COVER STORY – Timber Harvesting’s 2019 Logger Survey – This survey provides key data on what loggers across the nation are thinking, their business challenges and more. Profit-loss, expansions, compensation, outlook, it’s all here. Despite…
COVER STORY – Cutting Tools Issue – Utilizing productive timber felling technology, from the smallest bar and chain components to the largest feller-bunchers, is a critical part of every logging job to get the job…
COVER STORY Alberta Logger Stays Steady by Jessica Johnson, Associate Editor, Timber Harvesting Dean Gordon Trucking is a multi-faceted logging company that operates cut-to-length equipment along with traditional drive-to felling and roadside processing. Gordon is…
The January/February 2019 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine highlights upcoming winter meetings and events, including the Oregon Logging Conference set for February 21-23. Longtime logging safety professional Dan Krusze provides an article on attention to…
The November/December 2018 issue of Timber Harvestingmagazine features a report on the American Loggers Council’s Annual Meeting, held October 11-13 in Seaside, Ore. A feature article by Jessica Johnson on Irish state-owned forestry company Coillte…
The September/October 2018 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features the 2018 TH Logging Business Of The Year: the Williams family and their business, Log Creek Timber, of Johnston, South Carolina. Also featured is Fordyce, Arkansas’…
The July/August 2018 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features an article by Western Editor Dan Shell discussing the latest in steep slope technology and winch-assist systems. A special section highlights top suppliers of Steep Slope…
The May/June 2018 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Chiloquin, Oregon’s Paul & Robert Wampler Inc. and their 50-plus years of logging success. Also highlighted is the Collier State Park Logging Museum in Chiloquin, Oregon,…
Timber Harvesting visits Siletz Trucking in the March April 2018 issue. We highlight the Independence, Ore. company’s use of new technology and management tactics. Also, we report on Transportation Management that discusses drivers, safety and…
The January/February 2018 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features a detailed report on TH’s 2018 National Logging Equipment Survey, completed last fall. Also featured is a company profile on Cambridge, Ontario’s Tigercat who celebrated their…
The November/December 2017 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Cleveland, North Carolina’s Select Timber, Inc., a special section highlighting the latest in advanced merchandising with processors and attachments, a full report on the recent American…
The September/October 2017 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features the 2017 Logging Business Of The Year: the Ikola family and their business, G. Ikola Inc., of McCall, Idaho. Also featured in this issue is Cochran,…
The July/August 2017 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine, a hardwood emphasis issue, features Crossville, Tennessee’s FNT Logging, LLC, Wrightsville, Georgia’s Jeff Powell Trucking, and Clarendon, Arkansas’ Jason Fly Logging, LLC. A report highlights Elmia Wood,…
The May/June 2017 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features a full report on Timber Harvesting’s 2017 Trucking Survey, conducted throughout the spring. The next installment in the Forest Family Series features the Knight family of…
The March/April 2017 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Sarepta, Louisiana’s Trey Maxwell Logging and Castle Rock, Washington’s Summit Attachments & Machinery and Krume Logging & Excavation. An article details the similarities and contrasts between…
The January/February 2017 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Covington, Virginia’s Fitzgerald Excavating and Construction, Inc., Brunswick, Georgia’s Tidewater Equipment Company, and Cataldo, Idaho’s Paul Sverdsten Logging. The issue also features the annual 2017 Equipment…
The November/December 2016 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Du Quoin, Illinois’ Stan Wilson & Sons LLC, a report on DEMO International held recently in British Columbia, a recap of the American Loggers Council’s Annual…
The September/October 2016 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features the 2016 Logging Business Of The Year: Gasburg, Virginia’s M.M. Wright Inc. Also featured are Enterprise, Wisconsin’s Enterprise Forest Products and Haddock, Georgia’s Kip Smith Forest…
The July/August 2016 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Durham, Maine’s Maine Custom Woodlands and Doddridge, Arkansas’ Hartline Farm and Timber. Special articles discuss the latest in automatic fire suppression systems, upcoming forest industry trade…
The May/June 2016 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Kelso, Washington’s C&C Logging, a special look into new traction-assist technology in the logging industry, a full report on TH’s 2016 Logging Business Survey, and Lake…
The March/April 2016 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Banks, Oregon’s Turner Logging, Inc., Chipley, Florida’s Chipola Timber Harvesting, and Bennington, New Hampshire’s D.H. Hardwick & Sons, Inc. Also highlighted is the 78th Oregon Logging…
The January/February 2016 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Broken Bow, Oklahoma’s Chris Gibson Logging and Chris Gibson Trucking, LLC, a Question & Answer session with John Deere’s Tom Trone, London, Kentucky’s Randy Maggard Logging,…
The November/December 2015 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features New Bern, North Carolina’s Gladson Logging, New Galilee, Pennsylvania’s Industrial Timber and Pulp, Harrells, North Carolina’s Ezzell Trucking, and the recent Mid-Atlantic Logging & Biomass Expo….
