INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES BOBCAT DUO PACKS A
TWO BOBCAT M-SERIES MACHINES — A COMPACT EXCAVATOR AND COMPACT TRACK LOADER — AND BOBCAT ATTACHMENTS HELP OFFICIALS AT AN IDAHO LANDFILL MAINTAIN THE FACILITY, AS WELL AS PERFORM SORTING INSPECTIONS TO KEEP HAZARDOUS WASTE OUT OF THE LANDFILL.
A Bobcat E45 compact excavator with clamp attachment regularly sorts through waste in Ada County, ensuring that no hazardous waste is disposed in the landfi ll.
Bobcat®
compact Kurt Hunt
equipment is helping to ensure offi cials at the Ada County landfi ll in Boise, Idaho, do not place hazardous material in its facility, as well as prepare
fi re breaks around the perimeter and regularly assist with excavating and grading projects.
18 WorkSaver | SUMMER 2012
Landfi ll operations coordinator Kurt Hunt oversees the day-to- day operations at the facility, including the use of a Bobcat E45 excavator and a T650 compact track loader — both part of the M-Series line of Bobcat equipment. At the site are two landfi lls. The old one, called Hidden Hollow, is the original landfi ll. A newer one opened in 2007, a lined landfi ll with a life expectancy of approximately 100 years.
Hunt explains that newer landfi lls have a geo-membrane liner underneath so nothing can escape. The leachate and methane gas is collected and there’s a piping system under it. “The leachate is directed to a pond where it evaporates,” Hunt says. “We send the methane to two generators that produce electricity.”