Who makes Tigercat equipment?
MacDonald Steel
Tigercat began in 1992 when a small group of professionals with extensive experience in all facets of the logging equipment industry teamed up with the Cambridge, Ontario based fabrication company, MacDonald Steel.
What is a Tigercat?
1 : any of various wildcats (such as the serval, ocelot, or margay) of moderate size and variegated coloration. 2 : a striped or sometimes blotched tabby cat.
What does Tigercat do?
Tigercat specializes in the design and manufacture of tree harvesting systems and specialized machines for severe duty off road applications. Tigercat forestry systems deliver processed wood to roadside at the lowest cost per tonne.
What engine does tigercat use?
FPT Industrial
Tigercat has selected FPT Industrial as its engine partner of choice due to the performance and quality of its engines, its low total cost of ownership and exceptional reliability.
What equipment do loggers use?
Swing Machines: These machines are very multi-purpose oriented. They can be used as roadbuilders, shovel loggers, harvester/processors, stroke delimbers, or log loaders. Though swing machines look extremely similar to excavator machines, their purpose is very different.
What is tigercat worth?
Tigercat Industries Inc has 950 total employees across all of its locations and generates $266.83 million in sales (USD).
Where are FPT engines made?
The company makes 3.4-litre to 6.7-litre engines in Italy and the large-capacity Cursor and new V20 engines in France. FPT also makes engines in Argentina, Brazil and China.
What engine is in a Tigercat skidder?
Tier 4f engine
The 602 skidder is powered by the four-cylinder Tigercat FPT N45 Tier 4f engine. The Tier 4f engine conforms to the latest emissions standards in North America and Europe.
Who made the Tigercat?
When it came time to build the prototype Tigercat in 1992, Wood was the obvious choice. As a licensed electrician, millwright and automotive mechanic, he had the skills and talent to deal with the complications and uncertainties that were sure to accompany the assembly of a new machine in the back corner of a steel fabrication plant.
How many employees does Tigercat have?
Tigercat employs 2,000 people, a far cry from the handful of individuals that designed and built the first 726 feller buncher in 1992. The Tigercat team is the company’s greatest asset.
What makes Tigercat dealers so successful?
And Tigercat contributed to the success of its dealers by eventually providing a full product line as equipment manufacturers consolidated and some competing product lines were swallowed up or disappeared altogether. Dick Ronald: One Tigercat dealer that stood out was B & G Equipment.
How did Tigercat tractors work?
Tigercat’s tractors were quick and forceful. They could lift and carry heavy bunches and travel backwards and forwards to get to more trees. Under such work loading, life of existing felling heads when mounted on Tigercat tractors was short, so a stronger design was needed.