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Category: Skid Steer Loaders

At home in construction, demolition and agricultural applications, the skid steer loader has evolved to become a versatile tool carrier that can load, carry, dig, sweep and break with equal aplomb. Although often describe, simply, as a Bobcat, there are a good many other manufacturers in the skid steer loader arena including Caterpillar and JCB as these videos from www.diggersanddozers.com prove.

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51 Years of Bobcat!

Fred Anthony

For almost 51 years, stevedoring company, ZHD Stevedores, based in Dordrecht in the Netherlands, has been using Bobcat skid-steer loaders to clear the holds of ships and to move material around so that the grabs on the large unloading cranes on the dockside are kept busy. This way of working was introduced to be able to unload or load a ship as quickly as possible so that it can sail again, as idle time costs money in shipping. Any part of the load that remains out of reach of the…

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Bobcat BIG in Middle East!

Fred Anthony,

According to Bobcat, one of the key changes in the compact equipment sector in the Middle East is the significant growth in the Compact Track Loader market in the region. Since 2017, Bobcat has increased its share of the market, with sales of compact track loaders more than quadrupling in the same period. The growth is being driven by increasing demand among contractors for safe, stable and high performing machines that can be combined with a wide range of attachments that help them to expand the amount and type of…

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Plug & Play Bobcat!

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Bobcat is launching a new Remote Control System for Bobcat compact loaders. This system allows operators to leave their seat in the cab and control their Bobcat loader remotely. It is compatible with Bobcat skid-steer, compact track and all wheel steer loader models equipped with the company’s Selectable Joystick Controls. Bobcat is the first manufacturer to introduce a Remote Control System as original ‘Plug&Play’ equipment, rather than offering it as an add-on development from a third party. The new system will be commercially available later this year. Remote control solutions…

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CAT on the side

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Cat Side Discharge Buckets—designed for use with skid steer loaders, multi-terrain loaders, compact track loaders, and compact wheel loaders—collect and transport loose materials such as sawdust, sand, mulch, and topsoil and then discharge these materials via a belt-type conveyor from adjustable openings (doors) on either side of the bucket. A rotating agitator works to keep material flowing to the conveyor. Adjusting conveyor speed and door openings controls the volume of material discharged and the area covered. Features of the Cat Side Discharge Bucket suit this attachment for varied application, including…

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Bobcat’s True Tool Carrier

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Transports i Excavacions Jocar, based in Sant Andreu de Llavaneres near Barcelona in Spain, is a family business with more than 25 years of experience in earthmoving, demolition, compaction, grading and the supply of aggregates. Company owner, Joan Carles Mora, runs a large fleet of highly utilised machinery, and where compact equipment is concerned, has been fully committed to the Bobcat brand for years. The company currently has nine Bobcat machines: four Bobcat compact excavators including E10, E32, E35 and E85 models; four skid-steer loaders – three S530s and an…

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Turquoise Twosome

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Bobcat Bensheim, the company owned store for Bobcat in Germany, has delivered two new Bobcat S450 compact loaders to Oliver Pöllmann GmbH, based in Bubach in the Hunsrück area of Germany. Pöllmann works mainly in inner-city and other urban areas in the Rhine-Main region offering a range of civil engineering services including work on road projects, cable laying and utilities infrastructure. Oliver Pöllmann, Managing Director of the long-established company, had been thinking about expanding his fleet for some time and decided to purchase skid-steer loaders instead of conventional wheel loaders.…

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DEMO DAYS DOUBLE BIRTHDAY

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With the double milestones of the 60th anniversary of Bobcat and 40 years in excavator manufacture for Doosan, the organisers and the dealers and customers visiting Doosan Bobcat Demo Days held at the end of February 2018 had more than usual to celebrate. Staged at the Doosan Bobcat Campus at Dobříš, close to the capital city of Prague in the Czech Republic, this latest version of the very successful Demo Days event did not disappoint. Attended by hundreds of customers from over 20 countries across Europe, the Middle East and…

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JCB unveils Teleskid

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JCB has previewed the world’s first skid steer and compact track loader with a telescopic boom. The JCB Teleskid is a revolutionary new product that can reach 60% further forward than any other skid steer on the market and – in an industry first – it is the only skid steer in the world that can dig below its chassis to an unparalleled depth of around one metre. In addition, this innovative new machine can reach 8% higher than any other skid steer. JCB Chief Innovation and Growth Officer Tim…

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Bobcat surfaces in Scunthorpe

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Scunthorpe-based Specialist Surfacing Ltd has expanded the company’s fleet of Bobcat compact loaders and attachments with the purchase of two new S570H high flow skid-steer loaders and new Bobcat sweeper and bucket attachments. Supplied by AMS Bobcat, the local Authorised Bobcat Dealer for Lincolnshire and South and East Yorkshire in the UK, the new order joins an impressive fleet of Bobcat equipment at Specialist Surfacing that comprises seven other Bobcat skid-steer loaders including S185 and 773TH models, four Bobcat 18 inch planers and 12 Bobcat 60 inch sweeper attachments. Specialist…

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Cat unveils new control option

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For the first time, Hand & Foot Controls will be offered on Cat Skid Steer, Multi Terrain and Compact Track Loader models. Operators who prefer this type of control can now take advantage of the full suite of features and benefits that the Cat D Series loaders deliver. With extensive input from hand and foot control users, Caterpillar has designed a set of controls which competitive users can quickly adapt. It starts with smart joystick design. Single-axis joysticks were chosen in order to provide the fore/aft movement operators are used…

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