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Vol. 43, No. 9
(Founded in 1972—Our 504th Consecutive Issue)
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After winning custody of his little girl, J.W. Henderson came back to the woods after more than a decade absent. He sold his successful right of way mowing company and started Southern H Logging last year. Story begins on PAGE 8. (David Abbott photo)
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SOUTHERN STUMPIN’ By David Abbott • Managing Editor • Ph. 334-834-1170 • Fax: 334-834-4525 • E-mail: david@hattonbrown.com
Wright For The Job A
s I travel around the Southeast visiting logdownturn— finally updating their fleets after son, is an AllWood customer (see p. 8 for story). ging operations to fill these pages, it’s years of buying only the bare minimum. And a It was when he left Washington in January always a treat when I get to spend a little 1996 that Wright took up residence at his current few, he thinks, have expanded their operations as time with some of the unique individuals well. And he has seen a few who got out of the post in Thomasville, which he says is Tidewathroughout this industry who have been around a ter’s largest store. In 2001 he also started lookbusiness getting back in. He points to one former little longer than I have—people like Charles logger who had become a timber dealer but ing after the Forsyth store. “It started as tempoWright, 60, who in July marked his 40th anniver- rary but became permanent.” couldn’t find anyone to do the work, so he had to sary with Tidewater Equipment. I sat down with start up his own crew again. Wright says it hasn’t been too difficult to split Wright in June at his home office in Thomas“It’s better to make a payment than to make his attention between both stores. “It’s not bad, ville, Ga., to ask his perspective on the state of repairs—we hear that from customers every with cell phones and modern communications.” logging and equipment today and how he’s seen day,” he says. A few years ago, it was the oppoHe also points out the benefit of having a group it evolve over the last four decades. of long- tenured people on whom he can rely. “In site. Even during the lowest point, he says, those Wright started in the parts department at who bought anything at all mostly still bought fact, there are three people who have been here Tidewater’s Perry, Fla. branch in July, 1974. He from the beginning, or soon after. Most of the new. About 90% of sales are trades, he estiwas 20, and at the time didn’t have much mates, and on the whole 65% of sales are new key people have been here as long as I have.” knowledge about logging. After high school he machines and 35% used. Cutters are the biggest had worked at the NAPA auto parts store where Rebound selling item. some loggers bought hydraulic hoses and afterWright reports that the market, in Georgia any- Challenges market parts for tractors and trucks, but that way, is stronger now than it has been in years. was about the extent of his experience when he Tidewater has been a Tigercat dealer for many From 2008-2009, the recession took a bite out of applied for the job at Tidewater. “It was just a business—Wright estimates that sales were near- years (before that it carried Franklin and others), job; I didn’t know it was going to become my and the brand’s reputation for quality makes it ly half of what they had been previously. But it career,” he says. popular with many customers. But Tigercat’s two has recovered: 2013 was the best year ever in Barely 18 months later, in January 1976, he both the Forsyth and Thomasville locations. And main competitors in the region both offer captive was promoted to the parts manager at the financing. Tigercat does not. Wright admits it is branch in Brunswick, Ga. Soon thereafter, Tide- it’s still going. “Our business hasn’t shown any sometimes a struggle to get customers approved. letdown from last year,” he says. “For it to be as water opened two new Georgia locations: “Depreciation used to be a key factor in financwet as it’s been this spring and winter, we are Hazlehurst in July of 1976 and Milledgeville in ing, that’s where the money was,” he says. “Toreally surprised at how good it has remained.” August 1977, both parts outlets. In September day if you don’t show a profit on the bottom line Although a few first-time loggers have started 1979, Wright accepted the branch manager they won’t touch you even though your credit’s position in Milledgeville. Upon that store’s clo- up, there hasn’t been a big influx of new blood. great.” His team primarily uses Wells Fargo or Rather, Wright observes, the recovery has been sure in 1984, he moved on to another new driven by older loggers—those who survived the GE, and some customers use their own banks. branch, this time in Washington, Ga., where he After selling the customer stayed through 1995. on the machine, the have Side note—in 2001 Tideto make sure they can actuwater sold that Washington ally get it. But each of location to its branch manthose sources have strict ager at the time, Stony regulations. At Wells Fargo Gilmore, who rechristened if a man has lost money in it as ForesTrac Equipment the last two business years, Services, Inc. In early he is automatically dis2005, when I started with qualified. And forget about Southern Loggin’ Times, it with a guy just starting one of my first articles was out: Wells Fargo demands on that store. Gilmore’s eight years experience and salesman, Jamie Smith, GE wants five. Young took me around to see loggers have to seek some of his customers on financing through estabmy first trip for my new lished relationships with job. Smith is now one of their own banks. “We had the owners of the Washingvery good market share ton store under its new last year, but if we’d had name, AllWood Equipment captive financing we feel Co. Our own super-preglike our market share nant Jessica Johnson visitwould have been much ed AllWood recently and greater,” Wright says. Still, will be writing a story on it he can’t feel too bad: he in coming months. Also, points out two Tidewater the subject of this month’s Charles Wright, hard at work in Thomasville, Ga. Contact him by email: cwright@tidewaterequip.com salesmen who each ➤ 46 cover story, J.W. Hender-
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Right Priorities ■ Southern H owner Henderson chose logging to have more time with his daughter.
Henderson started with a 648H last August, and added a second in February.
By David Abbott SHARON, Ga. t’s been a big year ★ full of changes for J.W. Henderson III, 36, the owner of Southern H Logging, LLC. It started in June 2013 when he was awarded full custody of his six-year-old daughter, Chloe. Prior to that he had been mowing power line corridors all over the state for Georgia Power under his company, J.W. Henderson, Inc., which he started in 2002. That work often kept him on the road Monday through Friday—a schedule that wouldn’t fit with a young child at home alone. Henderson—the J.W. stands for John Walton, incidentally—knew he had to do something different.
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Fortunately, an opportunity presented itself in the form of his close friend Trey Kennedy, forester with Gillis Ag and Timber, based in Soperton, Ga. “He’s the biggest reason I got started,” Henderson says of Kennedy. “I wouldn’t have gone to work for just anybody.” Henderson had relatives in logging, and he had previously worked in the woods for Henderson Logging, Inc. of Lincolnton, Ga., from the time he was 19 till he was 26, when he started the mowing company. “I enjoyed it at the time,” Henderson recalls of his former experience in the woods. “But right about the time I went into cutting right of ways, logging seemed to be falling apart.” Still, Henderson says he always kept up with logging, stopping to talk with loggers whenever he came across them on mowing
jobs, from hills to swamps throughout the state. “I’ve known him since we were 18 and he’s always had a passion for logging,” Kennedy says. The forester needed another logger to fill his procurement quota for Graphic Packaging in Macon. With logging seemingly on the rebound, Henderson decided it was time to give it a try. He sold J.W. Henderson, Inc.—though it is still operating under that name, minus his involvement—and started Southern H. He bought his first skidder in August last year, adding a second one this February. And the changes didn’t stop there. In December, he got remarried. “It was all perfect timing,” Henderson says. “It’s worked out really well.” Chloe has adjusted. Her new step-mother, Samantha, takes her to school in the mornings
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Daddy’s girl: Chloe and J.W. Henderson
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Henderson added a second 234 loader this summer to feed the Chambers DeLimbinator.
so Henderson can get to the woods early, and then he gets home by 5 to take care of her in the evenings. Samantha is also in school, for nursing, so her parents help out as well. “We have a lot of family and friends that support us,” he says. Chloe finished K5 in the spring with perfect attendance and this fall is starting first grade at Briarwood Academy. And on the weekends sometimes she goes to the woods with her dad. He even built a special seat on the bulldozer so she can ride with him for fun. “She likes it out here,” he says. Henderson says he used to enjoy hunting, but now his weekends are pretty full, focusing on his new wife and daughter. “The two of them are what’s important, so we do things where the three of us can be together. Until a year ago I was living by myself. God has been good to me.”
