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Vol. 43, No. 6
(Founded in 1972—Our 501st Consecutive Issue)
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SOUTHERN STUMPIN’ By David Abbott • Managing Editor • Ph. 334-834-1170 • Fax: 334-834-4525 • E-mail: david@hattonbrown.com
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ast month was SLT’s 500th issue special we had been planning for a little over a year. I think it turned out well. Everyone at HattonBrown contributed, but it was our co-publisher, DK Knight, who performed the lion’s share of the heavy lifting. DK was with SLT at its inception and has been with it ever since, so it was only fitting that he should be the one looking back. With that behind us, welcome to the first issue of the next 500. Check back in 42 years to see if I’m still here for issue 1,000 (I’ll be about 78 then if I’m still alive…). We received so many nominations for loggers under 40 and loggers in business over 40 years that there was no possible way to fit them all in. In fact we continued to receive nominations even after the issue was finished. There are several who would have fit in nicely with the historical theme. Next month look for a feature, originally intended for this issue, on North Carolina’s Robert Rich, 88. He is still involved with his company, started in 1955, now with two sons and a grandson. A lot of the other nominations we received will likely be featured in coming months.
ed this on Facebook: “I’m waiting for SLT to be posted twice a month because it is the only good thing in the mailbox.” ● Thanks for your magazine. I like it when you put things in your magazine about church and serving our Lord. I like it when you write about the small man as well as the large operators. I got my first SLT around 1982 and have most of them in the barn. I look at them from time to time to look back where we came from. I believe our best days are yet to come.—Joe Bowen, Angier, NC Another North Carolina logger, Teddy Mann, called in to the office to relate how much he enjoyed the issue. Mann said reading his brother’s name in the “Departed...but Remembered” section brought tears to this eyes. “I’m glad you thought enough of these loggers to put their names in the magazine.” Mann also shared with us his own story. He started working in the woods with his dad more than 50 years ago, when he was 13. He had to quit school in the 8th grade to help his family. Someone reported to the labor board that his dad had a 13-year-old working on his crew. “But I kept working,” he laughs.
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Based on the responses we have gotten, we weren’t alone in feeling pleased with the 500th issue. Below are some we have received: ● Congrats on 500! We all enjoyed reading it, especially the quotes from past years issues…some old names we hadn’t heard in a while. Not blowing smoke at you, but SLT really is the most relevant magazine we advertise in…in all sectors we deal in. Keep it going!—Ruston R. “Russ” Wood, J.M. Wood Auction Co., Inc., Montgomery, AL. ● Nice job on #500. Starting with your memory-provoking overview throughout the entire issue it was interesting, fun and very enjoyable reading. Remembering the departed was a nice touch. As I read through each name I was amazed how many of the people I knew or had some contact with in the 40 years I was around. Some surprised me. Roger Ward was one of them. Johnny Ward’s tribute says it all. You and your team are the very best.—Dennis Healy, formerly of Barko, Duluth, MN. ● I enjoy reading SLT. You guys show the real side of logging life plus you include the personality of individuals in your articles. I think however I am most impressed with how “God, Faith, and Family” stands out somewhere in every issue that I have read. Thanks for making it real and giving thanks “to the One” that makes all things possible. Your 500th issue publication is a masterpiece, great work.—Tommy Peagler, Waycross, GA ● A subscriber identified as Kevin Harris post-
Any politician worth his salt can tell you that our future lies in our children (which, you know…obviously). But as we all know, there is some concern in our industry about where the children are—because they’re not allowed in the woods. Mann quit school to go to work at 13; my grandfather did something similar. It was a different time. But that’s the past. None of us would suggest that a child today should do that. But many in our industry would argue that we may have gone too far in the other direction. As the 500th issue showed, there are still plenty of younger loggers out there, but what about the next generation? In the past, kids grew up in logging. I have a little experience with this. My dad was an avid outdoorsman growing up. But then he started logging. By the time I came along, he didn’t have much time for recreation. There’s a lot that I never really learned how to do that well because he never really had time to teach me. When I was growing up, my dad didn’t take me fishing or hunting or camping. He took me to work with him on the weekends. That was our bonding time. I remember well riding in his old yellow International Scout on Saturdays, listening to a Hank Williams 8-track. I was maybe the only kid in 3rd grade who counted Hey, Good Lookin’ as one of his favorite songs. There were holes rusted in the floorboard, so I could look down and see the pavement passing by beneath us as we headed to the woods. Some of my fondest memories are weekends
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of 1989-95, spent in the shop with him. We had a clock radio on a shelf between the drill press and the grinder, and all day we’d keep it tuned to WLWI 92.3, Montgomery’s country music station (a magical golden age when country radio was worth the listen; these days I think I’d rather turn on Lady GaGa than most of what passes for country). On Saturdays in the fall of course we’d hear Jim Fyffe calling the Auburn games on the same station while we did maintenance—welding, grinding, painting, cleaning out belly pans. I remember cleaning the grease off our hands in a tub of mineral spirits or with that gritty orange soap. At around age 10 he started teaching me to run the loader, and I was driving his skidder the same time as I was learning to drive his truck. At 16 I spent my summers running his chain saw. To me, my dad was Superman. And that’s kind of how it went for a lot of people in this business. It’s not the only way people get into logging, but it seems to be the most common. I don’t know how many loggers have told me they got “sawdust in their veins” because they grew up working in the woods with their dads. It’s often a family business passed down from one generation to the next, like farming. The concern now is that if kids aren’t allowed to fall in love with the business at an early age, they’re unlikely to choose it later in life. In my story in last month’s issue, Virginia’s Kevin Hodges listed this as one of his primary concerns. Obviously we don’t want kids to be in unsafe situations. Ironically, logging today is far safer than it was when I was growing up. Like Hodges, I personally don’t see what it would hurt to let kids, at least by age 16, spend summers working under the supervision of a responsible adult family member. In the past those who speak on behalf of our industry have indicated to me that members of Congress have shown little interest in changing laws to allow kids to grow up in logging the way many of us did. However, Brian Nelson, president of the American Loggers Council, reports that this year's trip to Capitol Hill resulted in some progress on this front (see page 28). Even so, I think it can't hurt if we all challenge ourselves to consider new or different methods for passing on this vital logging tradition from one generation to the next. Many of the loggers I've met in Sweden learned the profession through a trade school. Along the same lines, the Forest Equipment Operator Training School headed by Doug Duncan, formerly of the North Carolina Assn. of Professional Loggers, is an idea other states might consider emulating. As we look ahead from where we've been to where we're going, we can learn from the past while still keeping open minds about new ways to do SLT things in the future.
