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Family business built on many attachments

Posted on 06/03/2019 by Bobcat Team
An operator in a Bobcat T595 with an auger drills a post hole

It started with an unusual request. Three years after founding Swogier Construction, Stan Swogier received a customer request to put in a sand volleyball court. So, Stan rented a Bobcat loader with a backhoe attachment. After finishing the job, Stan…

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“Moovin” on: dairy farm switches to a Bobcat compact track loader

Posted on 06/11/2018 by Bobcat Team
Del Dairy’s T590 sits in the alleyway of their dairy barn.

Motivated in part by good friends who’d established a farm in Manitoba, Les and Karen deLeeuw decided to start their own dairy and moved 63 cows nearly 1,000 miles across Canada, from Les’ parents’ dairy in British Columbia to a…

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Landscaping crew swaps shovels and wheelbarrows for an MT85

Posted on 06/19/2017 by Bobcat Team

For 13 years, the crew at Jat’s Backyard Landscaping in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, prided themselves on doing all their work by hand — including loading trucks, digging holes and moving concrete. The addition of an MT85 now lets them do more in less time.

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These Guys Have a Connection to the Bobcat Founding Fathers

Posted on 09/19/2016 by Bobcat Team

It’s not uncommon to find Bobcat Company employees who have a family connection to the company dating back two or three generations. But only a handful can claim a direct connection to the founders. Meet three descendants of the Melroe and Keller families.

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