Plant & equipment — Muskoka, Georgian Bay & BarrieHire the machine with him on it. Or take a trailer.
One work machine, a quick-attach plate and a set of tools for it — hired by the hour with the operator on board. Grading, post holes, trenching, site prep, moving stone, storm cleanup and winter lanes. The enclosed trailers rent dry; the machine never does.
Sheet A-5102014 Bobcat Toolcat 5600
- Overall widthTo confirmNot published — we measure it against your access before we book.
- Overall heightTo confirmNot published — we measure it against your access before we book.
- Operating weight5,685lb· 2,579 kgWhat it puts on a finished lawn. Soft ground, a septic bed or new sod is a conversation before we book, not after.
- Rated lift capacity1,500lb· 680 kgWhat the arms lift at the plate. The dump box behind carries 2,000 lb again.
Figures published by Bobcat for the Toolcat 5600. Width and height are measured against your own access before we commit to a date.
Sheet A-510 — Two ways to hire
One of these is his time. The other is his asset.
They carry different obligations, so they are sold differently and they are written down differently. Read the one you are actually buying.
Operated hire
You are buying his hours.
He arrives with the machine, he runs it, and he takes it home. It stays on his insurance and nothing about the work transfers to you. Priced by the hour with a minimum, and the float — getting the machine there and back — shown as its own line.
- Who operates
- He does
- What you get
- Hours of work
- Priced
- By the hour, minimum + float
- Insurance
- His
- Deposit
- None
Dry rental
You are taking the asset away.
The trailer leaves in your name, on your hitch. That means a deposit, proof of insurance, a tow vehicle actually rated for the load, and condition photographs at out and back. Priced by the day, the week or the month.
- Who operates
- You do
- What you get
- The trailer
- Priced
- Day / week / month
- Insurance
- Yours
- Deposit
- Required
Not offered
The machine does not go out on its own.
The Toolcat leaves the yard with him on it, every time. A 61 hp machine running an auger or a trencher in untrained hands is the largest risk this business can create, and general liability commonly excludes equipment rented out to others. The trailers go out dry. The machine goes out operated.
Register — A-500 Series
What the machine is hired to do
Numbered in the order of the working year: lane grading when the frost comes out, digging through the season, and the snow contract that fills the quarter the trades cannot.
Operated — he runs the machine
- A-511Driveway and lane gradingBox blade / grading attachmentWashed-out private lanes recrowned, potholes cut out, new gravel spread and levelled — by the hour, with the float shown separately.Strong spring peak once the frost is out, with a second pass before freeze-up.
- A-512Post holesPost-hole augerAugered post holes for fence lines, decks and pergolas — spoil in the box, locates filed first. Sold on its own to other builders as dig-only.Spring through fall. Frost-limited — nobody augers frozen ground honestly.
- A-513Cable trenchingTrencherTrenching for low-voltage lighting, irrigation and service cable — clean line, backfilled behind, locates cleared first.Spring through fall, frost-limited.
- A-514Deck and shed site prepBucket, grading attachment and augerThe dig-and-level day at the front of a deck, shed or cabin build, done by machine instead of by hand.Spring through fall.
- A-515Stone, soil and material movingPallet forks, bucket and cargo boxFlagstone, armour stone, pallets, topsoil, mulch and aggregate moved from the driveway drop to where the work actually is.Spring peak with a second run in fall, and any day a delivery lands.
- A-516Hot tub and shed pad levellingGrading attachment, bucket and compactionSmall, exact levelling jobs: hot tub pads, shed bases, generator and bin pads — cut, base, level, compact.Spring through fall.
- A-517Brush and storm cleanupForks, bucket, cargo box and grapple workDowned limbs, blown-in brush and blocked lanes cleared with forks, bucket and box — including for owners who are three hours away.Spring cleanup peak, and reactive after any storm, year round.
- A-518Snow clearing — private lanesSnow blade and snowblowerSeasonal snow clearing on cottage and rural laneways. A season contract, not an hourly favour — because a storm is not the time to negotiate.December through March — the quarter when decks, fences, painting and siding are all dead.
