Bobcat Skid Steer Loaders

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Bobcat Attachments Review: Rock Bucket

There are Bobcat attachments of all kinds on the market. And there are certainly a lot of bucket attachments available for your Bobcat. Almost anyone in the construction industry will tell you that it is important to choose the right tool for the job. Whether you choose a digging bucket (some are equipped with teeth and some are not), a stump bucket, or a rock bucket, you will do well to know how each of these skid steer Bobcat attachments can be used, and consequently, which one is right for your kind of work.

In the world of the Bobcat and its myriad tools, the thing known as the bucket attachment is by far the most pervasive. In part, it is because of the fact that on any construction or landscaping site, and on any farm or ranch in the world, being able to scoop up material and haul it anywhere the Bobcat can go is absolutely essential. But it is also because the bucket attachment has to be the most creatively misused tool on the market. But the “regular” toothed or untoothed bucket attachment is not the issue here. The rock bucket is something different

. The rock bucket is clearly set apart from the others. Generally shaped like other buckets, these Bobcat attachments are really a set of tines set a few inches apart from one another so that upon scooping into the earth, good soil will stay on the ground.

These Bobcat attachments were developed precisely because, when processing the soil thats surrounds a building project, the soft soil is good, and the rocks are bad. For almost any kind of project, soft, pliable soil is what is needed most, and the rocks, concrete, bricks and debris within need to be sifted out. Once the bad stuff is sifted out with these Bobcat attachments, it is conveniently already sitting in the scoop, ready to be discarded wherever the Bobcat can go!

Each of the current range of amazing skid steer Bobcat attachments has a specific purpose, be it for digging, rock-removal, or stump- and boulder-raising. But do not be surprised if one (or all) of these Bobcat attachments show up soon doing something completely new!

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Why Should I Do Business With SkidSteerSolutions.com?

The people at Skidsteersolutions.com realize that there are many ways to run a business. They know there are a lot of things that make an online equipment company lucrative and successful. But there are only a few things that will cause customers to return when they need something and to tell others about their experience.

QUALITY

Skidsteersolutions.com has been providing the highest quality skid steer equipment to landscapers, farmers, ranchers and construction crews all over the globe for almost 20 years. With a demanding approach to well-made skid steer attachments and accessories, the company has built a loyal following. And a few critics. But the products, from the impeccably constructed range of buckets and scoops to the incredibly useful over-the-tire tracks to the pumps and augers and plows, really do speak for themselves. It it hard to land on a page of the Skidsteersolutions.com site that doesn’t challenge customers to compare the quality of their equipment to others before they buy.

CUSTOMER SERVICE

The vast majority of product manufacturers and distributors know that all they need do to stay in the black is to sell their product, to get it out the door and into the hands of the consumer. Anything that occurs after the initial sale is not important. The Skidsteersolutions.com team has never seen that as an option. Another challenge they make to their customers is to call them any time and expect that someone will attend to their issue in an appropriate way. As a matter of fact, a growing number of the innovative new products found on the Skidsteersolutions.com site come from direct customer contact, ideas for new products come from customers who have been treated well and have a working relationship with Skidsteersolutions.com.

COMMITMENT

The number of online businesses has continued to grow astronomically since the late 90s. But the number of online wholesalers and retailers who operate according to proven standards and principles doesn’t compare. The practices of high-pressure sales and advertising make some companies more money by enticing and confusing buyers. And it would be easy to cheat a customer out of a few thousand dollars by shipping inferior machinery 1500 miles across the US. But Skidsteersolutions.com builds and sells the good stuff for a fair price with only the facts at hand. There are many reasons to buy a good quality skid steer machine and accessories. But you only need to know of a few reasons to buy from the team at Skidsteersolutions.com: quality, customer service, and commitment to good values and principles.

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Five Bobcat Skid Steer Mowing Attachments for County Highway Departments

A Bobcat skid steer being used by the county or state road team will also need safe, durable, and useful attachments that make short work of the long grass, weeds and brush along public roads.

BRUSH MOWER

The best designs will be able to extend into those hidden gulleys and overgrown ditches, and take down the brush, weeds and grass easily. They will give the skid steer operator full control over the angle and swing of the attachment, without worrying about tipping over.

FLAIL MOWER

Equipped with a double liner design, flail mowers come in a number of different sizes: 48-, 60-, 72-, as well as 84-inch widths. These Bobcat attachments come with as many as 52 reversible, high-density flail knives inside of those different enclosure widths. The knives are able to handle plant material up to an inch thick.

