BTB 49

ISSUE 49 OCTOBER 2018
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF TIGERCAT INDUSTRIES INC.
W.J.’S
WAY OF LIFE
COMPACT
STREET TRENCHING CABLE
O N LO N G I SL A N D SKIDDER
INDUC TION HE AT
TRE ATING HANDS-ON
WITH
THERESA LONERGAN
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IN THIS ISSUE
Product News .......................... 4
Support News.......................... 5
Word of Mouth ......................... 6
On the Floor: Induction Heat

Treating .................................. 9
Women in Logging................. 12
Remembering W.J. .................. 17
T726G Street Trencher .............. 28
Peace River Logging ............... 34
Event Wrap-up ...................... 40
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FROM THE Editor
I
nnovation and continuous that contractors access and Do you have
improvement are always install under-road utilities. something to say?
foremost in the minds of the We caught up with a couple of
team at Tigercat, whether it is Street Industries’ customers Write us or email us:
product designers, service and to learn how their processes
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
parts staff, production personnel have improved with the help of
comments@tigercat.com
or any number of other Tigercat trenchers.
functional areas. In this issue www.tigercat.com
of Between the Branches, Chris This past spring, Mississippi www.facebook.com/Tigercat
McMillan continues our new lost a forest industry leader. 519.753.2000
ʻOn the Floorʼ series, covering W.J. Bates was a co-founder of
P.O. Box 637, Brantford, ON
Tigercat’s heat induction B & G Equipment. His approach Canada, N3T 5P9
technology and process at the to business can be summed up
Tigercat drivetrain production quite simply: service what you
facility. As a part of our quest sell. However, executing such a
for continuous improvement, strategy successfully for 40 years
we have become nearly self- is another matter altogether.
sufficient in the supply of axles Learn about the man who had
for Tigercat wheeled carriers, a profound influence on the
with vast improvements in Mississippi forestry industry.
performance and reliability. Samantha Paul profiles another
Our customers and business successful Australian contractor
partners of course are doing in ‘Women in Logging’ and gets
the same. Bernard Fortin, some owner feedback on the 602
general manager of Peace River cable skidder. A final note, 2019
Logging in Alberta talks about is just around the corner. If you
the efficiencies and operational haven't already received a new
improvements that his company Tigercat calendar, be sure you
achieved after shifting from visit your Tigercat dealer to pick
infield chipping to an off- one up.
highway, centralized chipping – Paul Iarocci
yard. Although this innovative
system is new, Bernard and his
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PRODUCT NEWS
N E W LY R EL E A S E D
602 CABLE SKIDDER
Tigercat releases the
compact and narrow
602 cable skidder in
North America.
I
n 2017, Tigercat developed
and released its most compact
skidder platform, the 602 series.
The prototype 602 skidder was
sent to France last summer to be
fitted with a Belgian designed and
manufactured swing boom for use
in mountain regions of Europe.
Now the 602 is available as a cable

skidder suited to pockets of North
America and other traditional
winch skidder markets. The 602
cable skidder is ideal for high value
selective hardwood logging and for
retrieving timber from steep slopes
and gullies.
The 602 is equipped with

the Tigercat FPT N45 engine
which provides full emissions
compliance for Tier 2 and Tier
4f, along with excellent fuel only supplying the amount of oil
economy. Both engines deliver that the various functions require
125 kW (168 hp) at 2,200 rpm. for reduced engine load.
The machine has a fixed front axle The 602 cable skidder offering has
with an oscillating centre section to already attracted a lot of attention
achieve a very narrow overall width in the United States, where the
of 2,7 metres (106 in). The agility of first machine debuted at the Paul
the 602 is ideal in selective felling Bunyan Show in Cambridge, Ohio
applications. The machine can last October.
access high value timber in steep
terrain, while minimizing damage Bill Shufflebotham, based in
to the residual stand. Rockport, Illinois purchased the
first 602 cable skidder. He states,
Maximum fuel efficiency is “It’s the only quality small machine
achieved by the use of Tigercat’s on the market. It’s easy to move at
load sensing hydraulic system – nine feet wide and it’s powerful.”
4 | BETWEEN THE BRANCHES

SUPPORT NEWS
MORE PRODUCT SUPPORT

PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Tigercat is pleased to announce that Damien Donoher has been
appointed to the position of product support representative for the
Pacific northwest.
Based in Snohomish, Washington, Damien is joining Tigercat from

the agricultural equipment industry. Damien holds a degree in
agricultural engineering and has previously worked as a product
support representative and field service engineer for agricultural
equipment manufacturers based in Canada and Europe. Damien
Damien Donoher has strong technical knowledge related to diesel engines, hydraulic
and electronic systems for mobile equipment and electronic control
“I am very excited to learn systems.
and get started in the With his extensive experience working with dealer networks and
forestry equipment industry equipment manufacturers, Damien will be primarily involved with
and to interact with our product and dealer network support as well as assisting Tigercat
dealers and customers, engineering with technical issues and product improvement
especially with such an initiatives.
innovative and progressive
engineering driven
manufacturer like Tigercat.”
MORE PRODUCT SUPPORT
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Tigercat is pleased to announce that Mark Tourand has been
appointed to the position of product support representative for British
Columbia. Mark will be primarily involved with product support for
Tigercat’s extensive customer base in western Canada.
Based in Merritt, British Columbia, Mark has been involved in the

equipment industry for over 25 years, previously working as a heavy-
duty equipment technician in the manufacturing industry. Mark also
has experience in the forestry and mining sectors.
“Along with Kushiah McCullough and Damien Donoher, I am very

excited to add Mark to the support team for western Canada and
Mark Tourand the United States. We continue to have many new opportunities
and applications for Tigercat machines. With new innovation and
“I am extremely excited to increased productivity comes increased complexity of machines. The
join an innovative and importance of a top-notch support team is critical,” explains Rob
cutting edge team like Selby, Tigercat district manager, also based in BC.
Tigercat Industries. I
Mark has strong technical knowledge related to diesel engines and
am looking forward to electronic systems with professional training in power generation
supporting our dealers and and diesel electric systems. Mark also has his Red Seal certification
customers in the west.” as a heavy-duty equipment technician.

602
CABLE SKIDDER
O P E R AT O R F E E D B A C K
BTB spoke with owner-operator, Eli
Coblentz of Coblentz Logging to get
his thoughts on his 602 cable skidder.
BTB: Describe your It’s really stable and it pulls

current operations. really well. The pivot point
in the centre section just
Eli: We are based in Fresno,
makes it so much more
Ohio and are logging a
stable. You can go up steeper
300-acre piece right now.
hills without tipping. The
It’s a three-quarter mile
fuel consumption, the power
skid, one way. We have the
to the wheels, it pulls so
602 skidder, a dozer and a
nice. Everything is balanced
loader. The skidder is the
just right.
only thing we use to pull.
The dozer is to make a path. BTB: How is the
And the loader to load logs Turnaround® seat
obviously. for a cable skidder
application like this?
BTB: When did you start
operating the 602? Eli: You just sit back
and relax. It’s easier on
Eli: I saw the machine at
your back. You have the
the Paul Bunyan Show in
joysticks so you don’t have
October, so I called Ricer
to lean forward for the
Equipment [Tigercat dealer],
steering wheel all the time.
put my order in and started
And it’s just so much more
operating in December 2017.
operator-friendly. When
I have the third 602 made.
you swivel that seat, it
BTB: What are your automatically changes from
thoughts on this forward to reverse. And
machine? you just back up, winch
them up, fl ip your seat back
Eli: It’s a very operator-
around, and floor it.
friendly piece of equipment.

WORD OF MOUTH
Eli Coblentz shakes hands with Ricer Equipment sales specialist, Jeff Beck.
BTB: Is the machine easy to BTB: How is the Tigercat EHS BTB: Have other loggers in the
manœuvre? transmission compared to your area been curious about this
previous direct drive? new model?
Eli: This machine is bigger than the
last one I had. But power for power, Eli: It’s a lot better. With the direct Eli: Yes, actually, a lot of them
it’s about the same. drive those wheels were spinning have wanted to come see it. There’s
all the time, it couldn’t slow down one guy that was using a different
BTB: How do you like the and speed up on its own. If you brand of skidder to help us log the
performance of the winch?
were pulling and it caught on other half of the piece we’re on.
Eli: Very good. I love that winch. something and you pulled harder, He said after he saw what the 602
It’s fully hydraulic. If you have you would dig a hole. This one just does this would be his next skidder.
trees that are leaning toward the slows down and then takes off on And, to be honest with you, they
property line, you just ease on it its own. There is a lot less wear on had two skidders rolling full time
very easy and it brings that tree the tires. and there was four guys – one with
over steadily. With a direct drive the loader, two on the skidders and
BTB: How has your productivity
winch, you pull on it, and it was one guy cutting. We had one on the
changed since purchasing this
all-in or all-out. With this one you machine? loader, one guy skidding and one
can roll it as slow as you want to. guy cutting. We had one less guy
You can do it like a foot a minute if Eli: It has almost tripled. We did and one less skidder. And by the
you want to. But if you pull it all the a comparison. We used the older time we had 38 loads out, they had
way back, it reels a lot faster than skidder the first day. We got two 40 loads out.
any other winch I have ever had. loads out. The next day, we used
the 602 and we got six loads out.

