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Buck’s dad played guitar for fun and taught him chords when he was 10. He met his late friend Billy Hahn, who also grew up in a musical family, and they started playing together at school and church camp, and soon enough were getting paid to perform at birthday parties. “We were on the road before we had a car,” he chuckles.

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For generations, country music has provided the soundtrack, not just of the South, but for rural, small town, blue collar, working class people all over. And contrary to popular myth, it’s not all about honky tonks, heartaches, cheating and drinking. It’s also about family and hard work. There are a ton of country songs about cowboys and rodeos, farms, tractors, truck drivers, and trains. One rural profession rarely represented in country music: logging and sawmilling! But we know our industry is a big part of the country life, always has been and always will be. So it should come as no surprise that a logger could make a great country singer/songwriter. Folks in Virginia may recognize the name Buck Morris, member of the Virginia Loggers Assn. Board of Directors. A lot of people don’t even know that his real name is David Glen Morris, Jr. Buck is a nickname from his childhood that has stuck with him throughout life. When he first who coincidentally had the last name Owens but was no relation—started calling Morris “Buckaroo.” Gradually, everyone knew David as Buck Morris. In his day job, Buck, 63, along with his brothers, runs Glen Morris and Sons Logging Inc. Timber is a family tradition. Their grandfather started farming and cutting pulpwood in the Depression; their dad left the farm for logging in the ’50s, starting the company his sons still operate. Buck grew up helping in the woods around school and sports. Much to his mother’s dismay, he joined the crew full-time in 1981, followed by his younger brothers as they came of age. All three brothers have the same initials, and all three are better known by nicknames (much like fellow Virginians Binky and Guke Tapscott at Tigercat dealer Forest Pro; nobody knows their real names either). Middle brother Donald Gillium is called Gill, while youngest Morris Danny Gene goes by Dean. Buck and Dean run the business today; Gill retired five years ago due to Musicarthritis.isintheir blood as much as sawdust; there were musicians on both sides of the family.

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Along with acoustic guitar, Buck learned many instruments. He started playing mandolin at 17 and banjo at 18, and in his 20s picked up pedal steel guitar. Lead guitar is his favorite thing to play in a country band, while in bluegrass he prefers mandolin.

“He’s amazing for what he did at the time he started; when you listen to his stuff, it still sounds like country music.” Like most country music hopefuls, Buck went back and forth to Nashville in the ’80s, and considered moving there, hoping to find a big break. He was also a member of the National Songwriters Assn. for many years. He had friends who worked at Opryland, one of whom won Star Search in 1994. At only 26 Buck was told he was almost too old to get a record deal. “It was enough to scare me, and I knew I had a paycheck at home,” he says. Still, a producer encouraged him to write songs. “I chose to join the songwriting association and went down every six months, but really I needed to be down there once a month or better, so people recognize you. If you’re gonna do it, you had to go live it; you can’t phone it in from home, you have to be here.” As he got older he focused more on logging and made fewer trips to Nashville but continued to play in various bands, playing bluegrass festivals around central Virginia on weekends. When the line dance craze hit in the late ’80s and early ’90s, he joined a country act backing up a little girl from Fredericksburg who got publicity singing Patsy Cline songs after the biopic Sweet Dreams came out. She had a booking agent who set them up to play conventions from Delaware to North Carolina. He worked in the woods during the week and performed on weekends. “I would leave to go to Maryland to play these clubs on Thursday evening and I felt guilty leaving my dad and brothers,” Buck confesses. “But they always got along without me.” With his calendar full, he put off getting married till 1996. Until 2017, Buck Numbers David Abbott

Buck’s dad always had country playing in the truck on AM radio or 8-track tapes. He grew up listening to all the greats of that generation: Buck and Cash, but also Haggard and Jones, Patsy Cline, Charley Pride. As he grew into his young adult years in the early ’80s he became a big fan of Ricky Skaggs. “I followed him religiously because he was bluegrass, then he did country,” Buck recalls. “I actually followed him so much I would sneak back stage and he would recognize me. He would come across and say ‘Hey Buck’ and stick his hand out. I wanted a job in his band so bad, but I wasn’t that far along in my picking at that time.” Randy Travis was another ’80s hit maker who impressed him, along with Alan Jackson, who orientedincreasinglytraditionalchampionedrootsinanpop/rock-landscape.

See you here next month! Music Man Now it’s no secret that I am a great lover of all types of music, from all genres and eras. But no other sound is as deeply embedded in my heart and soul, nor as sweet to my ears, as good old traditional country.

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Including the title track (a Lefty Frizzell tune), the album includes Buck’s takes on 11 classic country songs originally recorded by the likes of Johnny Cash (“I Still Miss Someone”), Charley Pride (“All I Have To Offer You Is Me”), George Jones (“She Thinks I Still Care”), Merle Haggard (“Swinging Doors”), Verne Gosdin (“Gonna Be Movin’ On”) and of course, Buck Owens (“Your Tender Loving Care”).

I am a huge Merle Haggard fan, and I can honestly say I prefer Buck Morris’s version of “Swinging Doors” to Hag’s—that might be blasphemy, but I really like it. The whole album is good. If you’re, like me, a fan of traditional country, and want to support a fellow logger doing something cool in his off hours, I highly recommend you order a copy. If you know anyone who loves this style of country, this would be a good Christmas gift, too. Contact Buck directly to order a CD: text or call him at 540-219-2462.

to local news reports, Dewayne and Chad were working together on a tract in Jackson County, with Dewayne felling and Chad driving a skidder. There was apparently some dead wood hanging over the spot where he was cutting; evidence indicates that the deadwood fell and struck Dewayne, causing a fatal head injury. Chad got off the skidder and found his brother on the ground. Funeral services were held on Saturday, May 21, and he was buried at Mason Branch Cemetary. SLT sends our condolences to Mrs. Woodard and the rest of Dewayne’s family.

Soon Buck will also be a featured guest on an upcoming episode of the podcast “Talkin’ Country with PopPop,” which is available on iHeartRadio’s podcasts betandheartbreakIfthisandcast/53-talkin-country-with-poppop-96876486/)(www.iheart.com/pod-GooglePodcasts.Eventually,BuckmightrecordanotherCD,timeoforiginal,BuckMorris-writtensongs.so,maybehecangiveusasongabouttheandhardshipsinherentinharvestinghaulingwoodproducts.Ifhedoes,youcanI’llbeinlinetohearit.

When we profile a logging business, we want to tell that logger’s story, as he sees it, and we aim to be as thorough and accurate as we can be in just a few pages. That’s the goal, anyway. We’re limited by time and how much room is physically available. Often some interesting parts of the story end up on the cutting room floor, so to speak. Still, when we do become aware of a mistake or an omission, we strive to do whatever we can to correct it (difficult once it’s printed in thousands of copies).Inthis case, all I needed was to give a guy a little more space. In our August issue, we highlighted Thomas Johnson, 33, of DeRidder, La. There wasn’t room for his complete story last month, so I wanted to use the extra space I had available this issue to fill in what was missing.

