What is a unix command for deleting the first N characters of a line?

Question

For example, I might want to:

tail -f logfile | grep org.springframework | 

I was thinking that

Answer 1

tail -f logfile | grep org.springframework | cut -c 900-

would remove the first 900 characters

cut uses 900- to show the 900th character to the end of the line

however when I pipe all of this through grep I don't get anything