That was interesting to hear that little story from 1990.. You guys sure came a long way to where you are now.. That's very encouraging and unfortunately is becoming increasingly rare most people now have no desire to put in any amount of work or sacrifice to be successful.. if they don't succeed right out of the gate well then it must be someone else's fault... Keep up the good work!

Awesome video Tim. It’s amazing how many trees that thing will pull. 👍👍👍

I think this is one of the wettest years I remember in a long time! The farmers around here in south Ga. Alma. Are still trying to get there cotton out of the fields and it’s molding on the plant! The news is already talking about clothes costing more because of it. Thanks for sharing Tim!

Great video Tim i love to hear that engine working be safe and have a blessed weekend !

Awesome video Tim, love the sound of that machine. Keep up the good work and be safe

Great video of the struggles, Tim. The music that 635 makes under load is beautiful! 😉

Tim I was on the way to work yesterday and there was rain from your neck of the woods to mine in NC. I'm 20 miles west of lumberton nc. Our river has been above flood stage since November 14. Hope the duals helps.

I see you're finally getting some use out of them duals! Another great video Tim.

Been battling the rain here in Pennsylvania logging as well I definately like it when it's solid out and can pound the production cool video thank you

Never underestimate the power of a machine

The last weekend in December we set a new rain fall record of I think they said 77 inch for 2018 . The old record of 75 inch was in 2013 . Great video tim enjoyed watching thank you for sharing

That machine will make your sticker peck out. Huuum!! What a beast!!😁

Look's to be doing great Tim, But the water will test ..Take care Tim..

Wow 😮 just when I think the 635 D could get any cooler y’all did this omg 😮 it’s a BEAST I love it

Thanks for the video Tim and the answer to my wet year question . Oh and don't stop loggin to take up a singing career 😂

Hey Tim It's wet all the way to Ontario Canada. Lots of snow and rain this winter. Keep up the great work. God bless you guys.

I remember when Bobby G. put 6 feet wide tires on his ( I think they were 6 feet). Might have to lay a “road” with trees like if you were in a swamp. Some day it might dry out! Thanks Tim for another great video!

Wish i lived closer. Would love a chance to see the equipment up close. Thing is a beast

them duals on that 635 will make sticker peck out. 😂 😂

Any extra flotation will help after all the rain 2018 brought. 2019 is starting off the same as last year ended so if it continues everyone is gonna have to continue to try ways to get through the mud.

Great video Tim ! Watching you guys working brings to mind the legend of Paul Bunyan ! In farming dry years are preferable to wet ones and it seems the same can be said for logging as well ! If my farming background has any application " increased fuel consumption " will be lost in the noise as slippage accounts for much of it . OTOH, I'm sure your suspicions about mechanical issues is spot on !

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that is tennis shoe logging

That my friend is one hell of an operator. Chad keep up the good work . If nothing else Tim you can shuttle the wood for him ,but wait. Ain't t gotta do it now ..

Judging by the space between the axels, you get more ground contact area with duelies vs. a set of over the tire tracks. It would be slick as shit if you had a machine shop turn some wheel spacers so you could run two sets of over the tire tracks. Great video Tim!

Good sounding engine!

This is the wettest year I ever remember since back in the 1960 s when will the rain end good luck on the duals he will feel every stump in the woods done been there and got my Tshirt lol

Looks like a normal Irish winter to me.

That is one beast of a machine.

I use to love watching Goodson Family Logging on TV year's ago. They are up in either Georgia, North or South Carolina. It might be elsewhere on the east coast but I really enjoyed that show. I saw reruns of the show back a few months ago. They had some hard time's when a Mill stopped taking wood but it is like that in the Paper Industry. My Granddaddy use to work at the Port St. Joe Florida Paper Mill when it was still in operation many year's ago. He got very sick from asbestos because he was an Insulator at the paper mill. Back then they did not tell them that asbestos was dangerous so they did not wear respiratory protection and it ended up killing him. He never lived to see the money that his lawsuit won so his wife and children got that money. He was a hard worker. I hated to see the Mill close for good year's after he died. People just don't know what thing's tree's provide us. As long as we replant and harvest wisely we should continue keeping the Paper and Saw Mill's open. The fight is with the tree huggers and other environmentalists who just don't have too many brain cells. I love and want a good environment but God put it here for us to utilize. Be wise with what he has given us.