CLEARING MOWER

If a skid steer owner needs a 60 inch-wide mower for the gnarliest brush clearing operations, these clearing mower attachments can clean out a previously unused portion of a piece of land or turn an overgrown parcel into a commercial construction endeavor.

SICKLE MOWER

The sickle mower attachments have been called the magic wand for angled roadsides or ditches. The sickle bar attaches to the boom of the Bobcat skid steer and reaches off to the side. It is light and can be angled to accommodate the contour of almost any berm.

BOOM MOWER

These boom - mounted mower attachments, with an optional 36" rotary flail cutting deck or a 5 foot hydraulically powered sickle, have been specifically built for the Bobcat skid steer. They run on Bobcat skid steer loaders rated at at least 60 horsepower, and that have a minimum flow of 17 gpm. Each of these Bobcat skid steer attachments will make its mark with ease. They just need to be carried into battle attached to the formidable Bobcat skid steer to get their work done.

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Four Bobcat Attachments for Hurricane Cleanup

Bobcat attachments and hurricanes are sometimes the furthest thing from people's minds this time of year. With Spring Break and all of its trappings, sometimes it is hard for people to remember. It was not too long ago that some of the worst hurricanes in history wreaked havoc on many of the most beautiful vacation destinations on the planet.

When a location has been hit hard by hurricanes, tornadoes, or any kind of natural disaster, it is never easy to recover. But there are a few Bobcat attachments that can make digging out a lot easier.

Backhoes are essential Bobcat attachments for almost any kind of work, but the ingenious feature of some models has to be its hydraulic thumb. A backhoe can be used as a long-reaching grapple, moving rocks and debris while staying out of potentially dangerous areas.

The manure bucket is one of the only Bobcat attachments that acts just like a giant pitchfork. With replaceable steel tines at the front, the manure bucket makes sifting fallen building debris and other large items out of more granular material like sand, soil, and hay a quicker and more thorough process. Sure, there's not a lot of manure around after a hurricane, but it makes cleaning up large piles of debris, but some of our farm customers tell us it's useful for hauling out large animal carcasses too.

The Pallet Fork is one of the only Bobcat attachments whose job it is to pick up, move, and elevate loads of almost any product that is to be arranged on top of wooden pallets. It can deliver sand bags to a flood area, or food and water to a storm ravaged area.

One of the best Bobcat attachments for disaster clean-up is the grapple attachment. This heavy-duty steel bucket that will simply drag or carry and relocate bigger pieces of downed building material, as well as long pieces of siding, plywood, sheets of fiberboard or even metal.

It is never pleasant to clean up after a hurricane or tornado, but with these Bobcat attachments, it's possible to make short work of it and make life easier.

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Use a Bobcat Skidsteer Flail Mower Underwater?

A Bobcat skidsteer is one of the best machines for mowing grasses and brush with a boom-type mower. With its wide track and nimble maneuverability, the Bobcat skidsteer can take your mowing operations to a whole new level. The BM-20 Sickle Mower will give your Bobcat skidsteer serious bite when to comes to taking out the weeds, light brush, as well as the overgrown grasses in any area: from private homes and commercial landscapes to roadway growth and grass medians.

With a sickle mower attached to your skidsteer loader, you will be able to use the articulating boom to not just mow the grass and weeds growing out of control along the ground, but it can also be used to trim privacy hedges and noise-reducing hedges at virtually any angle. The power to trim and cut right from the boom of the Bobcat skidsteer makes this mower one of the most versatile and convenient mowers on the market. And the speed with which you can get the job done is outstanding.

There is no need to change your Bobcat equipment, or even to change attachments to go from one trimming operation to the next. The Sickle Mower has an open face cutter design and has no trouble tackling fine brush. Attached to the skidsteer, this attachment has excellent reach and heavy-duty durability.

The cutters are inexpensive to buy parts for, and amazingly this Bobcat skidsteer attachment can even be used for underwater operations! It is approved for submersion in ponds in order to cut back unwanted aquatic vegetation. Also available is a special adapter that allows you to mount an excavator or backhoe coupler to it and use it on those machines as well.

You may use it on your Bobcat skidsteer, but this mower has been designed so that it can be incredibly useful on a large number of machines.

 

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Bobcat Skidsteer Booms: The eTerra E70

Bobcat skidsteer owners know exactly how lucky they are. It used to be that every time a construction or landscaping crew wanted to dig a ditch, he or she would have to rent a dedicated backhoe vehicle. But nowadays, there is no need to purchase a full-sized backhoe, particularly if you happen to own a Bobcat skidsteer. That’s because of the dramatic improvements made in recent years to one of the original skidsteer attachments. Currently, there are two different types of backhoe attachments, but they are represented best by the eTerra E70 backhoe attachment.