The September/October 2015 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features our 2015 Logging Business Of The Year, Whitefish, Montana’s Quiram Logging, Inc. Also featured are the Egolf brothers and their separate operations in the Delmarva Peninsula,…
The July/August 2015 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Jasper, Alabama’s Forest Energies LLC and their reliance on data and process controls. Also featured is Flagstaff, Arizona’s Wirta Logging, Inc. and their work on Arizona’s…
The May/June 2015 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Lacey, Arkansas’ R.D. Jones Logging, Inc., a multi-generation logging family that abides by the Golden Rule. Also featured is a full preview for the upcoming InWoodsExpo,…
The March/April 2015 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Fort Kent, Maine’s Morris Logging, Inc, Blackshear, Georgia’s Pierce Timber Company, and Crooksville, Ohio’s Alfman Logging, Inc. Also highlighted is the recent 77th Oregon Logging Conference,…
The January/February 2015 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features the 2015 Equipment Directory, our annual comprehensive list of products, services, supplies, machinery manufacturers and suppliers, associations and trade shows. Also featured is Jewell, Oregon’s H.D….
The November/December 2014 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Wetumpka, Alabama’s IndusTREE Logging and their multiple forest industry operations and vertical integration advantages. Also featured is Chisholm, Minnesota’s John Rolle Logging, Inc. and its over…
The September/October 2014 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features the 2014 Logging Business Of The Year, Dundas, Ohio’s Caudill Chipping, Inc., and it’s experience, leadership and perseverance in it’s years of business. Also featured is…
The July/August 2014 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Florida’s Chad Ward Enterprises and it’s recent equipment additions that have improved production. Also featured is Texas’ Forrest Hodges Operations and it’s recent rapid growth. A…
The May/June 2014 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Washington’s Hermann Bros. Logging & Construction and it’s innovative trucking services and biomass operations. Also featured is North Carolina’s Anthony B. Andrews Logging, Inc. and it’s…
Timber Harvesting’s March/April issue features the Khiel family of southwestern Maine. The 76th Oregon Logging Conference was the biggest conference since 2008. A brave young logging couple had a vision that has led them to…
Timber Harvesting’s January/February issue features Tom Loushin’s A-1 Timber, which is working through numerous challenges as it harvests Sitka spruce on Alaska’s Kodiak island, part of a harvest/regeneration project involving 9,000 acres belonging to Leisnoi…
Timber Harvesting’s November/December issue features Erickson Timber Products, which maintains a wood yard in northern Minnesota to help supply various markets in Canada and the U.S. A feller-buncher overview includes what manufacturers have to say…
Timber Harvesting’s September/October issue spotlights the TH Logging Business of the Year for 2013, Fort Mountain Companies, owned by Jeff Eames and based in Allenstown, NH. In the area of trucking reform, proposed changes are…
Timber Harvesting’s July/August issue features an update on the latest tools that fell timber as well as delimb, measure and cut it to length. After losing its patriarch, the family of Leo Lambert Logging had…
Timber Harvesting’s May/June issue spotlights southwest Washington’s Jason Hadaller who may be young, but he already has more than a decade of up-and-down logging experience not linked to his family. He has built a solid…
Timber Harvesting’s March/April issue discusses how concerns about declining logging capacity surfaced a couple years ago and have intensified as established markets rebound and new energy markets emerge. Another article reports on how Elmia Wood…