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Last year, Buck used his own money to make a lifelong dream come true. He recorded and released his own album: Give Her The Flowers, a collection of covers of some of his favorite songs by the artists who influenced him. Engineer Robbie Meadows of Hazzard County Recording Studio produced the album, which took about a year to complete between 2019 and 2020. On the album cover, Buck is pictured with a 1950s Gibson his dad bought in a pool room in the ’60s. “I dragged it to school and played it till it couldn’t be played, and had it reconditioned a few years ago.”

was still always in a band; his last one was a bluegrass group that performed regionally, from Maryland down to North Carolina.

But Mickey’s not a cutter operator, and someone had to fill in on the feller-buncher while Thomas was in the hospital. Tommy, Sr., and Brady stepped up to that plate. The elder Johnson juggled that with running his own company and visiting Thomas in a Houston hospital as much as possible.

Thomas is also eager to express his appreciation to Bennett Timber Co. and Hancock Forest Management. “They could have said, ‘You’re only six months in and we really don’t feel comfortable going forward with this major health diagnosis,’” Thomas acknowledges. “But they really worked with me to keep everything going. That was big.”

North Carolina’s Dewayne Woodard

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years ago I saw an article in the Carolina Loggers magazine, written by former CLA Director Ewell Smith, about North Carolina logger Dewayne Woodard of Bryson City. I thought Woodard would be a good fit for an article in Southern Loggin’ Times, so I reached out to Ewell to make contact with the logger. We weren’t able to get together then, so I tried him again this spring, thinking I could visit his crew on my way up to the Richmond Expo in Virginia on May 20. I left a couple of voice mails but never heard back from him. A few weeks after Richmond, I got a call back from his recent widow informing me that Mr. Woodard tragically died in a logging accident May 17, 2022. That was the Tuesday before Expo Richmond; I was traveling in the region, and if we’d been able to connect, I very well might have been in the woods with him that day.

An important context: last October, Thomas was diagnosed with a giant cell tumor in his back. He was in severe pain and hospitalized for treatment for months, three hours from home. The diagnosis came just a few months after Thomas started his company, Cutting Edge Logging.

Brady also cut timber for another logger, but after hours he would head to the Cutting Edge job. Since then, Brady has joined Cutting Edge full-time.

Larry “Pedab” Woodard, 47, was the owner of Woodard Logging, LLC. Woodard was a native of Swaine County, with the family business based in Alarka. His parents were Betty and the late Larry Woodard. He and wife Megan Biggs Woodard had two children, Drew Ann Woodard and Zackary Dewayne Woodard, as well as various nieces, nephews, and special children Silas, Piper and Paislee Stanberry and Maverick Biggs. Dewayne had a sister, Vicki Davis, and a brother, Chad Woodard. Like probably most loggers, Mr. Woodard was said to love the outdoors: hunting, fishing, boating. He also loved baseball and coached youth in theAccordingsport.

Since we were never able to feature him in SLT while he was alive, I felt obliged to acknowledge him now. Unfortunately, and I hate this, I no longer have the phone number Mrs. Woodard called me from, and of course the cell number I had for him is no longer in service, so I was not able to contact his family. However, Jonzi Guill, CLA’s current director, provided me with some photos, and I was able to find his obituaryDewayneonline.

It’s also worth noting that Thomas is actively involved in the Louisiana Loggers Assn. and American Loggers Council. “I’m just trying to be a positive voice for the logging industry as a whole,” he says. He serves as a board member for LLA and has been tapped to participate in a panel at ALC’s Annual Meeting in Branson, Mo. in September. Like many young loggers of his generation, Thomas has been active with things like YouTube and TikTok, posting videos of his equipment in action. Initially he was just sharing it for fun. But he came to see it as a tool that could help educate the (generally misinformed) public. He wants to explain what loggers do, and how and why, and help those outside the industry understand the value and essential service loggers provide for society. It serves a purpose, not just to draw attention to himself. “It’s not meant to say ‘Look at me,’” he stresses. “It’s, ‘Look at us.’” Southern Loggin’ Times Barney Fife himself attended the CarolinaLoggers formedcom)(https:/rikroberts.Meeting.Assn.AnnualNashvillebasedentertainerRikRobertsworkedthecrowdincharac-ter,andper-onstageasastandupcomicandmusi-cian.

Thomas got by with more than a little help from his friends/family, but last month’s article was vague as to who specifically. He wanted to make sure they got public credit, and I’m happy to oblige.Three men kept the business alive: Thomas’s cousin Mickey Townsley, Cutting Edge crew foreman/loader man; another cousin, Brady Johnson, and Thomas’s dad Tommy Johnson, Sr., who tagteamed felling while still working their own fulltime jobs “Mickeyelsewhere.wastheone who kept the operation going,” Thomas says. “He kept things moving with his expertise from running jobs for our uncle and his years of experience. He did what needed to be done and kept it moving without missing a beat.”

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This summer,SecondhandTradition owner Lindsey Collins (here with his dad,wife and kids) was namedWestVirginia's Logger of theYear for 2022.

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front the company’s logo, a simple image pregnant with meaning. It illustrates one hand handing a double-sided ax to another. On the back of the cap, an explanation is printed: “From Dad’s Hands To Mine.” A graphic designer created the logo from an actual photo that was taken when the dad in question, Roy Collins, gave his son, Lindsey, an ax that had belonged to his grandfather, Cecil Collins. It was a symbolic passing down of the family tradition from one generation to the next, memorialized in the company’s name and Lindseylogo.Collins, 43, the owner of Secondhand Tradition, is a fifth generation logger, and by all indications, he’s doing right by his family’s legacy. He started the company in 2006, but the last year has been a big one for him. For one thing, he just finished his first full year operating a winch assisted tethered system, allowing him to harvest timber in steep terrain that would be otherwise inaccessible by conventional means. He decided to give it a try last year; by all accounts, the experiment has been a success so far. Along with that, this summer West Virginia Forestry Assn. recognized Collins as West Virginia’s Logger of 10 Southern Loggin’

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the Year for 2022. Those who know him have no doubt the honor was wellFordeserved.instance, there’s Pat Garrett (presumably not the one who killed Billy the Kid). A salesman at Ricer Equipment, the Tigercat dealer in this territory, he has a long and mutually beneficial relationship with Collins. “He’s come such a long way,” Garrett says. “We have had ups and downs on equipment, but I have told him I will always have his back. He has been a good customer and a good friend. He comes from a good family. His wife homeschools their kids. He is a good Christian oriented guy; if we had more people like him out there it would be a better world.” Home Run Collins started using the tethered system in August 2021. “We are running out of mechanized feller-buncher ground,” he says. “We’ve had the feller-bunchers on the land for 25 years and we’ve caught up to the ground they perform well on. So we had to go to something (different) because Weyerhaeuser is big on no power saws and they don’t want people on the ground, they want to try to do it as safe as they can.” Last spring, Collins went out west, to Oregon and Washington, to watch this technique in action. Ricer’s Garrett accompanied him on the trip to learn about tethered logging. “We put it on paper and agreed that tethering with a bogie skidder and an 855 (track cutter), he could harvest ground that would be impossible to harvest without roading the heck out of it,” Garrett recalls. “It was just too steep to log conventionally. But we

