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LANDSCAPING


..THE MT55 IS A GREAT MACHINE, REPLACING WHEELBARROWS...


“The E50 has good visibility, more power, and I like the fact that I can operate the boom with my left thumb, moving it back and forth. The foot pedals are more user-friendly, and it’s close to a zero tail swing; there’s minimal overhang when it turns around.” — Jeremy Myers, MMG


While the E50 is at work, Myers’ compact track loaders and mini track loaders are transporting material between the jobsite and the street. “The MT55 is a great machine, replacing wheelbarrows,” he says. “It keeps my employees from slowing down and moving material such as broken concrete back and forth by hand. The versatility of the MT55 is unmatched. It goes around corners where other machines can’t. We have auger attachments that we use with the MT55 to plant trees.”


Attachments for specialty work


In addition to buckets, pallet forks and augers, Myers purchased a clamp, grapple, soil conditioner, plate compactor, Tilt-Tatch™ attachment and most recently an HB980 hydraulic breaker that he bought from Bobcat of Atlanta.


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“The Tilt-Tatch attachment helps us do really intricate French drain systems,” he says. “The operator can tilt the bucket 15 degrees while he drives the loader straight. That’s extremely helpful because it speeds up the process of excavating and laying our pipe in the bottom, creating a little gulley. Without it, we’d have to do a lot of handwork and digging, and it minimizes how much soil we need to excavate.”


A Bobcat HB980 hydraulic breaker allows Myers and his crews to quickly break concrete when renovating a landscape. “We demolish swimming pools and walls with the hydraulic breaker and the E50,” he says, “and it’s compatible with our T190, too.” His crews use the Bobcat grapple attachment to lift, carry and dump the concrete into a truck for disposal.


His Bobcat soil conditioner attachment is also a labor- and time-saving tool. “It does the work of 20 men, and in a matter of minutes,” he says. “It pulverizes the soil and allows us to lay sod almost immediately, or for sowing in seed. It tills everything so we can plant almost immediately. Homeowners love it because it prepares the soil well and allows the grass to grow faster, so the roots can easily get down to good soil and thrive.”


With all of this equipment, a steady stream of projects and watching landscapes transform into masterpieces, it’s no wonder Myers has a passion for his work.


Read more about the benefi ts of Bobcat M-Series excavators at www.MyWorkSaver.com/MX, or visit www.MyWorkSaver.com/att to fi nd a complete list of Bobcat attachments for landscaping professionals, as well as many other applications.


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