Rother Valley Tree Services Ltd has purchased a new top-of-the-range Bobcat T86 compact track loader and several Bobcat attachments including the new Bobcat FRC200XT high flow forestry mulcher from AMS Bobcat, the local authorised Bobcat dealer. The Doncaster-based business promises high quality work in every aspect of arboriculture, from small private clients to large commercial and local authority contracts.
Customers also include prison services, waterways, railways, utility companies, private estates/woodlands and many private home and land owners. Utility arboriculture alone represents an estimated £150 million of arboricultural work in the UK each year, adjacent to electricity supplies, plus work close to rail, waterways and telecommunications networks.
AMS Bobcat has equipped the T86 with a forestry application kit, which is required when using the machine with a forestry mulcher. As part of the order, the company also purchased Bobcat 82in root grapple and pallet fork attachments.
Steve Smith, managing director of Rother Valley Tree Services, commented: “I was intending to purchase the T770 model from Bobcat, but AMS Bobcat introduced us to the idea of the new T86 and its Super Flow output and the more powerful attachments it can power, such as the new FRC200XT forestry cutter. Now part of our fleet, the T86 has more than matched what we were promised!
Carl Chadburn, plant manager, added: “The many jobs we are able to do are specialist, with only a few companies being able to offer these services in the UK. The T86, the new forestry cutter and the other Bobcat attachments we’ve purchased from AMS complement the rest of the vehicles and machinery in our fleet, giving us access to an even larger array of solutions to help complete even the most difficult of jobs.”
