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report detailing items that require
attention. Head office has good
visibility into the status of all
machines and can then schedule
preventative maintenance ahead
of time.
“Preventative maintenance is
cheap compared to replacement
costs. If it says to grease every
eight hours, don’t grease every
eighteen hours, you need to
grease every eight hours,” explains
Joseph.
The Tigercat Fluid Analysis (TFA)
oil sampling program works well
for Parnell and excessive metal
content in the oil is taken seriously
and always investigated further.
Success
Parnell Inc. has been a leader in the
logging industry for many decades.
Visitors have come from all around
the world, including India, Brazil,
Chile and China to see how the
company runs its operations.
The company follows market
trends, takes timber buying into
its own hands, takes preventative
maintenance very seriously and
hires the best to continue to
overcome the market challenges
faced today.
BTB got a quick chance to talk with James Parnell who is still running his Tigercat T250 loader
“I am not just blowing smoke,
the biggest advantage we have
had over others is being a Tigercat
customer,” says Joseph. “We have
been able to grow because instead
of having to replace equipment, we
have been able to keep it running
and move it to another job because
of its longevity.”
This article originally appeared in
Between the Branches, July 2017,
the official publication of Tigercat
Industries Inc.
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