Deck and shed site prep — operated hireLevel the pad, strip the sod, auger the footings — in one visit.

The dig-and-level day at the front of a deck, shed or cabin build, done by machine instead of by hand.

ONE VISIT

Sheet A-514Bucket, grading attachment and auger

Spring through fall.

Ask for a date What it costs

DWG — 2014 Bobcat Toolcat 5600 · fitted for site prep

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-514 — The work

06 OPERATIONS

Deck and shed site prep

Every deck, shed and small cabin starts with the same day: strip the sod, level the ground, auger the footing holes and get the excavated material out of the way. By hand that is two people for two days and a wrecked lawn. On the machine it is a visit — sod off, ground cut to level, holes augered, spoil in the box and gone. It is the same day whether we are building what goes on top or somebody else is.

Who buys this

Homeowners with a deck, shed or cabin going in
Builders who want the dig day off their crew's plate

Sequence on site — in order

Locates cleared where footings are going in.
Footprint set out against your drawing.
Sod and topsoil stripped and stockpiled or boxed off.
Ground cut to level, or to the fall the build calls for.
Footing holes augered on the same visit.
Spoil hauled off in the cargo box and the area left clean.

Sheet A-514 — Operated hire — the machine with an operator

OPERATED HIRE

What a site-prep visit 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.
Spoil removal: Boxed and hauled; The 2,000 lb cargo box means the excavated material leaves with the machine instead of sitting on your lawn until someone deals with it.

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.

Ask for a date 705-220-6574 cullencontracting@gmail.com

No obligation — we reply within one business day.

How it is sold

By the hour, with a minimum — or as a line inside the build quote when we are doing both.

WHAT MOVES IT

The slope decides it. A flat lot is a short visit; a lot that falls a metre across the footprint is not.

Also part of — Decks

When we are building the deck, this day is a line in the deck quote rather than a separate hire.

Custom Decks

Sheet A-514 — Typical job

What a typical pad looks like

A shed or deck footprint on a sloped cottage lot.
Sod stripped, high side cut down, low side made up.
Footing holes augered while the machine is already there.
Half a day to a day, against two days of hand digging.

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 decks work it feeds — 4 records below.

Before we can book it — 05 questions

A-514.01Footprint: The size and position of the build, and how level it actually has to be.
A-514.02Access: The narrowest gate or gap between the road and the pad.
A-514.03Locates: Required wherever footings are dug. Five business days.
A-514.04Spoil and sod: Whether it stays on the property or leaves with us.
A-514.05Who builds on top: Ours or yours. Either is fine; it changes the schedule, not the work.

Locates first — five business days

Anything that goes into the ground needs locates first. Ontario One Call gives the locators five business days, so a dig booked on Monday is not a dig that happens on Tuesday. We file the request; you do not have to.

Sheet A-514 — Field records

04 RECORDS

The decks this machine feeds

These are finished decks 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: When we are building the deck, this day is a line in the deck quote rather than a separate hire.

Field record — Decks

Sheet A-514.01