Tigercat H-series Skidder Walk-around: NEW features and improvements to Tigercat Skidders

[@daltonhorton3366]

Love the H, I run a 632H. It’s our first Tigercat skidder we got it and a LX830D we come from cat machines before and very happy with the Tigercat brand. We run in the Appalachian mountains of Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky

[@daltonhorton3366]

@TulioSilva-qy4ro oh absolutely they do

[@Roberge-ln1zy]

You guys at Tigercat know how to make a machine! keep up the great work!!!!!

[@evanezernack4723]

My father’s business has been Tigercat proud since 1997. I have been a skidder operator since 1994. Still operate a 2002 230 B loader producing 12-16 loads a day. If u want to trade equipment every 3 r 4 yrs the other brands are fine, but if u want a machine that will hold up long after it is paid for there is no other brand but Tigercat!

[@pierronreasner6840]

So far a ahead of the competition. Awesome engineering 👍

[@daveh6479]

Hell yeah!!,,,Ya had me at AC controlled cup holder, ,thought the 635G was ahead of its time ..can't wait till we upgrade

[@farwest571]

Swivel belly pans.....glad you guys got that one...still have the scar on my head...sticks in the side doors well thats just part of the game...but the pressure latches yes definitely needed that you can hear the older ones rattling a mile away

[@tigercat.machines]

Ouch! Sorry about your noggin'

[@1979augistine]

Oh the 🎃 pumpkin

[@Tankerbell83]

I build these!!! I make the Boom and the Front blade on my Wolf series Robot welder!!! Love my Job!!

[@stevescott1182]

They are beast in the woods

[@douglascasey3486]

The service upgrades were necessary. The old ones are nightmares to service. The seat and cab is amazing. My neck always killed me the first couple of days before I got used to looking back. Now this is a 21st century skidder.

[@Ticdaniel]

Ac cooled cupholder! Missed that on our 1075c

Canada has the most badass trees so it only stands to reason that they have the most badass skidders

[@IvyMike.]

Get on Jer, not seen you for years, bit less hair than I remember, but glad you are keeping well, give my love to the family. Nice presentation by the way.

[@jonathandesselle4464]

Had a 620C model had forward backwards pedals...love those better then new style in the swamps and in first thinning.

[@lawrencemccreery3451]

The improvements look great! When you added the joystick button to release the seat to rotate, you did keep the foot kick lever though, right? No other manufacturer seems to understand that a skidder benefits from a large range of motion of the boom and arch. Only Tigercat can push itself backward up a hill with the grapple by shoving it down under the rear tires toward the front of the machine. If for some reason (it happens sometimes) you need to drag some logs that you have grappled 15 or 40 feet back from the butts, nothing does that like Tigercat, thanks mostly to that long long reach of the boom and arch or boom and stick or whatever we call it. That long long reach makes it a simple open-swing-close maneuver to double or triple up a few bunches in order to fill the grapple, where other skidders have to open-forward-turn-reverse-close to add the same two bunches together. Then, if you're stacking your own wood, the long long boom and arch, and the range of motion of them both, allows you to effortlessly build your decks as high as you want without spinning and chewing up the logs with your tire chains. That's why Tigercat is in its own league with no competitors or peers for steep, swampy, or otherwise difficult terrain and in situations where there's limited room to maneuver. Other skidders seem like your grandfather's tractor in comparison.

[@tigercat.machines]

The foot lever is no longer required.

[@RaymondRaymond-do9ke]

Can these machine operate in extremely deep mud holes, i just need to no because i need a skidder to work in guyana

[@jiggyquinn5635]

Beautiful machine 😍 💪💪

[@michaelwhalen4072]

Should of added a bar with socket for the quarter turn cab lift bolts. Be nice for maintenance and cleaning purpose without having to search tool box for right size.

[@craigmcpherson1827]

They would still have tool box in blade wouldn't they?

[@johnfunk6343]

Way better machine then the CAT forestry products that are now branded Weilers. I retired From CAT dealer after 30 years as a Field tech. I always hated having to take the cabs off and all the crap you have to take off to do simple repairs on the trans. And i love the idea of that pivot bolt for the belly pans . Way too go.

[@Holodomor4.0]

Geez skidders have come a long way since the timber Jack 240E days!

[@learnapex2444]

Awesome! It's a little bit more technologically advanced then my 142 Franklin LOL

[@bryanperron6748]

i love tiger cat CANADIAN MADE AND A GrEAT MACHINE .I wish they were around when I run skidders.Back in my day a 360 timberjack was a good skidder.Had the oportrunity to run a 630 Tiger cat amazing it can pull more in one grapple than a 360 could pull in 2 hrs

[@Grizzman99]

Bada$$ looking machine. Be awesome to work for a company like that.

[@kevinmock4581]

Really wish y’all would go back to the Cummins

[@KC-632H]

632h is a dream to operate 😎😎😎👍

[@robwar2288]

Do they have more leg room? I Demoed one in 2005 it was way to cramped.

