May/June 2011
The May/June 2011 issue of Timber Harvesting features the 2011 logging business survey results—the most comprehensive ever conducted in the industry, with more than 800 loggers responding to the 45 questions. This issue also spotlights Bighorn Logging, which started a biomass subsidiary company three years ago. Also mentioned is Robin Crawford & Sons Woods Co., a family entity that has successfully adopted computers to help it keep track of load tickets, streamline accounts payable, and track fuel purchases. Learn how Richards Logging LLC, Tupper Lake, NY, has efficiently overcome weather-related downtime and evolved into an additional revenue stream for owners Bruce and Larry Richards.

Back in February, the H-B editorial team moved forward with Timber Harvesting’s 2011 Logging Business Survey, its third since 2003. We did it reluctantly because we knew what we’d find: a depressing situation overall. Click here to view the full article.

A federal judge has ruled that Roseburg Forest Products affiliate, Scott Timber, is to be compensated $6.9 million from the federal government because it violated several timber sales contracts suspended more than a decade ago.

Keeping a logging business on a steady, productive, fiscally stable course today is more challenging than ever. Constrained markets, soaring operating costs, out-of-step rates, tight quotas, expanding regulations, slim or no profits and practitioners who don’t know their costs and are prone to work cheaply have combined to push a significant number of the nation’s loggers close to the edge. Click here to view the full article.

Let’s face it. When it comes to adopting computerized technology, loggers as a general rule don’t lead the charge.

What began as an efficiency move to overcome weather-related downtime has evolved into an additional revenue stream for the co-owners of Richards Logging LLC.
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