TOOLCAT MACHINE SUCCESS STORY T SUCCESS STORY
Pat and Joe Natus, Kerrville, Texas, with their Toolcat 5600.
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Nearly 40 years ago, Joe Natus got his fi rst taste of Bobcat®
while working on a cattle ranch in Texas. Today, after spending much of his professional career in ranching and construction, he’s semi-retired and pleased with his newest compact equipment purchase — a Toolcat™ utility work machine — that he and his wife, Pat, use at two properties.
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Joe and Pat Natus own a home and 12 acres in Kerrville, Texas, in what is commonly referred to as Texas Hill Country. Texas Hill Country has beautiful scenery of green, lush landscapes. Some people claim the area has a European feel to it, due in part to the immigrants who settled here and established wineries and German-style brew houses.
The Natus family maintains a ranch about 130 miles south of Kerrville in LaSalle County, and it is roughly 210 acres. That area is where Joe was born and raised, and the ranch was once managed by his father. He and his wife have registered longhorn cattle and horses at the ranch, and equipment is still
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A TOOLCAT UTILITY WORK MACHINE AND ATTACHMENTS ARE JUST WHAT JOE AND PAT NATUS NEED TO MAINTAIN THEIR TEXAS PROPERTY, AS WELL AS A RANCH WITH CATTLE AND HORSES.
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a part of his everyday life. “I love my home country down in what we call the brush country in Texas. I’ve ranched and worked with equipment all of my life,” he says.
Joe’s equipment experience is vast. “I’ve helped build interstate highways, and I installed new driveways in subdivisions,” he says. “A lot of contractors wouldn’t take the jobs because the circles were too tight for big machines and there were too many oak trees. My cousin and I installed the driveways, as well as septic systems with a Bobcat skid-steer loader and a backhoe attachment. When construction slowed, I worked in the oil fi elds. Now, I’m semi-retired and enjoy taking care of our ranch and our 12 acres in Kerrville.
“My fi rst experience with Bobcat equipment was in 1973, which was the fi rst time I’d ever seen or been in one. We had lots of cattle and horse pens that we needed to clean. My boss had big equipment, but we couldn’t get them in some of the pens to clean them out. I could load a 20-yard dump truck faster with that little Bobcat machine. The Bobcat loader made the work so much easier. We could get in places that no other machine could get to.”
Working in comfort
Today, Joe owns a Bobcat loader as well as several compact tractors, yet spends much of his time working on his properties with his new Toolcat 5600 and attachments. Joe calls the machine his “Country Cadillac,” because of its many comfort features.
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