there was nothing I could not do with it.. I procrastinated for two years... the brush rake is my top favourite.. it saves me so much sweat when I am clearing parts of my property for new fields.

I also use (if I can rent or borrow the attachements) it for trenching, grading, post hole digging, clearing, concrete pouring, moving materials around, moving earth. The only attachements I have are a grapple and bucket with no teeth. I borrow my neighbours post hole digger, bucket with teeth and trencher from time to time (yeah we lend each other our tools - so cool that we don't each have to buy the same thing). At times I lend him my Case 680k backhoe, Case 4x4 tractor and any other tools.

Top of the hit list this year is a sawmill... top wish list (way too expensive but a much needed/wanted toy for working around the property... a crawler loader) :notworthy

Have fun with your toys boys

nedly05 · Jan 6, 2008

I havent had mine long but I will use it a lot. I'll have my tracks tomorrow, how do tracks work in the snow, or for snow removal, would I be better off to remove them for the winter and use some 2 link v-bar chains?

GOINGBROKE · Jan 16, 2008

I have cat 252b, use mostly for forkift around the shop. Put together 9 ft snowblade moved alot of snow this winter. Wouldn't know what to do with out it and wouldn't have another brand.

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