Left to right: J.W. Henderson, with right hand man Thomas Philips on his left; Stanley Chaney
Forester and friend Trey Kennedy
Equipment “Everyone told him not to get in too deep, but he stepped out and bought nice equipment,” Kennedy notes. “But you see he’s out here working, not working on machines.” He sets up with two Tigercat 234 loaders, a 2011 and a just-added 2008 model. The 2011 loads trucks while Henderson devotes the 2008 exclusively to delimbing, using a 2003 Chambers DeLimbinator for pulpwood and a Riley pullthrough unit for super pulpwood. Two John Deere 648H skidders—2011 and 2012 models— drag to the landing and a 2009 Tigercat 718 handles felling duties. A 1994 John Deere 650G bulldozer rounds out the roster. Henderson looks to AllWood Equipment in Washington, Ga., for his Tigercat needs. Salesman and part-owner Jaime Smith, as well as his partner Alan Coleman, have done well by him, the logger
Henderson looks to AllWood Equipment in Washington for Tigercat support.
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reports. “They’re always quick to get somebody out here when you need them.” On the John Deere side he does business with salesman Tommy Wilson of Flint Equipment in Grovetown. He bought the Chambers, a refurbished trade, directly from the company. Henderson also credits Keith Reemes, owner of Lanier Equipment in Lula, Ga., with helping him locate good used equipment throughout the Southeast. “I keep up with my stuff,” he says of his equipment. “The first tractor I bought for the mowing company is still out there working; it went with it when I sold it.” He and right hand man Thomas Phillips handle routine maintenance, changing oil and filters every 500 hours. They usually devote half a day on Saturday to maintenance and repairs. And he uses a pressure washer to clean everything thoroughly once a month. The Southern H crew can handle some light welding but so far has been turning to AllWood for much of its repair jobs, and Henderson says he will likely lean on Flint as well when the time comes. He also knows some good independent mechanics in the area, such as Tommy Martin, with whom he plans
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to do business when he needs help. Henderson deals with BBWH Insurers of Statesboro, the same company through which he was insured on his right of way company. He has talked to consultant Darlene McDonald about having her firm, Safety On Site, based in Marshallville, Ga., to handle safety meetings
and drug testing. He buys off-road fuel from J&H Oil Co. in Washington, Ga. He turns to Blackburn Automotive in Washington for tires. “When he started he told me he wasn’t going to buy trucks,” Kennedy recalls. “I told him he’d have to, and about a week later he called and said he was going to buy
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some trucks. He didn’t waste any time.” Kennedy believes that it is critical these days for loggers to own their own trucks. “There is no money in it, so there is a shortage of contract truckers. (The logger) makes no money off the trucks, but they are a necessary evil. Without them you can’t make production.”
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Southern H now has three trucks—a Kenworth and two Freightliners, 2002 and 2006 models—as well as four contract haulers: Wes Haywood, Wayne Benson, Hobbs Trucking, and Alfonzo Turner. Turner was the one who hauled Henderson’s first load. He has two Big John plantation trailers and two Pitts Load Payin’ series trailers, as well as a homemade trailer and a Big John lowboy. Henderson also bought two setout trucks to keep production running smoothly, so the loaders always have a trailer to load instead of just piling wood in between truck arrivals. In this way the crew is able to average 14 loads a day Monday through Thursday and 10 on Fridays.
Market Working under Kennedy at Gillis Ag and Timber, Southern H stays mostly in first and sometimes second thinning jobs on pine plantations. Tract sizes usually range from 100300 acres. Pulpwood, representing the majority of the crew’s production, goes to Graphic Packaging in Macon. The spec for Graphic Packaging is a 3 in. top, but Henderson says the mill is more concerned about having no
Henderson was initially hesitant to buy trucks but found there weren’t enough contractors to keep production moving.
needles in the load—another benefit of the Chambers DeLimbinator. They haul super pulpwood to the former Rayonier mill in Eatonton, now owned by Interfor. “When I left the woods before, we would work a couple days a week before the mills got full and cut everyone off,” Henderson says.
Now, he says, the situation with Graphic Packaging is much more stable. “I don’t know about other mills, but they have been great to us.” Aside from a little pinch in the spring, following a wet winter, the demand is pretty level, he says. “He always shows a huge concern for making sure everyone is happy—
me, the landowner, the mills,” Kennedy reports. “He wants everything to be done right, and he’s productive. Some loggers, you have to hold their hand, but I never have to tell J.W. what needs to be done.” Henderson is the only Georgia Master Timber Harvester on the University of Georgia’s registry
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from Taliaferro County. Chipping is something Henderson is considering as a possibility in his future, if only because he suspects it will become a necessity. “I think it may be something we will have to have because landowners will be asking for it,” he says. “Even if you’re not getting much money from it, the stands looks so much better. You just have to haul the chips so far, and it’s a big investment, so that makes it tough on the money end.”
Crew Thomas Phillips, the aforementioned right-hand man, has been with Henderson since the mowing crew— he was the only employee to make the jump with the boss. He drives one of the skidders and also mans a loader and the dozer sometimes, as needed. Brad Thackston drives the other skidder, Dan Burden runs the feller-buncher, and Nate Mendoza trims loads. Everett Kitchens runs one of the loaders, while Henderson
himself mans the other. “With me in the loader, I know what’s going on and I can oversee the skidders and trucks.” Everett Kitchens (when not in the loader), Bill Strother and David Collier are the company truck drivers. Southern H also employs a part-time secretary, Stacy Kay, who also handled the books for the mowing company. To attract, and retain, quality help, Henderson says he tries to pay a little above average. Woods employees earn an hourly rate, including over-
time pay. “I don’t mind them making a lot of hours, as long as we’re pumping loads out.” Truck drivers receive a percentage of what the truck makes. And they get a couple days a week of overtime. They’re a good group, he says. “This morning I got here at 5:45 and they came in right behind me.” He doesn’t really give set hours— it depends on the tract and the distance from home. The crew stays till (at least) the 14th load is on the road. “You can’t make up a lost load,” he says. “If you don’t get it today, it wont come tomorrow.”
Lessons Learned “He didn’t have much of a learning curve; he jumped right in and took off,” Kennedy says. “It wasn’t really new to him. He has a good head on his shoulders, and he’s learned and grown fast.” Henderson says he has learned a lot in the last year through trial and error. For instance, for a while he tried traveling long distances to the south to get into sandy soil due to the wet winter, but decided it didn’t pay off to go so far from home. Also when it was very wet, he says the crew moved three times in one week trying to get on better ground. “I don’t think I really gained anything from that,” he reflects. “When it’s that wet maybe it’s better to just sit home.” Originally he had the cutter driver cutting whole rows and then coming back and thinning the rows in between. That, he decided, was inefficient. He adds that he is constantly re-evaluating, tweaking and changing little things. Kennedy notes that all the loggers he contracts consider themselves something of a team, and help each other out. Henderson agrees, pointing especially to Ricky Barksdale, owner of Barksdale Timber in Lincolnton. “He was a big help to me when I got started, gave me a lot of advice.” Henderson even sent right hand man Phillips to Barksdale’s crew to train. A few months into his new career, an accident threatened to derail the venture. “There were four of us in the woods, and three of them were in that truck. So it was just me and the truck drivers for a while.” Barksdale sent his own men to help until Henderson’s crew could return. As for the difference between right of way mowing and logging, Henderson says the overhead was less on the former, but the landowners were harder to deal with. In many ways, he’s decided, the two careers are actually very SLT similar.