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Bouncing Back ■ D.L. Cutshall & Sons took a big hit, but the sons had a good teacher. By Jay Donnell IUKA, Miss. ★ hen Doug Cutshall left Mississippi for Florida in the 1950s after an ice storm destroyed the timber around his family’s sawmill in Iuka, he was unsure of what the future held for himself and his family. The family continued sawmilling in Florida for several years, with Cutshall staying mostly in the logging end. He also spent 11 years as a welder at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. (the last three years as supervisor of tank testing) before returning to northern Mississippi for good in 1968. That’s when he, his father and an uncle started the family’s sawmill in Iuka. He continued to handle the logging end of the
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business for the family mill. Three years later, in 1971, Cutshall went out on his own. He signed his first contract with Tennessee River Pulp & Paper and began logging for the company using a horse named Ted and a truck equipped with a side-loader. A year later, Cutshall bought an old Hough front-end loader, and then in 1974 he purchased his first knuckleboom, a 125 Husky. This was just the beginning for D.L. Cutshall & Sons Logging. Five years later, in 1979, two equipment purchases catapulted Cutshall into major logging. He invested in a 920 Caterpillar fellerbuncher and he also purchased his first grapple skidder, a 518 Cat, which replaced two cable skidders. The rest, as they say, is history. Cutshall became a highly honored logger throughout his career.
New Generation Not that he’s done yet, but the 78year-old Cutshall has passed along the business to his sons, Jonathan and Stephen, while dad still oversees the operation. Stephen, 49, studied diesel mechanics at Northeast Mississippi Community College and started working full time in 1983. Jonathan, 40, started working full time for the company in 1994. He received a diesel mechanic certificate at NEMCC and after that he decided to start working for his dad full time. Jonathan started taking over the business in 2009. “I still depend a lot on dad. He’s sort of tried to let us run with it, but there have been some tough times these last four or five years,” Jonathan explains. Taking over the business during the middle of a recession was not an easy task for Jonathan and Stephen, but they’ve managed to fight through the tough economic times despite the 2013-14 closing of their primary market, the International Paper mill at Courtland, Ala. A procurement forester gave them the news and they didn’t have much time to prepare themselves. “We took about 75% of our hardwood and pulpwood to IP before they shut down. They just can’t sell the white paper like they used to, but it might open back up and start selling brown paper again,” Jonathan says. The closing has caused D.L. Cutshall & Sons to seek other markets. “It’s going to be a drastic change around here,” Jonathan says. “A lot of the wood that was going to IP is now going to Counce PCA and they’re just flooding the market. There are so many people out here logging and I have all this wood piled up and nobody to take it to.” Jonathan has a twin brother, Jason, who has always been a part of the
From left, Johnny Hollingsworth, Jeff Cutshall, Jonathan Cutshall, Doug Cutshall and Stephen Cutshall.
Three John Deere skidders supply plenty of ground support.
The operation has two Prentice loaders at its disposal.
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company. He helps his mother with bookkeeping when he can. Jason enjoys office work more than being in the woods and earned a Ph.D. in forest resources and business at the University of Georgia.
Production Jonathan believes that there is one factor that has kept the business going strong despite a bad economic climate. “The key to our job is merchandising and we do a lot of it. We have 10 separations on this job and you’ve probably heard that separation can cost a logger a load of wood. I don’t have the production that these pulpwood loggers have because I merchandise. That’s where the money is. That’s what we try to specialize in,” Jonathan says. Cutshall & Sons has good relationships with the PCA mill in Counce, Tenn., Hankins Sawmill in Ripley, Miss., Pharr Sawmill in Marietta, Miss. and Mark Roach Sawmill in Savannah, Tenn. When Southern Loggin’ Times visited D.L Cutshall & Sons Logging was in the middle of a cold and wet winter, working on a very diverse tract that included mixed tie logs, grade logs, pine pulpwood and hardwood pulpwood. Hankins, Inc. and
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Hankins Forest Products, Inc. purchase around 75% of the timber Cutshall & Sons cuts. The company also works with Quality Land and Timber out of Double Springs, Ala. “That’s who we’re cutting this tract for, but we have some tracts that we try to buy ourselves. For the most part we work with Hankins as well as Quality Land and Timber,” Jonathan says. They’re producing anywhere from 35-40 loads a week with just one crew. “When my dad ran the business we had two crews and 12
employees, but we’ve had to cut back some because of the recession,” Jonathan says. Grade logs go to Winston Hardwood Lumber in Double Springs. Tie cuts go to Rose Sawmill in Savannah, Tenn. or Marietta Wood Supply in Marietta, Miss. Pine logs with 10 in. tops go to Hankins Forest Products in Ripley. One of the bigger challenges for the company now is the long hauls they have to make. “I’m hauling wood 125 miles right now, that’s my farthest haul. I’ve got a 75 mile haul and a 90 mile haul. That proba-
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bly eats me up as much as anything,” Jonathan says. D.L. Cutshall & Sons has yet to see much area activity in new biomass markets. “You can’t get enough out of it to make any money around here. There’s just not a market in this area for it,” Jonathan explains.
Equipment Lineup D.L. Cutshall & Sons does business with B&G Equipment of Iuka, Miss., Stribling Equipment and Thompson CAT out of Tupelo, Miss. Equipment includes a 2009 2384
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Prentice knuckleboom loader, 2002 Prentice 384 knuckleboom, 1977 Cat bulldozer, 2008 2670 Prentice cutter, 2002 John Deere 748G-III, 2004 John Deere 648G-III, 2000 John Deere 648G-II, John Deere 690 track hoe that is used for building roads, Allis Chalmers road grader and a Galion grader. The company owns five trucks including three Macks and two Peterbilts. They have two contract trucks that help on and off when the company requires them.
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All of the equipment maintenance is done at the office and shop, which is all on Doug Cutshall’s property. The full-time mechanic is Joel Qualls of Qualls Diesel Service. Oil is changed every 300 hours and machines are greased daily. “We try to do all the maintenance ourselves. Anything that happens out here I take care of it or I call Joel,” Jonathan says. The company runs Roadmaster and Firestone tires. They have a 2011 Magnolia trailer as well as an
older Magnolia trailer that was wrecked and rebuilt. One of the unique things about D.L. Cutshall & Sons is its ability to build trailers. “We’ve got four trailers that already had the frames. My dad and I put the bolsters on, painted them and put all the stripes on them,” Jonathan says.