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Equipment side from the Deere excavator and a John Deere 850K dozer, Secondhand Tradition uses all Tigercat machines in the woods: two skidders (’21 model 620H and ’22 model 625H), ’21 model LS855 track cutter, and two 250D loaders, ’15 and ’21 models, one with a longer boom with a high rise cab. “I have a good relationship with both dealers,” Collins says of Ricer Equipment (Tigercat) and Leslie Equipment (Deere). “Most of them are my friends; Pat is like a buddy of mine. Even their mechanics are our field techs but also your buddies at the soccer Secondhandfield.”Tradition has used Tigercat since Collins started the business in 2006. He was not the first Tigercat logger in West Virginia, but he thinks he was one of the first, and maybe the second in the state to buy a Tigercat log loader. “They didn’t have much of a dealer network then. We bought ours from Lyons right before they went out of business. So for a while we had some equipment with no dealer.” During that time he bought parts from a dealer out of state. “Thank the Lord, with Tigercat I didn’t need a lot of parts. Tigercat makes outstanding logging equip-

Summit Attachments and Machinery to add the winch and extend the boom 16 “(Summit’sft. Eric Krume) went through all the pains of building and rebuilding these to learn where they needed to pull,” Collins says. “You would think the tether would pull the machine over the hill. But the more weight is put on the tether, it actually pushes the machine further down in the ground. It gets more stable.” This technique requires skill, and practice. “I don’t think I knew what I was doing when we first brought the tether here,” Collins admits. “But I had seen enough jobs that I felt like we could make it run.” A big component of that confidence was the support from Eric Krume at Summit Attachments. “He’s a super good guy. He comes with the machines and spends a couple weeks with you while you work. He’s a logger himself and makes sure you perform well.” The first tethered job the crew tackled was a tract called Big Run 2. “(Krume) came with us to get us started and didn’t leave until we were comfortable with what we were doing. I would say it was a home run, in my opinion, for the first job.”

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ground. The 855 really shined with theCollinstether.”adds, “We decided that was the way to go, and it’s been great. Now we do jobs we wouldn’t even look at before. We’ve done jobs they’ve had laid out for 15 years, but we didn’t do them because they were too steep and too rough.” Skidding downhill is really pretty revolutionary in West Virginia, Garrett says. “The state forester agreed to let him try this type of harvesting, and it has left the ground in much better condition than it would have been if he conventionally logged it. There is just minimal soil disturbance.”Secondhand Tradition uses a John Deere 350G LC excavator as an anchor. The excavator rests on stable ground, positioned with the boom facing the slope, downhill, and winches the cable down to either the cutter or skidder, alternating one at a time. Collins is considering getting a second winch/anchor machine set up so they can tether cut and tether skid at the same time. Collins already had his excavator years before he started tethering. He bought the 2015 model Deere from Leslie Equipment in Cowen, W.Va. Last year he removed the counterweight and shipped the machine to Kelso, Wash., for winch supplier

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ment, I think because they’re a logging based company.” The logger purchases a PM agreement on most machines, letting the dealers handle it under warranty. “We just keep them fueled up and greased and turn the rest over to them,” he says. Collins runs all his own trucks, a fleet of Peterbilts from 2007 to 2020 models, pulling Pitts trailers. Drivers include Dawson Hannah, Junior Mathes and Justin Armentrout. Setout trucks are old Autocar and Internationals. (Less Than) Zero To Hero Garrett likes to say that Collins went from less than zero to hero. About 10 years ago, not long after Collins and his former partner went their separate ways, the young logger, completely on his own for the first time, found himself in a tough spot (even by loggers’ standards). “He was logging in some really rough mountainous ground in Wyoming County, and discovered that he had some debts he wasn’t aware of,” Garrett relates. Embarking on his solo career, Collins found himself starting out deep in the hole with debts he didn’t even know he had, not to mention the usual high operating expenses, like insurance, equipment and fuel. “He had less than nothing in the bank, went to Ricer Equipment in Lucasville and bought a used Timbco and an old Cat skidder, and started off with less than nothing,” Garrett says. “He worked six and seven days a week and hustled with that used equipment, got some good help, started making some money and really did go from less than nothing to something because of his Southern Loggin’ Times Collins has a strong relationship withTigercat dealer Ricer Equipment. The family:Lindsey and Megan,center,with Lindsey's dad Roy Collins,left,and Megan’s mother KayWood,right; and out front,the kids:Lincoln,Madison and Lorelai

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Collins estimates the crew averages 70% OSB chip wood and 30% saw logs or veneer. “The flip of the veneer is up to the buyers,” he notes. “Sometimes they might take half of that 30% for veneer, but this time of year, the sap is up. Mainly what we do is even age management or clearcutting when we run that ratio of 70% pulpwood to 30% logs; that’s actually a pretty good tract if we can still get 30% saw logs.” The crew works almost entirely in hardwood. “Our pine in West Virginia only runs in high elevation, 3,500 ft. and up,” he says. The job

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Secondhand Tradition was working when SLT was on-site pushed 3,900 ft. Here they cut some hemlock and red spruce for fence rails. Collins believes this July may have been the wettest on record, and it showed, even on the high ground. “In this high elevation, there shouldn’t be standing water. About the last six weeks we have had horrible rain. If we hadn’t been tethering it would have been a very low production summer but since we were tethering we were able to keep producing.”

work ethic. Also, Lindsey is intelligent. He started with an overdrawn bank account and worked his way out of it and he has been a hero to hisLindseyfamily.”and his wife Megan met at church and married in 2005. They have three kids: Lorelai Kay, 7, Madison Grace, 5, and Lincoln Roy, aka “Little Chief,” 4. The family attends Mountain State Baptist Church in EveryoneSummersville.onthejobwears appropriate PPE, including high visibility shirts, with names printed. Some of the hardhats are marked as “Roy’s Boys,” a reference to Lindsey’s dad, Roy Eldon Collins, 86. Roy spent his career working for his own father, Cecil. Both Lindsey’s great grandfathers worked for one of the first sawmills in the area. When he was 13, 30 years ago, Lindsey says he was always bigger than most people; he could skid logs and load his LTL9000 picker truck by himself by that age. After finishing school, Lindsey drove a contract log truck for his brother James for almost five years. He saved his money and in 2002 bought his own truck. In 2006 he partnered with a family member to start logging. He rented a dozer from Leslie’s Equipment and bought an old loader and skidder from Garrett. After about a year the partners were able to trade for new Tigercat machines. They split amicably in 2012 when Lindsey’s partner went into a different field of work, and that’s when Lindsey had to rebuild. Production The crew was working on Weyerhaeuser land when Southern Loggin’ Times visited in midAugust. Secondhand was delivering veneer logs, in this case all wild cherry, to the Turkey Creek veneer yard, a Weyerhaeuser staging area adjacent to the tract, at the bottom of the hill. “Every main port to their land, they have a yard at the mouth of it to handle their veneer,” Collins says. Weyerhaeuser timber buyers Laurel “Mountain Laurel” Kemmerling and Dan Abston were working on the log yard, scaling logs unloaded from Secondhand’s trailers. “Our set out trucks bring the stuff out of the woods and drop it so on-theroad trucks don’t have to wait or go so far off the beaten path.” Weyerhaeuser takes the veneer logs (cherry, hard maple, curly soft maple and various oaks) from here. Secondhand hauls chip wood to Weyerhaeuser’s OSB mill in Flatwoods (Heaters), W.Va. Saw logs go to Laurel Creek Hardwoods in Richwood, W.Va. Hayes Scott Fence & Lumber in Mill Creek buys their softwood. Pine pulp, hickory, locus and hemlock go to the WestRock mill in Covington, Va. The crew produces an average 45 loads a week. The good thing about timber left in these steep slopes, Collins says, is that no one has been able to get to it for 30 years, so it’s where higher quality wood is. “The benefit to doing steeper, rougher ground, you are actually getting better timber. You are getting high value veneer logs.”

