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Bobcat Service
Machine-with-Operator Service
Description and Function:
The most common attachment for a skid steer (after a basic bucket) is a set of pallet forks. Indispensible for any jobsite.
Available in standard or hydraulic. Both have forks (tines) that are adjustable in width from zero to about 4 feet wide.
The manual one requires the operator getting out and sliding them into position, the hydraulic ones can be adjusted by the operator from inside the cab with the flip of a switch. That is useful for situations where they need to be constantly adjusted (for example, when moving random-sized rocks into place for landscaping).
Price:
$ 50 per day - Standard forks (non-hydraulic), manually adjustable
$ 75 per day - Hydraulically adjustable forks
(additional to hourly charge for the basic bobcat that it needs to run it, with operator)
Applications & Purpose:
For material handling of many types - odd-sized and irregular materials which won't easily fit into a bucket (too wide, loose, etc), moving pallets of block or other materials, doing site clean up, etc.
Landscapers, custom home and residential subdivision builders, general contractors of all types, commercial and industrial, road building, almost any time a skid steer is used, a set of forks is very handy to have around.
Forks are not designed for excavation, loosing hard ground or prying - using them for this improper purpose will damage them - bend the tines or break the frames.
Compatibility:
All bobcats with modern couplers will accept pallet forks that have the universal coupler on them.
Any machine with auxillary hydraulics will work the hydraulically-adjustable forks.
Machines in the 4, 5, and 6 class widths use the standard full-size forks (including the hydraulic ones), whereas the 3-foot class machines require the smaller forks designed for that size machine, and hydraulically operated ones are not available for it.
How much the forks can lift is almost entirely based on the lift capacity of the machine they are attached to. Bear in mind that other than the very biggest 6-foot models, a skid steer will not be able to move a full skid of interlocking stone, which often weight 3000 lbs or more. Masonry block or clay bricks are much lighter and full skids of such can often be handled by many 5 and 6 foot machines.
Availability:
We stock a large number of forks, and all branches have them. A few branches stock the hydraulic ones, in fewer supply, and the smaller ones for the 3-footers are also less common.
A bobcat with a set of forks is indispensible on your jobsite
Standard (non-hydraulic) pallet forks
Play the video below to see it in action:
Our thanks to the Bobcat Company for the use of this video. Our own video demonstrating this attachment will be forthcoming once we finish its production.
Bobcat Attachments
Forks (pallet forks)
Smaller-sized forks for the 3-foot bobcat class
Hydrualically-adjustable forks (below), use standard flush-faced couplers (above left) and cylinders (right)
Hydraulic forks - perfect for placing rocks - building retaining walls, rockeries, terraces