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D.L. Cutshall & Sons Logging has eight employees including Irene Cutshall, the wife of Doug and the mother of Diane, Stephen, Jonathan and Jason. Irene handles the bookkeeping for the business. Southern Safety Solutions comes out once a month to visit D.L. Cutshall & Sons and conducts a safety meeting on the job site with all of the employees. “We try to talk about safety issues every week and what people are seeing out there on the job site,” Jonathan says. Jonathan reports having good luck with employee turnover, but finding reliable truck drivers remains a constant concern. “I’ve got one that’s been working with us for over 25 years, but other than that they seem to come and go. It’s hard to find drivers that are credible.” Jonathan is happy with where the business is right now, but understands that there are challenges ahead. “We made money last year, but we’ll see what happens now with IP shutting down.” D.L. Cutshall & Sons is a member of the Tennessee Forestry Assn. and the Tishomingo County Forestry Assn. Jonathan has a Tennessee Master Loggers certificate and a Professional Loggers Management certificate in Mississippi. “I used to be the president of the loggers association (MLA) of the northern district, but I don’t have a lot of time for the associations like I used to since I have four sons,” Jonathan says. Jonathan’s wife, Cara, gets parts for the company when she’s not chasing around their four young sons. Jonathan believes that he and the rest of the company owe everything to his father. “If it wasn’t for my dad this company wouldn’t be here today. His dad was a logger and so was his grandfather.” Doug Cutshall sums it up: “We don’t know what the future holds, but we do know who holds the future. God has always had his hands on Cutshall Logging. Back in 1971 Jim Carpenter, procurement manager of Tennessee River Pulp and Paper (now PCA), and I had an agreement that Cutshall would work six days a week from ‘can to can’t,’ but Sunday we would be in church. The paper company didn’t approve, but God SLT honored that agreement.”
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Crossing The Border ■ ARK-LA Timber Harvesting’s six man crew gets high production in both Arkansas and Louisiana.
By Jessica Johnson HERMITAGE, Ark. hannon Lassiter, 38, a former col★ lege football player for the University of Arkansas at Monticello, is a man who keeps his priorities in order. He says, “God’s first and family’s second.” That’s how he lives his life, and how he runs his logging crew. “If it wasn’t for the good Lord, I don’t think you could be successful. To me, that’s the most important thing in life.” Lassiter and his wife Heidi have two sons, Hayden, 15, and Maddox, “Mad Dog”, 9. Maddox is just like his Daddy, the little logger in the
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family. It’s clear to Lassiter that Maddox wants to take over the family business. “I think he wants to. But I don’t know if I recommend it,” he says with a good-natured laugh. “I told him he had to go to college before he can come out here. My oldest has no interest in it at all. I know he won’t be taking it over.” Lassiter says that Maddox really loves the woods. “He’s eaten up with it, bless his heart. He gets right in the thick of it. He keeps up with all the drivers and all the trucks. Most days when I get home he’ll ask, ‘How many loads did y’all get today Dad?’ He is something.” Lassiter makes time to not only show interest in his kids’ hobbies, but takes an active role in them. He helps with coaching baseball and football, not only at the local middle and high schools, but also runs his own travel baseball team for nine and 10 year olds. “The local school’s mascot is the lumberjack, so it fits,” he says with a laugh. “I stay very, very busy. My kids are important.” He also finds the time to be involved in the Arkansas logging community. He is a board member of the Arkansas Timber Producers Assn. (ATPA) and has been for about four years. “As loggers, we need the ATPA. It’s the only voice we really have. If we have issues it’s the ATPA that goes and fights for us,” he believes.
His Story Lassiter started his company, ARK-LA Timber Harvesting, Inc., 14 years ago with one skidder, one loader, some saw hands and a threewheel Bell cutting machine. “We were very small and at the time, didn’t have much money, but we’ve been able to grow,” he says. He credits some of that growth to his start in logging, and the mentor he had along the way: Melvin Mills. A family friend, Mills was Lassiter’s last stop on a long and winding road to self-employment. Sambo Smith was Lassiter’s first in-woods boss for a few months right out of college. He then spent a few months on the crew run by his wife’s uncle, Danny York. Lassiter then tried his hand at buying and selling timber before ending up with Mills’ crew. It was from Mills that Lassiter really received his logging higher education. “He taught me how to do quality work.” Lassiter worked under Mills for three years before branching off and starting his own crew.
ARK-LA Timber crew includes Luiz Aguilar, Ralph Rincon, Saul Gray, trucking contractor Sambo Smith, Damain Gray, Filiberto Gonzalez, "Mad Dog" Lassiter, seated to his dad's right, who isn't old enough to join the crew yet, but plans to after college, Shannon Lassiter and Clay Rice.
tor took out the pulpwood and underbrush—ARK-LA Timber was only responsible for cutting logs. “We usually will go through forty acres in about five days,” he says. “This is not a normal tract for us. We usually take it all: logs and pulpwood. But since someone took the pulpwood and brush out before we got here, we’re going through it quick.” Though the crew works mostly in Arkansas, it crosses into Louisiana often enough to justify naming the company ARK-LA. The trip is a relatively short one from Lassiter’s home in Hermitage.
ARK-LA Timber does not have a set schedule, or set hours that the crew works. Lassiter says they might work a couple Saturdays in one month and no Saturdays the following month. It all depends on mill demand, tract size, weather and other factors sometimes out of a logger’s control. “Sometimes the ox gets in the ditch and we do have to work on Sundays,” he admits, referencing the biblical wisdom. “But we don’t like to, because it seems like every time we work on Sunday something goes wrong the following week.”
Iron Registry Lassiter is a Tigercat man through and through. He says, “Tigercat is dependable. They are high, and they might be higher than some of these other machines, but like I said, the dependability. The machines run every day and don’t break down. I don’t know if they balance out, between the price of the machine and the breakdowns. But the machine running every day means a lot to me.” Iron registry includes 2005 220 loader (with nearly 15,000 hours on it), 2008 724E cutter, 2010 630D skidder, 2010 234 loader with CSI 264 delimber and 2014 Tigercat 620E skidder. He purchased all through Jason McDaniel with MidSouth Forestry of Warren, Ark. To make roads and do BMP work, Lassiter runs a 2012 Caterpillar D4K dozer, purchased through Jeff Raines
Job Site When Southern Loggin’ Times visited the operation, Lassiter and his treelength pine crew were on a 200acre tract, where a different contrac-
Lassiter has been a contractor for Anthony Forest Products in Urbana, Ark. for about 10 years, he estimates. And it hasn’t always been easy, especially these last three years. Quotas have been an issue, Lassiter says. With the mill selling a large portion of its land holdings and taking time to make some capital improvements, ARK-LA has not been able to haul logs as consistently as in the past, so production has been off. To make matters a little worse, for both the mill and Lassiter, after the mill completed its upgrades it suffered a fire, forcing a brief shutdown—again putting a damper on production. Lassiter explains, “The mill’s production was at less than half during that time. We’re hoping for a good year this year and a dry summer.”
