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Bobcat compact tractor owner Randy Schrauder depends on his CT122 and front-end loader to help move materials and maintain his property.


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Randy Schrauder’s life-long fascination with construction equipment has served him well for more than fi ve decades and earned this comment from his wife: “He doesn’t have a job, he has a hobby.”


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Today, at age 68, he’s still an active owner- operator in the excavating business.


“I’ve scaled back to working by myself fi ve days a week, from when I had a dozen guys on the job every day,” Schrauder says. “Now I have more time to do things around here.”


He’s referring to the fi ve acres of land in Wexford, Pa., where he lives with his wife Carol, a retired school district employee. The heavily wooded, hilly property has been in the family since the 1940s when his grandfather, Mike, originally purchased 15 acres in what was then


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“Instead of going to kindergarten every day, I tagged along with my grandfather and uncle, both named Mike, and learned all the construction trades,” Schrauder says. “Everyone called me ‘Little Mike.’ They didn’t know my name was Randy until I got my driver’s license.


“I put in my fi rst lawn when I was in the 7th grade. It was two acres, and unfortunately I didn’t have the type of equipment I later purchased for my own business. It was a lot of work, but I enjoyed it.”


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