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By Tim Cox SOUTH BOSTON, Va. A t the office and shop for Logging,H&M it is the appointed time for a scheduled interview with owner Kenneth Hodges, but he is nowhere to be found. Via cell phone, Hodges says he will arrive in 30 minutes. Another 45 minutes later, he apologizes for the delay and says he will arrive in 15 minutes.After15 minutes, a tractor-trailer hauling gravel pulls up in the driveway. A tall, slim man with gray hair gets out. He’s wearing a company uniform. Ken Hodges introduces himself and then walks to the mailbox on the side of the road to retrieve the company’s mail. It’s an understatement to call H&M Logging owner Kenneth Hodges oversees operations at one of his 10 crews.

paperwork to buy a new skidder. Hodges, 62, owns the company and two unrelated businesses, Hodges Farmland LLC and Cassada Farmland LLC. He says he has worked in logging for 55 years. That would mean he got started at age 7—an early start indeed. “I work every day,” Hodges affirms. “I’m a laborer as well as a boss. I don’t ask nobody to do nothing that I don’t do, and I do it all.” Hodges has a sprawling business that currently employs 70 people. The company normally operates 10

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drivers and logging crews — hardhats, flags, hydraulic oil, DEF fluid, and so on — and sees them off. He “goes all day” until stopping work around 6 p.m. “Right now I’m driving a truck,” he says. “I do driving, check on crews. Mainly truck driving.” Lately he has been driving dump trucks and hauling gravel. “We’re doing more excavating work in the last two years,” he explains. The company is currently doing excavation work for a site where solar panels will be Southinstalled.Boston, home to Hodges and his business, is in the southern tier of Virginia, known as Southside Virginia. It is only about 10 miles from the North Carolina line and less than 60 miles north of Durham. On the outskirts of town is South Boston Speedway, a short asphalt track that hosts races for Late Model Stock Car, Limited Sportsman, and other classifications. Growth Hodges entered a partnership with another logger, John Miller, in 1982; the H and M in H&M represent the first letters of their last names. That partnership lasted for three years, then Miller sold his 18 l

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Hodges can give you the numbers off the top of his head. He has four Cat 559C knuckleboom loaders, one Cat 559B and one Cat 559D; he also has three Weiler K560 loaders (including a new one sitting at the shop), and one John Deere 437E. For skidders, the latest additions are two ’22 John Deere 748L machines, and he bought another two of the same model almost a year ago. Hodges also has four John Deere 648Ls, two Cat 545Ds, two Cat 525Ds, a Weiler 350, and a Tigercat 630. Four older John Deere machines are used as backup skidders: three 848Hs and one 646H. The newest cutters are a John Deere 843L-II and a Weiler 570, both 2021 models. The company also runs two John Deere 843Ls and two John Deere 643Ls. Older machines that don’t see as much use include three John Deere 643K cutters and a John Deere 843K. Most of the John Deere machines are equipped with the FD43 heads while the newest machines have center post heads. For his chipping operations he has four Trelan whole treeForchippers.logging equipment he usually turns to James River Equipment (for John Deere) in Danville, Carter Machinery (Cat and Weiler) in South Hill, and Forest Pro (Tigercat) in Keysville. Hodges prefers to buy new equipment, although he occasionally buys a used machine. H&M is also equipped with three John Deere skid steers (two 143Es and a 343G) that are used to move road mats and perform similar light dutyFortasks.itstrucking operations, the company is equipped with 28 semitractors: 12 Kenworths, nine Western Stars, five Volvos, one Mack and one International. He also has five dump trucks for hauling gravel. Hodges doesn’t have a favorite when it comes to truck brand. “I try to buy the best deal. My price is my favorite. Price and, of course, service. Now service is the same wherever you go. Waiting on parts. Everybody is filled up. It’s not like it used to Hodgesbe.”estimated that he has “probably 100 to 120” various trailers, including those for hauling logs, chips, and equipment; about half of them are log trailers. He just recently bought three new Pitts log trailers.Inaddition to his own trucking operations, Hodges uses four owner-operator trucking contractors. Hodges hired a full-time forester three years ago, Ryan Throckmor-

Hodges only cut back his business a year. Now he is doing more work than before he helped his son get into the business. Father and son are still on good terms, and Hodges lets his son freely use one of the shops. Hodges has another son who works with him in H&M Logging, Kenneth Hodges II. Although he can operate equipment, his son’s role is mainly administrative; he oversees the company’s safety program and orders parts, among other things. The younger Hodges holds regular safety meetings with employees. When SLT visited the company, a notice was posted on the front door of the office building reminding truck drivers about an upcoming safety meeting with a state trooper and insurance agent. Hodges’ wife, Mary, his partner in marriage for 43 years, handles 90% of the company’s paperwork and the finances. A granddaughter, Nevaeh, one of three grandchildren and a student at the University of Virginia, is working in the office for the summer. Setup The three-man logging crews are standard: an operator each for a loader, a cutter, and a skidder. “We always have one loader,” Hodges says. “Sometimes we use two cutters and two skidders. We double up when we’re pushed for time on a tract, or if it’s a very large tract.” Hodges also will assign more men to a job if a mill pays bonuses on theHodgeswood. keeps precise information about his business in his head and can rattle off details. H&M Logging has a mixed fleet of logging equipment, mainly John Deere, Cat, and Weiler machines.

Family Connections

Hodges’ son, Kevin, worked with him for a few years after earning a master’s degree. “We butted heads,” recalls Hodges. He was starting to downsize H&M Logging in 2010, so he gave his son half of his equipment to help him start his own logging business, KeJ’aeh Enterprises (which was featured in Southern Loggin’ Times in May, 2014; H&M also previously appeared in SLT in May, 2006).

offices in one – located on 20 acres. He is in the process of building two more shops nearby; one will be used mostly for storage of equipment and supplies, and the other will be used mainly for welding.

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On the day of the visit, four men were working on the site: the loader operator, cutter operator, and two men operating skidders. Hodges buys all his lubricants, oils and fluids (mostly Citgo brand products or brands compatible with John Deere specifications) from one supplier, Hutchinson Petroleum in Stuart, Va. He has been buying diesel fuel from the same supplier since he started in business in 1982, Foster Fuels in Brookneal. He buys diesel by the tanker load, usually three per week, and it is offloaded and stored in tanks on his property. Canfor Southern Pine and Huber Engineered Woods have “stepped up” and are paying extra to help Hodges with the high cost of fuel. However, even the additional amount is only enough to cover the first 40-50 miles or so. “And the fuel is still going up,” he adds.