The treenlength pine crew can do it all, but prefers final harvests.
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at J.A. Riggs of El Dorado, Ark. Equipment is financed through BancorpSouth out of El Dorado, Ark. “I don’t have any certain time that I trade. We just run them. Like the 630D, it’s close to being paid for and we haven’t had any problems with it. We’re just going to keep on with it,” he says. With newer equipment, ARK-LA Timber looks for about 20 loads a day.“We did 114,000 tons last year which was an above average year,” Lassiter beams. “Steve Barham of Anthony Forest Products predicts
that this year will be better than last year for us which will be great.” ARK-LA Timber is a six man crew, including a set man. Lassiter will fill in as needed, but mainly runs the dozer building roads. Lassiter says, “I try to keep my manpower down, because that’s cost. If they do over a 100 loads a week, I’ll give them a bonus.” When he’s not on the job for whatever reason, crew leader Filiberto Gonzalez pushes the crew to work as hard as possible. “I’ve got a good crew. I don’t have to worry about them going off and
not showing up. They beg me for work,” he explains, “If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t have what I’ve got. The guys make it happen. I’d put them up against anybody.”
Maintenance Lassiter does not have a shop, and he says he’s never really had a need for one. When the crew operated older equipment, it was easier to work on when breakdowns occurred, he says. But now, with newer equipment, he doesn’t even
attempt to do any major repair work, so he has no need for a shop. “With the computers and everything, it’s just about senseless to have a shop. You can’t work on it. They’ve [the dealer] got to bring the computer out and hook it up. We do everything like that out in the woods,” Lassiter comments. That philosophy extends even to putting in new joints and changing tires. For major repairs, like motor work, equipment will be hauled to the dealer’s shop. However, Lassiter isn’t afraid to ask MidSouth to come out to the woods to work on air conditioning problems. The crew has a Ford F450 service truck onsite, equipped with all the tools the crew might need— Stihl chainsaws, air compressor, oil and grease. “Basically, everything on there is whatever we need to keep the job going,” he says. Oil is changed every 500 hours, in the woods by operators, provided by Gresham Petroleum. Lassiter has found that even though the newer equipment requires DEF fluid, the fuel economy is better. “With the delimbing loader, you can run about two days before you need to fuel it,” he reports. Gresham Petroleum provides diesel, while Crow-Burlingame Co. in Warren, Ark. supply DEF fluid, hose fittings and other maintenance related items. Tires are Firestone 30.5s. That’s a recent change, Lassiter says, “I’m going to that size, even though the machine comes with 35.5s, because of the little bit of savings.”
Trucking For now, Lassiter relies on contract haulers, but he figures he will have to run his own trucks some day. “Just running the cutting and banking is enough for where I am in life right now. I know though, if I stay in business, I am going to have to have my own trucks.” All trucking is done through a single contractor: Sambo Smith. Smith, Lassiter’s former boss, is onsite nearly every day taking care of the trucking, watching to make sure everything is running smoothly. Smith has had the ARK-LA Timber contract for about four years. All pine logs are hauled to the Anthony Forest Products sawmill in Urbana, Ark. about 15 miles from the current tract. He also hauls pine pulpwood products to Georgia Pacific in Crossett, Ark. and Graphics in Farmerville, La. A lot of the hardwood products go to Watson Sawmill in Mt. Holly, Ark. Lassiter himself handles load tickets on Sunday nights. Sandra York, his mother-in-law, acts as company secretary and does 95% SLT of the bookwork, he says. 16
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he 34th edition of The East Coast Sawmill Logging & Equipment Exposition—The Richmond Show—drew enthusiastic crowds May 16-17 at the Raceway Complex in Richmond, Va. While an economic recession was still being felt two years ago here, showgoers this year seemed to be more concerned with kicking tires, scoping out and sitting in the equipment at exhibitor booths. From Tigercat, Caterpillar and John Deere to Bandit Industries and Pitts Trailers, the major companies and their regional dealers were on hand. EXPO Richmond is the largest show of its kind on the East Coast, with about 225 exhibiting companies representing not only logging interests, but lumber and pallet manufacturing, trucking and other forestry markets. Susan Jennings, show coordinator and president of Virginia Forest Products Assn., reports the show received an excellent response from attendees and exhibitors alike. “We don’t have the final numbers yet, but the attendance was higher than in 2012,” Jennings said. “All of the exhibitors I talked to said they had an amazing show. A trailer dealer from Goodman (Truck & Tractor) reported that he sold all four trailers he had on site.” Chip Burroughs, territory manager, Caterpillar Forest Products, commented, “After the rough weather start, we had a steady flow of visitors to the Caterpillar site. We had a lot of interest in the new Cat 586 site prep tractor, the Cat 522B track feller-buncher and the SATCO 420 directional felling head, along with the usual inquiries on loaders and cutters.” Burroughs said most everyone noticed the lack of a skidder on display, “which gave us the opportunity to talk about the D Series to be introduced soon.”
