2017 International Forest Industries Magazines May 2017 SHOW Special | Page 78

James Foster operating one of the two 630E skidders for J & R Logging.
CTW Equipment. In addition, he
still has his eleven-year-old 620C
skidder and a 2014 630E. Soon
he plans to replace an older 2006
model 250B with a second track
loader for additional shovel logging
capability. Between the three
Cahoon companies, they try to
upgrade five to six machines each
year.
Joedy has a crew of eleven
employees on his site. Foreman,
Jeff Bell zeroes in on why he thinks
Tigercat equipment lasts so long,
“It’s the hydraulic equipment.
Tigercat runs so cool,” he says.
“You get off a Prentice and you
lay your hand on a cylinder and
it would be scalding hot and the
o-rings would be cooked hard. But
with Tigercat, you could touch the
cylinder for a while. You can really
tell the difference.”
Eastern North Carolina – wet
and muddy
Unlike the frozen ground in cold
and snowy Canada – which Joedy
likes to visit in winter to hunt
whitetail deer – J & R Logging cuts
tracts along the coast of North
Carolina, an area often hit with
tropical storms that bring along
massive amounts of precipitation,
causing river and coastal flooding.
Based on their many years of
experience logging in the area,
the Cahoon brothers know how
to sur