For example, Cavin Concrete, Sigourney, Iowa, and its six employees provide concrete work ranging from paving and street repair to walls and flatwork. Nearly half the time they're pouring concrete on farm projects such as manure pits, feedlot floors and silage bunkers, reports Dan Cavin. Without them we might have to wait several days for the ground to dry. Minn. Much of it involves installation of water lines and heating systems for poultry barns. A long-wheelbase Bobcat 773 does the heavy work such as digging and backfilling trenches, hauling and spreading gravel and lifting and moving furnaces, pipes and pallets of fittings.
Customers are amazed at how much work it can do.
In addition to saving his back, his Bobcat loader makes him money. He doesn't have to hire another contractor for the earthwork. It also lets me provide better service because I can do the complete job and finish it faster.