There’s nothing I like more than watching someone work who is really good at their job. I don’t care what line of work it’s in. It’s incredible to think that every tree on every load they produce gets drug up behind that skidder.

I work at Tigercat and I build the Booms and Front Blades for these Machines. They are the best product I have ever worked with!! Extremely Durable!! It's great to actually see one at work!! Great job guys!!

That's was cool getting to see the 635 pulling up through that gulley.

Amazing footage sir. Thank you sincerely for the daily videos. It helps getting the day in order . Be safe. God bless America and people like you folk.

I could watch that skidder pull logs all day everyday. She puts in a hard working day everyday, just crazy how truly reliable that machine is even with the technology we have today it's unreal Tim

Awesome video Tim, love watching that 635 run, Chad can make her sing that's for sure, man when it rains it pours, hopefully things get better so y'all can get some new paint in the woods, love seeing them machines run, thanks for sharing Tim, keep moving forward. 🚜🌲💪🌳

Great video Tim love watching the 635

Well looky there! Y'all do have a few hills down there in 'ol Miss.

We had the same problem on a 280 prentice knuckleboom, first the turbo, then a piston. Machine and engine had 19k hours on the clock. Bought reman 5.9 from local cummins dealer and it failed in 1200 hours. Tore down the motor and 3 cylinders were bored .050 and other 3 were stock, rod failure from imbalance was the cause. We ate the $8500 for the reman plus overhaul cost. Be careful when y'all purchase an engine for that tigercat. Good luck from east TN!

Good stuff Tim, ye are getting a fair battering on repairs this weather:(:)

We’re in same boat. Both our 234’s have 20000 hours on them and all our chipper are on their last breath. It’s hard to find several hundred thousand laying around though so we’re just making do. Great vid!

Great video 👍 Tim,man when rains it pours.

Morning Tim. Great video today. It's a shame you are having as much trouble as you are having. Stay safe. Cheers

Well, that deer stand is kind of in a bad place now. 7:17. LOL

Looks mean with them tires!🤘

If it’s a 6.7 that’s good those motors are everywhere.

That 635 is a work horse for sure!!

Now that's what I call a really rough week for you all what with big breakdowns, little in the way of output and income AND I guess your looking at some massive repair bills!! Best wishes.

Breakdowns are what finally put me out of business. I liked my old truck so I just kept driving it till it was starting to break me. I decided to trade it off but the cost of even later model used trucks had gone up so much I couldnt trade.You either have to upgrade every 3 or 4 years or you get left behind. Good luck Tim.

I believe it’s about time to go get y’all some new machines Tim

That cummins still sounds good

A 6 wheeled skidder is probably one of the coolest things mankind ever come up with.

Our 635D was smoking the same way, it turned out to be the hydraulic tank breather dripping on to the exhaust after an overfill. Hopefully luck is on your side this time.

That 635 is a pullin hoss, sorry about the hard troubles with your machine your having Tim hope its gets better for ya buddy

Looks like the tracks work good.

Sounds like she’s getting tired. Hopefully all of the bad luck is getting over at one time for y’all. Y’all keep digging. TDK seems like a great team. Rock Steady.

She sounds good 👍

Great Video!!!💯👍🏻💯❤️

It's not logging if something not breaking down. Hang in there tim things definitely get better.

love to see one of these in the swamps in Northern Ontario!! looks like it be way better then a 648L

Basically what you're saying is I can just hook up some tongs on my 6.7 hemi and come work for y'all???😂

My back hurts at just the thought of pulling off panels... I feel for ya brother

Skidder engines live in a tough environment. The heavy pulling lugging them down is so much harder than in a cutter or loader! 10k plus is pretty good. The first 635 my boss had came with an 8.3 Cummins but it wasn’t turned up anymore than the 6.7 that came later. It did burn more fuel.

Now he’s thinking, staging the load and working smarter, beat sitting home with no pay while the skidded is in the shop

boy she's a beast tim ! reman aint to bad price , good luck buddy !

We have an old auto car with a big cam 400 Cummins in it. The turbo brings an organism to the ear.

I hope you guys luck turns for the better soon

Excelente gracias

I ran tracks on the front wheels of my JD 648, definitely soaked up a lot of power, also wondered how much more strain it put on my running gear, I mostly was pulling wood away from my yarder so I was on a haul road or fairly flat skid trail, those tracks slowed down my turn time.

The sound of that saw

I love to hear this track squeaking I miss that

IMPRESSIVE! 6.7L Cummins pulling that kind of weight up that steep incline. Thanks

Yep, definitely got some blow by on the old Cummins, damn.

Sad to hear you're having all kinds of issues at once with the equipment. That 6.7L hasnt had an easy day in its life so 10k+ hrs on it is pretty good. You would be surprised how long one of those will run with higher than normal blow by.

Gettin some good drags comin up the hill with the 635 she is snorting and smokin hope it don’t break down on ya she is a food machine

the blowby may be smoke that is getting into the moter throue the turbo oil return line. bad tubro.

Yeesh, first watching the video I thought it was an exhaust leak as well, but the sound was off didn’t sound like an exhaust leak. When he said blow by I was cringing. Best of luck.