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Moving Forward ■ Freddy and Brantley Bazor have overcome difficult challenges to keep Bazor Pulpwood running strong. By Jay Donnell WAYNESBORO, Miss. reddy Bazor began his logging career in 1969, after his father, Fred ★ Bazor Sr., was killed in a logging accident. Freddy had completed a forestry degree from Mississippi State University and had just joined his father’s operation when the tragedy occurred. The elder Bazor was a producer for International Paper’s Buckatunna wood yard. After the death of his father, Freddy decided to make a name for himself in logging. He felt he had the right mix of education and background to succeed. He purchased a Ford tractor and Case tracked loader and went to work. Relying on the contacts he made with his father’s operation, he found that work was plentiful with IP. Later he began working with Leaf River in New
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A Barko 595 loader gets the job done for Bazor Pulpwood Company.
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Augusta—now Georgia-Pacific. He then worked for Scott Paper and Hood Industries. Then he contracted for Hankins Lumber Co. in Quitman. Today, Freddy Bazor’s son, Brantley, 49, helps run the business along with his father. Freddy, 70, is more involved on the logging end while Brantley handles the timber buying. A major emphasis on the job is crew safety. Each man is required to wear a hardhat and safety glasses. The crew is trained in all first aid procedures and the safety emphasis is paying off because the operation has not had a major accident on the job site in many years. For example, employees make sure to clean out the top of the engine and around the exhaust on each piece of equipment in an effort to help prevent any chance of a fire starting. Over the years, the Bazors have invested a lot of time training their men to become efficient, productive
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Bazor Pulpwood Co. is producing around 35 loads a week.
employees. Currently, most of the men have been with the operation for several years.
Production Bazor Pulpwood has had to downsize in recent years. Brantley believes his logging business, along with many others in the area, started to feel the effects of the economy right around the time Hurricane Katrina came through Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005. “Katrina was the start of it,” Bazor says. “Prices went downhill.” There has been plenty of timber in the area to go around, but Brantley believes the problem is the lack of consistency at the mills. “We have to bounce around from tract to tract because one day a mill will need sawlogs and the next day they’ll be full so then we’ve got to cut other products,” he explains. When Southern Loggin’ Times visited Bazor Pulpwood, they were producing around 35 loads a week. The company runs one crew and has eight employees. They prefer to clear-cut hardwood stands. The average size of the land they cut on is usually around 50 acres. “We’ve cut on 200 acres before so we’re equipped to handle any size of land really,” Brantley says. Employees usually arrive on site at 7 a.m. and leave whenever the trucks get out with the last load. Although there have been some tough economic times in the area, Brantley has reasons to be optimistic. “We’re hearing the housing markets are starting to pick up and we’ve seen sawlogs go up a little bit. Sawlogs have been doing really
well, especially the oaks,” he adds. The company hauls to Scotch Plywood and Hood Industries in Waynesboro, Miss. Chip-n-saw and pine pulpwood both are hauled to Georgia-Pacific in Bay Springs and Leaf River, Miss. Hardwood pulpwood goes to Georgia-Pacific in Meridian, Miss. and Boise Cascade in Jackson, Ala. And hardwood logs go to T.K. Stanley in Waynesboro and Al-Tom Forest Products in Prave, Miss.. One challenge for the business has been the lack of contract trucking available in the area. “It is hard to find good contract trucking because it’s just not out there like it was before the recession,” Bazor explains.
Equipment Lineup The company runs a Barko 595 loader, 726B Tigercat cutter and a 525C Cat skidder. They own two Mack trucks with Magnolia trailers. “We had four trucks, but we downsized after the recession and we’re just trying to make a living right now,” Bazor says. “We had weight scales for our trucks, but we don’t anymore because we had a tough time trying to keep them in sync.” They purchased their Cat skidder from Ryan Bruce, sales representative of Puckett Machinery in Hattiesburg, Miss. Their Barko loader came from Waters Truck and Tractor International Trucks in Meridi-
an, Miss. The company’s Tigercat cutter was bought used from an individual. Larry Stewart is the foreman and he operates the cutter, Arthur Everett operates the loader, Prince Blakely is the sawhand and Ray Felps runs the skidder. Willie Felps and Leroy Howard are the truck drivers. One of the biggest challenges for Bazor had been finding a reliable sawhand, but he’s got one now. Prince Blakely is the sawhand for Bazor Pulpwood and Brantley knows he’s lucky to have him on his crew. He does felling on the timber they can’t cut with the cutter, especially the hardwood. Sawhands are very hard to find right now and I
525C Cat skidder is now the lone skidder on the job, after Hurricane Katrina precipitated a downsizing.
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do not see many wanting to saw these days,” he says. The company maintains a shop just outside of Waynesboro in Progress Community. Almost all of their maintenance gets done there or on the job site. Firestone tires are used on most of the equipment.
History And Future It’s not every day you see loggers get into the sawmill business, but in 2003 Bazor Pulpwood acquired the Hankins Lumber Co. sawmill in Quitman shortly after the mill shut down. Freddy and Brantley Bazor were old friends of the Hankins family and had been eyeing the purchase of a mill for a long time. “We had been working with Hankins and they gave us a good price,” Brantley says. Brantley had worked in timber procurement over the years, including for Stone Container Corp. in Hodge, La., Weyerhaeuser in Bruce, Miss. and Weyerhaeuser in Waynesboro. He also worked in procurement for Hankins Lumber. Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other plans, and Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath forced the Bazors to shut the mill down in 2007. However, they were able to retain several of their employ-
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ees and reopen as Bazor Landscaping and Materials shortly thereafter, producing mulch and chips. In 2009, they shut the operation down for good as the effects of a dwindling economy became obstacles the Bazors could not overcome. Brantley and his father decided to put more of their money and efforts into logging. As the Bazors know very well, logging can have its own obstacles. “I think our biggest problem right now is consistency because a lot of mills are up and
down,” Brantley says. “Everybody is filling up Scotch Plywood right now. If we could consistently produce every day it would be great.” Though the company has had to downsize somewhat, that doesn’t mean the Bazors aren’t still going strong in the woods. Brantley and his father hope to see their business grow in the future now that the markets have begun to pick back up. Bazor Pulpwood Co. Inc. is a member of the Mississippi Loggers Assn. One thing he would like to
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see addressed is trucking. “I would love to see us be able to haul at least 88,000 lbs. on the interstate because it’s a lot safer than going through these small towns with a load of logs,” he says. “It would really help our situation as far as safety and time.” As to the immediate future, Brantley says, “I hope we can grow the business some and I’d like to SLT get a couple more trucks.” Contact Bazor Pulpwood by email: bazorb@yahoo.com
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Small But Soulful ■ South Carolina’s Pilgrim family has their priorities in line. By Jessica Johnson ★ SIX MILE, SC eroy Pilgrim, 60, isn’t the biggest logger in South Carolina. He’s not the baddest with all brand new equipment either. But he’s not only fine with that, he’s happy with it. He’s happy because his crew produces, his bills are paid and he
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spends time with his family. Pilgrim says, “We tried to get bigger. We were running two skidders, two loaders and got 60 loads a week. But we had some problems with keeping good help and with trucking.” He made the decision to drop back down to his current crew size—three men and three pieces of equipment, pushing about 30 loads a week. Now, the extra equipment
from the expansion is kept at the shop as spare. For Pilgrim, he believes this set up is more profitable than trying to hire another man and move more wood. Besides, he just likes it better this way, so, that’s what he goes with. It leaves time for family on Saturdays and God on Sundays—not to mention his hobby: dirt track racing. Family is important to Pilgrim.
Pilgrim and his son Brandon opted to downsize their operation, cutting it in half mostly for lack of quality labor and trucking.
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His company employs his brother Edrew as a truck driver, his wife Dianne as bookkeeper and his son Brandon, 29, as the cutter man. But Pilgrim will be the first to say that Brandon is way more than just an employee. He helps run the job if needed, acting as a foreman of sorts. Pilgrim’s Logging began in 1983, when Leroy decided to leave the crew on which he had been working
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The father-son team now keeps its older sidelined equipment as spares, with just one skidder, loader and cutter.
Leroy Pilgrim, Brandon Pilgrim, Russell Wilson, Steve Cadell (Not pictured, Edrew Pilgrim)
Pilgrim’s works mostly on thinning jobs.