Dry — you tow it, you insure it
Sheet A-501 — The machine
2014 Bobcat Toolcat 5600
A four-wheel-drive work machine: loader arms on a quick-attach plate at the front, a dump cargo box behind, and hydraulics for powered tools. Small enough for a finished residential yard, road-capable between buildings on a big property.
What it is not
- Not an excavator
- It augers and trenches at shallow depth. It does not dig a footing trench to frost depth, and it does not work a trench box. If that is your job, we will tell you and you should hire an excavator.
- It still weighs 5,685 lb
- Rubber tyres and a light machine mark soft turf all the same. Ground condition is the first question we ask, and on wet ground the honest answer is sometimes to wait a week.
- Depth and diameter are the job's, not the machine's
- Auger bit size and dig depth are settled against your build before the day, not assumed from a catalogue.
Specification — published figuresWhat it decides
- Rated operating capacity
- 1,500lb· 680 kg
- What the loader arms will pick up and carry at the quick-attach.
- Cargo box payload
- 2,000lb· 17 cu ft
- Material and spoil move in the box instead of across your lawn in a wheelbarrow.
- Operating weight
- 5,685lb· 2,579 kg
- What the machine puts on a lawn, a septic bed or an interlock drive.
- Engine
- 61hp· diesel
- Enough hydraulic power to run an auger, a trencher or a blower.
- Travel speed
- 17mph· road-capable
- It drives between buildings on a large property under its own power.
- Towing capacity
- 4,000lb
- It can reposition a loaded trailer on site without a truck.
Figures published by Bobcat for the Toolcat 5600. Width and height are measured against your own access before we commit to a date.
Sheet A-501 — Quick-attach
One carrier. What goes on the front decides the job.
Pick the work you need — the tool for it is named underneath, and its own sheet says what it costs and what we need to know first.
Cullen runs the machine and changes the attachment on site. You are buying hours of work, not the machine — nothing is released to you and no liability transfers.
Pick the work you need and the tool for it is named here.
Every one of these is its own sheet in the register above — what the work is, how it is priced, what a typical job looks like, and what we need to know before we can book it.
How operated hire is priced
Sheet A-510 — Operated hire — the machine with an operator
What it costs to have the machine on your site
Quoted per job
Operator included
You are hiring the machine with him on it. He runs it, it stays on his insurance, and nothing about the work transfers to you.
- Operator
- Included
- You are buying hours of work with him running the machine. Nothing is released to you and no liability transfers.
- Minimum charge
- Stated with your date
- Every hire has one. You see the figure when we confirm the date — never after the work.
- Float — machine to site and back
- Charged separately
- Mobilisation is its own line, not something buried in the hourly rate. Georgian Bay and Muskoka distances are real and we would rather show them than hide them.
- Attachment changes on site
- No second visit
- The quick-attach is the point of this machine: augering, grading and hauling can all happen on the same visit.
Before we roll
- Access measured — the narrowest gate, gap or lane the machine has to pass.
- Ground condition agreed — lawn, septic bed, new sod and soft spring ground are settled before the day, not discovered on it.
- Somewhere for the spoil — off site, stockpiled, or spread. It has to go somewhere.
- Locates cleared where anything is being dug (Ontario One Call — five business days).
HST shown as its own line. Price honoured as quoted.
Book the machine
Tell us the site and roughly what needs doing. We reply with a date and what it will take — hours, minimum and float shown before you commit.
No obligation — we reply within one business day.
Why the float is a separate line
Getting the machine to your property and home again is real work and real diesel, and cottage-country distances are not small. A rate that folds mobilisation into the hour looks cheap to a homeowner and reads dishonest to a contractor who knows the machine had to be trailered in. So it is shown on its own, every time.
The same goes for the minimum. Every hire has one; you see the number when the date is confirmed, not after the work.
Hiring the machine for work we are already quoting — a fence line, a deck, a patio — is usually a line inside that quote instead of a separate hire. See the trades.
Sheet A-590 — Book the machine
Tell us the site. We will tell you the day and the number.
Tell us the site and roughly what needs doing. We reply with a date and what it will take — hours, minimum and float shown before you commit.
No obligation — we reply within one business day.