500th machine milestone

CATHY MARSHALL, OWNER OF TAUPO’S CA & C MARSHALL LOGGING, recently took delivery of a new Tigercat 632H log skidder, the 500th Tigercat machine delivered into New Zealand.

Cathy says this is a great milestone for CA & C Marshall Logging as it is their fourth Tigercat log skidder over the last 20 years, and back in June 2002 Cathy took delivery of the first Tigercat machine shipped to New Zealand, which was a Tigercat Single Arch 620 log skidder. The company then traded up to a Double Arch Tigercat 620C log skidder in April 2008 and a Tigercat 630D log skidder in July 2015.

Don Newman (pictured second from right beside Cathy) sold the original Tigercat 620 log skidder to Marshall Logging, working for the previous dealer, and came out of retirement for the day to help with this delivery. Also pictured are Steve Mellar (far left), AB Equipment Taupo Branch Manager who sold the last two Tigercat skidders to Cathy, and Aaron Gregan who is one of the two Product Support

Representatives based in New Zealand for Tigercat Industries, Canada, where all Tigercat Machines are manufactured.

Over the past 20 Years the Tigercat product selling in New Zealand has gone from strength to strength. In the first nine years, from 2002 to early 2011, just 36 Tigercat machines were sold by the previous dealer whereas in the last 11 years 464 Tigercat machines have been sold by AB Equipment – 136 Tigercat levellers, 125 Tigercat 6 wheel skidders, 101 Tigercat 4 wheel skidders, 80 Tigercat processors, harvesters and log loaders plus 21 forwarders.

Tigercat is a privately-owned company that only manufactures purpose-built logging gear, gearing all its resources to tough, reliable and productive logging equipment.

AB Equipment has another 80-85 Tigercat machines on order to cover the strong demand, so the next 500 Tigercat machine sales into New Zealand may well happen in half the time of the first 500!

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