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and go into business for himself. It’s been over 30 years, and he says while he still loves coming into work, he’s going to be ready to retire in a few years. Then Pilgrim’s Logging will be all Brandon’s. “I’ve logged my whole life,” Brandon says, “I enjoy it. That’s the main thing: enjoying what you do. I enjoy being outside, running the machinery.” When asked if he will expand again, after he takes over, he pauses before admitting, maybe not. “I feel comfortable doing what we’re doing. As long as I can keep the bills paid, we’ll run like we are. I like a non-stressful Friday.”
Job Site When Southern Loggin’ Times visited Pilgrim his crew was on a very special tract: a small piece of land, 23 acres, that is owned by the Army Corps. of Engineers on Lake Hartwell, SC. Brandon says that while the company will cut pretty much anything, this tract was definitely a unique one. It was bid out about a month before it had to be cut. “We pulled off a job we were halfway done with to come do this,” Brandon explains, “Our forester bid on it, throwing out a small number, never thinking we’d get it, and we did.”
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The crew now hauls about 30 loads a week.
The tract backs right up to Lake Hartwell and a fishing boat ramp is maybe 100 yards from the loader, so the crew deals with quite a few visitors. People just wander down the road and come up on the landing, Brandon points out, and as if on cue, a man with a walking stick comes out of the trees. When asked how they handle the visitors he says, “We do what they are doing: we watch them. Most of the time they are sitting up at the road just being nosy.” Pilgrim’s
preaches safety first, above all else, so watching these visitors helps cut down on possible accidents. “We didn’t watch them close enough though,” Brandon says with a bit of a frustrated laugh. “They stole our signs.” Pilgrim’s Logging doesn’t have a typical tract size. They’ve cut everything ranging from as small as five acres—provided it’s close and won’t require a lot of moving—to as big as 5,000 and 6,000 acres. They always try to stay within a 40
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to 50-miles radius of their home base of Six Mile. The crew will both thin and clear-cut. This tract is a thinning job, with Brandon reporting that he’s leaving trees scattered every 40 to 50 ft. “I enjoy thinning because there are a lot of separations, and on a clear-cut, it seems like there aren’t as many,” Brandon says. This particular tract has three log sorts and three pulpwood sorts. Pilgrim’s Logging both purchases timber and contract cuts for Log Creek Timber, under forester Robert Tripp. About 90% of what the crew cuts is timber purchased by Log Creek. Pilgrim says, “Logging and timber buying are two different things. If you’re out in the woods you don’t have time. Instead of spending weekends buying timber, we spend it with our family—doing what we like to do, rather than looking at tracts.” What timber he does purchase is from people calling up and asking for the crew to cut it. Pilgrim says he never goes out looking for timber, and doesn’t need to. Tripp keeps them busy. Main markets for Pilgrim’s include: Georgia-Pacific for plywood logs, West Fraser for saw timber, Winchester Lumber Co. and King Lumber Co. for pine logs, and
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Capps Brothers Wood Yard for pulpwood. Since Pilgrim’s only runs two trucks, typically Pilgrim tries to take wood to the closet market, to avoid low production.
Iron Registry Pilgrim’s Logging has two John Deere 648G-III skidders. One is kept at the shop as a spare and one is run by Russell Wilson. They have one older Prentice loader kept at the shop as a spare, while Pilgrim runs
a 2007 Tigercat 244 loader with a CSI buck saw and a CSI delimber. Brandon runs a 2012 Tigercat 718E feller-buncher, and the crew uses a Caterpillar D5 dozer. “I bought a brand new cutdown machine in 2009 from John Deere and had a bad experience,” Pilgrim says, so he switched to the Tigercat, which he feels has done a good job so far. He admits, though, that he prefers John Deere skidders. Pilgrim keeps three Stihl chain saws for hand felling—a 440, 441
and 460—and a smaller Stihl saw to trim up trucks. Both skidders were bought used from other loggers. Pilgrim says he really lucked out in getting the newest skidder from an area logger who found himself in a contract that required him to purchase new equipment almost every year. “I saved about $21,000 by buying it barely used. It only had 600 hours on it,” he explains. Six Mile Store and More, a service station that also supplies fuel
products, supplies all oil products. Recently, Pilgrim added fuel tanks to the shop, with diesel supplied by Eubanks Oil Co. This allows for less downtime when fueling. Pilgrim’s runs two trucks, a 1990 Kenworth that Pilgrim owns, and a 2006 Freightliner that Brandon owns. “Last October, when we downsized, we also downsized trucking,” Brandon explains. The crew used to make use of two contract trucks, the two they are currently running, and one other that Pilgrim owned. “Keeping good, dependable help was hard, so we downsized,” he finishes. Pilgrim’s has four trailers: one Pitts, one Magnolia, one Kauffman and one Stallings. Trucks and trailers run re-capped tires, to help cut down expenses, and Pilgrim hasn’t seen any major problems with them.
Maintenance Regimen Pilgrim’s Logging has two shops, a 30 X 40 and a 24 X 46, one at Brandon’s house and one at Leroy’s house. Having two shops comes in handy, Brandon says, since he and his father do all the maintenance themselves. Though, as many find, some of the newer machines with computerized engines require a trip to a servicing dealer. Pilgrim prefers OEM parts, but has lately found that he likes aftermarket filters, purchased through Flint Equipment in Greenville, SC. Tigercat machinery, and Tigercat parts, are purchased from Smith and Turner in Gainesville, Ga. Pilgrim keeps a few key spare parts for the Stihl saws as well. “Most of the time on Fridays we quit around 12 and perform maintenance,” Brandon says. The regimen includes greasing the machines, blowing out air filters and anything else that might need to be done. The father and son team also does truck maintenance, but that’s mostly on Saturdays.
