New member from NoCal and AK

[la350]

Greetings, I recently found this site and decided to join up. I just bought an 843 that had been sitting for 2yrs. Engine ran fine, bucket worked but it wouldn't move. I brought the owner of the Redding CA bobcat dealership over with me and we found the brass filter plugged in some sort of valve assembly and away she went! My intended use is on the beach in Alaska. I live in northern CA where I'm a high school counselor (previously 14yrs as a shop teacher) and work in AK summers as a commercial fisherman. I'm hoping a Bobcat with over the tire tracks will work on my beach which has a 15 - 30 degree slope with small rounded rocks/gravel from pea size up to golf ball size. I'd like to be able to lift a tote of salmon out of my skiff (upwards of 1300lbs), run the 843 up the slope to the flat bed waiting on the beach road? Any thoughts? I have no prior experience with this type of rig. All I know is, hand loading 1,500 - 10,000lbs of salmon a day is way too much work regardless of how many deck hands I have hired! I'll be posting back with questions as soon as I hear back from the dealership where I'm having the rig checked out. Lance Chico CA Kenai AK

 

[Tazza]

Welcome aboard!
I really don't know how it will do in dry sand, but with tracks i'd think it should still work. The machine will easily handle the load too.

 

[la350]

Welcome aboard!
I really don't know how it will do in dry sand, but with tracks i'd think it should still work. The machine will easily handle the load too.

Its a different beach in that there is NO sand at all just gravel/rocks. I'm hoping the tracks will give the "bit" needed to keep from spinning in the rocks. Lance

 

[Tazza]

Its a different beach in that there is NO sand at all just gravel/rocks. I'm hoping the tracks will give the "bit" needed to keep from spinning in the rocks. Lance

They should do that, the only concern i would have is getting the gravel/rocks between the tracks and tyres. I know these can really chew up proper track machines rollers and tracks.
I have no experience with tracks at all, so i'm just going on what i hear others say, i'm sure someone will give you the advise you need.