Since the show, Burroughs said dealers in his territory have been following up on many leads and have even closed and delivered a few deals already. “In general, the Cat dealers felt it was a great show and customers were in a positive mood,” he added. Jason Morey, sales manager at Bandit Industries, said the show overall was good for them. “The traffic seemed slower than expected on Saturday, but the people there were interested in equipment. Our dealer Chipper Pro received some solid chipper leads and had at least four solid demos they were going to do. I am sure we will sell some units from leads received.” Christopher Smith, marketing director at Bandit, added, “The Richmond Expo is always a great show for us, and this year was no exception. The people that we spoke with were pretty optimistic overall and there was considerable interest in all of Bandit’s equipment lines. We will be closing some sales from this show.” Kevin Selby, U.S. sales manager for Tigercat, said attendance was the best he had seen since 2006, and that the customers they wanted and expected to see indeed showed up. Selby said their Tier 4i Tigercat engine machine lineup continues to grow and attract attention. “We had four pieces in our booth (620E, 630E, 724E, M726E) powered by the new Tigercat (FPT) engine, with the newest addition being the 724E. We are very encouraged by the acceptance level of the Tigercat Tier 4 program to date.” Six of the units on display at Tigercat were already sold prior to the show, “and with interest levels being high on all our equipment on display, I believe the others will be committed to shortly,” Selby said. “Overall, we were very pleased with the show, and believe our strong presence of factory people, local dealers and equipment left a good impression on those in attendance.” If EXPO Richmond was any indication, 2014 bodes well for business in the forest products industry. “Our industry is poised to move forward after this long recession we’ve been in,” Jennings says. The exposition was co-sponsored by VFPA and the Cooperative Extension Service at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. SLT
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60-Year Celebration For Cone Family T
he logging family of Joe and Florence Cone surprised the Summerville, SC couple with a special “60 Years in Logging Celebration” on May 2. About 140 family members, friends, foresters, loggers, landowners, and past business associates participated in the merry making. The event doubled as a birthday celebration for the couple—Florence turned 80 on May 4 and Joe 83 on May 14. Both are still involved in the business they founded in 1954, which today operates as Cone & Sons Logging, Inc. Florence assists their daughter, Jennifer Craven, with the paperwork side while Joe runs a loader every day. Their son, Jeff, who was brought up in the business, assumed control of the company 11 years ago. Another son, Johnny, worked in the business for many years before successfully venturing out on his own as Cone Logging Corp. in the early ’80s. Held at the elegant rustic barn at “The Gatherings” in Dorchester, SC, the event’s decor reflected a forest theme and carried through with the cake, which featured two candles. Along with a cap and a dozen roses, the couple was presented with a plaque of “appreciation for leadership and service to the logging profession of South Carolina” by Crad Jaynes, president/CEO of the SC Timber Producers Assn. Later, Jaynes said he was not aware of any other couple in the state still involved with a logging business for such an extended period. Although the family asked that no gifts be brought, the couple received two anyway. One was a red die cast Mack log truck mounted on a wood plaque. It was presented by Joe’s brother, Ed, and his wife, Patricia, and their son, Mark, who has worked for CSL for many, many years. Another was a sign that read “Logging, what else is there?” It was presented by fellow logger Kirkland Gruber and his wife Susan. CSL for many years worked with Westvaco and MeadWestvaco and today is affiliated with Plum Creek, as is Cone Logging Corp. CSL was featured in SLT in April 1983. Speaking for the Cone’s children, Jennifer Craven summed it up: “I think it was the best thing we have ever given our parents.” UndoubtSLT edly, Joe and Florence agree.
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The cool cake decor was very appropriate. Burning candles were no match for Florence and Joe.
Crad Jaynes, right, presented the couple with a plaque of appreciation from the South Carolina Timber Producers Assn.
Joe shows off SCTPA cap and toy Mack.
Front row: Sons Jeff, left, and Johnny Cone, right, flank their parents, Florence and Joe. Back row, daughters Joyce (left) and Janet Cone (right) flank Kenny and Jennifer Craven, their brother-in-law and sister.
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Joe at the controls of a loader, the place where he’s most alive.
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Political Correctness
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A lot of U.S. Native Americans say they are insulted by the racially charged name of the Washington Redskins. One might argue that to name a professional football team after Native Americans would exalt them as fine warriors, but no. We must be careful not to offend, and in the spirit of political correctness and courtesy, we must “move forward.” So, let’s ditch the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians. If your shorts are in a wad because of the reference the name Redskins makes to skin color, then we need to get rid of the Cleveland Browns. The Carolina Panthers obviously were named to keep the memory of militant blacks from the ’60s alive, but it’s offensive to whites. Likewise, the name New York Yankees offends the Southern population. Do you see a team named for the Confederacy? There is no room for any reference to that tragic war that cost this country so many young men’s lives. No doubt protestants are offended by the blatant references to the Catholic religion among our sports team names. It’s totally inappropriate to have the New Orleans Saints, the Los Angeles Angels or the San Diego Padres. Then there are the team names that glorify criminals who raped and pillaged. We are talking about the horrible Oakland Raiders, the Minnesota Vikings, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Pittsburgh Pirates! Now, let us address those teams that clearly send the wrong message to our children. The San Diego Chargers promote irresponsible fighting or even spending habits. The New York Giants and the San Francisco Giants promote obesity, a growing childhood epidemic among both adults and children. The Cincinnati Reds promote downers and/or barbiturates. And the Milwaukee Brewers? More bad news. It might also make some sense to change the name of the Oregon State women’s athletic teams to something other than “Beavers.” Never fear. The federal government will likely address this travesty. After all, in recent years it has stuck its nose in most everything else.
Retired In Florida
nets. All free! After a filling lunch, if we don’t have any doctor appointments, we might go to the flea market to see if any new white belts have come in or to buy a Rolex watch for $2. We’re usually back home by 2 to get ready for dinner. People start lining up for the early bird about 3, but we get there around 3:45 because we’re late eaters. We can take home enough food for the next day’s lunch and dinner, no to mention extra bread, crackers, packets of mustard, relish, ketchup, etc. At 5:30 we’re home to watch the news. By 7:30 we’re fast asleep. Then we get up and make five or six trips to the bathroom during the night, and it’s time to get up and start a new day. Doctor-related activities eat up lots of our retirement time. I enjoy reading old magazines in sub-zero temperatures in the waiting room, so I don’t mind. Calling for test results also helps the days fly by. It takes at least a half-hour just getting through the doctor’s phone menu. Then there’s the hold time until we’re connected to the right party. Should we find we still have time on our hands, volunteering provides a rewarding opportunity to help the less fortunate. Florida has the largest concentration of seniors under five feet and they need our help. I am a volunteer for The Vertically Challenged Over 80. I coach their basketball team, the Arthritic Avengers. The hoop is only 4-1⁄2 feet from the floor. You should see the look of confidence on their faces when they make a slam dunk! Food shopping is a problem for short seniors, or ‘bottom feeders’ as we call them, because they can’t reach the items on the upper shelves. There are many foods they’ve never tasted. After shopping, most seniors can’t remember where they parked their cars and wander the parking lot for hours while their food defrosts. Lastly, it’s important to choose a development with an impressive name. Italian names are very popular in Florida. They convey world travelers, uppity sophistication and wealth. Where would you rather live: Murray’s Condos or the Lakes of Venice? There’s no difference; they’re both owned by Murray, who is as cheap as they come.
