Win a Toolcat 5600 for a Year
Dale Schermann
You’ve read about the versatile Toolcat™ 5600 utility work machine. Now you can win the use of one for a year. Log on to www.toolcat.com/ws to enter the contest. Just complete this sentence: “If I had a Toolcat 5600…” The contest ends November 1, 2003.
Here are some of the entries (edited for length) that have already won weekly prizes and who are finalists for the grand prize:
If I Were a Poet
Al Myers, with the City of Santa Rosa, Calif., writes that the Toolcat 5600 utility work machine would be particularly useful for him because he is responsible for several grounds maintenance jobs in area parks, and for at least one ball field. He also appears to be a poet.
If I had a Toolcat, this is a fact, my life would be simpler, and that is that.
I’d use it for everything that I could, my boss would be thinking, “boy, he is good.”
With our barn and our ball field, our turf and our trails, There would be no job that we could not nail.
With 1,200 employees in our company, You could do worse than to send one to me.
Doing Jobs Right
Dale Schermann, East Grand Forks, Minn., writes that he has lived on his small farmstead for about 14 years, and he’s gradually acquired a small
amount of power equipment. “But not the right equipment to really let me do things right,” he says. “The Toolcat 5600, with the right attachments, would
allow me to quickly and effectively maintain my property by completing tasks such as mowing, clearing snow, and moving dirt, brush, etc.”
5600 Won’t Strike Out
What would a high school baseball coach do with a Toolcat 5600 utility work machine? “I would use it to keep my field ready all season long,” writes Russ Ham of St. Louis (Mo.) Priory School. “Dragging the field, getting dry agents to the field, or just mowing the grass in-season.” He also thinks the 5600 would help tremendously in hauling water and equipment.
Life-Changing Machine
“If I had a Toolcat (5600), my husband’s life would be much easier,” writes Andrea Wailes, Scranton, Iowa. Andrea and her husband (Brett) bought their country house in 2001 and immediately put in a windbreak consisting of 1,000 bushes and 500 trees. They have already had to take out four 200-year-old trees and have more to remove. But they keep on going. “We’re in the process of buying more land to the south and putting in more trees through a DNR program,” Andrea writes. “And we would love a Toolcat 5600 to use for everything.”
Brett Wailes
Pheasants Forever
Mitch Dolata, Waterford, Wis., is building a game farm. He currently raises 1,500 pheasants, but his goal is to reach 10,000. “If I had a Toolcat 5600, I would finish building the pens I need,” he writes. Mitch would also use it to prep the pens, till ground, haul feed, water and hay, dig post holes and push snow.
Divine Intervention
Diane Aird, Steinbach, Manitoba, writes that she and her husband would be “in Heaven” if they were to win a year’s use of a Toolcat 5600 utility work machine. “With acres of heavily wooded fenced-in grazing for cattle, the Toolcat 5600 would make fence patrolling and mending effortless!
“One of the hardest things I face today is a diminished ability to walk any distance,” Diane adds. “This would change with the Toolcat 5600. I could ride along and do a bit of work, safety watch, consult or be a companion.
“With its simplicity, even I would be able to use the machine myself without waiting for my husband. But don’t tell him that!”
What a Place to Live
“If I had the Toolcat 5600 utility work machine, I could help Durham Township keep the tax mill rate at three mills,” writes Wendy Badman, a Durham, Penn., Township employee. “For over 21 years, the municipality where I reside has not increased taxes. One reason for this accomplishment is sound fiscal judgment. The other is that all township employees wear many hats and perform many duties to keep Durham Township a bucolic place.
“If I had a Toolcat 5600, I would be the most popular person in the township.”
Help for One-Man Show
Donna Smith, Nashville, Tenn., has actually entered the contest for her husband Andy. She writes that, if he can win, the brochure clutter would be eliminated in their bedroom. Andy is apparently looking at several different types of utility equipment. “I saw the Bobcat brochure and information on the contest and knew it was ideal for all the jobs he wants to do.”
The Smiths recently took over ownership of the farm Donna was raised on. They have about four acres to mow, plus cleanup of another 92 acres. All they have is old equipment that has not been maintained, and Donna uses a wheelchair.
“He (Andy) is a one-man show, and I would love for him to get the help he needs to do all the jobs he wants to accomplish,” Donna writes. “So please help me eliminate this pile of equipment brochures and most of all, give me a little time with my husband by cutting down his long hours spent maintaining the farm.”