Record Keeping Pilgrim believes in safety first—he does not want anyone getting hurt. Since Brandon will hand fell when needed, he follows the technique he was taught by the company’s workers’ comp company, Forestry Mutual—and of course, uses all requisite personal protective gear. Pilgrim and his wife, Dianne, do the bookwork together. She writes the checks and pays the bills, along with his help on Thursday nights. He keeps up with the insurance paperwork. Load tickets stay in the trucks until the end of day Thursday or Friday mornings, and are then turned into Log Creek on SLT Friday afternoons. 22
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Mid-South Menu ■ It includes machines, technology, services, supplies, contests, CE credits, cash prizes and more. By DK Knight STARKVILLE, Miss. f you’re looking to ★ enhance machine uptime and trim operating costs; thinking of buying portable or onboard scales; considering a new truck or trailer purchase; comparing off-road tire brands and/or tread designs; evaluating chippers and grinders; weighing rebuilt versus new skidder or component options; comparing attachments; or shopping for different types of services, you’d do well to attend the Mid-South Forestry Equipment Show, in gear September 19-20 just south of Starkville. You can explore all these interests and others from scores of exhibitors demonstrating or displaying their products or promoting their services. The big three— Caterpillar, John Deere and Tigercat—and their local dealers will show their latest innovative models, some of which will feature new
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engines and various replacement drums for performance enhancwhole tree chippers. ing technologies that save time and money The Goodsons and provide for peace Perhaps you want to of mind. meet a logging industry At least three TV personality. Go to heavy-duty truck dealthe Tigercat trailer at ers will be there, as B&G Equipment’s live will a few trailer dealdemo site and shake ers or manufacturers, hands with gentleman including Magnolia, Swamp Logger Bobby Pitts and Manac, a relGoodson and talk with ative newcomer to the South. Several scale Swamp Logger Bobby Goodson and David Harsh with a chain saw heavyweight his outgoing wife, Lori. They’re bound to be in brands will be reprean autographing mood. sented, including Accu-Ways, attachments department, look for If you want a shot at winning a which offers a low profile portable products by Rotobec, CSI, and cash prize of $1,000, you’ll have system. Ryan’s Equipment. If a mulcher or two chances on Saturday afternoon. Vermeer, Peterson, Rayco, Morportable sawmill may be part of To encourage attendees to linger at bark and Bandit chippers and/or your future, FAE and Wood-Mizer the show on Saturday, the Missisgrinders will be part of the mix. If have respective tools to offer. off-road tires are part of your focus, What about aftermarket parts and sippi Loggers Assn. (MLA) will give away the first $1,000 cash in check out the popular brands components? Look up River Ridge the live demo area at 1:50 p.m. and offered by GCR, Titan and Alliance. Equipment, which offers remanuthe second at 2:30 p.m. in the static Mississippi-based Chambersfactured John Deere G-III skidders display area. Only paid attendees DeLimbinator will work its chain and components; Truckers Supply, are eligible to win and the winners flail delimber, which it offers as which sells truck accessories; and must be present to claim the cash. new or remanufactured. In the Ryan’s Equipment, which makes
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Other Attractions Many adults, especially those of the older set, will want to examine the completely restored Taylor Logger’s Dream, which has served as the show’s unofficial “mascot” since 2006. Originally owned by Starkville logger J.D. Massey, who bought the skidder-loader around 1948, the machine was donated to the Mid-South Forestry Equipment Show by Massey’s son, Paul, in 2005. Taylor Machine Works, based in Louisville, Miss., just down Mississippi route 25 from the show site, moved the Loggers Dream to its factory for the restoration work. It is mounted on a 1955 Chevy 6400 Series, its third carrier. Now again in working order, the Loggers Dream will continue to welcome guests to the show grounds. Chain saw carvers from Artistry In Wood, which participated in the show for the first time in 2012, will be back again to captivate attendees with their skills. Regarding chain saws, Virginia antique saw collector David (Sawman) Harsh will show off and fire up some of his impressive array of one and two-man units. A “Poulan man” at heart, Harsh has collected hundreds of complete and partial saws in the last 15 years. He will be accompanied by fellow saw collector Collier Dodson, Jr. Equipment operators can compete for prizes and/or cash in the Caterpillar/Prentice Loader Cham-
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One bonus of this show is the food offered on-site by a couple of exhibitors. A donation to Log-ALoad For Kids is your ticket to some fine catfish and all the trimmings. Registration is $20. Spouse and accompanied children under age 18 are admitted free with paid attendee. Admission includes continuing education classes. The MLA will hold its 2014 Awards Banquet on-site at 6 p.m. Friday. Tickets for the barbecue meal are $10 for adults and $5 for children 10 and under. To purchase tickets contact the MLA office at 601-776-5754 by September 12. Guest speaker will be Walt Grayson, well-known Greenville, Miss. television personality, author and newspaper columnist.
Kids love to dig for prizes in sawdust pile.
pionship and in the skidder contest sponsored by the show itself. Contestants are advised to sign up early in the day. Children Activities, unique to the show, have been expanded this year, according to Misty Booth, Show Manager and Mississippi State University Forest Supervisor. One activity is the Sawdust Pile of Prizes, which gives kids 30 seconds to dig for cash and other prizes. On Friday the “dig” times begin at 8:30 a.m. and continue on the half hour through 3:30 p.m. On Saturday the times are 8:30 a.m., 9:15 a.m., 10 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:15 p.m., l p.m. and 1:45 p.m.
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As is customary, on-site continuing education classes and field presentations are being offered for loggers, foresters and landowners. Topics include timber market update, pine silviculture, equipment financing, short rotation hardwood plantations, oil spills and the DEQ, forestry ethics, power line demo, GPS applications, and operator select thinning. Appropriate credits will go to loggers and foresters who complete the work. Landowners can check out small woodlot machines, chemical application equipment and ATV exhibits.
Organized in 1984 and celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the Mid-South show is the longest running live equipment demo in the nation. The family-friendly venue always draws a strong turnout of exhibitors and visitors from the heart of the region’s forest products industry. For example, in 2012 MSFES attracted a total two-day attendance of 5,500. Value of the equipment and products demonstrated/displayed was approximately $15 million. For more information on the show, SLT visit midsouthforestry.org.
Doghouse Woodcrafts Booth TBD
Left Coast Supplies Booth S-9
4 Corner Properties, LLC Booth P-17
Dutch Lubricants Booth P-35
Lumberman’s Exchange Booth P-7
4-County Electric Power Association Booth S
FAE USA, Inc. Booth LNH-4
Lumbermen’s Equipment Digest Booth P-13
Forestry Suppliers Booth P-6
Magnolia Trailers Booth S-14
GCR Tire Center Booth S-10
Manac Trailers USA Booth S-12
Goodyear Commercial Tire & Service Centers Booth S-5
Mississippi 811 Booth P-12
Accu-Ways Booth S-2 Advanced Drainage Systems Booth P-5 Alliance Tire Americas, Inc. (Primex) Booth S-13 American Loggers Insurance Booth P-16 Artistry In Wood Booth TBD B&G Equipment Booth L-4, L-5
Hatton-Brown Publishers Booth P-4
Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) Booth P-25
Hawkins & Rawlinson Booth P-28
Mississippi Forestry Assoication Booth P-14
Horizon Insurance Group Booth P-41
Mississippi Forestry Commission Booth S-1
Bad Dog Tools Booth P-21
Howard Wilson Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram Booth S-17
Bandit Industries Booth L-3
Insurance & Risk Managers Booth P-18
Chambers DeLimbinator Booth LNH-7
Kinder Morgan Booth P-11
Construction Safety Products Booth P-27
Landmark Spatial Solutions Booth P-26
Davis-Garvin Agency Booth P-10
Ledkins Insurance Agency Booth P-38
Mississippi Loggers Association Booth P-2 MLA Insurance Services, Inc./Risk Mgmt Partners Booth P-1 MLA Log-A-Load for Kids Booth P-3 MSU College of Forest Resources Booth P-23
MSU Wildlife, Fisheries, & Aquaculture Extension Booth S-3 Nation’s Welding Service, Inc./Peterbilt of MS Booth S-11 Peterson Pacific Corp. Booth L-6 Puckett Machinery Company Booth LNH-2 Rayco Manufacturing Booth S-15 Ritchie Bros. Auctioneer America Booth P-9
Stribling Equipment Booth L-1, L-2 Tannehill Industries Booth S-23 Taylor Machine Works Booth Registration Timber Clothing Company Booth P-22 Titan Tire Booth S-6 TMS Machinery Sales Booth P-20 Tri-State Truck Center Booth S-4
River Ridge Equipment Booth S-21
Truckers’ Supply Company Booth S-8
Rotobec Booth S-18
Truckworx Kenworth Booth S-7
Ryans Equipment Company Booth P-34
USDOL-OSHA Booth P-24
Saw-Axe-Spur Production Company Booth P-15
Vermeer MidSouth Booth LNH-6
Sawman Dave Booth TBD Smith’s South-Central Sales Company Booth P-39 Southern Wildlife Unlimited Booth P-8
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The Mill Town ■ Built to support sawmills, most of these settlements sprang up only to fade away. By DK Knight
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eginning around 1875, railroads began having a significant impact on the logging and lumber trade. Lumbermen were no longer dependent on watercourses for sawmill sites and log transport means. Expanding rapidly, railroads and rail-related equipment enabled lumbermen to get closer to their forest resources and spider-like tramlines increased output in logging camps. Moreover, railroads helped make remote mill towns less isolated and got sawn products to market faster and more effectively. Railroads also helped spawn an unprecedented east-to-west industrial building boom that brought mills and plants to areas largely undeveloped in the U.S. In regions characterized by vast forests, these mills— many very large—produced lumber, shingles, lath, staves, barrel heading, boxes, shook, veneer, timbers and crossties, and generated untold tons of waste. The splendid virgin white pine forests of the northeastern and north central states were beginning to decline as the 20th century approached, causing many ambitious lumbermen, railroad barons and other wealthy “capitalists” to look South and/or West for new timberrelated opportunities. Tapping into railroad land grants or dealing with other lumber companies or individuals, they bought virgin timber tracts by the square mile. Some were speculators seeking to turn a quick profit; some built sawmills and allied plants. The “cut-out-and-get-out” era thus expanded into southern and western frontiers and lasted for more than 50 years. When one forest played out, there always was another in the next county, state or region. Or so it seemed. After a mill had exhausted its timber supply, in most instances the supporting town was simply abandoned, but the sawmill gear was usually relocated or sold. Sometimes owners attempted to sell their mill, town and supporting assets, whether they had remaining timber or not. Such was the case with an unidentified mill and town in Upper Michigan, near Ste. St. Marie, in the early 20th century. Southern Lumberman
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Allison Lumber Co., Bellamy, Ala., eventually added a gas station near its commissary.