While any of the current backhoe models would excel at traditional trenching and ditching, carving footings for any kind of deck, or making a hole for a big new tree, the E70 backhoe attachment has its own unique set of advantages.

Like most other Bobcat skidsteer attachments, the E70 attachment connects directly to the boom. It is basically an extension arm with a rear-facing bucket. But its controls are manipulated completely from within the skidsteer loader cab. The E70 backhoe attachment comes equipped with a quick-change coupler as well as several sizes of backhoe bucket. The quick-change coupler gives this skidsteer attachment the edge over other options, because, as the name implies, the coupler allows the operator to easily and quickly switch Bobcat skidsteer attachments and lose less work time in the field.

But the ingenious feature of the E70 has to be its hydraulic thumb. No longer just a conventional hoe, this Bobcat skidsteer attachment can be used as a long-reaching grapple, moving rocks and debris between dedicated trenching and ditching jobs. This is an excellent feature for the landscaper who needs to do it all without ever leaving the cab of his or her Bobcat skidsteer. The thumb makes this skidsteer attachment essential for any kind of debris clean-up operations.

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Bobcat Attachment Review: Three Tree Shears

What Bobcat attachment can help you clear trash trees and other timber so you can improve a piece of land? We'll give you a hint: it's not a chainsaw.

The M&M Tree Shear with optional grapple is a state-of-the-art Bobcat attachment. From the standing grapple at the top to the 36-, 48-, or 60-inch blades at the bottom, this Bobcat attachment is intimidating. This is a machine that will convince you that you don’t need a saw. All you have to do is imagine the cutting force that it takes for 3-inch thick steel scissors to snip off a tree at the base.

The Timberline Tree Shear is a fearsome Bobcat attachment with teeth to hold the tree still while the shear does the cutting. The most interesting thing about the Timberline Tree Shear, though, is that it has been specifically engineered to be used on Bobcat machines. It features a rotating feature that allows the Bobcat operator, once a tree has been cut down, to turn the shear 90 degrees and cut the timber into sections without ever leaving the cab. It will then grab one of the sections, spike it in the end zone, and shout "BOO-YAH!" (No, not really.)

The Bradco tree shear Bobcat attachment is a single blade system. An elegant and simple machine, the Bradco tree shear is built with a large shield for keeping the Bobcat equipment and the operator as safe as possible. With its hardened steel construction and 3000 pounds of biting force, this is a high-quality Bobcat attachment that you will be able to count on for many seasons. It boasts very good strength and quality of build, but is also simply built and relatively inexpensive, with few moving parts.

When you and your Bobcat are ready to clear a piece of land of trash trees and troublesome timber, count on one of these three tree shears to complement your collection of Bobcat equipment.

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Your Bobcat Skid Loader Wants a Harley Rake

Your Bobcat has cabin fever. It might be chilly today, but the other day, all the birds were singing, there was a new crop of gnats swarming out over the drainage ditch, and there were even spring toads starting to chirp in the thawed fields. They had all come together, and were announcing the coming of spring.

It might not be common knowledge in the landscaping world, but Spring is the favorite time of year for the Bobcat. Springtime means your Bobcat skid loader can finally shake off the last of the icicles clinging to its cab, and pull out into the sun, ready to get dirty.

You and your Bobcat skid loader could soon be showing up at a site to begin blending a new residential property into an old existing one. You may have the opportunity to power rake a new yard into a golf course. You may even want to remove rocks from the surface of a lot, or simply grade and blend property transitions. There are an endless number of possibilities once spring has sprung and the soil has been loosened up.

For each of these jobs, or if you would like to thatch an existing yard, resurface a gravel road or a parking lot, or simply prepare an excellent seedbed, the Harley Rake attachment will be the tool to get the job done.

The Harley Rake attachment has two separate and independently adjustable gauge wheels that will allow you and your Bobcat skid steer loader to make skim passes for over-seeding, if that’s what you’re planning. The rake’s carbide teeth are designed for the best possible fracture pattern that leads to great seed and moisture retention.

The birds and bugs and frogs all seem to be preparing for new growth this spring. You and your Bobcat might consider doing the same.