BTB: Is your machine equipped
with telematics?
Eli: Yes. It’s very easy to understand

everything. And if something does
not function right, Tigercat and Ricer
can both see what’s going on with the
machine. They can see what they need
to fix it. The dealer can make one trip
and get it done, instead of coming out,
seeing what’s wrong, and then going
back to get what is needed. The dealer
knows what might be wrong before
getting here.
BTB: Do you have any feedback on

Ricer Equipment as a dealer?
Eli: They are always very easy to work

with, very friendly and dependable.
BTB: Anything else you would like

to add?
Eli: It’s just amazing, how they came up

with this machine. The logs, they don’t
bang against the back end. The arch is
hanging out over the back far enough
to where you don’t break cables or get
underneath the skidder. Everything like
the centre pins are way stronger than
they have to be. But that just adds to the
strength of the machine. All around it’s
just a well thought out machine.
Watch the Tigercat 602 cable

skidder in action on Tigercat TV:
www.tigercat.com/video/602

ON THE FLOOR
Wave
Chris McMillan explores the
latest capital investment
at Tigercat – specialized
equipment for the
manufacture of critical
component parts. In this
issue, the focus is on the
induction heat treating and
tempering process for the
manufacture of Tigercat axle
spindles.
– Chris McMillan
T
igercat skidders have a reputation for
high productivity, fierce pulling power
and durable structure. In a world of rising
expectations, Tigercat is continually striving
to build more productive and more reliable
products dedicated to the forestry industry.
Commercially available components often

fall short in meeting the tough demands of
forestry machines. Axles in particular, are
subjected to severe operating conditions. To
meet these expectations, Tigercat has embarked
on a program to develop in-house engineering
and manufacturing expertise for drivetrain
components.
In September 2014, Tigercat acquired a

6 100 m2 (66,000 ft2) plant to accommodate
engineering, manufacturing, testing, warranty
inspection and rebuild functions for axles,
transmissions and other gear products. The
objective was to ensure a reliable source for
critical gear products, both in terms of quality,
Wheel spindles are a critical part of the axle.

Components are routinely inspected during production. A Coordinate Measuring Machine ensures accurate dimensions
of the part to an accuracy of one micron – about 1/70th the
diameter of a human hair.
and manufacturing capacity. The Producing the parts at the rate of approximately 500 kW
result is that today Tigercat is (670 hp). The total electrical energy
The spindle production process
self-sufficient in the design and used for each part is approximately
begins with forgings that meet
manufacture of straight axles, 20 kWh, the equivalent of three
strict requirements for chemical
large bogie axles, transmissions to four days of electricity used
composition and internal defects.
and pump drive gearboxes. The by the average home. Once the
The spindles are machined in two
dedicated drivetrain plant has not steel reaches the appropriate
steps, one machine turns the flange
only increased production, but also temperature, it is immediately
end, and drills and taps the wheel
allows the design, inspection, and quenched by a high volume spray of
bolt holes. A robot lifts the spindle
rebuild teams to work together a water based coolant. The bright
from the first machine, turns it 180
to continually improve Tigercat orange glowing part is instantly
degrees, and moves it to the second
driveline systems. quenched to retain the desired
turning centre where the shaft
hardness.
Forestry machines and their portion is machined.
components are subjected to higher The induction hardening machine
At this point the spindle is still
stress levels than most other off is computer controlled, and each
in a green state, meaning it has
road machines. One of the axle part has a unique program or recipe
not undergone any hardening
components that is particularly created by Tigercat engineers under
treatment. In order to be able to
vulnerable is the wheel spindle. the direction of senior engineer
withstand the stress it will be
The wheel spindle combines a shaft Irfan Zardadkhan. The recipe
subjected to, it must be hardened
and a flange upon which the wheel is programmed to bring each
using a heat induction process.
is bolted to the axle. The spindles cross section of the spindle to the
The heat induction machine uses
support the machine and transfer appropriate temperature. “Each
a high current electrical coil
very high torque to the wheels. recipe is specific for the size of the
producing an electromagnetic field
Spindles are subjected to repeated part and the depth to which we are
that passes over the spindle, which
torsion and bending stresses. To hardening,” explains Irfan.
being ferromagnetic, raises the
assure high performance and long
temperature of the steel spindle The hardening process affects the
lifespan, the components undergo
to approximately 900°C (1700°F) outer layer of the shaft portion of
strict testing and quality control
within just a few minutes. To reach the spindle, while the inner core
procedures.
this temperature so quickly, the remains less hard, and more ductile.
machine consumes electrical energy To remove any internal stresses,

Quenching the part retains the desired hardness.
the spindles must be tempered. A technicians use magnetic particle finding ways to extend the useful
batch of spindles is loaded into the inspection. A spray containing life cycle of Tigercat gear products.
oven and heated at a predetermined suspended ferrous particles is Drivetrain product manager
temperature for several hours. After sprayed onto the surface of the Ben Blackman comments, “A big
tempering, the spindle is finish- part. When an electrical charge is advantage that we have at this
machined to final dimensions. applied to the part, the particles facility is that the team that designs
are drawn to any voids in the part’s the part, the team that assembles it,
Strict quality control surface. By shining an ultraviolet and the team that tears it down are
To ensure that the driveline light on the surface, any flaws are all under one roof.ˮ
components meet specifications and easily visible. To locate internal
flaws, an ultrasonic detector is used. As demand continues to increase,
will perform as expected, critical construction is currently underway
components are routinely inspected High frequency sound waves are
sent through the part and reflect to prepare for the installation
on a Coordinate Measuring of four new machining centres
Machine (CMM). The CMM uses off of any irregularities, producing
echo patterns that can be displayed and two new material handling
a probe mounted on an arm that robots, doubling the current
touches predetermined points on on the detector’s monitor.
spindle production capacity. Since
the part being measured. Using Continuous improvements the establishment of the in-house
the coordinates of these points heat treat process, Tigercat
in relation to one another, the Located next to the CMM room is designers have gained considerable
measuring apparatus is able to the Tigercat gear products rebuild knowledge which is incorporated
determine the exact dimensions facility. When axles, transmissions in other components and product
of the part to an accuracy of and other gear products reach lines. In addition, it allows greater
one micron, or about 1/70th the the end of their life cycle, they control over the quality of the
diameter of a human hair. can be returned to Tigercat for parts being produced – all in
remanufacture. Components are an effort to deliver continuous
Parts are then checked for both disassembled, inspected and root
internal and external integrity. product improvements that Tigercat
cause analysis is performed. Tigercat customers have come to expect.
Since external irregularities are not engineers continually work on
always visible to the naked eye, the

HANDS-ON
with THERESA
LONERGAN
From conducting safety

audits to running
forwarders to sourcing
parts, Theresa is hands-
on when it comes to the
family business.
– Samantha Paul
T
heresa Lonergan proudly owns P & T
Lonergan Pty Ltd along with her
husband Peter – a two crew clear fall
logging company based in Tumbarumba,
New South Wales, Australia. The couple
has owned the logging business since 2007,
happily celebrating the company’s ten-year
anniversary last year.
Growing up on a farm with three older

brothers, Theresa was very familiar with
hands-on hard work. However, she never
imagined she would be owning a logging
business with her family. “My husband
Peter has been in logging for thirty years
but it’s something I never would have
thought of getting involved with,” she says.
Now, Theresa is involved in all aspects

of the business, checking up on the crew,
operating the forwarder, conducting safety
audits, sourcing parts, and catching up
on office paperwork. “I love being out
here in the bush. If I didn’t have to do
everything else, including housework and

WOMEN IN LOGGING
Theresa operating their 1075C forwarder, “I hop in to operate the forwarder whenever needed,” says Theresa.
office paperwork, I’d be happy to laughs because we work all week Theresa Lonergan with husband and
co-owner of P & T Lonergan Pty Ltd,
stay in the forwarder all day,” says together and then we’ll go shooting,
Peter Lonergan. On the day BTB visited,
Theresa. camping or off-roading together on Peter and Theresa celebrated 25 years
the weekends,” she smiles. of marriage. “From when we first got
Theresa and Peter have been married to where we are now, I just
never would have pictured it,” says
married 25 years. They have three
Theresa.
kids – Callum, 23, Benjamin, 19 I LOVE BEING
and Zoe, 17. Callum operates a OUT HERE
Tigercat LH822D harvester and IN THE BUSH.
Benjamin operates an older model
LH830C harvester. “It’s always got I'D BE HAPPY TO
challenges [working with family],
STAY IN THE
but we’re a close family and it keeps
you close,” Theresa explains. “But
FORWARDER ALL DAY.
you never get away from it. Our
– Theresa Lonergan,
vacation is going over for factory P & T Lonergan Pty Ltd
tours. It’s hard to sever the two. But
we love it,” she laughs.
When the family isn’t working in A lot of logging contractors in the

the bush, they go four-wheeling in area are comprised of a husband
the NSW high country, up through and wife team. However, Theresa
the mountains. They also love clay is notably hands-on and operates
target shooting – Theresa and Zoe equipment whenever the need
won the Junior and Ladies High arises. “It’s not a shock around here
Gun Championship for the Cooma/ that I own a logging company and
Tumut Gun Clubs in 2018. “Everyone can operate forestry equipment but