carried an ad that offered a “manufacturing town, 120 houses, public building, school, lodge hall, hotel, boarding houses, store and buffet, including sawmill complete with modern machinery and power, dry kilns, etc.” Also included were 100,000 acres of hemlock and hardwood timberlands. Evidently the property had gone into receivership. Another ad in the magazine during the period offered a sawmill and mill town for sale in Millerton, Okla.
Isolation, Control Sawmills typically sprang up in remote backcountry, in many instances miles from towns of any size, often making it necessary for owners to build a village or settlement to meet the needs of mill workers. Railroads were frequently the only way in or out. Sometimes a town emerged pell-mell and barely met the housing and food needs of loggers and mill workers. Others were self-contained communities that included worker housing, schools, water system, churches, barber shop, hotel, commissary, doctor’s office, railroad depot, etc. Some even had a theater, farm, picnic area, golf course, library, club, filling station/garage, and baseball or basketball team. Some even had a newspaper; a few had a bank. Although some original mill towns remain intact today, with or without links to a mill, most were
short-lived. Credit exhausted forests, catastrophic fires, mismanagement, or a backfiring economy (read Great Depression). To one degree or another, some survived for decades. Many were named after the mill company, its owners, shareholders or family members. In addition to the towns themselves, the vast forests of the day were dotted with temporary camps and makeshift settlements for those who carried out tasks vital to the sawmill centerpiece: loggers and others workers who built and maintained railroads, maintained machinery, cared for livestock, cut and hewed crossties, supported turpentine operations or made staves for barrels. These facilities were usually built next to the main lines of logging railroads which connected them to the primary mill and mill town. Along with meeting essential needs, towns were viewed as a means of worker control by some company owners. More than a few businesses paid wages in scrip that was redeemable for goods only at the company store. An exchange for cash at the store could be done— usually at a discount—and this was also often the rule with local independent merchants. Other town owners prohibited or severely limited alcohol availability to help keep workers stable and productive. Moreover, company towns discouraged labor union activity. In keeping with the custom of the
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day, racial segregation ruled in housing, schools and most social activities. On occasions when labor unions stirred to life, there were separate unions for whites and blacks.
Critical Commentary Mill town owners were condemned at times, according to historical author W.T. Block. In his book, East Texas Mill Towns & Ghost Towns, Block noted that in 1915 George Creel published a story entitled “The Feudal Towns of Texas” in Harper’s Weekly. Creel lashed out at Texas-based Kirby Lumber Corp., particularly its towns of Kirbyville, Browndel and Bessmay. Block commented: “…Creel rebuked particularly a lifestyle whereby an infant was patted on the buttocks at birth by a company doctor, lived in a company house, was fed by the company store, barbered by the company barber, educated and churched in the company school and church, and at the time of death, buried in a company coffin in the company cemetery.” But Block also noted that life in sawmill towns of that era was typically no worse than life in towns owned or controlled by other industries, including mining, meat packing, fishing and textile manufacturing. While the work was tough, days long, wages poor and living standards scant, most workers and families apparently accepted these con-
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ditions and developed strong social bonds with other workers and families. Some companies provided for their workers and families in an exceptional manner, providing running water, electricity and private garden plots. Generally, the larger and more influential mill owners built and maintained advanced mill towns, many of which in the early 1900s had electricity and running water.
On The Move Many lumbermen followed timber resources from state to state and region to region. Frederick Weyerhaeuser left the cutover forests of Minnesota and northern Wisconsin to acquire vast holdings in the South and West. In addition to expanding his Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., he helped form Potlatch and Boise Cascade. Founded as a logging camp, the tiny town that bears his name endures in northern Wisconsin. Kansas City’s Robert A. Long, principal of Long-Bell Lumber Co., bought timberland and built mills in more than a half dozen states. William Carlisle’s pursuit of timber wealth left a trail through four states; he founded four towns bearing a common Indian name, Onalaska. His Carlisle Co. operated for 10 years in Wisconsin, 20 in Arkansas and eight in Texas before he sold out to West Timber Co. He then moved to Washington, settling about halfway between Longview and Olympia, to found another town and build his last mill, which closed in 1931. Onalaska faded in Arkansas but remains on Wisconsin, Texas and Washington maps.
The Tennessee ‘House’ Located southeast of Knoxville near the boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Townsend, Tenn. is the namesake of Col. Wilson Townsend, an accomplished Pennsylvania lumberman and railroad owner who moved to far eastern Tennessee in 1900. There he founded a large leather tanning business and soon launched a logging-lumber operation known as Little River Lumber Co., which flourished for 25 years. Within 15 years or so the logging settlements of Elkmont and Tremont were founded as satellite hubs for Townsend’s railroad and logging operations. At Tremont there was a unique building nicknamed the “House of Education, Salvation and Damnation.” The multipurpose structure served as a school, church, movie house and recreation facility. As was the case with many lumber companies, Little River’s logging camp housing was portable and could easily be transported
In east Tennessee, Little River Lumber Co. had settlements at Townsend, Elkmont and Tremont.
from one location to another by rail. Most such camps, given the steeply sloping terrain, were arranged in a line, or a “string,” and were commonly known as “stringtowns.” Townsend eventually sold his cutover land to the federal government for inclusion in the national park. Portions of the park’s highway leading to popular Cade’s Cove are built on one of the lumberman’s tram railroad beds.
Classic Relocation Its timber supply exhausted, Cady Lumber Co. abandoned the town of McNary, La., named for Cady owner James G. McNary, in early 1924 and headed west. Cady management valued its Negro labor force highly and could not envision operating a sawmill without its high performance employees. So it literally moved much of the town and mill—buildings, dwellings, machinery, livestock and about 800 people and their household possessions— via railroad. Two long trains were reportedly required. In late 1923 James McNary had arranged for Cady to put down new roots in the ponderosa pine high country of east central Arizona, having bought buildings, a sawmill and rights to the town of Cooley from lumberman Thomas Pollock of Flagstaff, who had erected the Cooley mill in 1916. (It is unclear if Pollock also previously operated a mill and town in Louisiana, but a community known as Pollock still exists just north of Alexandria, La.) McNary renamed Cooley after himself. Cady survived the Great Depression but became part of Southwest Lumber Mills Inc. in the middle ’30s. Interestingly, the town was desegregated in the late ’40s despite
James McNary’s opposition. The community bustled in the ’50s, boasting about 2,000 residents, about half of them black. The mill and related facilities employed more than 600. In 1960 McNary and all its affiliated properties were purchased by Southwest Forest Industries, which began to automate the mill and reduce employment. By the early ’70s the mill and community were in steep decline. Stone Container bought Southwest in 1987 and the mill eventually closed. Less than 500 residents remain in the town.