[@nikolenisbett5136]

They need a big glove box in cab so you can put your stuff in instead of it rolling around on floor it piss me off in my 632e

[@georgebasden4337]

Sweet looking machine

[@tsclly2377]

removable front blade like one for fire fighting [fire line dozing]

[@chadbell8993]

What about a swing boom?

[@MMikeHD3904]

Swing booms for skid cats

[@sharpshooter7127]

Sweet machine 👍

[@UltraMagaFan]

It’s got HVAC a climate controlled cup holder, and a Bluetooth radio? Damn that’s a luxury skidder. I’d totally drive one of those for a living.

[@michaelj2505]

Gotta be fast has racing harness seat belt

[@MMikeHD3904]

Steep ground , those belts work awesome! Roll one over, you'll wish u had a 5 point

[@brettrichards666]

It's at least 55 second machine. Lol

[@booboolapua6482]

I hope they didn’t put a button on the joystick that controls the seat turnaround feature like the John Deere L model skidders

[@jacobcarter34]

They did but the seat spins by an air tank can hear the air every time you spin it around

[@MMikeHD3904]

Pretty sure they got a heel switch aswell , a button on the joystick isn't bad , I never had ANY issues with mine

[@no1wrench]

The johndeere L machines are a nightmare. Never say tigercat should be like deere... ever.. 😂

[@jimmydickson8854]

Skidders one of the toughest and most unintentional abused machines on the planet ,got to take your hat off to the engineers who designed them tough as ,and lasts for years don’t know about all the new electrics on them unlike the old ones ,old jimmy

[@da_greini4580]

It's a shame that we don't have machines like this in use in Germany

[@MMikeHD3904]

Of course there Build in Canada 🇨🇦 Tigercat all the way

[@lmforestpro3124]

Very nice, Tigercat builds the best forestry equipment

[@ericlakota6512]

That is great u can spin the seat front and back can u spin straight fwd because it dose help going over some realy trcky nasty almost tiping over terain to be facing streagt fwd ive found that runing old TJ riding 2 people in cab and driving from side of wheel u lose opearator capability when in nasty place where its realy bad at limits of machean where you.

[@brettrichards666]

That tigercat is so nice im thinking about giving up my f350 king ranch, to daily one of those. Haha

[@MMikeHD3904]

Uh yeah..tcat makes money, Ford don't

[@brettrichards666]

@@MMikeHD3904 How? Lol

[@MMikeHD3904]

@@brettrichards666 tigercat has a grapple hangn off the back, ANY ford I've ever seen don't!

[@brettrichards666]

@@MMikeHD3904 You got me there. Haha

[@KC-632H]

Looks pretty sweet👌

[@glenncochrane6152]

It's a shame the company don't have the skilled mechanics to service and maintain them properly there answer is buy a new one

[@cat-pl7ey]

Best logging equipment in usa and canada

[@joshmyers30]

Nice

[@MMikeHD3904]

To bad the seat wasn't A.C .. any seat for 12 hours leads to swamp ass!

[@Signorconstructionandroofing]

I’ll just keep my prentice I guess I don’t have a half million

[@MMikeHD3904]

Prentice makes skidders?

[@johnathanczysz4137]

Is it just me or is that door backwards From the E skidders

[@tigercat.machines]

It is not just you! Your eyes are not fooling you, the cab door has been switched around.

[@johnathanczysz4137]

Tigercat ok cool

[@carsons6519]

Should be easier to open and close on steep ground hinged that way the other way they are a bear to pull closed

[@philipchabot6064]

Nice but when bouncing around after a few years I see a headache.

[@wilfredwitzke2607]

first thing when your spending a half a million you shuol d get is seat that that s comfortable and totally adjustable been in so many machines of all sorts withe seats that not good on the body you something great when your in it eight to ten hours a day

[@matiasfereira8202]

Ele falou varias vezes "bixim". Sera que é um bezourro.

[@ericlakota6512]

Their is a kid who has a youtube channel and sead if you dont like a tigercat its because you never got to run onehis dads has 4 tracks if i was going to buy a new shider id realy look at T.C but the man id need to have.

[@pimpmasterflex101]

The only H skidder worth a damn is made by John Deere!

[@lawrencemccreery3451]

I'm driving a 748H right now and all day long I can't stop comparing it to Tigercat. Nothing compares to a Tigercat skidder, although with the L series John Deere made a huge step toward catching up. The difference is it seems like Tigercat is built by actual loggers or maybe they have real loggers field test their prototypes whereas John Deere seems to be guessing John Deere really needs to take their machines out to tough ground swampy ground steep ground broken ground with bad bunching or hand falling and ask the loggers to try it out and tell John Deere how to make it better. With Tigercat you don't have to tell them they already made it better than you could have imagined you know how every machine has its limits? Well a Tigercat skidder doesn't have a limit the operator is the limit And I'm saying that as an experienced skidder operator with a big imagination

[@rickjames6312]

Meh...I'll stick with deere