Nineteen-year-old son Ben operating the LH830C harvester. A band of curious brumbies roaming the harvested hills.
when we go away to forestry related of second thinning. Production The Tigercat relationship
events, the women are surprised averages approximately 700 tonnes
Theresa and her husband have
at how involved I am in the daily per day between the two crews.
visited the Tigercat factories in
operations,” Theresa explains. “Average tree size varies between
Canada in 2009, 2016 and 2018. “It
Theresa only knows of one other 0,8 cubic metres up to 1,5 for the
blew my mind how big the company
female operator in the area. “I think mature sites,” states Theresa.
had gotten when we were back in
forestry and logging has always
Peter and Theresa were pretty 2016. And a lot more mechanized
been perceived as a dangerous
confident in the decision to start with robots, it was just amazing.
industry and that is what scares
their own business when the It was like a happy success story
people away from it.”
opportunity came up. Peter knew coming back after the downturn in
Gear and operations the operational side of the forestry 2009,” she expresses. “It is amazing
world being in the industry for over going back to the factory and going
P & T Lonergan Pty Ltd started with thirty years. “I had been around to different shows, you see the
Tigercat gear in 2007 with an H845 it for a while so I had an idea, but same staff, the same people. And I
harvester and a 1014 forwarder. there is a lot of extra work that goes don’t know how Ken [MacDonald]
In 2008, the company purchased a into owning and running your own remembers everyone but he does.
1075B and in 2012, a used LH830 business,” says Peter. He always walks right up to us and
harvester, which was then replaced says, ʻHello Theresa, Hello Peter.’
with a new model in 2014. In July Theresa worked in the banking And it blows my mind.”
of last year, the company purchased industry for fifteen years and
a 1075C and a new LH822D did casual work at vineyards and “We have run our machinery to
harvester. service stations when their kids high hours and we have never had
were little. “It was a nice change a big problem,” says Theresa. The
P & T harvests primarily for Hyne getting out of banking and doing company had to replace an engine
Timber, a sawmill in Tumbarumba. odd jobs. But then to start our own on its first H845 harvester. “We
Both crews clear fall in mature pine logging business, it was a huge were happy to do that. The machine
forests with a small component learning curve for me.” already had 30,000 hours on it.”

words from
THERESA
I
would
encourage
younger or
older females
to go on and have a go.
Callum (23) operating the Tigercat 1185 harvester on a machine trial day. Learn about the safety
concerns, be aware, and
The company’s first fourteen- taste for the best.”
tonne 1014 Tigercat forwarder there is nothing to be
was reliable but not the right Both boys have always wanted
to work with their parents in the scared about. Look, the
capacity for the operation, so
they decided to purchase the bush. They finished school at machines are big and
twenty-tonne sixteen, completed
their Certificate heavy, and when you’re
1075B after
AusTimber in
WHEN WE GO AWAY TO III Training in doing maintenance
2008. “At that harvesting and
FORESTRY RELATED EVENTS, on them, it can be
time, we could hauling and
justify the price THE WOMEN ARE didn’t want to do challenging. But look, if
because we anything else. P
SURPRISED & T Lonergan Pty you’ve got a good crew
knew Tigercat’s
productivity Ltd currently has you will get the job done
AT HOW
and reliability,” a six-year contract
with five and a half together.
she explains. INVOLVED I AM
years left. The end
IN THE DAILY OPERATIONS.
Theresa’s boys goal is to have the
Callum and – Theresa Lonergan boys take over the
Benjamin have business when they
a friend in are ready to retire.
Sweden operating another brand
of forwarder. He recently came Theresa’s daughter’s role in
back to Australia for a visit and the family business is just as
tried out the Tigercat 1075C. important as her sons. “She may
“Want to have a go?” asked not come out here but she gets
Theresa. “Now he keeps telling home from school at 3:30 pm.
us he hates us because he’s had a She’ll do a load of laundry for us

and she’ll put tea [dinner] on,” Theresa
says, “She’s a big help. If I am in the
machine all day, we wouldn’t get fed if
it wasn’t for her.”
Theresa and Peter are happy with the

WOMEN NEED two crews they have now. They have
TO BE MORE thought about expanding to a third
crew but staffing is a problem. There
INVOLVED. is a shortage of operators in the area.
“For people that love being outdoors, it
THERE IS NO is a good gig. You make a good living.
Women need to be more involved. If
NEED TO HIDE their partner is in the business, get
out and have a go at it, even if it is
IN THE OFFICE. just understanding the machinery and
trying to be a bit more hands-on. There
is no need to hide in the office,ˮ says
Theresa.
Theresa and daughter Zoe love clay target

shooting and won the Junior and Ladies High Gun
Championship for the Cooma/Tumut Gun Clubs in 2018.

W.WAY
J.’sof
LIFE
Tigercat remembers
W.J. Bates, co-founder
of B & G Equipment
and leading figure
in the Mississippi
logging industry for
50 years.
– Paul Iarocci
On March 12, 2018, owner and

co-founder of B & G Equipment,
W.J. Bates, 83, died just two
weeks after his wife of 63
years, Carolyn passed. It was
an accident, and sad and tragic
as it was, one thing that can be
said for certain. W.J. passed
away doing what he liked to
do best – working. He was
an active member of his local
community of Philadelphia,
Mississippi, serving as a
Deacon at Bethsaida Baptist
Church. And he was prominent
in the local forestry industry as
a former logger, a B & G co-
founder and a board member
of the Mississippi Forestry
Association.
W
.J. and Carolyn leave behind
a large and tightly knit cast
of characters that have been
intertwined in the business of logging
for most of their lives. Daughter, Debbie
Webb is president of B & G Equipment.
Son, Doug Bates is a long-time sales
specialist, son-in-law Jeff Lee is corporate
parts manager and son-in-law Rodney
Kelly is branch manager in Hattiesburg.
Grandson, Justin Webb is vice-president.
Grandson, Richard Lee works in the
accounting department in Philadelphia.
Grandson, Matt Bates is the parts manager
in Hattiesburg and grandson, Kade
Webb is the warranty administrator in
Philadelphia.
With four locations in Mississippi and

W.J. and Carolyn were married 63 years and passed away within a fifth in Alabama, B & G Equipment
two weeks of one another. is Tigercat’s longest standing dealer
and much admired in the industry. The
company was founded in 1976 by W.J. and
co-founder Donald Grantham, two men
with a long history together in the woods.
The early years
W.J. started out in the industry hauling

logs in the late fifties. Long-time friend Jeff
Winstead ran a logging business with W.J.
later in the sixties. “He hauled for me back
in 1964. We still had a bunch of mules
back then. He just had the one truck. Then
he was logging in Louisiana with Donald
Grantham. We started the partnership in
1967 and I bought him out in 1970.”
W.J. and Donald had been logging together

in Louisiana since the early 1960s –
working on the same job for different
companies. “I was 30 and he was 35,”
Donald recalls. “I went and did some
sawmilling for four years and he went
partners with Jeff Winstead and logged for
three or four years. Then Jeff bought W.J.
out. And then W.J. bought my Daddy out
W.J. started his career hauling logs in the late fifties. in 1971 and we became partners.”

When W.J. and Jeff Winstead were working together, they ran a pair of Franklin skidders and loaded the logs with a
Logger’s Dream, a combined cable loader and yarder.
When W.J. and Jeff were working weeks later he was back out there “Very seldom would we ride
together, they ran a pair of Franklin on crutches driving the truck. “He together when we were going to the
skidders and loaded the logs with a was tough,” Jeff recalls. “It wasn’t woods,” Donald explains. “But every
Logger’s Dream, a combined cable all fun but I enjoyed it back then.” once in a while he would ask me to
loader and yarder. “You would ride pick him up. If I didn’t say anything,
the log up the side of the truck,” W.J. and Donald ran their logging then he wouldn’t say anything. And
explains Jeff. “One time we were business until 1978. They worked we would ride 65 miles and not say
riding them logs up that a word to each other. We would
cable and that loader was I T ’ S G O O D T O H AV E arrive and we’d both get out
touching that top log. A log and go our separate ways for
dropped and it caught his S O M E O N E YO U C A N B E the day and never say a word to
finger and mashed it. He got each other.”
on the loader and we finished
PA R TN E R S W ITH FOR
loading his truck. Then he left Donald continues. “He and I
T H AT L O N G . always got along and I think
to get his finger sewed back
on. Then we went back to because each one of us had a
– Donald Grantham, B & G co-founder part to play. I could be sitting
work.”
there working on something
Another time, a skidder drove over well together, each tackling a in our old shop and he’d go right
a log and it shifted nearby to where different aspect of the business – on by and not even stop. I did
W.J. was working, breaking his leg. Donald looked after trucking and him the same way. If he was in
He went to the hospital and got his W.J. was in charge of harvesting – the woods working on a skidder, I
leg pinned back together and two but they had a unique relationship. didn’t bother to help him either. We

