For agriculture producers who want to maximize the use of their Bobcat loaders, there are a number of applications to pair a loader with labor-saving attachments. Producers may choose from a variety of bucket sizes to load feed into mixers, especially with the extended lift height and visibility of the M-Series loaders. Buckets may also be used to clear manure from inside barns or other areas where larger equipment won’t fi t, and then eventually load it into a spreader or truck. A Bobcat bale fork is an effi cient way to lift, carry and load hay bales. Bobcat grapple attachments help loader operators move hard-to-handle or loose material; for added grip, they can add one of seven utility fork options.
LANDSCAPING Attachments have changed the way landscapers
work, helping them minimize manual labor and digging with shovels. Tasks like planting trees can be done more easily with an auger; lifting and carrying small trees with a tree fork; or transplanting trees with a tree spade. Preparing soil is much simpler, too. It’s done with any number of soil conditioning attachments such as a landscape rake, which prepares soil by raking it and collecting surface debris to smooth and level the soil. A soil conditioner pulverizes the dirt to prepare for new seed or sod. And when it’s time to plant seed or lay sod, Bobcat has attachments for those tasks, too. The Bobcat seeder attachment has a 4-bushel hopper and 72-inch seeding width.
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS Regardless of the location,
Bobcat has a large assortment of attachments for grounds maintenance professionals. You’ll fi nd them on college and university campuses — mowing, sweeping, and cleaning walking paths and parking lots, moving materials or landscaping. When snow removal season arrives, Bobcat loaders can be matched with a variety of blades, snowblowers, snow pushers, spreaders or angle brooms to quickly clear snow.
CONSTRUCTION There are many applications where
attachments are used every day in construction, from concrete and asphalt to demolition, excavating and grading to lifting and moving materials, and site preparation to trenching. For years Bobcat loaders and attachments have been the backbone of construction companies and their compact equipment fl eets.
Bobcat specializes in manufacturing many construction-related attachments such as planers for milling asphalt and concrete in places where larger milling equipment cannot fi t. Another example is breaking concrete, then lifting, carrying and dumping it into a truck for removal. Laser-guided attachments such as box blades and graders have precise mechanisms to minimize concrete for fl atwork, saving considerable money in materials. A six-way dozer blade can angle up to 30 degrees for leveling, piling and grading loose dirt, gravel and sand.