Tigercat tree cutter cutting trees in extremely steep ground! 

Tim, I sure enjoyed watching that! You have a highly skilled professional crew running some topnotch equipment, gitterdone! It just occurred to me that we are watching probably well over a million dollars worth of equipment run. You and your families hard work and dedication deserve the rewards of success.

great angle to show how steep that hillside is Tim, Derrick just owns the buncher whether steep ground or flat

We have figured out how to watch You tube videos on our new 65" TV.....Boy is this one OUTSTANDING...almost "life size". Keep up the good work Tim.

I know yall run this stuff for a living but dang yall are good I love watching that stuff thanks for bringing us along

Those machines are amazing . I’ve ran cats all my life in steep terrain D9s and 10s on hillside jobs in California so I know what it’s like in steep areas and I know that camera doesn’t capture the true angles of the terrain that’s really there . Awesome video and thanks for sharing .

Derrick is a bad mama jammer on that machine this is an awesome video Tim tell your brother he is just cool 😎 you all be careful and God bless you

It is amazing how easy a great operator makes it look.

Hey Tim another great video.You Show all aspects of logging.Thats What Makes your videos so good Keep it up.

Working that machine like a BOSS!

We've worked on pretty steep ground but we cut by hand and we only run 2 cable skidders. Nice video, Derrick is pretty slick with that Tigercat.

That is a great video. Really like to watch that kinda action. That takes experience and nerves. But someone will tell you how to do it different. Thanks for sharing

Truly amazing what those machines can do w skilled operators at the controls. Awesome video. You fellas are amazing to watch. Thanks for posting.

That was a really good video, Tim! I like watching an overall view. Almost as good as being there.

i agree all or none if i go behind someone else when they have gotten best its gonna cost them big time derrick your the man

Mad Skills, Big Respect for the 'D-man' Testicles made of Titanium

remarkable machine! and obviously a very skilled operator.

Nice video that a lot of skill, time in that machine, and some big balls!

Awesome video of some cool machines, sure does take some nerves of steel to work a hill like that.

Killer video tim as always action packed

that is like mowing the lawn on blade of grass at a time, good video.

Mr Tim it is amazing to me to watch your guys work man these are good at what they do sure and honor to get to watch these video hopely one day maybe I come and meet you that would Aewsome I have talk to a couple of your drivers they come my town couple of months ago i live in Fayette county well a little town called berry they seen like a good bunch of guys

If it looks that steep on camera it twice as bad in person. Good call on not letting someone else take the gravy and you doing the rest they don't want to do. Companies will exploit you if you cave into doing it for them. Great video Tim.

awesome I use to run a Tigercar 860 c great bunchers and nice passing job to get around that tractor lol👍

Bunch of guys here in NW Oregon are welding on grouser extensions on the bunchers so that they can cut more and more of that steep ground by machine instead of with hand fallers. We have to same issues mixing the good with the bad. You have to have enough ground based ground to support the cable yarding.

Cleaning up for & fixing mistakes of other loggers is a no-win situation. Good to hear that you are firm in the way you handle those situations. Maybe the land owners need to address that issue with better wording in their legal contracts so it states that there are significant financial penalties for leaving trees standing that should have been cut -- that is if they actually even bother with written contracts or just handle awarding jobs by a handshake.

Hold on Derrick, You'll make it..lol That's real steep there Tim good grief.. Take Care, Have a great day...

Great content!

Great video, y'all be safe out there!

your my favorite on RU-vid

Oh goodness, what an operator Derrick is with a truly amazing machine. I cannot begin to imagine what the view is in the cab when working such steep slopes especially when it lifts the rear or side of the tracks. I am amazed how stable it is carrying and swivelling with a big heavy tree and what it must feel like sliding down that slope under load! Equally surprising is how well it climbed up that slope when he had finished going down. I have one basic question: Is there a specific reason why he is cutting going down hill rather than reverse or is it just to make it easier to extract the logs up the hill?