W.J.’s daughter Debbie Webb (right) has been with the company since 1976.
did things that each other didn’t “Debbie was there almost from day Clark had recently cancelled its
like but it’s pretty easy to forgive one,” remembers Donald. B & G Mississippi dealer. “And I said, ‘well
differences when you are making Truck and Trailer Supply opened I have a friend that can help you,’
some money. It’s good to have May 24, 1976 and Debbie started so I called Doug and he came down
someone you can be partners with in December. “I remember we were and sold it to him. After everything
for that long.” trying to build a new building and was done he gave W.J. and I $2000.
they didn’t even have the street put So next time that happened we
Trying something new in yet. One of the customers’ wives called Doug.” W.J. and Donald
After several years in the logging came in to pay a bill and she was managed to sell a half dozen
business, the partners were itching walking ankle deep in red mud. machines that way.
to try something different. “We That is how we got started.”
“Doug kept coming down and
were pretty good loggers and had The transition from trailer parts selling skidders and one day we
got to a pretty good size for our to logging equipment was a said, ‘You know we would like to
times.” The pair were contracting combination of good standing have that dealership in Mississippi,’
to Georgia-Pacific at the time. “We in the community, timing and and Doug was on the dealer council
were probably producing more than happenstance. “Doug Nunnery back then.” Doug was attending a
anybody around and the tracts were from Memphis was managing Tri- dealer meeting the following week
getting smaller and smaller. We felt State Equipment and they were the and promised to put in a word. Not
like we were always moving and Clark dealer at that time.” Donald long after, the Clark area manager,
we were sick of it.” So the two men explains that one day a local logger Bill Rogers came for a visit and
decided they were going to start up came into the store and mentioned signed them up as a dealer. Donald
a truck and trailer supply business. that he wanted to buy a skidder. laughs. “We had to sign a contract

(L-R ): Bill Rogers, W.J. Bates and Donald Grantham in front of a Chevy S10 pick-up, the original B & G service truck.
that we would quit logging within from an invoice I had pulled. W.J. W.J., the salesman
six months. Maybe they thought we came in and I told him. ‘What did
By all accounts, W.J. was not
just wanted to buy skidders at cost.” you charge?’ I told him $12,000.
an extrovert or a people person.
W.J. said. ‘That was our cost and
Just like with the logging business, But he was a person that people
not even the freight!’” In damage
there was a clear division of trusted. Long time friend and
responsibilities. Donald did customer Allen (Bubba) Eaves tells
most of the hiring and looked HE CARED MORE it this way. “He cared more about
after operations. W.J was the you than just your money and he
salesman. Don Harden managed A B O U T YO U T H A N stayed on the same level as his
parts and Carolyn Bates worked customers. And his price never
in the office. J U S T YO U R M O N E Y. changed.” W.J. was renowned
for never moving on price and he
“I ran the shop and he did the – Allen Eaves, long time friend and would become irate if one of his
selling,” says Donald. “And customer of W.J. Bates salesmen tried to change the price
people didn’t think he would be after he had approved a deal. He
able to sell anything and they never apologized for making a
said that I should do the selling profit – it paid for the extremely
and he should run the shop. I’ve control mode, Donald went back to
high level of service that his
never sold one piece of equipment.” the customer and told him he had to
customers enjoyed. “It was a fair
Donald describes his single attempt charge sales tax. The customer got
price,” says Bubba. “That builds
at sales as a total failure. “I made upset and cancelled the deal much
trust. When a salesman is dropping
a price for a truck mounted loader to his relief.

B & G Equipment, Philadelphia, 1977.
the price to get the deal… well you guy showed up. I asked him if he much later, he and Dwight Stokes
can read between the lines.” wanted a drink, and he said, ‘No, I brought a cutter and a skidder. We
don’t fool with it.’ I bought the Cat were talking and I asked W.J. if
Bubba adds, “Sometimes you’d walk that day. And later, I made a remark he wanted a drink. He said, ‘Yup, I
in to the store and he’d look at you heard you make a remark one time.
like he could kill you, but if you So fix me one.’ I bought the cutter.”
needed him and he seen you was PEOPLE
trying, he would break his back to Willis Jones has been a customer of
help you. He took chances on a lot DIDN’T THINK B & G for 30 years. He remembers in
of people and I know he lost his the early days of his logging career
HE WOULD BE
britches a few times, but he was that “W.J. was like a daddy to me.
pretty smart and he knew who he ABLE TO SELL I had a raggedy old cable skidder
could trust… if he saw good in and it got stuck. W.J. brought a
somebody.” AN Y THING. brand new grapple skidder to me.
He pulled me out and didn’t charge
Jeff Winstead also has a sales story – Donald Grantham me a dime. You don’t forget those
about W.J. It was during a time things. Whatever you wanted,
when he was demoing a Cat and whatever you needed, he would
a Timberjack skidder. “Me and to W.J. that I’m not going to buy
nothing from someone that won’t work with you any way he could.”
the Cat salesman were sitting out
there drinking and the Timberjack have a drink with me. And one day

Donald recalls what a typical Meanwhile the product range was ‘Either you hire a salesman or you
Saturday morning in the early days growing as well. They picked up lose the dealership.’ So B & G kept
looked like. “When we had the Husky loaders, then the Barko the Blount line in Philadelphia but
old building, his office was on one loader line. Around 1983 they got lost it in Magnolia.” Joe was very
side and coffee pot on the other the Hydro-Ax feller buncher range motivated to try something new.
side. On a Saturday morning there followed by Prentice loaders.
would be five or six loggers sitting He travelled to the Tifton, Georgia
in the lobby shooting the bull. He “If they told a customer they were show in 1992 – where Tigercat
would get up out of his office to going to do something, they did it,” debuted the prototype 726 – and
get a coffee and would walk by says Debbie. “Dad put service above saw the machine for the first
everyone and not say a word. Not everything else. He didn’t want to time. He approached Gord Sims,
good morning, nothing. He would order parts. He wanted all the parts who at that time was the Tigercat
go back to his office and sit and on the shelf.” representative for all of the United
drink his coffee and then fifteen States. Gord set up Magnolia as
Donald concurs. “Back in the day, Tigercat’s first dealer.
minutes later, he would come out if you walked in with 100 part
of the office again and be talking to numbers for a Clark skidder, we W.J. fought against selling Tigercat
everyone. That was just him.” could lay you out 98 of them on the in Philadelphia and B & G kept the
Charles Martin started with Blount product range in until 2010.
the company in 1978 as a Tigercat district manager for
mechanic. He became the shop Alabama-Mississippi, Johnny
foreman about twelve years DA D P U T Boyd, admits that for him, it
later and retired as service was a challenging time. But the
manager just last year. “He
S E R V I C E A B OV E spark that Joe created, along
might not speak to you for a with Johnny’s perseverance and
E V E R Y T H I N G E L S E. Tigercat’s willingness to quickly
couple of days but not because
he was mad at you. If you ramp up to a full southern US
H E D I D N ’ T WA N T TO product line, helped to create
needed something, he always
had time for you. And if he told O R D E R PA R T S . a truly outstanding dealer-
you something, you could go to manufacturer partnership
the bank with it,” says Charles. H E WA N T E D A L L that is going on 26 years. The
two companies grew together
Measured growth T H E PA R T S O N T H E as B & G went on to open the
Hattiesburg branch in 1997,
Debbie never got the S H E L F. Iuka in 2002 and Moundville in
impression that it was W.J.’s 2015. In 2000, Donald bought
goal to dominate the state W.J. out of the wood business
of Mississippi. “I would say that the two men had started
the thinking was just do the best counter. The warehouse only had in 1979. And in 2005 W.J. bought
they could for service.” Joe Kemp 88% availability. We shipped parts Donald’s share of B & G Equipment.
was selling machines further and all over the US for Clark.”
further to the south and west and Johnny Boyd recalls how Tigercat
B & G needed a location to better And then came Tigercat and B & G changed and evolved
service those customers. She Joe Kemp took over management together. Dick Ronald, the original
remembers that they had a facility of the Magnolia store in 1990. It US sales manager at Tigercat, and
in Louisiana for a while. “He and was in the red and although Joe W.J. went way back to the Clark
Mom would live there in a trailer recognized that he needed to hire days. “When Justin was coming
for the week and come home for an additional salesman to support on, it was the same time that Dick
the weekend. But the tax laws the Prentice Hydro-Ax line in the Ronald was transitioning the sales
were a nightmare in Louisiana, so region, there was not enough in department over to Kevin Selby. I
they moved back into Mississippi the budget for it. According to remember that one day something
in 1984. That was how Magnolia Debbie, “They came in and said, went down, and W.J. said, ‘I don’t
started.” think me and this new sales desk is