Timber Harvesting’s January/February issue incorporates the 2013 Equipment Directory—a dozen-plus pages of products, manufacturers and dealers and a bonus list of updated industry associations, meetings and trade shows. South Georgia’s Dane Ussery went from the…
Timber Harvesting’s November/December issue spotlights Wayne Stone of Wayne Stone Logging as he finds himself busier than ever, running four crews and a roadbuilding operation. Michigan’s Jason Lutke manages widely diversified, flexible operations. Diverse, fluid…
Timber Harvesting’s September/October issue honors top tier entities operated by the Arrants family of coastal North Carolina as the 2012 Logging Business of the Year. A New Hampshire logger adapts to changing weather patterns of…
Timber Harvesting’s July/August issue features the Western Maryland logger Jimmy Glotfelty, who works in the challenging West Virginia mountains and is happier than ever with his leveling Tigercat LX830C feller-buncher since the manufacturer replaced the…
Timber Harvesting’s May/June issue spotlights central Georgia’s Tanner Timber Harvesting, which took up the challenge of swamp/bottomland logging a dozen years ago, going with some key tracked machinery that has been systematically upgraded. Today five…
Timber Harvesting’s March/April issue spotlights the issue of the transportation of logs, chips and wood fuel, which, in today’s market, is a costly, complex, regulated undertaking, no matter how advanced the equipment may be. Heavier…
Timber Harvesting’s January/February issue spotlights Oregon’s Bighorn Logging Corp., a multifaceted company that occasionally encounters some head-turning big trees along the way. Using chain saws, wedges, axes and considerable skill, this alert felling crew goes…
Timber Harvesting’s December issue spotlights Maine’s Richard, Bruce, and Robert Linkletter, who added a new Tigercat 635D six-wheel skidder to their company Linkletter & Sons, Inc., last winter. The addition has proven to be a…
Timber Harvesting’s October issue recognizes Quality Forest Products, Inc. of Georgia as the 2001 Logging Business of the Year. Owner Deck Trevitt is the guiding force behind this standout enterprise. Also, the Ohio company Lyons…
Timber Harvesting’s September/October issue spotlights Wisconsin’s Max Ericson Logging as Timber Harvesting’s 2011 Logging Business of the Year, as the business’s sole proprietor, Max Ericson, has exhibited leadership, integrity and tireless advocacy over his 40-year…
Timber Harvesting’s July/August issue spotlights Bighorn Logging, a 31-year-old Oregon coast logging company that founded Biomass Harvesting LLC, a 3-year-old separate biomass production concern that has endured some minor setbacks, but ultimately has settled into…
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…
In the March/April issue of Timber Harvesting, Paul J. Mitchell Logging, recently honored as the Forest Resources Assn.’s National Outstanding Logger, is profiled, detailing the company’s shift from a small outfit to a chip entity…
The first Timber Harvesting issue of 2011 spotlights Metzler Forest Products of Reedsville, Pa., which has expanded beyond the woods to now include harvesting, contract chipping, land clearing, mulch manufacturing, road building, retail landscaping sales…
Timber Harvesting last issue of 2010 highlights entrepreneur David Mercer, doing business as Cross Check Services, goes lightly in the tourist-frequented forests along the California-Nevada state line. Editor-In-Chief DK Knight discusses Georgia’s biomass future ,…
Timber Harvesting’s September/October issue features Jack Buell Trucking as Timber Harvesting’s 2010 Logging Business of the Year. Also highlighted is entrepreneur Tom Cogar, who is keeping his West Virginia business strong despite sinking timber markets….