My wife and I moved into a retirement development on Florida’s southeast coast. We’re living in the “Delray/Boca/Boynton Golf, Spa, Bath and Two rednecks are hunting and come across an abandoned well at an old Tennis Club on Lake Fakeahachee.” There are 3,000 lakes in Florida; only house site that has become overgrown. three are real. The first hunter, down on his hands and knees, peers over the edge and What do we do all day? Let me assure you, passing the time is not a says, “I can’t see any thing down there. I wonder how deep the old well is?” problem. Our days are eaten up by simple activities. Just getting out of our His companion responds, “Let’s throw something down and see how car takes 15 minutes. Trying to find where we parked takes 20 minutes. It long it takes for it to hit bottom.” takes a half-hour in the checkout line at Walmart, and an hour to return the They spot a rusted car transmission item the next day. entangled by brush and vines but manage to Let me take you through a typical day: free it. Tugging and groaning, they get it to We get up at 5, have a quick breakfast and Attorney: “Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, the edge of the well and pitch it in. join the early morning Walk-and-Fart Club. did you check for a pulse?” Suddenly, they hear a noise in the brush There are about 30 of us, and rain or shine, Witness: “No.” behind them and whirl around to see a goat we walk around the streets, all talking at Attorney: “Did you check for blood pressure?” crashing through the brush. Like a house on once. Every development has some late risWitness: “No.” fire, the goat dashes to the well and jumps ers who stay in bed until 6. After a nimble Attorney: “Did you check for breathing?” in without any hesitation. While standing walk, avoiding irate drivers out to make us Witness: “No.” there in their bewildered state, the men are road kill, we go back home, shower and Attorney: “So, then it is possible that the patient was approached by a farmer. change for the next activity. alive when you began the autopsy?” “You fellers seen a goat around here?” he My wife goes directly to the pool for her Witness: “No.” asks. underwater Pilate class, followed by gasping Attorney: “How can you be so sure doctor?” “Yeah, we did,” one hunter says. “It was for breath and CPR. I put on my Ask Me Witness: “Because his brain was on my desk in a jar.” the strangest thing. We were just standing About My Grandchildren T-shirt, plaid midAttorney: “I see, but could the patient have still been here a minute ago and a goat came running calf shorts, black socks and sandals and go alive, nevertheless?” through here at 90 miles an hour and to the clubhouse lobby for a nice nap. Witness: “Yes, it is possible that he could have been plowed headfirst into that well.” Before we know it, it’s time for lunch. “Not possible,” retorts the farmer. “I had We go to Costco to partake of the many tasty alive and practicing law.” him chained to an old transmission.” samples dispensed by ladies in white hair-
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INDUSTRY NEWS ROUNDUP As We See It—The ALC In DC: Gaining Traction
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he American Loggers Council (ALC) has been making trips to Washington since practically the beginning of the organization. The ALC founders decided Nelson to have the spring board of directors meeting in DC to give members the opportunity to visit with their elected officials and relevant agency officials on issues that impact their businesses. Over the years, the meetings ALC members have had with elected and
agency officials have ranged from upbeat, positive, and productive to, let’s just say, “less than productive,” and most anything in between. I remember a meeting we had one year with an elected official’s staffer where we must have been keeping her from something since she spent more time looking at her watch than paying attention to what we were trying to convey to her. Thankfully over the years the visits have been much more productive than that particular instance. I would have to say that our meetings this year were of the posi-
tive and productive variety. I believe we are making progress with our visits in the sense that we are being asked by officials to testify before Congress on issues that affect the timber industry. We’re building relationships with agency officials, and with elected officials and their staffs. It is becoming apparent that when there is an issue that impacts the timber harvesting profession the American Loggers Council is the “go to” organization to get a logger’s perspective on the issue. This year’s meeting started off with a brief update on timber tax issues from Dan Sakura of NAFO, followed by a briefing of the issues
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that ALC members would take with them on their Hill visits. Following the morning briefing ALC members made well over 100 visits to their elected and agency officials over the next day and a half. I would like to thank the sponsors that made the trip to attend and participate in Hill visits. I found it very beneficial to have representatives from two of the largest equipment manufacturers in the world to attend Hill visits with us. As loggers we tend to get “tunnel vision” on an issue and to get the perspective of the OEMs was very helpful not only for myself but for the staffers with whom we talked. It also gave these sponsors an opportunity to see
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INDUSTRY NEWS ROUNDUP first-hand what the ALC does on the political and legislative front for its members. Those sponsors with attendees were Caterpillar (Joe Allen, Chip Burroughs and Mike Duncan); John Deere (Kelly Granatier, Tom Trone, Craig McBeth and Collis Jones); and the Southern Loggers Cooperative (Bill Jones). In addition to Hill visits, the ALC held a session with numerous speak-
ers to dicuss various topics of importance. Those speakers were Jim Pena, USFS, discussing the Farm Bill and timber sale program issues; Daniel Cassidy, USDA, discussing research and education in bio-based products; Bill Imbergamo, FFRC, discussing the federal timber sale program, NEPA reform, and wildfire funding; Luke Loy, USDOT-FMCSA, discussing truck weight and CSA issues; Caitlin Rayman, USDOT-FHA, dis-
cussing the Truck Size and Weight Study; and Tom Trone, John Deere, discussing telematics in today’s new forestry equipment. The ALC spring fly in and board meeting was a great success, with a record number of members attending both components. In addition the ALC was asked to testify following the meeting on a package of four bills dealing with NEPA. We have also gained some traction on the youth
careers in logging issue. While the wheels of Congress often move at a snail’s pace compared to production on a logging job, it is imperative that we keep pushing the process along to ensure that we in the timber harvesting industry do not become the latest species to be listed as endangered. If you or your state are not represented by the American Loggers Council at the national level, then perhaps it is time for you to consider joining the ranks. When we are all pulling together towards a common goal, there isn’t anything that cannot be accomplished. Brian Nelson is the president of the American Loggers Council. He and his brother David and father Marvin own and operate Marvin Nelson Forest Products, Inc., Cornell, Mich.The American Loggers Council is a nonprofit 501(c) (6) corporation representing professional timber harvesters in 30 states. Visit americanloggers.org or call 409-625-0206.