The 6.7 industrial has the gear train on the rear and the 6.7 in the Ram has it in the front.

I like it

THAT OL GIRL HAS GOTTA B THINKIN "WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS" JEEEZZZ!!!!

That 635 has done its fair share of work. Think of the money that did has made

One helluva hill to pull up.

Great video I love anything to do with the 635. Are you gonna be doing any more hunting and trapping videos in the future?

I would work on getting a 6.7 block overhauled and ready to drop in, you’ll have to throw your injection pump and front cover on it if you use one from a truck, couple other things, may be best to just get the correct application ready and on a pallet, waiting on a rainy day , should be a quick swap.,

Can't imagine what the temperature in that turbo gets up to on those pulls.

You shoulda made the auction trip to FL, w Dirt Perfect, Wade and the boys, they woulda made you a "big star in the movies", haven't stopped by in a while. Take care

You mentioned pressure coming off motor working hard then , has the crazy weather down there made things difficult

If I may say I have seen when you "turn up" an engine and run them to the max they don't tend to give you the longevity.

use a limbing gate at the bottom, no use in dragging tops up the hill

When it rain it pours

Thats power f yes

I'm reminded of driveshaft issues.

Let it be known, breakdowns is universal, you gots equipment you gots breakdowns, all equipment vids could be titled “Running Between Breakdowns”

That machine is designed to pull it's just getting wore that all rebuild it or get bigger motor believe me it can handle it's load I'm saw them were I use to work that machine is a beast

275hp is about half what it needs!

Hey now that John Deere has their 6x6 skidders may be time to talk to Deere about a 968L2. I don't even know if they're on the U.S. market yet

When are you gonna run that brand new 80cc husky? Did I remember that right?

Just curious when you cut trees do you come back and pull the stumps when you clean up your skid roads or do you leave them to rot ?

It definitely sounds different not as crisp as before in older videos

That's a load of wood up hill.

I hope you guys quit having trouble. It makes a tough job even tougher.

How much would you say that "drag" weighs when he gets both bundles of logs? ballpark?

Get rid of the tracks on the front and run bogie tracks on the back. We have a 625 and run on steep ground... night and day difference.

The tactor is over loaded Pulls like that will kill it eventually.

Tim. Would a winch rope Skidder make it any easier pulling uphill?? My only logging experience is with them back in the eighties.

I didnt see an older video of yours in which you said Tigercat told you not to run rear tracks before I ade the earlier comment. Curious what it is about the soil there that eats the tracks up? Does it do the same to the tracks on feller, processor and loaders?

I have a question. As far as running the skidder just how rough is it on a fellers body. Does it bounce and slam you around alot? Does the seat you sit in turn or swivel so when you need to look behind you you don't have to break your neck to try and see? Is it hot up in the cab of the machine? I've herd you talk about them having ac b4.

Try the Sierras if you wanna see a grade.

It’s even tougher when you have a nice new piece of equipment broken down, AND a big fat payment to make, keep your stuff duct taped, and bubble gumed together, alway be on the hunt and ready to pull the trigger when something to good to pass up comes along, the absolute worst time to buy equipment is when yours is broken, it becomes way to important to worry about price, or even some expensive problems., I think I would have a look at that Cummins and make sure it’s blow by .. and not something else, check egt’s with a temp gun,

HI CT chains on all 6 tires would help pull better if the back tires will pull 2 and a sub low or a grannies low would help U want 2 gear low as U can 2 make pull better 😊OMG 6 22 2O23

if you could i would change the motor, trans, and all of the hyd oil hoses and pumps. my dad always told he would have high parts bill then a new payment that would or couldnt pay for if something were to happen

Those harmonic balancers have a short lifetime, the rubber de-laminates and leaves you with a loose pulley that won't drive the belt around. . . .

What mill are you hauling into currently?

Just put some new rings in it and send it lol

U like those tracks better than chains?

How come you dont bring your tigercat 822 out there to process if your having that much trouble with Kevin's john deere?

drives me nuts looking at the strain he puts on that machine. If he took a slightly smaller load he would keep moving and probably achieve more in the long run and your kit would last a bit longer. ust saying ....

Wouldn't the tracks be more effective if put on the rear tires, where there is likely more weight and ground pressure, as opposed to the front tires, which I would guess are significantly unweighted because of the slope and torque pulling the front end up?

How much does that tractor cost? and it's so powerful

How many tons to a drag with that 635?

Pretty sure your engines breath dust over filter those fields, so it go bad condition.

John deere wouldn't have even tried to come up out of that bottom the new ones may have

Fellow is earning his money skidding logs up that hill. It all sounds like another day in the life of a business owner. The only way I know of around that is go to work for somebody else, and we all know you are not going to do that. Just have to suck it up and live with it.

If you have that much Blow by The horse power aint there anymore

yall need alex eastgate with a madill

That grapple so big , blows my mind. So the motor goes out on the 635 y'all will a new motor in it or rebuild it?

And I thought my five chokers I ran was a load

Where was y'all at on this track??

whats high hours on these cummins engine ???10-15,000 ?

Wow so barely any weight on the front pulling up that hill. So let's put the chains on the front🤔