Issue 47, Between the Branches, November 2017
IN THIS ISSUE
- Sexton Lumber – Newfoundland
- Battery Maintenance for Tigercat machines
- Sykes Logging – Alabama
- Women in Logging: Logger Girl
- Steep Slope Update – Chile
- Event Wrap-up
- Wik Timber – Australia
- Changing the Guard
- Issue 47, Between the Branches, November 2017
- BTB 47 PDF Download (5.60 Mb)
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BTB 47: 602 CABLE SKIDDER DEBUT AT PAUL BUNYAN SHOW
Published on: Monday 4th December 2017
Customers and friends joined the Tigercat team and Ricer Equipment at the Paul Bunyan Show in Cambridge, Ohio for the debut of the 602 Cable skidder.
BTB 47: FROM RUSSIA: ILIM GROUP VISITS CANADA
Published on: Monday 4th December 2017
Ilim Group is the largest pulp and paper organization in Russia. Ilim Group's upper management team made the long trip to Canada to get a closer look at the Tigercat manufacturing plants in Ontario.
BTB 47: LA CRETE CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT
Published on: Monday 4th December 2017
Tigercat and Wajax sponsored an annual charity golf tournament in La Crete, Alberta showcasing the 632E skidder.
BTB 47: LOGGER GIRL
Published on: Friday 1st December 2017
Samantha Paul begins a new series on women in logging with hopes to inspire young women to consider logging as a career. First up, an interview with BC based operator, Hannah Dehoog that explores how she got into the logging industry, what life is like for a woman in logging camps and what she loves about being an operator.
BTB 47: LX870D FIRST IMPRESSIONS
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.
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.
BTB 47: MONTANA LOGGER OF THE YEAR
Published on: Monday 4th December 2017
Bull Creek Forestry named Montana Logger of the Year.
BTB 47: Steep Slope Logging in Chile
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.
BTB 47: TIGERCAT TAKES ON FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND
Published on: Monday 4th December 2017
The Wik Timber project based in Weipa and Aurukun on the remote Western Cape York Peninsula of Australia purchases two Tigercat machines for an exciting new operation.
BTB 47: Word of Mouth: On Sexton Lumber
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.