South-West Link Gilchrist, Ore. is believed to have been the last company owned mill town established in the 20th century. It was founded in 1938 by Gilchrist Timber Co., which relocated from Mississippi. Frank W. Gilchrist founded the family business in Saginaw, Mich. shortly after the Civil War and by the turn of the century had begun acquiring timberland in both Mississippi and Oregon. With the family’s Mississippi holdings nearing depletion, Gilchrist’s grandson, Frank W. Gilchrist, developed a plan to tap the family’s Oregon holdings. The only sizeable town near the Gilchrist property was Bend, about 50 miles away. So the town of Gilchrist was established. It included a bowling alley with billiard and card rooms, a restaurant, tavern, theater and high school. It was very modern by many standards. Its family cottages contained 700 sq. ft., had two bedrooms, running water and electricity. The company installed sewers, provided electricity and attended to all maintenance. Early on, about half the town’s 600 inhabitants were said to have been natives of Mississippi.
Ceasing operation in the 1980s, the Gilchrist mill was bought in 1996 and resumed operations under Crown Pacific Co.’s ownership. Years earlier, three Gilchrist grandsons had gradually sold the town site. In 2000 the town had about 500 residents. After leaving school at 14 to become a tally boy for a lumber inspection firm in Chicago, Edward Hines at 21 formed a wholesale lumber trading entity, Edward Hines Lumber Co. (EHLC) in 1892 and three years later bought his former employer’s firm. He reportedly became friends with Frederick Weyerhaeuser, who for a time served on EHLC’s board. Like many lumber wholesale merchants, Hines eventually expanded into timberland acquisitions and lumber manufacturing. He established and operated mills in South Dakota, Arkansas, Mississippi, Oregon and possibly other states. His timberland holdings in south Mississippi once amounted to 200,000 acres. After acquiring rights to 890MMBF of timber on Oregon’s Malheur National Forest in 1928, Hines simultaneously built the town of Hines and a large sawmill, which operated for decades before it was sold to Snow Mountain Pine in 1983. The mill was shut down in 1995. The company Hines founded opted out of lumber manufacturing in the 1980s but remains a large lumber distributor in the Chicago area.
Scotia’s Transition Perhaps the last functioning company-owned sawmill town in the country was Scotia, Calif., located in northern Humboldt County, some 30 miles south of Eureka near the coast. Pacific Lumber Co. (PALCO) founded Scotia in 1863 and contin-
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uously operated at least one mill there for almost 150 years, despite fires, floods, earthquakes, economic sinkholes, attacks from environmentalists, and numerous ownership changes. W. McPherson and Henry Weatherbee started operations along the Eel River River in 1863 and in 1882 began building the town of Forestville, only to change the name to Scotia a few years later. The mill town flourished from 1920-1950 as redwood lumber powerhouse PALCO built employee housing, stores, a school, a hospital, a skating rink and theater. Under the ownership of Maxxam, Inc., PALCO filed for bankruptcy protection in 2007 amid mounting debt and logging restrictions. In 2008 it was acquired by Mendocino Redwood Co. and spun off as Humbolt Redwood, which continues to operate a redwood sawmill in Scotia. As part of the restructuring plan, one of PALCO’s creditors gained control of the town of Scotia, which included 275 residential dwellings.
Long-Bell Lumber Co. in 1884. According to published accounts, Long became president of the company in 1895 and a year later he and W.S. King, W.F. Ryder and C.D. Morris chartered King-Ryder Lumber Co. This company bought timberland, erected a steam mill and created a town in Choctaw County, Ala. called Ryderville. Another Long-Bell affiliate, Company stores carried all types of essential goods. Globe Lumber Co., was cutting lumber at Yellow Pine, La., alongside the Columbia River near Webster Parish, by 1898. In the early Kelso, Wash. Calculating that it 1900s King-Ryder built a new would need thousands of workers to sawmill and town in Bon Ami, La., operate Long-Bell’s two new where it had bought 52,000 acres of sawmills, company officials decidpine timberland. Hudson River Lum- ed to build a new town and comber Co. was formed to acquire land missioned its engineers to plan it near DeRidder, La. and to operate a down to the sidewalks. Although sawmill there. In a major maneuver never officially a company town, for its time, Long-Bell in 1905 com- the port city of Longview was dedipleted a landmark transaction with cated in July 1923. The city remains Bradley-Ramsey Lumber Co. that a bustling wood products center effectively gave it control of the lon- today. gleaf pine lumber interests in the International Paper acquired state. Included were two sawmills Long-Bell in 1956 and few of the and a planer mill in Lake Charles; an former Long-Bell sawmills operatLong’s Legacy allied chemical plant; 30 miles of ed until the 1980s. A big, powerful enterprise, Long- narrow gauge railroad; various tugs, Bell Lumber Co., based in Kansas barges and other logging apparatus; The Texas Scene City, Mo., touched many communi- a turpentine operation; “six squares” East Texas’ stately pineywoods ties across several decades in a of land in Alexandria; and 115,000 dozen states of the Midwest, South acres of timberland, 65,000 of which were a magnet for lumbermen and and West. supported virgin longleaf. Long-Bell financiers. Perhaps the king was As a young man, Robert A. Long, or its sawmill affiliates also operated John Kirby, whose ‘Kirby Combine’ sawmill consortium in the a Kentucky native, in 1873 looked in Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, early 1900s consisted of more than west for adventure and a better Washington, Oregon and California. a dozen sawmills throwing off millivelihood. He wound up in Kansas The company’s largest southern lions of feet annually. Kirbyville City, where an uncle worked as a pine mill, operating as Longville was named in his honor. Nearby is Lumber Co., was sawing by 1908. It the community of Call, apparently the namesake of Dennis Call Jr., ceased operations who served as president of Cow when fire destroyed much of Creek Tram Co., one of Kirby’s affiliates. Kirby Forest Industries, the complex in as Kirby’s company would eventu1921 but later reopened as an oak ally be known, was acquired by Louisiana-Pacific in the last quarter flooring plant and of the 20th century. operated until Another powerful lumber person1927. Longville ality in the state was Arthur D. (La.) Lake Park today encompasses most of the mill site. The park consists of a baseball Logging camp housing was often the portable type. diamond, picnic grounds, walking bank cashier. A year later he relocattrails and a small lake that once ed to a smaller town in the state to served as the sawmill’s log pond. enter the hay business with a cousin, Long-Bell established Ludington Robert White, and Victor Bell, the Lumber Co. in 1913 and operated a son of the president of the bank sawmill near Ludington, La. until where his uncle was employed. The 1926. It founded Long-Bell Naval group found that the lumber they Stores in DeRidder in 1914. By stored their hay on sold better than 1918 the company reportedly had the hay itself, and this sparked the 10 southern sawmills turning out idea of opening a lumberyard. R.A. millions of board feet annually. Long and Co. was organized in 1875 Meanwhile, knowing that the and grew quickly. White died a coucompany’s southern timber was ple of years later, leaving Long and nearing depletion, Long-Bell’s Bell as principals. Operating 14 board looked west in 1918 and soon Taking them down the old fashioned way yards, R.A. Long and Co. became was buying property and timberland 28
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Temple, a principal in Southern Pine Lumber Co., later known as Temple Lumber Co., then as Temple Industries and even later as Temple Inland. The D in Temple’s name stands for Diboll, as in town of, the still-active site of a large mill complex now operated by Georgia-Pacific. IP bought Temple Inland in recent years and sold off its wood products manufacturing facilities. Temple evidently cared for and treated employees in an exceptional manner, for many developed a deep bond with Temple and his company. For example, during the Great Depression, Southern Pine Lumber Co. was forced to sell 100,000 acres for less than $3 an acre to keep its Diboll sawmill going. Many employees repaid the loyalty the company had shown them by lending the company small sums they had managed to save. Georgian J.H. Ratcliff resettled in Houston County, Tex. and a few years later built a small sawmill in the thick longleaf pine not far west of Lufkin. By 1889 the settlement had a post office and was known as Ratcliff. In the late 1800s Louisiana and Texas Lumber Co. began buying timberland around Ratcliff and by early 1901 had purchased J.H. Ratcliff’s sawmill and adjacent timberland. The company later struck a deal with Kansas City-based Central Coal and Coke Co., commonly known as the ‘Four C’ company, to build and operate a huge sawmill (300,000 feet per day) less than a mile south of the town center. The company also built housing for its workers, erected a commissary and built numerous tramlines and logging camps. The town of Ratcliff benefited greatly from the booming mill activity. Its population swelled to an estimated 10,000 and in 1910 it boasted a bank, telephone office, drug storehospital, depot, cafes, barber shops,
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saloons, churches, newspaper and various dry goods stores. Eventually, a rift developed between Four C management and the town’s merchants. In an attempt to keep its employees from trading with town merchants and to support its commissary, Four C had an 18-foot wooden wall erected and posted guards at night. However, sections of the wall were dynamited repeatedly, A trainload of splendid shortleaf in Arkansas thus thwarting Four C’s
attempt at effectively controlling Ratcliff’s commerce. Four C had cleared its 120,000 acres by 1917 and its mill was dismantled completely by 1923. Most, if not all, the land was sold to the federal government in 1935 to form the core of the Davy Crockett National Forest. Very few residents remain in Ratcliff but visitors do enjoy recreation at 100-acre Ratcliff Lake, part of which once
served as the Four C mill’s log pond. Long Leaf Lumber Co.’s town was Wiergate, named for owner Robert W. Wier. In many ways it was known as the “ideal sawmill town,” but its law enforcement icon, Cap Nolan, was known for his iron-fisted reputation. Despite his slight frame, many locals saw Nolan as “an intimidating man on horseback with a big hat, a big pistol, and a mysterious ‘loaded arm’ that made him invincible in a fight.” Note: Nolan is mentioned in the book, Nameless Towns-Texas Sawmill Communities 1880-1942, which is a most interesting and entertaining work on the life and times of residents of sawmill towns in the state.
