Before hiring your Bobcat equipment, it is essential to define your requirements to ensure your bobcat of choice suits your needs.

At home, you may choose to hire a Bobcat to maintain your personal property with jobs such as:

• Cutting down overgrown brushes,
• Transportation of stuff around your property
• Fence installation

For more business-oriented activities (such as in the construction/manufacturing. Agribusiness or mining industries), a bobcat may be used to:

• while paving a road
• area clean ups after work has been completed
• construction site concrete pouring
• preparing foundations
• site preparation
• ground maintenance

Your bobcat hire company will be able to advise you on which bobcat will best suit your needs. There are a variety of bobcat types, including:

• Loaders
• Excavators
• Utility Equipment
• Attachments
• Skid-steer loaders
• Compact track loaders
• All-wheel steer loaders
• Mini track
• Bobcat excavators/ mini excavators

To ensure safe and efficient use of the bobcat, your hire company should provide you with detailed instructions on how to use the equipment correctly. They should also perform electrical checks to satisfy regulation, and be able to show a record that the bobcat has been regularly maintained. Your hire company should also run through the operation of the equipment with you, including any safety features and use of accessories such as ear defenders and helmets.