BTB 47: M.T. SYKES LOGGING
Published on: Friday 1st December 2017
BTB spoke with Marvin Thomas Sykes, owner of M.T. Sykes Logging and 27-year-old son Colton Sykes to learn more about their all-Tigercat harvesting operations.
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BTB spoke with Marvin Thomas Sykes, owner of M.T. Sykes Logging and 27-year-old son Colton Sykes to learn more about their all-Tigercat harvesting operations.
Published on: Saturday 25th November 2017
An update on the processes, technologies and advancements at work in Chile's challenging steep slope and cable assist logging operations.
Published on: Saturday 25th November 2017
BTB visited Olympia, Washington to get operator Gary Smith’s impressions of his new LX870D track feller buncher. Gary works with R.L. Smith Logging, which is owned by his brother and sister-in-law Roger and Carmen Smith.
Published on: Saturday 25th November 2017
Big dreams and hard work led the Sexton family business from a horse and water-powered sawmill to a modern, integrated harvesting and sawmilling operation.
Published on: Friday 4th August 2017
A perfect spring day greeted 1,500 guests at the second, highly successful Tidewater Demo Day held outside Valdosta, Georgia on May 6th.
Published on: Friday 4th August 2017
BTB went to Chibougamau in central Quebec in April to visit with Jocelyn Gagné of Forestier 2P Logging and get his first impressions of his new 1085C forwarder.
Published on: Friday 4th August 2017
This article originally appeared in Australian Forests & Timber News, May 2017. Reprinted in part with permission.
Published on: Friday 4th August 2017
Logging contractors in the Saguenay–Lac Saint-Jean region of central Quebec face it all – from extreme weather conditions and remote locations to low wood prices and high production demands.
Published on: Friday 4th August 2017
2017 marks the silver anniversary of Tigercat.
Published on: Friday 4th August 2017
New CTW location in Rose Hill, North Carolina improves support for Tigercat customers.
Published on: Friday 4th August 2017
Fourth generation logger, Larry Richards talks about his operations in the Adirondacks and leveraging the knowledge and expertise of the team to capture more value – for the company and the landowners.
Published on: Friday 4th August 2017
Tigercat’s British Columbia dealer, Inland, inaugurated an impressive new facility in Prince George in grand style with a facility tour and meeting for its sales team and vendors April 24-25, 2017.
Published on: Friday 4th August 2017
More memories of Tigercat's early years.
Published on: Friday 4th August 2017
25 years ago, a very small company with a single prototype and no distribution showed up at a logging show in Georgia. What led up to it and what happened next? Some of the earliest Tigercat team members look back for the answers.
Published on: Friday 4th August 2017
The Parnell family has come a long way from their first grant of land from the Government of Alabama nearly 200 years ago back in 1819. In 1960 James Parnell started his own business with just a used truck and a pair of mules.
Published on: Tuesday 20th June 2017
There’s a new breed of cat roaming the woods of south central Virginia and according to Ed Tilman, owner of Tilman Logging Inc., based here, the Tigercat 726 harvester cuts no corners when it comes to quality.
Published on: Tuesday 13th June 2017
This article originally appeared in Logging and Sawmilling Journal, October 1994. Reprinted with permission. A prototype Tigercat 853E purpose-built buncher handles B.C. slopes with ease.
Published on: Tuesday 13th June 2017
The Canadian built machine is a market hit-in the southern US. Reprinted with permission from Logging and Sawmilling Journal, November 1993.
Published on: Thursday 8th June 2017
Tigercat leaps into the fray with strong machines; more new products forthcoming. Originally appeared in Timber Harvesting, January 1997. Reprinted with permission.
Published on: Wednesday 12th April 2017
The pacific northwest logging community gathered for the 79th Oregon Logging Conference (OLC) in February in Eugene, Oregon.
Published on: Monday 10th April 2017
This year, instead of having the Tigercat 620E skidder parked for the winter months, Utah's Barco LLC decided to utilize it as a very powerful snow plow.
Published on: Friday 31st March 2017
BTB visited with McCoy Grading Inc. and Premier Timber Services LLC in Greenville, Georgia to learn more about the recent purchase of a Tigercat LX830D feller buncher for the companies multi-million dollar grading business.
Published on: Friday 31st March 2017
South African harvesting contractors run high quality purpose-built forestry machines and have developed the expertise to run them to extremely high hours. Machine longevity is critical.
Published on: Friday 31st March 2017
Tigercat exhibited its off road industrial products and street cutter on the world stage of CONEXPO – CON/AGG 2017 in March.
Published on: Friday 31st March 2017
Two brothers with a lifetime of experience and a penchant for hard work have a drive to succeed and are proving it just two years in.
Published on: Friday 31st March 2017
Clohse Group LUX sells first Tigercat machine into Switzerland -- a DW610E dual winch cable skidder skidder fitted with a Palfinger crane.
Published on: Monday 21st November 2016
The extreme heat didn’t stop the crowds of over 7,000 from showing up for the 15th biannual Mid- South Forestry Equipment Show, held August 26-27 in Starkville, Mississippi.
Published on: Monday 21st November 2016
Tigercat customers worldwide will see the benefits of Tigercat FPT engines as the Tier 2 configuration is offered in addition to the Tier 4f.
Published on: Monday 21st November 2016
With 300 employees – including handfallers, peelers and stackers – and eight sets of tractor-trailer short haul transport systems, Grant Rankin has been involved in manual felling operations in South Africa for over ten years.
Published on: Monday 21st November 2016
Out with the old and in with the new as Tigercat retires C-series and introduces D-series platform worldwide.