Timber Harvesting’s July/August issue spotlights Minnesota’s Nik Rajala, who, doing business as Pohl Creek Logging, in the last year benched cut-to-length and converted to a full tree system, only to return to CTL all within…
Timber Harvesting’s May/June issue spotlights Washington’s Ed Bryant, owner of ENB Logging & Construction who had to shut down briefly in 2009 but has resumed operations this year and is working through challenges. Also featured…
Timber Harvesting’s March/April issue highlights North Carolina’s Tim-Con Wood Products, which has entered an evolving transition phase due to drastically changing markets. Also spotlighted is Cunningham Logging, which endured weather and market snags in 2009…
Timber Harvesting’s January/February issue spotlights Michigan Logger Jim Carey’s experience with biomass, which has been up and down since 2006. Also highlighted is the Depuis family, whose decision to add a sawmill to compliment the…
Timber Harvesting’s November/December issue recognizes Billy Rice, Jr., owner of Rice Timber Co. in Homerville, Ga., for thinking outside-the-box and installing new methods into his operation. The Black Hills salvage effort is also spotlighted, as…
Timber Harvesting’s September/October issue spotlights the 2009 Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year—Castleberry Logging, Inc., of Castleberry, Ala. Also highlighted is Irish Logging in Peru, Me., where a six-wheel skidder has helped to make…
Timber Harvesting’s July/August issue spotlights the owners of Babineau Logging in West Enfield, Me., Kurt and David Babineau, who modified their cut-to-length approach to better deal with operating restraints and conditions. Also highlighted are Wisconsin’s…
Timber Harvesting’s May/June issue spotlights R&R King Logging, an Oregon company that operates six tower sides and recently relocated two tower crews to Alaska. The issue also takes a look at the features and benefits…
Timber Harvesting’s March/April issue features Bruno Couture’s cut-to-length system in his Cortland, NY operation, Couture Timber Harvesting. The issue highlights loggers going against the grain by signing maintenance contracts in order to boost uptime. Also…
Timber Harvesting’s January/February issue spotlights Bangor, Me.-based Prentiss & Carlisle, which has evolved into one of the nation’s premier forest resource management organizations and uses an unusual machine in its equipment inventory. A standout Northeastern…
Timber Harvesting’s November/December issue spotlights Texas timberman Brad Hassig, who, favoring a Cone Head 585 chipper, started his first wood biomass recovery crew earlier this year to make boiler fuel, and he hopes to add…
Timber Harvesting’s September/October issue spotlights Maplesville, Ala.’s Parnell Inc. as the 2008 Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year. Read their impressive story of growth and performance. Also featured are NY’s Catskill Forest Products, NC’s…
Timber Harvesting’s July/August issue spotlights Wisconsin’s Northern Clearing Inc., which relies on a wide, deep equipment arsenal worth tens of millions of dollars as it clears rights-of-way for utilities in multiple states. The issue provides…
Timber Harvesting’s May/June issue spotlights young Arkansas logger Kevin Jester, who has adjusted to mill cutbacks/closures, sweeping changes in forestland ownership and ballooning operating costs to keep his trucks rolling. A positive attitude and a…
Timber Harvesting’s March/April issue spotlights Montana’s Tough-Go Logging, which is making a go of forest stewardship work in small timber on national forest lands. The company, owned by James and Jennie Stupack, has been successful…
Timber Harvesting’s January/February issue spotlights L.E. Taylor & Sons, a seasoned logging and whole tree chipping business, where a CBI horizontal grinder and related gear have given the company an operating edge. The family company…
Timber Harvesting’s November/December issue spotlights Mississippi’s Bobby Barrett, who came into logging late but quickly developed a reputation for doing the job conscientiously and professionally. Also featured are Mich.’s Nelson family, who has been on…
Timber Harvesting’s September/October issue spotlights the 2007 Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year—Oregon’s Emerald Valley Thinning, which is headed by veteran Tracy Smouse and is known for its cable logging expertise and ability to…
Timber Harvesting’s July/August issue spotlights Arkansas’s Richard Campbell, who hones efficiency and hikes productivity with a Keto processing head and Daewoo carrier. Campbell’s company has raised efficiency so much that they are able to finish…
Timber Harvesting’s May/June issue spotlights the biomass market, which is rapidly emerging as the search for alternative fuels accelerates and could proliferate with the arrival of commercial CE a few years down the road. Also…
Timber Harvesting’s March/April issue spotlights Idaho’s Mike Reynolds, who has upgraded his cut-to-length equipment arsenal with a new generation of machines, which are key to the less invasive extraction of multiple log sorts on an…
Timber Harvesting’s January/February issue contains the 2007 Equipment Directory, featuring products, manufacturers, and dealers. Also spotlighted are Idaho’s Lawson Logging, which is a top CTL contractor, and the young South Dakota logger Dan Sandford, who…
Timber Harvesting’s November/December issue takes a look at logging’s trucking segment, which, never easy to manage, finds itself under the microscope as loggers, log truckers and consuming mills look to take transportation to the next…
Timber Harvesting’s September/October issue spotlights Minn.’s Dick Walsh Forest Products, named Timber Harvesting’s 2006 Logging Business of the Year for being a leader in and out of the woods. Also featured are NY’s Jeff Phillips,…
Timber Harvesting’s July/August issue spotlights southern CTL, as commitments from Plum Creek Timber Co., along with various benefits inherent to the system, have drawn several companies into the cut-to-length fold in southeastern Arkansas. Also featured…
Timber Harvesting’s May/June issue continues to focus on the recent study conducted by TH, with findings suggesting that a storm of soaring costs and industry uncertainties continues to leave many loggers reeling in its wake….
