Equipment Gives Campground an Advantage
Cape Cod Campresort, a family campground located in the heart of old Cape Cod, enjoys many advantages-a 55-acre wooded landscape with a freshwater lake, sandy beach, 200 sites for recreational vehicles up to 48-ft.-long, rental cabins, a tenting area and plenty of amenities. There is also ample room for expansion.
Another advantage for the East Falmouth, Mass., park: A pair of Bobcat® loaders that save time and money doing a variety of construction and maintenance chores around the popular campground.
"Having this equipment is very convenient and economically beneficial," says John McCarthy, manager. "These loaders and attachments paid for themselves in a very short time, compared to bringing in an operator and machine for a day here and a day there."
He purchased an 863 skid-steer loader four years ago from Bobcat of Cape Cod, and a T300 compact track loader last year.
"While the 863 has been extremely valuable-it paid for itself that first year -we added the T300 because of our sandy soils," says McCarthy. "I used to grade with the 863, but with the soft ground conditions I had to keep working out the ruts I was creating. The compact track loader does a much better job of grading. It gives me more traction and doesn't produce ruts. Grading projects get completed much faster."
So does other work.
"At the back corner of the property there has been a large pile of logs left over from a hurricane in the early 1990s," says McCarthy. "I couldn't move them with any of our equipment. Then we got the T300, and I was able to go right down into that spongy ground and clean the logs right out. Without the T300 those logs would still be there. It's an unbelieveable machine."
McCarthy uses his Bobcat loaders and attachments (backhoe, sweeper) to build new sites and roads and install water, sewer and electrical lines and regularly sweep 1.5 miles of asphalt roads.
"Our Bobcat equipment is a real advantage," he says. "We save money, complete work on our own schedule and demonstrate to our visitors that we run a first-class operation."