1) Next step? - Put the olofors tracks front and rear on the Tigercat 630E? and have plenty of replacement track links 2) Arrange another demo of the Tigercat 615C(from an earlier video) with the small tires on the machine's rear with tracks. 3) If it keeps raining in the MIss./ Al. woods it might get wet enough for a used Tigercat 1075 Forwarder 8x8 (on clark tracks) converted to clambunk configuration. Tigercat might have to make a 1075C combi forwarder. A clambunk configuration for hauling full length logs to the processing skid, then switch to a forwarder bunk to take the logs somewhere dry enough to get the the road log trucks to load.

"You have to factor in the hassel-factor." I like that and I believe you have to factor in more of it than anyone I know. I've thought that I worked in ridiculous conditions, but I would be embarrassed to mention them in the light of what you are doing.

Tim I love your videos i always like watching that 635 haul its a beast i wished i owned one awesome vidoes tim thank u for taking time out of your day to video your day to day operations being as busy as u are take care bud happy new year.

It’s very wet here too. I know of one logger that just put duals on 2 of his skidders and a rubber tired cutter. Mills are low on wood and paying a premium price.

Great video Tim thanks for sharing have a great day

Great video really enjoyed watching it thanks for sharing 🚜, as a former logger, please stay safe y'all 🚜

Looks awesome sir, I one day would love to operate one of those. Stay safe and have a great day

First day of sunshine here in Mississippi in a while maybe next few days will help dry it out some, but you’re right we have had a lot of rain, y all stay safe out there.

That triple drag was amazing👍

Getting things done!!!!!!

Looking forward to seeing how those duals work out. has been extremely wet here in Massachusetts since late July and still raining

Awesome video. That’s aggravating when you spend time on something and it doesn’t help much and getting that matted seems to take time also. Definitely has to be trying on your nerves. When the going gets tough y’all really keep it rolling

Now we`re talking Tim... I love watching Chad work that monster.... need to put a camera inside as well... a couple of views on running it!! Do you think your Dad would let you put one in his truck so we can watch a run to the mill. Hopefully one mill will let you record them... if not just a ride along would be cool!!! Awesome vid Tim... thanks!!

It’d be neat to have some drone footage of this

Tim, could you show us your pond? Now that is way full 😊

Awesome video tim

Swamp logger Chad, He is some operator:)

To much rain in the pan handle of Fla, enjoyed that!!

Yes believe me it is wet around Marlboro county SC fields are standing water. Farmers can not get cotton and soybeans harvest. With my land clearing business it has slow down to the point i am back to driving full time for a freight hauler. Man if it keeps on raining we going to need to lay logs down just so the loggers can work. Tim i feel your pain with it so wet.

You're lucky to have so many days spent not getting rained on. I live in Southern Ontario, Canada, and during the warm months it rains pretty heavily at least once a month. We also have the dumbest winters up here. You have a period of rain and sleet, followed by a period of freezing, followed by a period of more rain, sleet and melt-off, followed by yet another deep freeze, on and on through the entirety of our winters here. Even salting isn't enough to make our roads safe during those freeze periods, since the melting periods wash it all away. Tis an extremely expensive situation for our municipalities, that's for sure. Road salt/sand ain't cheap.

Here in Talladega Al is bad mills needing wood glad to see no rain in the forecast for the nexts 7 days

South GA 630e 2015 burns less fuel dueled up than it does singled out 8100 hrs no problems so far from the duels

Chad oks like he’s sitting in his easy chair!

I can see why my dad complained about the rainy days when he was cutting timber and not being able to work and he didn't have the nice equipment to work with like you guys plus being in the mountains of Virginia didn't help, hopefully it stops raining for you guys and drys up so you can make some money ,I love hearing the skidder pulling, that low end torque is something and I didn't realize that grapple was big enough to grab all of that timber at once

From my perspective yall are in better position, as far being able to get the wood moved unlike other outfits. I am sure it is still tough.

Thats a beast!!

