2017 International Forest Industries Magazines April May 2017 | Page 72

Right tools for the job
Joedy comments on this oldest 250B loader
(right) purchased in 2006, “I have run some
smooth loaders but nothing will last 22,000
hours like my Tigercat.”
BTB visited Castalia,
North Carolina to speak
with Joedy Cahoon
about his family
operations, preferred
equipment and prime
harvesting methods.
B
rothers Joedy and Ronnie
Cahoon are third generation
loggers who know the timber
business like few others.
Joedy and Ronnie both own
and operate their own logging
companies. Joedy owns J & R
Logging and Ronnie owns Cahoon
Brothers Logging. In addition,
the brothers co- manage their
mother Christine’s company,
Cahoon Logging, which she took
responsibility for when her
husband, Carlton Joedy Cahoon Sr.
passed away. With their mom by
their side, the Cahoons continue
to take pride in their business and
family name.
Not only are the Cahoons
keeping the logging business in
the family, they are now keeping
it in the Tigercat family, gradually
switching from Deere to Tigercat
equipment. Joedy was first
introduced to Tigercat in 1995
when he saw an advertisement
for a 726 feller buncher in a local
magazine publication. “I knew just
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Joedy Cahoon (left) and CTW Equipment sales specialist, Donald Smith.
“CTW is first class and I can always count on Donald if I need anything,”
claims Joedy.
by the photo that somebody had
done their work,” claims Joedy. So
he tried one out.
That same year, Joedy
purchased the 36th Tigercat 726
ever to be produced. “Tigercat
mastered the weak parts,” says
Joedy. “The centre section was
always the weakest part on cutters
and it would beat a man up sitting
in it all day, wobbling back and
forth. But with Tigercat this doesn’t
happen and I have never had to
replace a centre section.” Joedy
then decided to switch over his
loaders to Tigercat models and