Hodges, a member of the Virginia Forestry Assn. and the Halifax County Chamber of Commerce, bought a new house several years ago. “I enjoy working in the yard, cutting trees, getting it the way I want it. That’s been my hobby the last three years.” He works six days a week, sometimes seven. He’s been working the same kind of schedule since he’s been in business, he says.Another task he takes on himself is moving logging equipment with a semi-tractor and lowboy trailer. He does about 80% of the moves himself, he estimates. He also uses a subcontractor, John “Greedy” Gregory, after selling him a truck six months ago. Hodges has no immediate plans to slow down or retire. “I just bought three new skidders within the last six months and two trucks. I’m probably not cutting back.” Retirement is “no way in sight,” he says.

ton, a graduate of Virginia Tech. Throckmorton looks at all tracts of timber Hodges is considering buying, but in most cases so does Hodges. They confer on how much to bid. “I put my eyes on every tract after we buy it to set up the job,” says Hodges. He also does a lot of timber buys himself because he gets repeat business from landowners with whom he has dealt over the years.Hodges tries to keep hauls to mills under 80 miles. The company’s longest haul currently is from Brookneal, Va., to the Canfor Southern Pine mill in Graham, NC. Canfor is one of his most important markets, buying most of his pine saw logs, about 100 loads per week. Pine saw logs also are supplied to Slick Rock Lumber Co. in Nathalie, a sawmill that Hodges founded with an Amish business partner a few years ago before selling his interest in the business last year, and also to Hopkins Lumber near Martinsville. H&M Logging also occasionally cuts for TealJones Group, a Canadian company that operates a pine sawmill near Martinsville.Hardwood saw logs are supplied to Difficult Creek Lumber Co. near Scottsburg, C&C Lumber Co. in Liberty, and “some small Amish mills when they need it.” Amish people have migrated to the region and launched a number of small sawmills in the past 10 years, HodgesHardwoodsays. pulp is hauled to a Georgia-Pacific chip mill in Brookneal. More pulp goes to three OSB mills: Huber Engineered Woods in Halifax, Va., Louisiana-Pacific in Roxboro, NC, and Georgia-Pacific in Gladys, “MarketsVa.are pretty healthy,” Hodges says. “I think they’re going to be even better next year at this time.” Prices “could be better,” he admits, but are stable. SLT visited one H&M job. It was a 200-acre tract about a 10-15 minute drive from the office. The tract was partly plantation pine with “a lot of overgrowth chip wood,” Hodges says. “It was never really sprayed,” to keep down the other vegetation.

The job will produce about 100 acres of pine and 25 acres of “decent hardwood.” The remaining 75 acres is “trashy” hardwood and Virginia pine that is being chipped.

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NOTE: This article was submitted by Oregon Tool By Jason Landmark, President, Forestry, Lawn and Garden at Oregon Tool W hen Oregon Tool’s founder, Joseph Buford Cox, first invented the Cox Chipper Chain in his basement, he didn’t envision what the company would become 75 years later. Today, Oregon Tool manufactures the “World’s #1 Saw Chain,” and our products are sold in 110 countries. While we’re now an industry leader, our origins are humble. As a young man, Joe set out from his hometown in Oklahoma to find work. He worked as a machinist in Colorado, a construction worker in California and a welder in Arizona and Texas before he made his way to Oregon. This was during the Great Depression, and work was scarce. Luckily, Joe found a job in logging. He learned every job in the business, felling trees using an ax or a two-man crosscut. Eventually, he was handed a new type of power saw. While the saw was powerful, it simply didn’t work as efficiently as felling trees with a handsaw. At the time, power saws used scratcher chains, with tooth configurations like that of a A Solution Inspired by Nature Joe did figure out a solution, and he found the inspiration in an unlikely place. While searching for salvage timber after a forest fire, Joe noticed tiny tunnels carved into a stump by the larvae of the timber beetle. Timber beetles lay their eggs under bark. When the eggs hatch, the larvae bore through the timber with voracious precision. With their two serrated jaws, they chew through solid wood, leaving nothing but sawdust in their wake.

Turning his basement into a workshop, Joe designed a chain that would mimic the jaws of the timber beetle—it not only changed his life, but also revolutionized the industry.

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Today, Oregon Tool continues to manufacture the “World’s #1 Saw Chain” as well as a variety of other precision cutting tools for forestry, lawn and garden; farming, ranching and agriculture; and concrete cutting and finishing.

Making The Cut

■ Oregon Tool Marks 75th Anniversary

Joe’s invention became known as the Cox Chipper Chain, and it was faster and more efficient than a scratcher chain and didn’t have to be resharpened as often. He patented his chain and in 1947 established the Oregon Saw Chain Corporation, which would later become Oregon Tool. The company sold $300,000 worth of saw chain the first year, and sales reached $7 million in 1955. By 1980, the company was manufacturing products in 17 plants across five countries, employing over 4,000 people and reaching over $250 million in sales.

Joe took some larvae back to his Portland, Ore., home and studied them under a microscope. It seemed the larvae were cutting the wood in all directions, not just back and forth like a common handsaw or the scratcher chain of a power saw.

Bob Penberthy shows off the inspiration behind Oregon’s saw chain: a timber beetle larva.

While we’ve been celebrating our 75th anniversary, we’ve also been reflecting on Oregon Tool’s success. We know that a big part of why we’ve lasted—and thrived—for so long is because of the core values that Joe instilled in ourWecompany.leadwith humility, and we believe inspiration can be found in unexpected places – and we’re dedicated to listening, learning and rolling up our sleeves to “get to work” together. We “own it,” which to us means that we are accountable for every action, and we do what we say we’re going to do. We are continuously innovating, and our team members around the globe demonstrate the same unrelenting pioneering spirit that Joe did. In fact, we perform 25,000 hours of product testing annually in both labs and real-world settings to ensure superior cutting quality and safety. We also practice global stewardship and serve a higher purpose than the products we make. Through Training, Recovery, Environment and Education (t.r.e.e.) efforts, we positively impact people, communities and landscapes around the world through our global cause program, The t.r.e.e Initiative. In honor of our 75th anniversary, we’re committing to planting 75,000 trees through our partnership with Tree-Nation as a way to support global reforestation and offset carbon emissions. Our Disaster Response Team, which brings trailers of tools and product specialists to areas affected by natural disasters, has sharpened, repaired and replaced thousands of saw chains to help relief crews do their jobs. In 2020, the team sharpened over 2,700 chains and repaired almost 500 more as it assisted in Louisiana’s cleanup efforts in the wake of Hurricane Laura. And in 2021, we headed back to Louisiana after Hurricane Ida and down to Mayfield, Ky., after a tornado, sharpening a total of 3,974 chains and repairing 615 chain saws to further recovery among those disasters. Although we don’t know where 2022 will take us, we do know our team will be ready to go and lend a hand wherever they’reFromneeded.ourhumble beginnings in a Portland basement to being a global leader in precision cutting tools, Oregon Tool has experienced continuous innovation and growth over the last 75 years. As we consider how we will continue to serve the logging industry, we feel both thankful for and inspired by Joe’s pioneering spirit and the values he established for Oregon Tool. They’re not just our legacy, they’re our future.

