Tigercat’s Johnny Boyd Dies

Well known in the southern logging industry through his association with Tigercat and its multi-state dealer B&G Equipment, Johnny Boyd, 62, of Wetumpka, Ala., died November 25, 2024. Born in Montgomery on September 2, 1962, Boyd graduated from Wetumpka High School in 1980 and earned his BS in Forestry Engineering from Auburn University in 1984. He started his career with Koehring, owned a sawmill in North Carolina and worked his own farm in Wetumpka. Born to teach others, Boyd was also a district manager for Tigercat. He was also a frequent visitor to the Montgomery offices of Hatton-Brown Publishers, the parent company behind Timber Harvesting and Southern Loggin‘ Times magazines, and was on a friendly first-name basis with many of the editors in the 1980s and ’90s. In his role with Tigercat, he was a regular fixture at trade shows like Mid-South in Starkville, Miss. In his personal life, those who knew and loved him described him as the life of the party. “Johnny loved everyone and everyone loved him,” according to his obituary. “If you knew Johnny, you knew he loved you. He hugged, loved, and kissed people with all his might. He never met a stranger and would give you the shirt off his back, even to people he did not know.”