Timber Harvesting’s March/April issue spotlights the recent survey posted on the web sites of Timber Harvesting and Southern Loggin’ Times. The survey explored logging labor, and results yielded similar results to labor studies done by…
Timber Harvesting’s January/February issue spotlights the highly demanded quality services of Newport Equipment Enterprises, a diversified northeast Washington business that operates four logging sides, a road building unit, a gravel rock entity and a snow…
Timber Harvesting’s November/December issue spotlights South Carolina logger Chip O’Neal, whose switch to a cut-to-length system has proven to be profitable, as landowners are lining up for his gentler harvesting service. Also featured are the…
Timber Harvesting’s September/October issue spotlights Maine’s Hanington Bros., Inc., the 2005 Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year. Along with this award, President Bush has also publicly recognized the company, which is headed by standout…
Timber Harvesting’s July/August issue spotlights Oregon’s Tim Wozich, an early convert to cable thinning who has honed the performance of his company, Commercial Thinning Systems, by squeezing efficiency at the landing, particularly the processor. Also…
Timber Harvesting’s May/June issue explores the idea of multiple shifts, as shifts that go into the night are finding favor with a few U.S. loggers, while many others are skeptical of long-term benefits and ramifications….
Timber Harvesting’s March/April issue spotlights Alabama’s Mid-Star Timber Harvesting Inc., which has been selected as the 2005 National Outstanding Logger by the Forest Resources Assn. Also featured is Independence Lumber Co., a Virginia firm that…
Timber Harvesting’s January/February issue contains the 2005 Equipment Directory, a handy reference to scores of forestry products, manufacturers and dealers. Featured in the issue are Allen Bros. Forest Management Inc., who run a lean, efficient…
Timber Harvesting’s November/December issue spotlights Oregon’s Roseberry Timber, which has actively pursued niche harvests for 15 years in preparation for a new public forest culture. At times used in fighting fires, Timbco feller-bunchers are a…
Timber Harvesting’s September/October issue spotlights Timber Harvesting’s 2004 Logging Business of the Year—South Carolina’s Low Country Forest Products, a progressive, professional and highly principled organization led by veteran Joe Young, who relies on a skilled…
Timber Harvesting’s July/August issue spotlights a forestland transition analysis; in the last decade, more than 11 million acres of U.S. forestland have changed hands as industrial owners shed or develop acreage to pay down debt…
Timber Harvesting’s May/June issue spotlights Louisiana’s Perforex Forest Services, which is being watched by both loggers and wood procurement organizations as it ramps up to its objective of operating 24/7. Perforex chose a hybrid CTL…
Timber Harvesting’s March/April issue spotlights Florida’s Loncala, Inc., an 84-year-old company that continues to do well with its forest, farming and mining activities. Loncala’s award-winning logging crew, a group of veterans, is known for its…
Timber Harvesting’s January/February issue includes a Comprehensive Forestry Equipment Directory, featuring products, services, supplies, manufacturers, dealers and a sweeping spec guide. Also spotlighted are Oregon’s Holce Logging, which has always done what it needs to…
Timber Harvesting’s November/December issue spotlights the visionary Steve Richardson, who has turned forest landscape changes into opportunities in Arkansas while helping lead the industry to higher ground. Also featured are Oregon’s Whitaker Logging, which keeps…
Timber Harvesting’s September/October issue spotlights veteran Dave Holder, president of Wheeler Logging Inc., which has received the 2003 Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year award. Also featured are Pennsylvania’s Erick Merryman, an ever-enthusiastic logger…
Timber Harvesting’s July/August issue marks the 50th anniversary of Timber Harvesting, launched in 1953 as Pulpwood Production, and its contents are largely commemorative of this milestone. The special issue offers 24 pages about the history…
Timber Harvesting’s May/June issue spotlights harvester-processor heads, which seem to be appealing to more and more loggers from coast to coast. The issue provides a product focus for readers to take a look at what…