In 1947,logger and inventor Joseph Buford Cox founded the company that would become OregonTool in Portland,Ore.

Sticking to Values Led to Success

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l Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. l Occasionally, your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

2. Pronounce all one-syllable words as if they had two syllables or more.

The closer you get, the slower I go.

l Every time a new car was introduced, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

8. Always order sweet tea and/or grits. When they don’t have it, raise a ruckus.9.Offer to send ‘em a bottle of fresh air.

l For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

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l You’d have to press the “start” button to turn the engine off.

“This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation” warning light. l The airbag system would ask, “Are you sure?” before deploying.

The story goes that Bill Gates, in a speech to a gathering of computer techs, once compared the computer industry with the auto industry, saying, “If Ford had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.”

Chinese third graders are learning multi-variable calculus. Our third graders are being taught that “men can have babies.” This will not end well.

l Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only 5% of the roads.

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3. When giving directions, finish with “it’s right down yonder on the left.”

A friend told me she wouldn’t eat beef tongue because it came out of a cow’s mouth, so I gave her an egg.

Marriage is grand. Divorce is 100 grand. Pass quietly. Driver asleep. Now the voices are texting me.

In response, Ford issued the following press release: If Ford had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics…

12. Address all males as “son” and females as “little lady.” 13. Correct their pronunciation of certain words. For example: It’s “Pahkahn” not “Pee-can.” 14. Put Tabasco on everything.

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Sorry for driving so close in front of you. I’m so gay I can’t even drive straight! If you can read this, I’m not impressed. Most people can read. I’m 70. Leave me the hell alone. Don’t believe everything you think. Dyslexics are teople poo. Watch out for the idiot behind me. I believe in dragons, good men, and other fantasy creatures. Don’t drink & park. I bet Jesus would have used His turn signals.

4. Talk real slow, and (even when you hear them the first time) always ask them to speak slowly so you can understand what they’re saying.

l Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

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l The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single

6. Talk loudly and often about SEC football or ACC basketball.

7. Refer to every soft drink as a “Coke.”

16. When invited to dinner, offer to bring dessert. Show up with a box of Moon Pies, preferably banana. 17. Name all of your children “Bubba.” 18. Use the word “reckon” in a sentence and watch their reaction. 19. “Mash” buttons. “Cut off” lights. “Carry” the kids to school. Always remember (especially in Texas) it’s not a “pond,” it’s a “tank.” 20. Never simply “do” something. Always be “fixin’ to do” something. 21. Tell them you don’t have an accent, they do. 22. Be sure to include “yes/no ma’am/sir” in all conversations. 23. Only use landmarks and ramble on when giving directions. “Now go down Jeff Davis Highway and turn left at where the Chevron station used to be. I think they turned it into a Shell, maybe a BP. Anyway, turn right there . . . ” “You said left.” “Did I? Well, turn left there and follow it until you see a big fish on your left. I remember when that fish used to be on the other side of town . . . ” 24. Ask them if it’s still snowing up North. Then tell ’em you went driving around in your convertible this weekend.

IOld.can handle any crisis. I have children.

15. For New York Yankees: Act as if the whole state of New York is New York City. In other words, if they say “Yo, I’m from upstate New Yoik,” say “Well I’ll be, my wife has always wanted to see a Broadway show!”

1. Take your own sweet time when doing anything.

l Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5. When they talk nostalgically about the North, tell ‘em “Delta’s ready when you are!”

Bill Gates Vs. Ford

10. Insist on being addressed by your first and middle names.

As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Once I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper’s cemetery in the back country. As I was not familiar with the area, I became lost and, being a typical man, I didn’t stop for directions. I finally arrived an hour late and saw that the funeral guy had evidently left because there was no hearse. The graveside crew and equipment were there. The workers were eating lunch. I felt badly and apologized to the men for being late. I went to the side of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in place. I didn’t know what else to do, so I started to play. The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around. I played out my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends. I played like I’ve never played before for this homeless man. The workers began to weep, and so did I. When I finished, I packed my bagpipes and started for my car. Though my head was hung low, my heart was full. As I opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, “I’ve never seen anything like that before, and I’ve been putting in septic tanks for 20 years.”Apparently, I’m still lost. It’s a man thing.

11. Frequently bring up “The War of Northern Aggression” in conversation. If anyone ever says the words “Civil War,” always interject that “there was nothing civil about it.”

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ACCIDENT: The driver proceeded with caution upon approaching the first set of unguarded railroad tracks that crossed the road. After crossing the tracks, the driver traveled approximately one mile before approaching a second set of unguarded tracks. The truck was traveling approximately 45 mph, which was the posted speed limit.

BACKGROUND: On a spring morning in the Southeastern U.S., a log truck driver was starting to transport his second load of the day. Weather was not a contributing factor to the accident as conditions were clear and dry.

Always be aware of your surroundings and avoid any distractions while driving l Use “Do Not Disturb” mode or a similar safety feature on smart phones to eliminate the temptation to answer calls or texts while driving l Stop a safe distance away from the tracks at railroad crossings to ensure the tracks are clear of oncoming trains

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PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The driver had only been on the job for 17 months; however, he did have previous truck driving experience. The driver was familiar with the route from the woods to the mill since the logging crew had been operating on this tract for some time.

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INJURY: When the business owner arrived at the accident scene EMS had already started transporting the injured truck driver and locomotive engineer to a regional medical center by ambulance. The truck cab was crushed, but the driver was protected by the heavyduty headache rack, which prevented logs from penetrating the cab. The driver was admitted to the ICU and diagnosed with four shattered ribs and a liver laceration. He was released from the hospital two days later for an 8-week in-home recovery period. Drug and alcohol screening was negative.

The driver failed to yield the right of way to an oncoming train by disregarding the flashing warning signal l The driver was operating a moving vehicle while distracted and not paying attention to his surroundings

The driver began to become distracted as the glare from the sun started to impact his vision, and at this exact same moment, his cell phone began to ring. The driver answered the phone call from his boss while using his hands-free device. Both distractions led to the driver failing to notice the flashing signal lights at the railroad crossing warning of an oncoming train. As the driver began to cross the tracks the locomotive collided with the cab, causing the train to derail. The locomotive was travelling at a low rate of speed but the collision caused the truck to spill its load of logs and be andovertheownerthe60approximatelypushedfeetdowntracks.Theheardcollisionthephone,afterseveral attempts to contact the driver, was finally able to connect with him and learn more details about the precise location of the accident.

