Chatter Creek maintains a backup cat that is used for building winter roads. It's a very busy machine in throughout December, building many km. of snow roads. In the case of a breakdown of one of the client machines, a spare cab that is kept on a hoist can be quickly lowered onto the backup machine and it is ready to service clients. In the late spring the cats support any logging done for summer projects as skidders, hauling logs and moving them around the log dump.