CONTRACTOR SPOTLIGHT
BOMAG 8500
Multipurpose Compactor : ‘ We Couldn ’ t Do Our Job Without It ’
Josh Miller is the proprietor of Backwoods Grading , Landscape and Excavation , a family-owned business headquartered in Fairview , NC , just outside of Asheville in the Blue Ridge Mountains . He tells us that he uses the BOMAG BMP 8500 articulated , dual-drum , radio-controlled multipurpose compactor , specially designed for earthworks , just about every day and “ it works as advertised .” But don ’ t take our word for it . Here ’ s what he told us in his own words .
“ We ’ ve used BOMAG products our whole time in business because we do a lot of compaction work . One of our specialties is boulder retaining walls , but we build a lot of water features , grading for roads , driveways , house sites , doing a lot of compaction work in the footers . “ The BOMAG product set itself apart . We started out renting whatever the company had , but after we got with James River Equipment out of Asheville , they just really sold us on the BOMAG
8500 product . For the past five years we ’ ve used it almost every day .
“ I like the 36-inch wide trench roller with remote control because it ’ s so versatile . We didn ’ t have to hire an extra guy because whoever was on the skid steer or the track hoe could just carry the remote with him and stay in the machine in the air conditioning or the heat , depending on the season . The guys love it because they can charge the remote overnight , get to the job next morning , start it up from inside the cab , and they ’ re able to move dirt and compact it all at the same time . It ’ s really reliable .
“ I love it because It keeps me from having to hire an extra person to sit out there and ride on a roll compactor all day long . “ We ’ re on a project right now where we ’ re doing an 18-foot lift with boulder terrace retaining walls and we ’ re compacting the whole way up with the BOMAG . It ’ s got our compaction up to 99.8 percent the www . callape . com [ 28 ] 1.800.210.5923