The future – four generations of the Bates family. Up until W.J. died, three generations were working in the business.
going to get along too good.’ Well “There was a problem once and he “I think in ten years we lost nearly
you’ve got Dick Ronald and W.J. in called up there and cancelled all two million dollars.”
one school and Kevin and Justin the orders,” Johnny recalls. “And
in another school. So that kind of then a few days later, we got the Donald’s son Chad agrees that
worked out perfectly.” problem sorted out. He had to call most of W.J.’s fun revolved around
Dick Ronald back and to ask him to finding some type of work to do
W.J. was always worried about reinstate all those orders. And Dick and then losing himself in it. “Cows
growing too quickly and outselling said, ‘I never did cancel them W.J.’ and dirt work were his hobbies. He
his service. “You lose everything I recall W.J. saying afterward, ‘I would be bush hogging or working
that you gained plus some. If you think Dick Ronald knows me better at the dirt pit where the accident
can’t keep them running, word will than I know myself.’” happened, or working on a fence.
get out,” he would say often. As He was always doing something.
Justin took on more responsibility Outside the office Once he was digging out a place at
in the sales arena, he would try to the lake, throwing the dirt out, and
get W.J. to look at market share It is clear that W.J. was motivated he dug himself onto an island with
reports but W.J. wanted no part of by a love for the forest industry water all around him,” Chad recalls
it. Market share wasn’t important to and the outdoors but what were his laughing.
him – service and profit were what other interests? More work, it turns
counted, and the two went hand in out. “He always had a few cows,” W.J. liked to spend time in the
hand. says Donald. “Then about 1990, we morning with his breakfast group –
really got into the cow business. We a close knit bunch that liked to get
If a recurring issue was discovered were running 1,000 head at one together because they had common
on a Tigercat product, he tended time.” However, Donald figures that interests in cows, moving dirt,
to react quickly, cancelling all they bought about all the fun they logging and trucking. Chad explains
his orders of the affected model. could afford in the cattle business. it best. “We had a local diner here

Joe Kemp and Johnny Boyd at Joe's retirement celebration as The parts and service team in Philadelphia. Service capability
part of the 20 year anniversary weekend. and parts availability were most important to W.J.
and from the time I was born, that and how much smoother. He said, Family
is where everyone went. Dot’s Café. ‘I told my breakfast bunch about it
“Dad didn’t go on vacation,”
When Dot’s closed down, they and they all want one.’ We had been
says Debbie. “We have very few
moved on to another place. They
memories of when he went to the
were such a bunch of tight wads
that they would put each restaurant
WE TRIED beach with us, but as he got older,
him and Mama started to go.”
out of business, hunting for their
three dollar breakfast.”
N OT TO TA L K
Justin recalls a time that his
Donald adds some perspective on ABOUT BUSINESS grandparents were planning a trip
to the mountains in the motorhome.
the topic of frugality. “His Daddy
used to tell on him when we were
AT C H R I S TM A S W.J. got it into his head that he just
didn’t want to go. “Me and Johnny
logging in Louisiana. Papa Bates
used to say if he was thirsty, he’d
B U T I T A LWAYS Burton were in his office and he
said, ‘You all watch this. I am
walk all the way home and have WENT THERE. going to show you how to handle
a glass of water rather than pay a
T H AT ' S J U S T a woman, OK. Hey Old Woman,
nickel on a bottle of Coke.”
come in here.’ He took a thousand
“But he bought it if a lady came in,” W H AT W E D O. dollars out of his pocket and said
interjects Charles. “He once came ‘I don’t want to go on this trip. We
into the shop telling me how great can go or you can have this money
– Justin Webb
this fuel saver was that a woman and we’ll stay home.’ She said,
sold to him. He said he wanted it ‘Alright, we’ll stay,’ and she grabbed
on everything he had. Then the really busy the day before and I the money. And then she headed to
next day he came in telling us how hated to tell him that we just hadn’t the door and started laughing. He
much better his vehicle was running had the time to put it on.” said, ‘What are you laughing about?’

Debbie Webb, president of B & G and daughter to W.J., W.J. Bates, co-founder of B & G, and Doug Bates, B & G salesman and son to W.J.
And she answered, ‘I just told country stuff. So I met Debbie and as long as I can remember.” A few
Debbie that I didn’t really feel like I got around the family and this months before the accident he told
going anyway.’ I thought Johnny family is nothing but that. W.J. Debbie that he didn’t need to see
Burton was going to fall on the floor had a soft spot for people who the reports anymore. He said that if
laughing.” wanted to work and he expected his he wanted to know something, he
family to work.” All nine of W.J.’s would ask. “It was being run exactly
W.J. and Carolyn took each of the grandchildren have college degrees. how he had trained everyone. He
grandchildren on trips, one at a “His generation and even his kids’ didn’t brag much on anyone but
time. Justin recalls the year it was generation, it wasn’t like that. They when he told her that it made us
his turn. W.J. had a brand new just worked. But his grandkids feel really good,” says Justin.
Cadillac. “We got to the hotel and having the education and the work
I love to swim and they wouldn’t ethic, he was very proud of that.” “In the later years as he got out of
let me go swimming because we this business, I started calling him
were going to eat somewhere. I W.J. began to step away from the Kingpin,” says Stan. “He wasn’t
threw a fit. Then I left a box of day-to-day management of the necessarily hands-on but he had
crayons in the back window.” Of business around five years ago, the final say and I’m sure that all
course they melted into that lux handing over progressively more of them miss that, because it’s a
Cadillac interior. Another year, they decision-making responsibilities to whole lot better when you can have
made the mistake of taking two the next generation. However, he someone to bounce things off of.
grandchildren, Kade and Hannah. read a report every morning from And since the tragedy, it has been
Although they were cousins, they each branch location, summarizing really interesting to watch the
fought like siblings. “I think that what was happening that day. family. To lose both of your parents
ended the grandchild trips,” Debbie Then he would call and discuss any in two weeks and you wake up the
surmises. questions he had with the store next day and things have to happen.
managers. “He would get his report They’ve done well.”
Justin’s father, Stan Webb was from Debbie and myself in person,”
more of a city boy. “I wasn’t around says Justin. “He had done this for
much equipment and logging and

A lot that people didn’t know about Debbie. “But if the church needed described him in the same breath
came out at the funeral in the anything, if there was dirt work, or as both stingy and the most
stories that were told. Some of the a tree that needed to come down, generous man they ever met. His
B & G employees talked about how he was there. If someone needed friends, neighbours and employees
he had helped them or given them something, he was there to help, often could not pry a word out
a second chance. And when Katrina but he didn’t talk about it. He just of him, but he guided, mentored
hit in 2005, W.J. sent truckloads of did it.” and offered sage advice to those
household items, generators and a around him countless times. He was
pile of cash to look after the basic Charles recalls a time when W.J. fair and honest. His high regard
needs of the families of all the was grinding out a stump at the and concern for the well-being of
employees in Hattiesburg. church a year before he died. “It others helped to build a strong,
was with one of those fancy remote successful business and in no small
He donated funds to his church controlled stump grinders and he way helped to build the community
and the local hospital. And equally was sitting in a chair, and he fell around him as well. W.J. Bates
important, he guided those around asleep and fell out of the chair. The touched many lives in meaningful
him and helped many people to preacher had a good laugh at that.” and often comedic ways. As
help themselves. “When you looked everyone says with genuine warmth
at him, you didn’t really think of Mr. W.J. Bates was a walking
contradiction. Multiple people and emotion, he will be missed.
him as a community man,” explains
The service team. (L-R) John Hudgins, Donald Ray Parker, Dwight Stokes, Jesse Fox and Don Hardin. Debbie says that they always
stood in the same order for the pictures that appeared in advertisements.
STREET
TRENCHERS
MAKE INROADS
on LONG ISLAND

“I COULD OPEN UP A TRENC H
I N A N H O U R W I T H T H E T 72 6 .
WITH A ROC K C UTTER, THE SA ME JOB
C O U L D TA K E T H R E E H O U R S .”
– Mike Martino, Asplundh Construction
The Tigercat T726G trencher is tearing it up on the roads of