NCFA Appoints Gibson As Executive VP North Carolina Forestry Assn. named former North Carolina legislator, Pryor Gibson, as Executive Vice President. “Obviously Pryor has a great working knowledge of the North Carolina General Assembly from his time in office,” explains NCFA President Ray Allen of Uwharrie Lumber Co. “But more importantly, he understands our membership. He understands the challenges we face on a regular basis.” During his tenure in the North Carolina General Assembly (19891990, 1999-2011), Gibson chaired more than 20 committees and was a chief sponsor of numerous forestry, environment, natural resource, tax and regulatory legislation. Gibson left the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2011 to serve the citizens of North Carolina as a senior advisor to Governor Beverly Perdue. Gibson earned his bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He also studied at North Carolina State University in its master’s management program and engineering at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Pellets, Wood Fiber Discussed At Conference Wood pellet production in the South and related woody feedstock issues dominated the discussion of the Bioenergy Fuels & Products 30
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INDUSTRY NEWS ROUNDUP Conference & Expo held March 1819 at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center in Atlanta. Forty-one speakers, 75 exhibitor companies and 325 bioenergy enthusiasts participated. Rick Holley, president and CEO of Plum Creek Timber, described how one of the nation’s largest timberland owners continues to step up as a participant in the fiber supply chain for new bioenergy markets. Plum Creek owns almost 7 million acres across 28 states that produce up to 18 million tons of wood fiber through around 3,000 loads of logs each day. Holley said wood pellet markets provide an immediate opportunity and that in 2013 20 million tons of fiber were required worldwide to produce 10 million tons of industrial pellets mostly for European markets. But by 2020, international wood pellet demand could reach 38 million tons, and a significant portion of the wood fiber will be supplied by the U.S. In a global market environment, Holley noted, U.S. producers, especially in the South, are in good position to take advantage. Plum Creek has holdings of 3.8 million acres in
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the South. “The U.S. South is the lowest cost fiber producer in the world on a delivered basis,” he said, noting that timberland in the region is sustainably managed in a stable business and political climate. Holley said the influx of bioenergy will not disrupt the current fiber marketplace. Instead, it is replacing demand that has disappeared as pulp and paper mills have closed. He said that since 1998 in the Southern U.S., 23 pulp and paper plants have closed accompanied by a demand reduction of more than 24 million tons. However, the volume of timber in the U.S. South has increased by 28%. Total current pulpwood consumption in the U.S. South is 140 million tons, Holley said, and new pellet production will increase pulpwood consumption 15%, or more than 20 million tons, by 2020. Alicia Cramer, president of Westervelt Renewable Energy, reviewed the history and timeline of the 130year-old Westervelt Company, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and addressed the new wood pellet plant in Aliceville, Ala. in 2013. She showed a pellet market production and con-
sumption map which forecasts more than 12 million tons of North America pellet production in 2020. Cramer said Westervelt plans to add to its wood pellet production capacity, which started up with an announced 275,000 tons annual production and is expandable by at least double that amount. Seth Ginther, executive director of the U.S. Industrial Pellet Assn., reported that U.S. pellets exports in 2013 exceeded expectations at 3.3 million tons but the sky’s the limit as the United Kingdom particularly continues to implement renewable energy policies and more electricity plants require biomass to co-fire with or replace coal. Dean McCraw of McCraw Energy spoke on the future of Southeastern wood supplies and fired a warning shot that southern seedling planting is undergoing a dramatic reduction accompanied by an increase in the number of closed or curtailed seedling nurseries. “Industrial landowners (TIMOs & REITs) are not helping the situation as most have lowered planting densities,” said McCraw, who is a forester.
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“Some have lowered densities to 218 stems/acre. Many are now planting high priced, low density seedlings for the sawtimber market.” Noting that the pulp and paper industry in the South is alive and well, McCraw said the race is on for 10 in. timber between pulpwood and sawtimber interests. If 10 in. goes to sawmills, the sawtimber volume increases to more than 70% of pine volume, he said. “We need to start planting trees now,” McCraw said, pointing to his slides of aerial views of cutover lands being converted to crop farming. “We need to bring back the landowner assistant programs that existed in the ’90s.” John Campbell, managing director of Rollcast Energy, confirmed that Rollcast is developing a biomass power plant in LaGrange, Ga., called Greenway Renewable Power. It will be similar to the one recently started up in Barnesville, Ga., that requires 500,000 tons of wood fuel per year. Bill Gaston of Gaston’s Tree Service and Wood Resource Recovery in Gainesville, Fla. spoke from the raw material supplier point of view. A par-
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INDUSTRY NEWS ROUNDUP ticipant in the tree service and debris disposal business since 1971, Gaston entered the renewable energy field and became a primary supplier to the new Gainesville Renewable Energy Center biomass power plant. The company today operates numerous wood recycling and grinding yards and in fact delivered the first load of fuel to the Gainesville plant.
Martin’s Life Celebrated May 4 In Midlothian, Va. Retired logging equipment specialist John Martin was remembered May 4 at a celebration service at the Brandermill Country Club in Midlothian, Martin Va. A resident of Midlothian, Martin, 69, died at his residence on April 30. He was diagnosed with lung cancer last December. Martin, who moved with his family from Scotland to Canada at age 19, began his sales career in the late ’60s with Timberjack, which hired him in 1967. Over the years he worked in various sales and management roles in the growing Tim-
berjack organization, traveling extensively in North America and around the world, calling on dealers, visiting with customers, and attending trade shows and dealer events. He relocated to the Richmond area in 1994. Passionate about his work, Martin transitioned from Timberjack to John Deere when Deere acquired Timberjack in 1999. He was a territory manager for Deere when he retired in 2010 after 40-plus years in logging equipment sales. Along the way, the outgoing Martin made countless enduring friendships. He was an avid and talented soccer player, competing professionally in Scotland and playing for 12 years for the Ingersoll Flyers in Ontario, where he was the president of the league for 10 of those years. He also became an accomplished golf player, frequently playing at Brandermill, where he was a member. Three of Martin’s former Timberjack-related associates, Dennis Vollmershausen, Doug Landers and Joe Parker, took part in the eulogy. A second memorial service, tentatively set for May 31, is planned in Woodstock, Ontario. Donations in Martin’s memory
may be made to Massey Cancer Center, 401 College St., Richmond, VA 23298/804-828-0450; the American Diabetes Assn. or to a charity of choice. Online condolences may be left for the family at timberjack2010@gmail.com. Survivors include his widow, three children, three sisters, five grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Morbark Expands Dealer Network Morbark, Inc., continues to aggressively expand its dealer network domestically and internationally, signing contracts to establish nine new dealers and expand the equipment offerings of three existing dealers over the past year. In the South, existing Morbark dealer James River Equipment, representing western North Carolina and Chester, Lancaster and York counties in South Carolina, has become an authorized dealer of Morbark tree care equipment, selling the company’s heavy-duty Beever line of brush chippers, as well as Morbark stump grinders.
Terex Environmental Expands Dealer Network Terex Environmental Equipment continues to experience growth in its arborist and forestry products due to the expanded product portfolio offering. This has led to an expansion of the dealer network in North America. New dealers in the South include: J & B Tractor, central Georgia and South Carolina; Latson Equipment, Texas; and Mechanical Right of Way, Missouri, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas.