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There once lived a man who had special powers! He had the ability to cause working gas motors to suddenly stop; and just by his mere presence, he could render them useless. Chain saws would stop running, never to start again. Weed-eaters would go hungry, and lawn mowers would sit quietly while the grass overwhelmed the yard. At first, the man thought this gift to be a curse, and he would hang his head in frustration. Trees would not get trimmed, dead branches would litter his yard. Weeds began to take over the fringes of his yard, a yard that began to resemble a wilderness. Eventually he learned that the answer to his problem lay not in the removal of this curse, but to accept it. Life was short. If these tools refused to cooperate, who was he to fight fate? As a young husband, he knew that he and his wife did not have the financial means to replace these items; after all, they would just succumb to his “power,” and their money would be wasted. He would wake up at night in fear that the washing machine would be next, but his power seemed limited to small, gas-powered tools. There was only one thing to do. Go fishing.Atfirst, he concentrated on a local pond, where he could launch his boat, without the motor, and move about by paddle. But a local river called. A nice lake was nearby. And so, he began to think about the outboard motor, gas-powered as it was. Could he trust it? He began to make short trips, always with paddles at the ready. The motor chugged along like it hadn’t a care in the world. Years passed. The man thought his powers had finally diminished. He no longer had a yard, but the fishing boat and motor worked great. But then it happened. One day far from the comfort of the boat ramp, the curse came for his motor…of all days to not bring a paddle!Asthe years passed, the man did not abandon his fishing, his little boat, nor his outboard motor. He just simply did not trust them. And so, every trip also included an electric motor, a battery to run it, and oars. And when he put the boat into the river, he went upstream. Many people today are like that man. They have faint trust in their own vision, and perhaps even less in God. They like the idea of religion, the idea that they are loved. They enjoy the company of the nice people they encounter when they go to church. But when it comes to faith, they always go upstream. After all, if faith should prove unreliable, it will be easier to get back to

the ramp. In this way, they never completely rely on faith. God is never completely trusted. They always have a back-up plan. In the first chapter of I Kings, we are introduced to Solomon, the son of David. He is crowned the third king of Israel in the end of this opening chapter. His father, David, was a man after God’s own heart. But over the first 11 chapters we see a problem develop in his loyalty to God, and to the legacy of his father. For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father Kings 11:4

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A loyal heart is one that is completely committed. When the soldiers storm the beach against overwhelming odds, they do so out of loyalty. Maybe it is loyalty to their fellow soldiers, or to a leader, or perhaps to a nation. All they have is committed to this loyalty, as they leave their boat to confront the enemy.OfKing David, it was said by God that he was loyal in his heart to God. Not that he was perfect or without sin, but David was completely loyal to God; he was “all in” when it came to following God. To him, there was no other King. He prayed for such a heart for his son, Solomon. “And give my son Solomon a loyal heart to keep Your commandments and Your testimonies and Your statutes, to do all these things, and to build the temple for which I have made provision.”—I Chronicles 29:19 A loyal heart does not hedge its bets; it does not push upstream. Pushing upstream is our way of staying in control. Men throughout history have stepped away from the ramp, willing to let the boat go where the current takes them. They are willing to be loyal to the God they have placed their faith in. If that meant the gallows, then so be it. If that meant a life of poverty, or a life of turmoil, then they accepted it. Trusting God to take our boat, either by motor or current to that place where we must trust, where our schemes no longer are in control, is the place of loyalty. The river is before us, and it runs through the wilderness. Do we push off with loyal trust, that God in his sovereignty has our best in store? We must move to surrender control of our lives to the one who knows the river and the wilderness. Our future is before us, but it demands loyalty. Don’t worry about the yard and clutter. That’s what kids are for, as long as my power over gas engines did not pass on to them. And if it did… “Hello, fishing partners!”

David.—I

Excerpted from Reflections on Rebellion and Redemption, Bradley W. Antill author, see this and more at www.onatreeforestry.com

Ponsse Developing Electric Forwarder With fuel costs at historic highs this year, there is perhaps no better time to tempt loggers with the prospect of a fully-electric powered forestry machine that requires diesel only to charge the battery— and may eventually not even need that. Such a machine appears to be on the horizon soon. Promising to “walk the talk” of its commitment to environmental sustainability, Finnish forestry equipment manufacturer Ponsse hosted an online event on August 17 announcing the introduction of a new forestry machine concept, the electric Ponsse EV1. Ponsse has been developing the concept for the last three years with Epec, a Finnish technology company, owned by the Ponsse Group, that specializes in advanced electronics. Juho Nummela, Ponsse’s President and CEO, and Jyri KyläKaila, Epec’s Managing Director, took the opportunity to discuss the emerging technologies. A recording of the online event is available to watch on Ponsse’s YouTube channel.“Technological development is fast and offers us excellent opportunities to develop our solutions further, even in unexpected directions,” Nummela says. “We have worked hard with our technology company Epec to enable this concept. At the same time, both companies have developed their capabilities, and we have gained significant new knowledge during this project. This launch of a new technology concept is a peek into the future and one of the solutions offered by electric powertrains. Sustainable development is a significant future success factor for Ponsse. We want to strongly develop our solutions with Epec. Our strategy reform has been sucSomerville Ken MacDonald

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MacDonald Becomes Tigercat President Grant Somerville has stepped away from his role as President of Tigercat Industries. The timing is related to Somerville’s original intention to serve as President for a five-year term when he took on the role in 2017. Tigercat founder, Ken MacDonald, has assumed the role of “IPresident.wishto thank Grant for all of the contributions that he has made to our company during his entire 30 years with us,” MacDonald says. “I want to particularly recognize the leadership he provided during his presidency. He very capably steered us through and oversaw record production and sales volumes in 2019. He then went on to lead our team through the incredibly trying last two and a half years during which we dealt with the COVID pandemic as well as the effects on our business related to the war in Ukraine. Despite these challenges, he took everything in stride and saw to it that we still managed to complete two major plant expansions and launch several new product lines.” Somerville will continue to serve the company as a director. In his new role, he will offer advice, and support various engineering initiatives focused on the development of new products and the improvement of existing products.

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Southern Loggin’ Times l SEPTEMBER 2022 l 35 cessful at Epec, and we’re very happy with Epec’s excellent development.”Aiming to lead the way in developing machine technologies for sustainable forestry, Ponsse seeks carbon neutrality in its operations and solutions. This launch of a new technology concept is part of the company’s strategy and represents a tangible step toward the goal of carbonPonsseneutrality.hasbeen studying and developing such new technological solutions for several years. The EV1 concept took its first steps in 2019 when Ponsse and Epec started to investigate responsible power source solutions in line with sustainable development. While Epec’s technology can already be used in electric or hybridelectric commercial vehicles and non-road mobile machines, the EV1 forest machine is still in testing and a few years away from serial production for commercial availability. The prototype machine will be presented at FinnMETKO 2022, a heavy machinery expo held in Finland in early September. The EV1 concept has been developed for forwarders with a 15-tonne (16.5-ton) load-carrying capacity, the most popular Ponsse forwarder size category. The machine features a fully electric powertrain, as well as Epec’s power distribution unit and hybrid control unit. The machine’s powertrain operates fully with battery energy. Batteries are charged using a Range Extender, which is a combustion engine at this stage of development. This technology provides significant improvements in fuel economy in this size category.According to representatives of Epec’s engineering team during the online event, the machine is designed to charge while it works, running half the time on the battery alone and half the time with the onboard diesel engine serving as a generator to charge the battery while in operation (it does not require external charging). It reportedly affords equivalent power but with greater fuel efficiency compared with conventional, fully diesel models. The concept features a 700v DC power system, potentially enabling compatibility with other (non-diesel) power sources in the future, such as hydrogen or biogas. The EV1 features Epec Flow, Epec’s electromobility system solution. The solution is based on the Epec Flow Power Distribution Unit (PDU), to which electric motors, batteries and various devices can be connected. The PDU’s integrated safety solutions enable effective manufacturing and maintenance of the machines, as well as their operations in demanding conditions. The Epec Flow Hybrid Control Unit (HCU) controls the electric powertrain and includes software developed through simulations, enabling optimal energy consumption, productivity and usability. “The Epec Flow solution is at the heart of everything,” says Epec’s Kylä-Kaila. “It has been developed for the electrification of various commercial vehicles and non-road mobile machines. The software can be developed using simulation models, and the solution can be agilely developed for the needs of different machinery. The different systems,