Long Island, New York. BTB talks to a couple of customers to get
their impressions of the machines and street trencher dealer,
StreetWorksUS based in Durham, Connecticut.
– Paul Iarocci
T
he Tigercat T726G is the third cutters,” explains Mike Martino, lines.” Cutting street trenches in
generation street trencher that a lead engineer at Asplundh developments and on secondary
started in 1999 with the T750, a Construction. “They are good. I am roads is a relatively easy job, with
325 hp (242 kW) machine that was not going to say anything bad about usually just six inches (150 mm) of
coupled with a cutting attachment them, but they don’t compare to this asphalt, but on most of the sites that
that Street Industries designed. machine. I could open up a trench Mike supervises, the normal depth
Brian Marksohn, principal owner in an hour with the T726. With a is thirteen to sixteen inches (330-
of Street Industries, based in Long rock cutter, the same job could take 400 mm). And county roads and
Island, worked with Tigercat to three hours. Really, the Tigercat state roads are often a combination
specify the carrier requirements puts them to shame.” of concrete and asphalt. “We do
and then went on to operate, some heavy cutting,” says Mike. “A
lease and sell the street trencher Privately-held, Asplundh currently lot of times when we are running
package. The T726E followed in employs over 34,000 people in the main roads – which we do a lot
2008. In 2014, Street Industries the US, Canada, Australia and – it is asphalt over top of concrete.
licensed the distribution rights New Zealand. Originally focusing We will be cutting eight inches and
of the Tigercat trencher product on vegetation management for all of a sudden, we will come into an
to StreetWorksUS, a company transmission lines, Asplundh has area and we’ve got sixteen inches.”
with deep experience in the also developed a strong electric and The wider the drum, the more time
utility infrastructure sector. With gas infrastructure business. The it takes to cut but Mike estimates
facilities in Durham, Connecticut, company maintains an equipment that with a 30 in (760 mm) drum
StreetWorks is well placed to fleet of 4,400 machines to serve the and 12 in (305 mm) depth, a
lease, sell and service Tigercat project needs of investor-owned, Tigercat street trencher can achieve
street trenchers in Pennsylvania, cooperative and municipal utilities, about ten feet (3 m) per minute. “It
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New as well as public agencies. cuts like an animal,” Mike affirms.
York and New Jersey. In 2015, the “On the island here, we do a lot of
T726G was released with a Tigercat- Another traditional method for
utility work for the National Grid,” opening roads involves individual
FPT Tier 4 final engine, along with says Mike. Asplundh has been
a redesigned operator’s station saw cuts to the pavement, double
leasing four T726 series Tigercat cutting and stripping up the road
with improvements in ergonomics, trenchers on a long-term basis,
visibility and operator comfort. in chunks and then loading and
going on two-and-a-half years. disposing of the material. However,
Prior to the availability of Tigercat “The street cutter comes in on our Michael Beyer, president of Bancker
street trenchers, opening streets main line crews,” says Mike. “It Construction Corp, explains that
was a lot more difficult, expensive, opens up the roads for our crews in New York, disposal costs have
and time consuming. “We had rock that are putting in the main gas skyrocketed and like everywhere,

A clean job with one machine. Tigercat street trenchers cut below grade, pulverize and backfill all in one step.
there is a much greater emphasis telecommunications division. In “So, depending upon the type of
on recycling. “We are grinding up the eighties, we ramped up with road that we are working on, and
the material and we are no longer gas main work, and in the nineties, the utility that we are putting in, we
disposing of the material in chunks.” electric work. Today we are an consult our tool belt to determine
In some cases, the material can be industry leader of infrastructure the best tool for the job. The
reused as backfill. “If we can’t, we construction for various utilities Tigercat trencher has been an asset
can dispose of it, but we are not throughout Long Island and New we can take anywhere. We were
paying for that void volume created York City.” on a project in Brooklyn, directly
by those large debris chunks. When adjacent to the Brooklyn Navy Yard
we are paying to dump 20 yards The Tigercat street trencher is a few years back. We encountered
of material out of a truck, we are an important tool in Bancker’s 20 inches of reinforced concrete
actually disposing 20 yards of operations. “As a contractor, you and asphalt and the machine cut
material.” Bancker is seeing two have many different tools in your 400 feet (120 m) in about two to
tremendous advantages: first, the belt to deal with many different three hours.” Michael confirms that
speed in getting the job done and challenges that come with each it was the toughest application he
second, significantly less handling application. We utilize many has come across and the machine
and more efficient handling of the different types of milling machines, performed without issue. In a more
material removed from the trench. pavement cutters and trench typical scenario, the machines can
cutters,” says Michael. The roads produce around 500 feet (150 m)
Bancker Construction has a history strata also varies considerably. per hour with a 30 in (760 mm)
of over 100 years on Long Island. Bancker crews are routinely dealing wide drum.
“The company was purchased by with asphalt roads that can range
my father in 1958, so it’s been in from four to sixteen inch (100- Generally, the street trencher is the
our family for 60 years,” explains 400 mm) thickness. Even more first machine on a worksite. “They
Michael. “The company started challenging are road surfaces with will mark out what they want to
out primarily as a water main asphalt over a concrete composite cut,” says Mike Martino. “Some
contractor. In the seventies, we pavement or a reinforced concrete. days they will just open up some
diversified and developed our test holes. Some days they will

Mike Martino, a lead engineer at Asplundh Construction, in front of a
Tigercat T726G trencher.
crank out six to seven hundred feet service is excellent. I very rarely get a
of trench. Every day is different. It’s voicemail when I call. And if there is “IT CUTS LIKE
all according to how much pipe they an issue, one of them is on the ferry AN ANIMAL.”
are going to be putting in. On normal coming over within a half an hour.
– Mike Martino
days, we can do six hundred feet in If it’s a major problem, they are not
around two and a half hours.” After afraid to put a machine on a trailer
that, the street trencher gets parked and bring it over that night and have
and an excavator or backhoe comes me up and running the next day –
in to start digging out the aggregate which is very rare in this industry.
material in preparation for the pipe Their service to me is absolutely
installation. The street cutter doesn’t excellent.”
need a lot of space to work in. “We
will just move traffic over one lane. Michael Beyer concurs. “From the day
That’s all we need. One lane to make I met Brian, almost eighteen years ago
our job go.” to today, Street Industries has been
there for us.” Michael relates once
Mike Martino explains the importance having an issue while changing out
of machine reliability. “Breakdowns a drum. “I think within two hours of
kill me. You’ve got a crew out there the phone call, Brian himself was out
that is costing you $7,000 per day. here with my mechanic, working with
My boss doesn’t want to hear that we a tool in hand. A couple of hours later
didn’t put any pipe into the ground. they had the drum changed. Brian has
So, [avoiding] downtime is very continued to amaze me. He is on the
important.” Mike has not experienced jobs and he is intimately engaged with
major downtime with the Tigercat his equipment and his clients. I have
machines. “Sometimes it’s just minor nothing but the finest things to say Michael Beyer, president of
Bancker Construction Corp.
stuff. It might be just a loose filter about him and his company.”
from the vibration. StreetWorks

Michael recalls the day eighteen mulcher, a high horsepower carrier is original on the machine.”
years ago when he first saw a designed for demanding high Bancker has purchased a total of
Tigercat T750 street trencher. “We duty cycle off-road land clearing four Tigercat street trenchers, most
were invited to see it in operation and right-of-way applications. recently, a new T726G that went
on another contractor’s project. Often working in time-sensitive into service in June 2018.
We were told to arrive at the site operations such as oil exploration
around 8:30 and that the machine and pipeline developments “The other day we took delivery
would be set up and ready to go. We intolerant to downtime, Tigercat of our newest machine and it was
pulled up at the site, and we saw the mulchers operate in a very tough unloaded and parked next to the
machine on the trailer. We looked at environment and often pile on hours eighteen-year-old machine. The new
our watches and it was about 8:40, quickly. In order to maintain high one has state-of-the-art technology
and I said, ‘Well I guess they aren’t production and high uptime, it’s all and all of the bells and whistles as
ready yet.’ We got out of the car to about maximum horsepower to the compared to the old one. But they’re
walk over and as we were passing attachment, excellent heat rejection still made with all steel. They have
the machine we saw the entirety capabilities and ample steel in the stood the test of time and they are
of the trench had already been cut. right places. probably one of the most reliable
I asked, ‘What happened?’ Turns machines that we own and, per
out they cut the whole job – twelve Bancker purchased that first T750 hour, the lowest cost of ownership
inches of asphalt, 350 feet of trench eighteen years ago. Today it is of any machine that we have out
– in about 15 minutes. We were still running strong and is entirely there right now.”
sold, and we bought the machine, to original aside from some wear plates
that were installed on the drum. Michael explains that in general,
some degree sight unseen.” as technologies have improved, the
“It’s pretty impressive. The machine
The original T750 street trencher was literally just in our shop getting issues that the fleet maintenance
evolved from another discontinued a normal service and we were people used to experience with
Tigercat machine, the M760 discussing the fact that everything engines and hydraulics have mostly

THEY HAVE STOOD
THE TEST OF TIME
AND THEY ARE
PROBABLY ONE OF
THE MOST RELIABLE
MACHINES THAT WE
OWN AND, PER HOUR,
THE LOWEST COST
OF OWNERSHIP
OF ANY MACHINE
THAT WE HAVE OUT
THERE RIGHT NOW.
– Michael Beyer
Tigercat trenchers routinely cut through rebar reinforced concrete.
gone away. “With other machines, cameras. He is fully able to see his
we do have reoccurring issues surroundings.” Michael also notes
with pins and bushings and that the in-cab noise has been
things like that. With the Tigercat greatly reduced with the new cab
machines, I haven’t replaced a design and that the cab interior is
hose, let alone pins and bushings. far more ergonomically correct.
Everything is original. We run
them twelve months a year and “We only buy the best equipment,
they are out there every day we put the money up front for
working. We haven’t had the the best equipment. I expect very
problems that we have had with fine things when you are putting
other pieces of equipment doing that capital expense out front, so
the same type of application.” I have no problem with making
a complaint. As far as we are
“One of my veteran operators, concerned, there is no equal to
who has 30 years with us, was this machine,” says Michael.
the first to run our newest
machine and he called me to tell
me the cab is even nicer than
it was on past machines. The
cab environment and operator
comfort are second to none. The
instrumentation is fantastic and Watch the video on Tigercat TV:
he was very impressed by the
www.tigercat.com/trencher

