7/1/2018 10:07 AM
We bought a Caterpiller 301.8 C. We use ours for a lot of things. Irrigation, tee box construction, bunker re-construction, any retaining wall project, digging up busted asphalt, drainage rather than trenching, you name it. It's smallish, but light enough to track across a fairway without leaving a long term mark. We usually stationary it on plywood when we get to the location we are headed.
Perhaps one of the single greatest investments we have made. I can't imagine the amount of man hours it's saved us over the past few years. If I had the staff and time, it'd never sit idle, but like most, we run thin so it makes long projects shorter when we can do them.
Sometimes I wish we had a little larger unit, but it'd also be unrealistic for many applications. I like being able to fit through a 3' opening if needed. It was a joint acquisition with our maintenance department for other properties and we share it back and forth.