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Bobcat Skidsteer Trash Hopper

Seeing the Bobcat skidsteer and its amazing array of attachments, you begin to dream of the possibilities. But you don’t think much about how you’re going to dispose of the stuff you don’t need. But the best work sites are the cleanest. The guys who keep things clean are usually the ones who make things right.

It's an old saying among the battle-scarred kitchen chefs that a cluttered work station means a cluttered mind. The same thing is true for a job site: cluttered job site, cluttered mind. So, any construction or landscaping team will have an advantage over the competition if they keep a trash hopper attachment on hand.

The trash hopper for the Bobcat skidsteer is quickly and easily connected to your skidsteer loader. It is designed to be brought in by the Bobcat skidsteer, set in a particular area, and used essentially like an everyday dumpster. Its capacity allows it to be filled with quite a lot of trash and debris, and then when you decide that the time has come for cleaning up at the end of the day, the Bobcat skidsteer trash hopper attachment can be picked up, moved easily, and dumped anywhere you can drive your skidsteer loader.

The great thing about this is you can travel far back into a construction area, like the backside of a new house or demo project, and leave the hopper there. Or leave it under a 2nd floor window, and get everyone to throw the debris into it, and not onto the ground to be picked up later. Then, when the hopper is full, drive it to the giant dumpster near the road, empty it, and take it back. This saves you loads of time and keeps you from handling the debris twice..

The Bobcat skidsteer trash hopper attachment is a rugged and durable container. It is made entirely from heavy duty, reinforced 3/16th-inch steel plate, and its universal Quick-Tach connector fits most skidsteer loaders. The trash hopper is also fitted with forklift pick-up points so that it can be relocated anywhere around the construction or landscaping site without the necessity of attaching it to the Bobcat skidsteer. If they are needed, the Bobcat skidsteer trash hopper attachment has the option of being used with casters, so that it will only take a single person to move the thing around; much easier, of course, if on a relatively smooth surface, though.

The Bobcat skidsteer trash hopper attachment comes in three sizes. The one you choose, though, is dependent upon your need versus budget. The hopper accommodates different budget levels, though, by being available in one-cubic yard, 1.5-cubic yard, and 1.75-cubic yard sizes.

Indoors or outdoors, the Bobcat skidsteer trash hopper attachment is incredibly convenient when it comes to loading, cleaning up, and dumping wherever you need it to.

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Bobcat Attachments Review: 4-in-1 Bucket

Every Bobcat attachment that fits a Bobcat skid steer loader, combined with the size, shape, and versatility of the Bobcat itself, has made it a favorite workhorse of every construction and landscaping crew. It is a do-it-all machine that uses flexible and versatile attachments to get the job done. Whatever job comes up on any given day. The 4-in-1 Bucket is a perfect example.

The 4-in-1 Bucket is first and foremost a bucket attachment. The bucket is, of course, the most basic and universally useful of all Bobcat attachments. The 4-in-1 Bucket is available in both toothed and non-toothed versions, and can be had in a variety of widths, from 60 to 84 inches. A heavy-duty steel bucket with cavernous capacity, this Bobcat attachment has been specially designed for breaking up and digging huge holes in the soil, for carrying rocks, dirt and debris wherever the Bobcat operator chooses to carry and dump a load.

There is a hinged front section of the bucket, and when this part is unlatched, it swings away and can be lifted and secured out of the way. At this point, the Bobcat skid steer loader operator is left with a heavy duty, reinforced steel dozer blade that is essential for moving soil, grading and clearing operations in any construction or landscaping job. The shallow wedge blade is just the right shape for moving a lot of soil without the unnecessary risk of deep scalping that some conventional dozer blades have been known to cause.

The 4-in-1 Bucket Bobcat attachment is also an incredible strong, useful grapple attachment. With its hinged opening, this Bobcat attachment acts as a formidable grapple tool that can be used just like a dedicated scrap grapple Bobcat attachment for grabbing and dragging any kind of junk, from broken material to large biological debris, to, perhaps most importantly, being able to grasp and crush material on the job site that is too big to handle as it is. The 4-in-1 Bobcat attachment can also use its open bucket position as the Bobcat skid steer is driven in reverse to back-grade a section of property, perhaps preparing it for seed or some other improvement.

Forget changing machines, this Bobcat attachment is every bit as versatile as the Bobcat it was designed for. Rather than switching from attachment to Bobcat attachments, just flip a switch, pull a lever, or unlatch a latch, and you're turning the 4-in-1 bucket from a bucket to a grader to a load carrier to a dozer blade to a grapple. It's  a matter of what you're in the mood for or what the project calls for. It's not only a time saver, it's a money saver.

 

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