STOCKPILING
for IMPROVED EFFICIENCY
Bernard Fortin, general
manager of Peace River
Logging talks about the
transition from infield
chipping to an off-highway,
centralized wood yard and the
accompanying improvements
in operational efficiency.
– Paul Iarocci
P
eace River Logging is a fourteen-year-old
company based in Peace River, Alberta, a
solid five-hour drive in a northwest direction
from Edmonton. Peace River Logging is a 50/50
joint venture between Daishowa-Marubeni
International Ltd. (DMI) and Woodland Cree First
Nation, and was established to supply hardwood
chips to the DMI Peace River Pulpwood Division
Mill. The mill's chip intake is 2,4 million cubic
metres and it can produce up to 475 000 tonnes
of air-dried kraft pulp annually. Harvesting
operations take place on a 2,9 million hectare
(7.2 million acre) forest management area in
northwestern Alberta.
The chipping operation. A Tigercat 875 unloads the forwarding trailers and stacks the tree length wood for the chipper.
As Bernard explains, Peace River sixteen kilometres (10 mi) from the trucking. Before starting the new
Logging started in 2004, initially mill. “Our future plan is to build remote chipping yard, the company
as an in-woods chipping operation. a shop on the property as well,” was running up to fourteen chip
An intensive winter harvesting and states Bernard. trucks. While things moved along
chipping effort was followed by an fairly efficiently in the midst of the
often prolonged spring break-up, The past winter was a season of winter deep freeze, it was always
and then a move to drier summer transition for the team as they a short window and then Bernard
ground. “We were running out of set up at the new wood yard all found himself dealing with all
summer ground and that would the while harvesting and hauling manner of complications.
mean more winter chipping. We 300 000 cubic metres of tree-length
didn’t have the facility to handle wood – enough to last to November “When you have a dry year, it’s not
more volume in a short period of 2018 – from the harvesting site bad but when you get a wet year,
time, so we wanted to spread it 130 km (80 mi) up the road. “We some months we barely worked. A
out over a longer period of time.” had to up our production last year,” lot of the time we pump water off
Bernard also wanted to keep the explains Bernard. “Because we of the haul roads, to clear them so
crew working year-round. “We were still bush chipping last season, that we can get back in there. Then
always had three to four months off we were harvesting and hauling we finally get the road shaped up
for the spring. We have had as high tree length at the same time so last and then we get another shower
as five months off. Then you lose year was kind of like two seasons and we are down another week. In
your key employees.” So last year in one in order to get our volume in the meantime, we have guys sitting
Bernard put together a proposal the yard.” In addition to supplying at camp and we’d get them to do a
to set up a wood yard where the chips to DMI, the company also bunch of stuff – road maintenance,
company would stockpile and chip supplies logs to Boucher Bros getting prepared to chip again,
year round. Lumber Ltd. in Nampa. “We did pumping water, and you do all that
about 149 000 cubic metres for stuff, but you can only do so much.”
The proposal was accepted and them last year and I think this
next Peace River Logging negotiated coming season is going to be about So the challenge was not only to
to purchase a 130 hectare (320 acre) 170 000 metres.” find enough summer ground to
tract close to the end of the harvest but also to deal with the
mill’s private haul road and just The bottleneck of the operation 160 km (100 mi) private haul
has always been chipping and road itself. “You could have a light

The 880D works in the stockpiles unloading the haul trucks coming from the bush, and loading the forwarding vehicle, which is currently a
rock truck pulling a log trailer.
shower and the bush is nice and dry payloads. Two super-B chip vans are is equipped with Tigercat’s
but your trucks can’t haul because making the 32 km round trip to the RemoteLogTM telematics system,
it rained down the road. So here, mill around the clock, providing enabling Bernard to keep a close
rain or shine we can haul. And here consistent delivery of twenty eye on machine utilization.
we can maximize our equipment. 42 tonne loads every 24 hours. In
We can do the same volume with addition, Bernard is maintaining The second loader is an 875 that
one chipper because we can run more year-round employment. One is stationed at the offload area
seven days a week versus five days of the objectives of Peace River adjacent to the chipper. It unloads
a week.” Logging is to create employment for the forwarding truck and is manned
the Woodland Cree First Nation and by the same operator that drives the
Then and now the local community. forwarding truck. For manpower,
Bernard employs one chipper
Previously, Peace River Logging The system operator, two loader operators,
was running two chippers infield a truck driver and a lead hand
plus one spare with as many as To make this happen day in and for each shift. The chippers are
fourteen on-highway haul trucks. day out, last winter Peace River equipped with their own cranes so
The chippers were operating five Logging purchased two Tigercat the loader is not required to feed
days per week, 24 hours per day. loaders equipped with butt-n-top the chipper. “The next step is to
With the new system in place, grapples. An 880D stays out in the think of a better way to forward
one chipper operates seven days stockyard – unloading the haul the wood, maybe a dump trailer.
per week, 24 hours per day, with trucks coming from the bush during Then we wouldn’t need to have the
one spare in case of breakdown. logging season, building eight metre other machine to offload. We are
During winter, fourteen trucks with (25 ft) high decks, and loading always thinking of different ways to
modified trailers haul tree length the forwarding vehicle, which is minimize our cost of retrieval.”
from the cut block to the yard. This currently a rock truck pulling a log
past winter the off-highway trucks trailer. The 880D, often working The mill also has an annual
were typically hauling 50 tonne out of sight in the stockpiles, appetite of 275 000 tonnes of hog

Bernard and superintendent, Erik Lokseth. Erik started with Peace River Logging as a buncher operator in 2006.
fuel for power generation. At the Erik Lokseth was one of the original Erik adds, “At three in the morning
yard, the grinding operation is buncher operators, hired on in you don't want to be spending a
subcontracted but Peace River 2006. Today Erik holds the position lot of time taking panels off just
Logging is responsible to get waste of superintendent and is essentially to access the machine. With the
material to the grinder. A wheel Bernard’s right hand man. Tigercats, everything just flops
loader helps with clean-up and open. It makes such a difference
skidders equipped with front brush “When we decided to purchase the for maintenance and blowing out
grapples deliver waste wood to the butt-n-top loaders for this operation, rads.” The stockyard is typically in
grinder via a ramp constructed we were looking at all of the one of three states – frozen, muddy,
to decrease rock content going competing models of course. But or in summer very dry and dusty,
through the grinder. after looking at all of the machines, so easy access to the cooling system
there was no question in my mind is important to Bernard and Erik.
The harvesting operation of what I wanted,” recalls Bernard. They are pumping water off of the
“The ease of working on these ground in spring and running a
The company started in 2004 and machines versus the other ones,
purchased its first two bunchers water truck for dust control a couple
just that alone made the decision of months later.
in 2005. Bernard initially chose easy. The other machines are not
the Tigercat 870C model and the purpose-built. Another reason we Typically, Peace River Logging will
company has stuck with them, went with them is that they are harvest throughout the summer. In
having purchased six in total. Canadian built and we’ve built a late October, the five bunchers and
“We’ve kept all but one,” says relationship with Tigercat and with eight skidders will move into the
Bernard. Peace River also runs James [Farquhar], especially with winter site to start harvesting well
several Tigercat 630 series skidders. James.” before freeze up in mid-November.

A bird's eye view of the wood yard. Peace River stockpiled 300 000 cubic metres of tree-length timber during the 2017-2018 winter
logging season – enough to see the chipping operation through to November 2018.
Once the road is in shape for Chip quality or physical real estate to deck
hauling, the trucks will have wood enough wood to manage the drying
The new system is improving chip
to move right away. times like they are able to do now.
quality by reducing bark content
“You still have to maintain a nice
Bernard strongly believes cross because Bernard is better able
uniform chip size but bark is the
training is key to a smooth to manage the different species
main culprit when it comes to
operation. For instance, 880D and control the drying time. “We
quality.”
operator Stephen Cardinal has been have to meet such a high quality
with Peace River Logging six years standard. When you are out in Utilization
now. He is a solid operator who can the bush, if the tree is there, you
also run the chipper and skidder. have to chip it. At least here, if Bernard and Erik have also been
At the end of the winter season, he for example we get a lot of black experimenting with different
was also trained on the bunchers. poplar, we can identify that and degrees of delimbing to determine
All of the wood yard crew are being leave it until it dries up, then what works best for the new system.
cross-trained on every piece of the bark comes off a lot easier.” Bernard explains that they are
equipment, adding flexibility to the When previously chipping infield currently tracking three different
operation. there just wasn’t sufficient time delimbing methods. The rough
delimbed wood is essentially cut,

