Field record — Stonework
Sheet A-515.01
After- Town
- Georgian Bay
- Work
- Stonework
Stone, soil and material moving — operated hireGet the pallet to the work face without the wheelbarrow.
Flagstone, armour stone, pallets, topsoil, mulch and aggregate moved from the driveway drop to where the work actually is.
2,000 LB BOX
Sheet A-515Pallet forks, bucket and cargo box
Spring peak with a second run in fall, and any day a delivery lands.
- 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-515 — The work
05 OPERATIONS
Stone, soil and material moving
Material always gets dropped where the truck can reach, which is never where the work is. Pallet forks and a 2,000 lb cargo box move flagstone, armour stone, pavers, screenings, sand, base gravel, topsoil and mulch from the driveway to the back of the property — down a lane, around a cottage, across a lot the delivery truck was never getting into. Ten yards of mulch is a day with a wheelbarrow and an hour with the box.
Who buys this
- Masons and landscapers with a delivery in the wrong place
- Homeowners taking on their own patio or garden work
- Anyone with a lakeside or back lot a truck cannot reach
Sequence on site — in order
- Route walked from the drop point to the work face.
- Ground protected where the route crosses lawn or interlock.
- Pallets and stone moved on the forks; loose material in the box.
- Material stacked or spread where you actually want it.
- Drop point swept clean before we leave.
What stone, soil and material moving costs
Sheet A-515 — Operated hire — the machine with an operator
OPERATED HIRE
What a material-moving day costs
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.
- Ground protection
- Where the route needs it
- Loaded passes over lawn or interlock are planned before they happen, not apologised for afterwards.
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.
How it is sold
By the hour, with a minimum and the float shown separately.
WHAT MOVES IT
Distance from the drop to the work face, and how many times the route has to be run.
Also part of — Stonework
Our own stonework is the hardest carrying we do. The machine is why we can bid bigger stone than a crew with barrows.
Sheet A-515 — Typical job
What a typical day looks like
- A stone delivery on the driveway and a patio going in behind the cottage.
- Pallets forked around instead of barrowed, screenings boxed in behind them.
- Topsoil or mulch spread on the same visit while the machine is on site.
- The saving is a crew day of carrying, on a job that was priced with the carrying in it.
The machine is new to the business this season, so there are no record photographs filed against it yet. What is on file is the finished stonework work it feeds — 4 records below.
Before we can book it — 04 questions
- A-515.01What and how much
- Pallets, yards, or both — and roughly what each piece weighs if it is armour stone.
- A-515.02The route
- From where the truck drops to where it has to end up, and the narrowest point between them.
- A-515.03Surface
- Anything on the route we should not be crossing loaded: new sod, interlock, a septic bed.
- A-515.04Timing
- Best booked for the day the material lands, so nothing gets handled twice.
Sheet A-515 — Field records
04 RECORDS
The stonework this machine feeds
These are finished stonework jobs from the book, photographed as they wrapped up. None of them were taken with the machine — it has not been here a full season yet. They are on this sheet because they are the work the machine is bought to serve: Our own stonework is the hardest carrying we do. The machine is why we can bid bigger stone than a crew with barrows.
AfterField record — Stonework
Sheet A-515.02
After- Town
- Collingwood
- Work
- Stonework
Hand-cut granite flagstone fitted tight, the narrow joints swept full with stone chip
Field record — Stonework
Sheet A-515.03
After- Town
- Georgian Bay
- Work
- Stonework
Stone-faced columns and porch wall with dark stone treads over the poured concrete steps
Field record — Stonework
Sheet A-515.04
After- Town
- Collingwood
- Work
- Stonework
Hand-fit granite flagstone with tight swept joints, edged by a band of washed river stone against the gravel drive
Sheet A-590 — Book the machine
OPERATED HIRE
Get material moving booked.
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.