Timber Harvesting’s March/April issue spotlights Maine’s Robin A. Crawford & Son Woods Co., which has managed to keep moving forward, despite market challenges, by running leaner and watching costs. Also featured are New Hampshire’s WeLog…
Timber Harvesting’s January/February issue includes a comprehensive Forestry Equipment Directory that features a new Logging Machine Spec Guide at its core. An article highlights how loggers and industry observers are looking for more of the…
Timber Harvesting’s November/December issue spotlights South Carolina’s Jimmy Witherspoon, who, after taking a financial tumble 20 years ago, has fought back to command one of the South’s largest integrated logging and forestry businesses. An article…
Timber Harvesting’s September/October issue spotlights Tommy Burch, the engaging, effective personality behind B&W Logging Contractor’s Inc., Timber Harvesting’s 2002 Logging Business of the Year. Burch remains a driving force for improving logging’s image in both…
Timber Harvesting’s July/August issue spotlights the partnership between Boise and Louisiana CTL contractors for quality first thinnings. Also featured are Michigan’s DeHaan Forest Products, which is building a business grounded in integrity and commitment, and…
Timber Harvesting’s June issue is 2002’s feller-buncher roundup. Texas logging veteran Bill Burrell is featured for taking it all in stride and not stressing out about changing with the times. A section highlights feller-buncher choices…
Timber Harvesting’s May issue spotlights South Jersey Timber & Chip. Commercial forest operations in New Jersey are rare and rigidly regulated, but this company makes it pay through carefully operated logging, land clearing and landscape…
Timber Harvesting’s April issue spotlights father and son Lynn and David Grimes, who ably keep their West Virginia family’s five-generation logging business on a progressive heading by combining dependable personnel, quality equipment, solid management skills…
Timber Harvesting’s March issue spotlights western New York’s quality-driven, community-minded Tom Trathen, who directs a multiple company hardwood business that reaches to Asia. Also featured is Virginia’s Marion Brothers Logging, where a stroke delimber and…
Timber Harvesting’s February issue spotlights Oregon’s Basco Logging, which has made it to the 21st century in strong style but is approaching a crossroads as its $5 million equipment spread ages. Also featured are Klemmer-Guldenschuh…
Timber Harvesting’s November/December issue spotlights WJZ & Sons Logging of Michigan for its expansive operations that tap multiple markets and include four cut-to-length sides. Wood Tick Trail discusses CTL in North America. ALC attendees see…
Timber Harvesting’s July/August issue features Fulton Logging, which was born with the combination of two logging companies and nursed along with an infusion of capital to create five specialized crews, each slightly different but all…
Timber Harvesting’s June issue spotlights Gary Shamion of Sundance, Wyoming, who has come to rely on the flexibility afforded to him by a single cut-to-length job in navigating the Black Hills National Forest. Wood Tick…
Timber Harvesting’s May issue features C&C Logging, which relies on a quality reputation to grow its business in the Pacific Northwest. Also, FRA’s National Outstanding Logger, Terri Simon-Jackson, performs stewardship logging in the Sierras.
Timber Harvesting’s April issue features the Bunn family that got caught up in a timber theft scandal years ago and defended their honor to be progressive loggers today. Equipment, certification and competitive insurance markets have…
Timber Harvesting’s March issue features the part-time niche of Andy Arey—island timber harvesting—which takes a boat, a barge, a dock and a willingness to drive a skidder into the ocean. Westvaco’s Ecosystem Research Forest is…
Timber Harvesting’s February issue spotlights Steve Henderson Logging Inc. of Indiana because it is providing a variety of professional services, keeping the large business ahead of the pack. Business tenacity is key to a South…
Timber Harvesting’s January issue is the annual Loggers’ Resource Guide that delivers the most informative and useful package of articles, new reports, and data available to the forest product industry. The year 2000 is reviewed….