It's a beast if it don't quit raining you going to need a log Road.✌

Up here in Maine we call that Grapple skidder hauling out a twitch of wood

My buddy just put tracks on his 635D cause the duals was loading up with mud and just spinning the tracks made a world of difference but it’s just one wet year but the bank doesn’t care how wet it is Chad can make that thing talk

Swamp logger from williston fl and I love your videos . We run a 640 clambunk and it's a hoss we keep it dualled up all the way around no problems so don't worry lol..

Ya got some swampy ground your workin Tim will give ya less ground density for compaction should work well great video

The drag he picked up at 13:05 is more than any Cat or Deere can get without carrying the front wheels in the air!

I’d love to know what the ground pressure of that setup is/ what the square inch foot print is of that setup!

That 635 getting it done!!

It been raining like crazy here in Tx. as well

Love the video!

Looks bad ass with the duals. Now as long as it works

Good to see a cutter man who knows what he’s doing lol

I’m glad we mainly log in the winter up here when it’s -25

Now that's beast mode there..

That looks so much easier than what we used to do with the cables

Marry Christmas and Happy new year

It has been nice here two days now. you'll have been getting about the same weather we are the day after we do maybe you will get a few days of dry now. Hope it gets better for awhile how. don't like them cloudy days day after day. God bless you'll.

Impressive sir! Yall be safe!

I wish we would have had a machine like that back in the mid sevenths when we hauled pulp wood

Chad dont mess around. He is worth his weight in gold if you ask me.

Sitting here in my man cave you seem to be logging to me I enjoy watching.

Authentic top-of-the-line

Here in the mountains of Virginia it’s about as wet for the loggers here as y’all have it there. Can’t remember the last week without rain

That 635 with DUALS is a HASS.

Well at least you are trying to keep the wood moving is the main thing

Wow that thing is a beast. I'll have to get one. I live in downtown Atlanta, but what the hell.

What a beast !

Crazy idea. Put tracks over them duals. Make them with conveyor belt and angle iron on the outside with flat stock on the inside shaped up to keep the tracks on the tire. Crazy idea. Channel Logger Wade has somehting like that on his 250D

Thanks for all the logging and it sure has been a wet start to winter! Ice storms mean more new power poles. How much does all that matting break down in say four or five years?

Bobby Goodson gave you a shoutout in one of his videos, he was self filming, and said I have no idea how cotontop does this stuff with 1 hand! Pretty cool!

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Ben Whitting do you remember what vid?!?! I kinda want to hear it lol

wow that's pretty cool

That was a nice drag

Lower tire pressures on outside ones? Beast mode ON! Thank ya.......

Was on u tube when I got notification, number 435 on views and 4 comments done hit the like button just saying know already I like. Have a blessed and prosperous 2029, man its bad wet here in south georgia too.

Just a thought The way you use the tree branches and top as matting to drive over If that was to be chipped and spread over the roads, would that help the log trucks with grip and traction?

To lessen your wear and fuel expenses have you thought about running a much smaller tire on your outside dual? That way they will only engage the ground in swampy conditions when you want low ground pressure. You see farm tractors do it this way. Just a thought thanks for the video. Bob from Virginia

Northeast Missouri is a wet mother too it 2009 was the last winter we had like this we done already had 7 inches of snow and like 9 inches of rain it it's been phenomenal we're still trying to get beans out

Oh it’s swampy here in TN to. The grounds rotten

awesome vid

Here in Illinios its been raining a lot.

Wild cat beast on the lose. I've seen em snap lug nuts like tooth picks. know fun. But man. What a monster... So cool.

That thing looks sick whith the duel wheels ..all tho it ma use more fuel but whith single wheels if ya got stuck .it's bound to use more fuel and time than whith the duels so you will find out overall ..but great vid love equiptment

Watchin this one looks your going to be like ole bobby goodson if the rsin keeps up lol

bad ass tires tim that’s just unreal the muck you guys gotta deal with everyday

It may use more fuel with the tires on but you should see that in the long haul it will use the same or less when it wasnt a duallie cuz you will bot spin as much and you can push and pull more at a time so you are actually getting work done quicker...

😎 I worked Dealers Truck Body and we worked on one of those they have one foot diameter hydraulic lines