That's an operator there! My butt would've done chewed that seat all up, there wouldn't be nothing but the springs left.

Cottontop3, How is your brother doing? Hope all is well 🙏🙏. Man, I really enjoy watching your brother butchering those trees👍👍. And I also love watching your videos

Good video tim I enjoy it

Steep yea I guess cool stuff Tim Derrick is gettin it done 👍 napa mike

I really enjoyed that sir waveing at ya from butuan city philippines

Awesome

I know that is not easy, but he sure makes it look easy.

He is skilled, I wonder if it would be better to leave it and let it grow some more! yes they will get even taller, but also they will be broader also.

great video hes doing a good job

This is not even close to where I've had these machines. It's a bad spot, but you should have seen some of the places we cut in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia and West Virginia.

wicked ,kick ass vid. and operator

And that's how that's done.👍🏻💪🏻👊🏻

That's steep right there! I couldn't imagine the sensation of riding 90k pounds down a hill. Anyone who works in that ground has my respect. Stupid question: if you have all the trucks loaded, do you help with shoveling the trees up the hill?

10:53-10:55 track is a little tight and locked up in between the two pads.... that happen often on the cutters?

That's what i'm talkin' bout!👍👍

Always wanted to do that kind of work. Just never got into it.

throw em up or down &c chase with your shovel , that way the buncher don't have to keep goin up & down each tree . we do a lot of ground like that nice work !

we do that everyday on the west coast

Would it be profitable for you to have a little crew separate from your regular logging operations to clean up the wood other loggers left behind. like a clean up crew ?

Could you imagine doing that without an upper leveler? You would feel like you were standing on your head.

Tough working conditions, slow but persistent! About how many gallons of fuel do the skidders, loaders, cutters (just on site work) do you average using per day or week? Thanks for showing the less than normal working conditions you have today! ....13

Is there any kind of machine similar to the skidder that helps hold on to the hills here in MS? Maybe a Tracked version.

Not to spoil the fun, but what happens to that very steep slope in a heavy rain after it's stripped of cover?

thats how shes done boys

To someone that has never run a buncher before it looks impressive But for the guys that do run them it’s just another day at the office Throw some rocks and snow in there then it would be a challenge That’s good ground with lots of traction

I don't understand why manufacturers don't put plows on feller bunchers like you see on mini excavators. It would really increase the capacity and manuverability

I see why he has bad knees because he got on the windshield to keep him in the seat

Chainsaw and a cable skidder?

Does this land get cleaned up after the clear cutting and replanted?

Great . You all half done on job?

I would say that the hair on the back of his head was standing up at times.

Does he have to manually tilt the body of that machine or does it just find level as he moves down the hill.

I take it this is public land? I don't think taking out the understory so the buncher doesn't get hemmed in on steep ground would go over too well otherwise as it sets the next harvest back a decade or two. Unless it's all undesirables growing underneath.

Do they replant those hills?

Wow that's scary that'd have me sitting on the edge of my seat

Very cool video... That machine is pretty damn cool even though i hate seeing a nice wooded area be destroyed.

Gettin it done Tim as always, good timber seams to be a bit thinned out, is this regrowth or has it been thinned out previously ? Cheers mate.

I bet you're one tired fellow after cutting in a place like that, I'd be exhausted from trying to find the oh crap handle.

hey boss just a question do they make a tracked skidder and if so would it work better on the steep hills like that?

6/12 pitch or 7/12 ?

Enjoy very much ,just ignore the stupid comments lol.

Timberrrrt

I'd hate to be replanting that. You'd keep sliding right down that hill.

why isn't the operator running with his final drives behind him instead of up front.

No place for the nimrod! thanks!

Hard to go behind some one else all the easy wood is gone

Could you have a blade on front of Tigercat for stability?

Be safe on those billy goat hills.

Work SMARTER not HARDER ..What a pucking mess ..

that machine is not 90k. its 76500 plus 7500 head 84000k.