skidded and loaded. The skidder What Bernard and Erik are rough limbing method. When the
operator drives over the tops but monitoring is breakage. The 880D is waiting for the forwarding
that is the extent of the processing. worry is that as the 880D logger truck to turn around, the operator
Next is a category of wood that is wrestling the tangled branches spends his time cleaning up broken
is quickly run through a stroke free from the deck that breakage limbs. “We try to keep it clean and
delimber. The third category are is going to occur. Bernard doesn’t we want to try and maximize our
trees that are delimbed with a want broken limbs left lying on the usage,” says Bernard. Anything that
processing head. “So now we have roads and scattered throughout the cannot be chipped is gathered, piled
some decks that are fully processed, stockpile area. Peace River Logging and delivered to the subcontracted
some that just got delimbed with a has paid to get that fibre down to grinder that is working five days a
stroker and some that just got rough the yard and wants to convert it week. The material is converted to
delimbed. We are going to monitor all to chips. And broken limbs on hog fuel for power generation at the
it because we have kept every deck the road make for flat tires as the mill, so the operation is achieving
separate. If we can get away with rock truck and trailer is constantly near 100% utilization. When the
running it over with a skidder, we forwarding from the decks to old system was in place, a lot of this
will carry on that way. It is our the chipper. So far Bernard has fibre stayed in the bush and was
cheapest method – we don’t have to observed that excess debris has not wasted.
run it through another phase.” been an issue, boding well for the
@ T I G E RC AT _ M AC H I N E S
FOLLOW US ON
APRIL
11-13 EXPOFOREST 2018
More than 25,000 visitors
attended the Brazil forestry
fair during its three-day run.
T
igercat along with dealer Tracbel
showcased a variety of new products
at Expoforest 2018. The event ran
April 11-13 near the city of Santa Rita
do Passa Quatro (Ribeirao Preto area)
of Sao Paulo, Brazil in 200 hectares of
cloned eucalyptus forest belonging to
International Paper.
The show’s third edition presented

new equipment and technology used
for biomass, wood harvesting and
transportation. The event included 208
exhibitors and attracted over 25,000
visitors from 27 countries and 26
Brazilian states. Business transactions at
the fair resulted in over R$ 152 million
in sales, equivalent to $40 million US
dollars.
Edson Tadeu Iede, director of Embrapa

Florestas, who was present at the
“The show was a huge success. We have Expoforest kick-off event took the
many existing and new opportunities opportunity to highlight the importance
to follow up on and have numerous of the planted forest sector. “Our industry,
even in times of economic crisis, managed
machine demonstrations planned
to grow 3%, producing around $70
to further our growth in the South billion USD, a result we are very proud of
American market.” and one that helps us get through these
Gary Olsen, Tigercat international sales manager changing times we live in – something
highly positive for the entire Brazilian
forestry sector,” said Mr. Iede.
Machines on static display included

the 480B mulcher equipped with the
Watch coverage of Expoforest 2018 on
Tigercat TV at: Tigercat 4061 mulching head, along with
www.tigercat.com/expoforest2018 an 845D track feller buncher equipped
with the 5000 bunching saw. The live
demonstration consisted of the 1185
eight-wheel harvester, an 870C track
feller buncher, a 635G six-wheel skidder
and the 1075C forwarder.

EVENT WRAP-UP
MAY
18-19 RICHMOND Expo 2 0 1 8
Bobby and Lori Goodson were special guests of

Richmond, Virginia Tigercat, spending several hours in the Tigercat
T
booth visiting with fans and signing autographs.
igercat and Virginia based dealer Forest Pro teamed up

to showcase an impressive fourteen machines at the
Richmond Raceway Complex in Richmond, Virginia
for the 36th biannual East Coast Sawmilling and Logging
Equipment Exposition on May 18-19.
Tigercat and Forest Pro showcased a

wide variety of equipment including
234B and 250D loaders, 726G and
724G drive-to-tree feller bunchers,
and 855E and LX830D track feller
bunchers. A range of skidders was also
on display including the 602, 620E,
625E, and 635G models. The newly
introduced 2160 loader forwarder and
1185 wheel harvester also attracted
a lot of attention. Last but not least,
loggers reminisced around the rebuilt
prototype 726 drive-to-tree feller
buncher, which was brought down to
the show from the Tigercat factory in
Canada.

SEPT. T H E PAC I F I C The McDonald-Dunn
13-15 LO G G I N G Research Forest was
acquired by Oregon
C O N G R E S S 2018 State University in
1947. Prior to that it
was used for training
Reaching out to the next Taylor and Ricky Loushin chatted with
generation was the theme school students, giving them insight by Camp Adair during
for this year’s PLC show. into what it is like being a young World War II. The
T
equipment operator, and helping
he eighth annual PLC live in- research forest consists
encourage the next generation to get
woods show took place at Oregon of approximately
involved in the industry.
State University’s McDonald-Dunn
4 500 ha (11,250 acres)
Research Forest outside Corvallis, On static display, Tigercat debuted
Oregon from September 13-15. the 890 logger, the highest capacity of predominantly
machine in Tigercat's purpose-built forested land, just north
Hundreds of high school students
logger product line. Loggers from all
toured the sites, learning about the of Corvallis, Oregon.
over the west coast came out to see
industry, the equipment and future
the new machine. High horsepower
career opportunities. The three-day
and solid Tigercat construction were
event allowed visitors to gain a better
common talking points regarding
understanding of new technologies and
the new machine model. “It is a
how they are applied throughout the
productive, yet efficient machine
forest products sector. “It is important
for shovel logging, loading and
that we show the next generation the
processing – a machine far superior
opportunities that exist in our industry
to excavator conversions,” says Kevin
and that our industry provides great
Selby, Tigercat US sales manager.
prospects to earn a decent living,”
states Jeff Wimer, PLC President.
Tigercat showcased two LS855E shovel

loggers and an LX870D feller buncher
on live demo, all of which were run
by operators in their twenties. Special
guest operators Hannah Dehoog, Jesse www.tigercat.com/plc
“THIS EVENT WAS

A HUGE SUCCESS
IN MAKING
REAL STRIDES IN
CONNECTING
WITH THE NEXT
GENERATION.”
– Kushiah McCullough, Tigercat
product support representative
EVENT WRAP-UP
SEPT.
21-22 M I D - S O U T H F O R E S T RY S H OW
Starkville Mississippi
B
& G Equipment teamed up
with Tigercat to prepare the
in-woods demo site at the
Mid-South Forestry Equipment
show, held in Starkville, Mississippi
on September 21-22. Fine late
summer weather set the stage
for excellent show attendance.
Tigercat had a total of 35 team
members attend the event including
senior management, regional
district managers, product support
representatives, product managers,
sales and marketing staff, engineers
and designers.
In conjunction with the live

demo, Tigercat hosted a dealer Equipment, Patrick Miller Tractor Co.,
sales conference at the Franklin Smith Equipment LLC, Smith & Turner
Center located on the Mississippi State Equipment Co., Tejas Equipment, Inc.
University campus. This gave Tigercat and Tidewater Equipment Co. were in
engineering staff the opportunity to attendance.
present major design changes for each
product line and gain feedback from A 724G feller buncher equipped with a
the dealer network. Dealer principals Tigercat 5600 bunching saw operated
and sales personnel from Allwood during the live demo portion of the
Equipment LLC, B & G Equipment Inc., show, felling timber for a 620E skidder
CTW Equipment Co. Inc., Forestry 21, that pulled to 234B and T234B loaders.
Forest Pro Inc., MidSouth Forestry Static machines on display included
the 480B mulcher, 632E skidder, 635G
Tigercat’s restored prototype skidder, H250D/575 processor and
726 feller buncher on display 720G feller buncher. Tigercat’s restored
at the show.
prototype 726 feller buncher was also on
display.
Bobby and Lori Goodson signed

autographs and posed for photos with
fans at the Tigercat site. Everyone was
excited to speak to Bobby about the new
Goodsons All Terrain youtube series.
Our thanks to B & G Equipment, the

Mississippi Loggers Association, and the
Goodsons, for helping make the show a
success.

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ISSUE 49 OCTOBER 2018

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF TIGERCAT INDUSTRIES INC.

Product News .......................... 4

Word of Mouth ......................... 6

On the Floor: Induction Heat

Remembering W.J. .................. 17

T726G Street Trencher .............. 28

Peace River Logging ............... 34

Event Wrap-up ...................... 40

© 2001 - 2018 Tigercat International Inc. All Rights Reserved. TIGERCAT,

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Now the 602 is available as a cable

The 602 is equipped with

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MORE PRODUCT SUPPORT

Based in Snohomish, Washington, Damien is joining Tigercat from

Based in Merritt, British Columbia, Mark has been involved in the

“Along with Kushiah McCullough and Damien Donoher, I am very

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BTB: Describe your It’s really stable and it pulls

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Eli: Yes. It’s very easy to understand

BTB: Do you have any feedback on

Eli: They are always very easy to work

BTB: Anything else you would like

Eli: It’s just amazing, how they came up

Watch the Tigercat 602 cable

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Commercially available components often

In September 2014, Tigercat acquired a

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From conducting safety

Growing up on a farm with three older

Now, Theresa is involved in all aspects

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When the family isn’t working in A lot of logging contractors in the

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Theresa and Peter are happy with the

Theresa and daughter Zoe love clay target

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On March 12, 2018, owner and

With four locations in Mississippi and

The early years

W.J. started out in the industry hauling

W.J. and Donald had been logging together

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The Tigercat T726G trencher is tearing it up on the roads of

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