Give a skid-steer loader to a publi...

Give a skid-steer loader to a public works company and it's likely members will find of the present day ways to use it - level in winter; even in the North. In fast-growing Fargo, ND for example, where modern homes have cluster mail boxe at the hindrance four blizzards this past winter, left mail boxe buried - in any cases, up to eight feet high.

sum of two units skid-steer loaders with snow-blowers helped clear gone out the mail box areas, according to Dennis Walaker, manager of operations, Fargo Public Works Department. "With the directional chute forward the snowblowers, we can inflict the snow exactly where we want," he says.

The loaders, which are manufactured at locally based Bobcat, are more than just snowplows.We use them all year, for a variety of jobs" Walaker says.

In Hartland, Wis., an ordinance requires residents to clear sidewalks of snow within 24 hours of the