Timber Harvesting’s November/December issue examines the offerings and styles of delimbing equipment available from various manufacturers. Seasoned Georgia timberman Rocky Gilmore revamps, enhances versatility, diversifies and aims for another twenty years. Also, brothers-in-law formed A&G…
Timber Harvesting’s October issue spotlights Hansen logging of Washington, which makes the grade as TH’s 2000 Logging Business of the Year, in no small part to Sherri Hansen’s activism. Wood Tick Trail presents the practice…
Timber Harvesting’s September issue spotlights veteran Lake States logger David Koski who depends on efficiency and a top-notch crew to navigate a business maze of rising expenses, stumpage costs and environmental considerations to receive top…
Timber Harvesting’s July/August issue features Oregon logger Dan Martin, who has developed innovative cut-to-length and cable thinning systems to complement his conventional logging crews. Plum Creek plans its future with an innovative software tool, and…
Timber Harvesting’s June issue spotlights Michigan woodsman Bill Beacom who has been an industry professional through and through with his company Beacom Enterprises, Inc,. which produces chips for Georgia-Pacific’s Michigan particleboard plant with a Trelan…
Timber Harvesting’s May issue spotlights the couple Butch and Shirley Heggie as they enjoy their life of mountain logging in the Front Range of the Rockies—but federal bureaucracy is rearing its ugly head. Forest Resource…
Timber Harvesting’s April issue spotlights Georgia logger Jessie Murray, who specializes in swamp harvesting, utilizing such equipment as Tigercat’s 640 clambunk, which he actually helped design. Wood Tick Trail reports on OLC shining through the…
Timber Harvesting’s March issue features Woodlands Specialists of Chapman, Alabama for being a young and growing company that provides an unusually wide range of forestry services. Wood Trick Trail discusses WSRI moving forward, and Michigan’s…
Timber Harvesting’s February issue spotlights Montana’s Sherm Anderson, who runs a highly successful and diversified logging business and is also a leading logger activist. The trend toward intensive forest management boosts growth of Louisiana site…
Timber Harvesting’s January issue is the annual Loggers’ Resource Guide is Y2K ready and again delivers the most informative and useful package of articles, news reports, and data available to the forest products industry. The…
Timber Harvesting’s November/December issue spotlights Timbco with its processing head that is tackling salvage timber in northern California for John Wheeler Logging, based in Red Bluff. Also, the Toussaint brothers have taken a different career…
Timber Harvesting’s October issue spotlights Tom St. John as he takes over the reigns of St. John Forest Products from his father. The highly successful Michigan operation is Timber Harvesting’s 1999 Logging Business of the…
Timber Harvesting’s September issue features Thomas Timberland Enterprises, Inc., which owns and manages 10,000 acres of timberland and operates two logging/land clearing crews that rely heavily on a Komatsu Trackhoe. Also, there is more than…
Timber Harvesting’s July/August issue features Milner, Georgia logger Jimbo Evans, who is overcoming the challenge of his father’s death five years ago. Also, a roundup focusing on loader and skidder grapples is provided, along with…
Timber Harvesting’s June issue spotlights Joe Ross of Macon, NC for running an efficient and high-production operation, thanks in part to several stroke delimbers, including a newly purchased Tigercat track D860 carrier with Denharco DM3500….
Timber Harvesting’s May issue spotlights Harve Dethlefs of Vernonia, Oregon, who started the Bighorn Logging company. Wood Tick Trail provides a tour of Finland Forestry, and details about the APA annual meeting are provided. Also,…
Timber Harvesting’s April issue spotlights brothers Don and Willie Cole, owners of Trees, Ltd. in Sidney, Me., for utilizing International Paper’s Cost Calculator program to closely monitor their costs for impressive results. The Roundup details…
Timber Harvesting’s March issue reports that industry has finally taken notice of logger J.B. Roach of Tennessee for his outstanding operation. Hampton Tree Farms is endeavoring to map out forests, and Precision Air Services is…
Timber Harvesting’s February issue spotlights logger Ken Fallon of Tillamook, Oregon for adapting to a changing Western logging market with extensive felling and landing work mechanization. Wood Tick Trail discusses whether or not pay cuts…