Stretching a Budget
Nonprofit organizations like Longmeadow Rescue Ranch often have limited budgets, but still need reliable equipment to accom- plish their missions. Dealers who help them balance these priorities can earn customers.
John Konersmann, owner of St. Louis Power Sports, St. Louis, sold the ranch a Polaris Ranger 500 by offering a good trade-in deal for an older Kawasaki Mule that needed repairs.
Linda Chapman is Longmeadow Rescue Ranch’s customer service specialist and lead ranch assistant. She and members of the staff use the Polaris Ranger every day for ranch chores, to haul supplies and to transport visitors.
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works with the ranch’s 11 employees and coordinates its volunteers. More than 150 people are on the volunteer list, with some coming in every day. She says there is no typical day, but it generally starts at 7 a.m. with feeding and ends at 9 p.m. with the caretaker doing final barn and pasture checks. Chapman refers to the routine as “divide and conquer.”
“Everyone is assigned their own barn areas and we break down into smaller groups,” Chapman says. Throughout the day, the team feeds, waters, moves animals out to pasture and back in for care, administers medi-
cine, walks those animals who need extra help, trims hooves and checks weights. They also repair fences, main- tain pastures and the front visitor areas and attend to the ongoing tasks of cleaning stalls and pens and keeping work areas clean and organized. The ranch uses more than a dozen pieces of large equipment and attach- ments, along with many hand tools. It owns three Kubota tractors, 3430, 3830 and 3940 models. The 3830 and 3940 have loaders and are used for moving sawdust from the storage bins to the barn areas and spread- ing manure with its Frontier and continued on pg 50
“We shopped around for differ- ent deals and they gave us a good price and trade-in,” says Amanda Mullen, ranch director.
The ranch uses the UTV every day for chores as well as to trans- port visitors.
“The Ranger has fuel injection so it’s always ready to go. It’s an easy vehicle for their volunteers to operate,” Konersmann says. A similar approach by Mark Schaeperkoetter, owner of Schaeperkoetter Sales & Service, earned his dealership a sale of a Kubota 3940 and Land Pride blade and auger. The ranch traded in an older Kubota. The dealership has locations in Mt. Sterling and Owensville, Mo.
“They had a limited budget and we went the distance to get them as much as we could for their budget,” says Schaeperkoetter. “It was a mutually good deal. We got a used tractor out of the deal and somebody else is now run- ning that dependable tractor. It’s also good public relations when people see our Kubota equipment at Longmeadow events.”
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St. Louis Power Sports, St. Louis, earned the sale of a Polaris Ranger UTV by offering a good trade-in deal on an older machine.
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