Canfor Plans New Sawmill Near Mobile

The middle Georgia, “GFP Flint,” property includes 2,029 contiguous acres along the Flint River and Potato Creek, located south of Atlanta. Located northwest of Mobile, Ala., the “Walley” property is composed of two tracts of young longleaf and loblolly pines totaling 1,360Domainacres.Timber’s most recent acquisitions increase the total acreage of timberland under the company’s management to more than 264,000 acres. Domain continues to research opportunities for additional, strategic acquisitions in the Southeast to meet the region’s demand for lumber and other wood products.

Canfor Corp. plans to invest $210 million USD to build a state-of-theart sawmill at a greenfield site in southern Alabama, north of Mobile. The sawmill will have an annual production capacity of 250MMBF on a two-shift basis and will provide a modern work environment for approximately 130 people who will be employed directly, in addition to supporting significant indirect jobs. In alignment with the company’s sustainability goals and decarboni zation targets, the facility design includes investment in a biomassfueled lumber drying system. Startup of the facility is anticipated in the third quarter of 2024. “Building on Canfor’s proud operating history in Alabama, we are excited to invest in a new worldclass facility that will ensure our long-term ability to operate com petitively. In addition, the facility’s versatility and flexibility will en hance our ability to more closely align our production of high-quality products with market demand,” comments Don Kayne, President and CEO,“WeCanfor.greatly value our employees and are committed to providing family-supporting jobs and generating economic activity in the region. We are pleased to be transforming the workplace for our employees by providing a new, modern facility that will continue to operate for generations,” adds Tony Sheffield, President, Canfor Southern Pine. The new facility will replace the existing operation in Mobile. Following the construction and startup of the new facility, an orderly wind down of the Mobile operation will be undertaken. All current employees will have the opportunity to remain with the company.

Domain Capital Group, LLC, a private investment management services firm, and its subsidiary, Domain Timber Advisors, LLC, announced the acquisition of nearly 3,400 acres of timberland in middle Georgia and south Alabama, further enhancing the company’s substantial Southeast timber portfolio.

including the transmission and control system, work seamlessly together, enabling the manufacture of safe and efficient zero-emission machines in the future.” Ponsse seeks to provide sustainable harvesting solutions by listening closely to customer needs, and as such invited several customers from Uruguay, Sweden and Finland to witness the EV1 in action firsthand. They seemed both surprised and impressed by how advanced and work-ready the concept is. As one customer, Paulo Mancinelli of Suzano, put it, “I think the future is coming shorter and faster than we thought it would be.” Visit ponsse.com or epec.fi/ for more information.

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“These acquisitions offer immense potential through diverse management opportunities and harvest capacity as timber product demand remains strong in the Southeast,” says Joe Sanderson, managing director and CEO of natural resources at Domain Timber Advisors. “In addition, the accessibility of the south Alabama property and the river frontage of the middle Georgia tracts allow for higherand-better land use sales.”

The existing Mobile sawmill was operated by Gulf Lumber and the Stimpson family for many years, before Gulf Lumber merged with Scotch Lumber, which subsequently sold to Canfor. BID Group will deliver the new sawmill, and will manage, design, build, equip, install and provide full startup services. The new operation will incorporate the full spectrum of BID’s bestin-class wood processing technologies, including equipment, software, automation systems, Artificial Intelligence-enabled optimization and the plant-wide Industry 4.0 solution, OPER8.

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Deere Upgrades Loader Cab

John Deere offers the latest updates to its knuckleboom loader lineup, including visibility enhancements. Aiming to increase operator safety and accuracy, the 2022 models of 437E and 337E knuckleboom loaders feature a newly designed front window by removing the external mesh guard and replacing it with a clear, polycarbonate window for uninterrupted view. The 2022 model-year upgrades also feature a new hood profile in the left-rear corner of the machine, which opens up the view behind the machine. The new design partners with the window updates to make for a safer, easier-to-operate machine. By offering enhanced visibility, these models enable the operator to be more precise, maximizing uptime. In addition to visibility enhancements, the latest models will offer optional satelliteready radio, improving the operator experience in the cab. A new optional hydraulic vacuum pump can also be added to 2022 model-year machines, minimizing oil loss and spillage during times of hydraulic maintenance and repair. Visit johndeere.com.

Tigercat Launches Grinder Tigercat reveals the 6900 grinder, the first production grinder designed and built by Tigercat. The 6900 is a heavyduty upswing grinder made for high throughput material reduction and mulch production. The 6900 is designed for extreme duty and long life, utilizing only the highest quality components. The upswing rotor and large infeed opening with outward wing walls maximize processing capacity.

The grinder’s upper frame pivots on the undercarriage, allowing the operator to adjust the infeed angle or discharge height for different material lengths. The adjustable angle eliminates the need for outriggers. The pivoting upper frame allows transport on a trailer without the need to fold the discharge conveyor.

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The machine has remote control functions for simple operation and mobility on site, along with an easy-to-use 10" display screen for machine monitoring and function adjustment. Maintenance is made easy with convenient service access. The split hog box opens over center to fully access the rotor and screens. The anvil and screens are hydraulically retractable. The single discharge conveyor is open on the bottom for clean operation and easy servicing. A tool storage area is mounted on the side of the machine that hydraulically raises and lowers for added convenience. An optional large diameter magnetic head pulley is available to effectively remove metal from the end product. The machine is also prepared to accept over-band magnet systems. Visit tigercat.com.

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September 9-10—Great Lakes Logging & Heavy Equipment Expo, Resch Expo, Green Bay, Wis. Call 715282-5828; visit gltpa.org. 11-13—Alabama Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Perdido Beach Resort, Orange Beach, Ala. Call 334-265-8733; visit alaforestry.org. 16-18—Virginia Forest Products Assn. Annual Conference, Hilton Virginia Beach Oceanfront, Virginia Beach, Va. Call 804-737-5625; visit vfpa.net. 22-24—American Loggers Council annual meeting, Branson, Mo. Call 409-625-0206; visit amloggers.com. 24— TEAM Safe Trucking annual meeting, The Hilton Branson Convention Center, Branson, Mo. Call 207-841-0250; visit teamsafe trucking.com. 28-30—North Carolina Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Grandover Resort & Conference Center, Greensboro, NC. Call 800-2317723; visit ncforestry.org.

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