Unexpected loss brings new opportunities
Bobcat 2300 utility vehicle helps widow renovate retreat center
2300 owner Candy Roe says the machine has become one of her best friends.
When Candy Roe’s husband Mike died unexpectedly in 2003, she knew that she wanted to do something to honor him. After two years of searching for the perfect place, Roe found a beautiful property in Pine, Ariz., where she purchased a rural home and began renovations to turn it into the Breath of Life Retreat House.
In addition to a monumental to do list inside the house, the outside of the home needed a facelift. Roe quickly realized she needed a piece of equipment to help her complete the landscaping, and after visiting with a friend, she went to Bingham Equipment in Mesa to find something that would ease her burden. A sales specialist showed Roe the Bobcat® 2300 utility vehicle and attachments, and she was immediately sold on the concept.
“I thought, this is exactly what I am looking for,” she says. “Something I can ride like my ATV and also help me complete projects around my property.”
Landscaping projects at the retreat center included moving materials from the front of the house to the back for a new patio. Equipped with the Rapid-Link™ system and light material bucket, Roe used the 2300 to easily transport fl agstone, granite, sand and flowers.
“I can easily move 80-pound pieces of flagstone or bags of cement in the bucket, and it is very easy to change the attachments from the bucket to the pallet fork,” Roe says. She also used the bucket to complete some light grading in the backyard — something that would have been done by hand with shovels and rakes if not for the 2300. A snow blade comes in handy in the winter.
It was almost like having two or three people with me, but I was using the 2300 instead.
“If I didn’t have the 2300, a lot of the work would not have gotten done, because I did much of the work myself,” she says. “It was almost like having two or three people with me, but I was using the 2300 instead. My Bobcat 2300 is my best friend because it helped me get so much of the landscaping done.
“Volunteers who generously gave their time and talents to the project were quickly able to learn the abilities of the Bobcat 2300. I achieved my goals with help from the 2300 and it made for some fun work for the volunteers.”
Rick and Julie Kreuter
Whether Candy needs to haul landscaping supplies at home or on the trails with her friends, the Bobcat 2300 utility vehicle is the perfect machine for her. Candy’s dream of remembering her husband Mike has been fulfilled with the retreat house nestled among the Ponderosa pines and spectacular mountains.
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Bobcat utility vehicle makes TV appearance
Bobcat Company is sponsoring “Beyond the Hunt” with Rick and Julie Kreuter, a TV program focused on hunting and the great outdoors. Bobcat provided them with a 2200 utility vehicle and a Toolcat™ 5600, both of which will be featured extensively on the show. The show airs on the Great American Country Network (GAC) on Saturdays at 7:30 a.m. CDT.