Here is our newest tool, I’m calling it our powered wheelbarrow. In a quest to always find more efficient ways to maintain our landscapes, we purchased this small articulating loader to help reduce long walks back to the truck or compost pile. The size of this machine is small enough to drive across lawns all day long without doing any turf damage. It also allows us to move more material each trip without any manual labor which will hopefully keep crew members more fresh. As you can see by the picture below, some of the landscapes we maintain are on very large properties. In the past, we would move debris up hill to the compost pile and bring mulch down hill by wheelbarrows. It was strenuous, to say the least—never mind time-consuming.
Before making this purchased, we looked at many types of machines. We ended up with this small articulated loader called the Multione 8.4SK. We like it for a couple different reasons. First, as I mentioned earlier, it can drive over a lawn all day long without doing any turf damage. Second, it allows us to move a lot of material at a time. About a yard of bulk material at a time. Lastly, it allows us to use full sized attachments like buckets and forks as well as our mini skid steer attachments.
Although we’ve had this loader since last year, this is the first mulching season with it. It’s definitely saving us time. Less than half the trips at a fraction of the time. I’d say that was a good purchase. I’ll be interested to see how it works with some of our mini attachments like the Atom splitter, trencher, stump grinder or rototiller that needs a little more hydraulic power than our mini skid steer can provide. Time will tell.