Weyerhaeuser Supports SLC Fuel Depots Weyerhaeuser Co. has teamed up with the Southern Loggers Cooperative, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities and the Natural Capital Investment Fund to launch a program in which Weyerhaeuser has agreed to provide a financial guarantee that will assist the Southern Loggers Cooperative in expanding its network of loggerowned and operated diesel fuel
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INDUSTRY NEWS ROUNDUP depots in areas where the company has a significant operating presence. The guarantee is designed to mitigate the cost risk associated with establishing fuel depots. It specifies that should any of Weyerhaeuser’s mills in an identified region close within seven years, the SLC would recoup all or part of its establishment costs. After the agreement is signed, the level of commitment will decline each year until the end of year seven, when the agreement sunsets. “Diesel fuel is the life blood for timber producers,” says Todd Martin, executive director of SLC. “Weyerhaeuser’s commitment provides a financial backstop to ensure
depots located near their major facilities won’t be threatened with financial default.” The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities and the Natural Capital Investment Fund began supporting the SLC program in 2013, when they underwrote loans to support the organization’s first fuel depot venture in South Carolina. One of the challenges the groups identified was the major concern that a critical paper mill or sawmill would close after a fuel stop was established in its region. “We accepted the challenge to see if mill owners would provide a noncash loan guarantee that would miti-
gate this risk, and that’s the basis for this new program being launched with Weyerhaeuser,” says Endowment President Carlton Owen. “We asked Weyerhaeuser to consider being the founding partner for the corporate guarantee program. They saw the benefits to their own operations and to strengthening the nation’s timber harvester network and quickly agreed to help.”
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2005 Iron Wolf Crusher / Slasher 525 HP, Cat C15 power (4,480 hours). Comes with push bar, Hyd. gate, Additional wear items. Carrier: 980C (63x)..........................$250,000
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2009 John Deere 648H Log Skid- 2011 Prentice 234B Log Loader— 2006 John Deere 748GIII Log Skidder—Torque converter, JUST IN 3962 hours, CTR 426 Delimber der—Direct drive, Dual arch, Good ...........................................$87,500 ........................................$160,000 30.5x32 tires, New center & cradle ...........................................$85,000
2008 John Deere 648GIII Log Skidder—Direct Drive, Engine rebuild in August 2010, New center pins, New blade pins & bushings, Very straight ..............................................$69,500
2007 Prentice 2280 Knuckleboom Log Loader—CTR 320, 5600 hours (ECM verified), Tight, dry & Read to work...................................$69,500
2005 John Deere 748GIII Log Skidder—Very good 30.5 tires, New center pins, Dry all over, Cold a/c, Woods Ready! ..................................$69,500
2002 Hydro-Ax 670 Feller Bunch- 2005 Hydro-Ax 670—Very good 28L 2002 Hydro-Ax 570 Feller Buncher—New disc, New center pins, tires, Waratah 22" head, Ready to er—28L tires: 75%, Very straight & Rebuilt pump drive, Good 28L tires work...................................$75,000 tight ...................................$47,500 ...........................................$49,500
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Call or visit our website: www.tidewaterequip.com SKIDDERS 2006 CTR 950 .....................................$25,500 2001 Deere 648GIII .............................$40,500 2008 Deere 648H ................................$85,500 2010 Deere 648H ..............................$100,000 2005 Deere 748GIII .............................$57,000 2004 Tigercat 620C ............................$67,500 2005 Tigercat 620C ............................$66,000 2003 Tigercat 630C ............................$50,000 2004 Tigercat 630C ............................$61,000 2005 Tigercat 630C ............................$60,000 2005 Tigercat 630C ............................$75,000 2010 Tigercat 630D ..........................$140,000 2005 Timberjack 460D........................$57,500
FELLER BUNCHERS 2011 CAT 563....................................$119,900 2009 Deere 643J .................................$85,000 2007 Prentice 2470 .............................$65,000 2008 Prentice 2470 .............................$88,000 2008 Prentice 2570 .............................$89,000 2006 Tigercat 718 ...............................$65,000
2009 Tigercat 718E...........................$110,000 2012 Tigercat 718E...........................$192,000 2005 Tigercat 720D ............................$74,500 2006 Tigercat 720E.............................$78,500 2011 Tigercat 720E...........................$147,000 2005 Tigercat 724D ............................$69,500 2005 Tigercat 724D ............................$85,200 2004 Tigercat 822 .............................$167,500 2005 Timberking TK340 .....................$30,000 2004 Timberking TK360 .....................$61,100
2005 Tigercat 240B.............................$68,900
INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT 1997 MORBARK 22 ............................$69,000 2007 MORBARK 3800 WOOD HOG.$212,500 2010 MORBARK 4600XL..................$435,000
MISCELLANEOUS Assortment of tires and rims for Deere/Tigercat CTR 314 and 400 Delimbers .......................................$1000 to $18,000 Tigercat Shears and Saws ......................................$2,500 to $20,000
LOG LOADERS 2005 Deere 335C ................................$27,500 2005 Prentice 280 ...............................$42,500 2005 Prentice 280 ...............................$45,000 2006 Prentice 280 ...............................$45,000 2004 Prentice 410 ...............................$24,500 1999 Tigercat 230B.............................$16,000 2004 Tigercat 230B.............................$37,500 2002 Tigercat 240B.............................$34,100 2003 Tigercat 240B.............................$48,100 2004 Tigercat 240B.............................$53,500
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COMING EVENTS June
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6-7—Southeastern Wood Producers Assn., Jekyll Island Convention Center, Jekyll Island, Ga. Call 904845-7133; visit swpa.ag.
7-9—Alabama Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Perdido Beach Resort, Orange Beach, Ala. Call 334-2658733; visit alaforestry.org.
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11-12—West Virginia Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Canaan Valley State Park, Davis, W.Va. Call 304-372-1955; visit wvfa.org. 19-21—Georgia Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Hilton Head, SC. Call 478-992-8110; visit gfagrow.org.
August 22—Virginia Loggers Assn. annual meeting, The Homestead, Hot Springs, Va. Call 434-589-1942; visit valoggers.org. 23-24—Arkansas Timber Producers Assn. annual meeting, Hot Springs Convention Center, Hot Springs, Ark. Call 501-224-2232; visit arkloggers.com. 26-28—Louisiana Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Sam's Town Hotel & Casino, Shreveport, La. Call 318-443-2558; visit laforestry.com. 27-28—Florida Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Sawgrass Marriott Resort, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Call 850-222-5646; visit florida forest.org.
23-25—Arkansas Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Arlington Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark. Call 501-3742441; visit arkforests.org. 25-27—American Loggers Council annual meeting, Island Resort Casino, Escanaba, Mich. Call 409-6250206; visit americanloggers.org.
October 1-3—North Carolina Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Grandover Resort, Greensboro, NC. Call 800-2317723; visit ncforestry.org. 15-17—Timber Processing & Energy Expo, Portland Metropolitan Exposition Center, Portland, Ore. Visit tim berprocessingandenergyexpo.com. 15-17—Tennessee Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Doubletree Hotel, Oakridge, Tenn. Call 615-883-3832; visit tnforestry.com. 21-23—Texas Logging Council annual meeting, Location TBA, Lufkin, Tex. Call 409-384-0016.
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