Mississippi Mills One of the most unusual names given a mill town was that of Electric Mills, Miss., established in 1912 and built in concert with a large shortleaf pine sawmill that Sumter Lumber Co. operated there for 28 years. The sawmill was said to be “the first completely electrified mill in the country.” It generated electricity by burning waste developed at the mill and supplied power to residents in the town. It was often spoken of as “the brightest town south of St. Louis.” Sumter Lumber also built a 52-bed hospital at Electric Mills and staffed it with several doctors and nurses.
Seam-powered loader handled logs at Sumter Lumber Co., Electric Mills, Miss.
The mill shut down in 1941, its timberlands depleted. Flintkote Co. pur- Sumter Lumber coin chased certain of its assets, including its land, much of which was later sold to Weyerhaeuser Co. Some of the land was acquired by C.A. Barge, who had worked as assistant sales manager for Sumter Lumber Co. and had become the owner and operator of Ethel Lumber Co., Ethel, Miss. The name of that entity was later changed to C.A. Barge Lumber Co. and today operates as C.A. Barge Timberlands and is operated by 30
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Horses, big wheels and tough employees moved heavy longleaf logs.
his grandson, David Barge. Mississippi businessman and politician C.W. Rich left his mark in the greater Hattiesburg area in the late 1800s and early 1900s. His first sawmill was erected at namesake Richburg. That mill burned in 1897 and Rich opted to buy an existing plant a few miles north at Hattiesburg and gradually expanded, along the way taking in B.C. Hemphill of Michigan as a partner. They also owned a local ice and coal company. Rich also became mayor of Hattiesburg and is credited with pulling off a marathon 72-round boxing match known as “the great Sullivan-Kilrain contest.” Also making a name for himself in Mississippi was native Lucius O. Crosby, who, along with associates and with the backing of International Harvester Co., formed Goodyear Yellow Pine Co. in 1917. The new company exercised an option on the John Blodgett timber holdings in Pearl River County and built a sawmill, one of five it would own in the state. Crosby assumed complete control of the company in 1929. Meanwhile, he instituted a treeplanting program, a rare move in the 1920s. In 1934 he built a new sawmill at the tiny town of Stevenson (another published account spells it Stephenson). At any rate, he renamed the town after himself and went on enter the chemical and paint manufacturing industries. Crosby and his wife leased their considerable timberlands to St. Regis Paper Co. in 1960.
On Dierks crew, mules and heavy wagons moved logs to a railhead.
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late” with “no signs of life save that exhibited by the mosquito, the rattlesnake and the bear.” But Edgar W. (Cap) Gates, an ambitious lumberman from Iowa, recognized opportunity there. Gates enlisted the aid of his brother, Charles; veteran lumberman Edward S. Crossett; and an investor, Dr. John Watzek. Together they incorporated Crossett Lumber Co. in 1900, first setting up an office in the town of Hamburg, where he wanted to build a sawmill. This group had purchased Fordyce Lumber Co., Fordyce, Ark., in 1892. Encountering opposition from townspeople, Gates opted to build the sawmill in an isolated area nearby, bringing in a temporary mill and beginning work on the town of Crossett, named for Edward Crossett. Cap Gates and others in the community formed a league that acted as judge and jury. Troublesome workers—there were reportedly many, as was the situation among other such towns—were fired and vices constrained. All worker housing was painted “Crossett gray.” Church membership was encouraged and a gospel railroad car, which contained religious reading material, visited logging camps weekly. The company, which had diversified operations significantly over the years, relinquished control of the town to locals in 1946. GeorgiaPacific acquired what had evolved as The Crossett Co. in 1960. The Crossett facilities were the center of G-P’s early 1960s pioneering work in manufacturing plywood from southern pine. Gates and several partners also were stockholders in Jackson Lumber Co., Lockhart, Ala. Another major Arkansas lumber pioneer was the Dierks family, which began making lumber in a
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small way in the DeQueen area round 1900. A few years later the family had acquired substantial holdings in southeastern Oklahoma and by 1909 it was operating in that state at Bismark, the town it had erected, as Choctaw Lumber Co. Bismark’s name was later changed to Wright City. Dierks also operated a sawmill at Broken Bow, Okla. Its DeQueen mill having been destroyed by fire, the Dierks family decided in 1917 to erect a new sawmill and town in a settlement that had previously been known as Hardscrabble. That settlement, once the site of a logging camp that served the DeQueen facility, became known as Dierks. In the late 20s it erected a mill and town at Mountain Pine, Ark. and at Pine Valley, Okla.—the mills and towns mirrored each other and both had peak populations of around 1200—operating all interests as Dierks Lumber and Coal Co. The company changed its name to Dierks Forests, Inc. in 1954 and moved its headquarters from Kansas City to Hot Springs, Ark. In 1957 it erected a paper mill, operating as Dierks Paper Co. in Pine Bluff, Ark. Mountain Pine was located near Hot Springs but Pine Valley was very isolated. Mena, Ark. and Heav-
ener, Okla. were the nearest towns of any size, each 30 or so miles distant. Poor roads were at times impassible, leaving the railroad as the only dependable means of transportation. A Ford Model T truck, converted to a bus and fitted with flanged wheels for use on the railroad, carried passengers, mail, freight and goods for the company store. On the day before payday armed guards rode the “jitney” to secure the mill payroll on board. Dierks Forests was acquired by Weyerhaeuser in 1969, which rapidly expanded existing facilities, only to shut them down within 40 years.
Namesakes While many sawmill towns were named after prominent people—a mill principal or a member of a family—this was not always the case. Take the example of Bellamy, Ala., home to Allison Lumber Co. for some 80 years, beginning in 1899. Legend has it that the townspeople opted to break traditional custom and named the town for one of its most disrespected residents, Volney Bellamy, a Union army veteran of the Civil War. Alabama also had a mill town with an unusual name: Vreden-
burgh. Founded in 1911 by Peter Vredenburgh, an Illinois transplant, the town was home to an active sawmill until the ’70s. Wade’s Station, Ala. was the new crossroads home to a sawmill in 1888 constructed by Marcus Behrman, who with a partner established the Virgin Pine Lumber Co. In honor of Behrman, the community soon changed its name to Behrman. Owernship changed hands twice in the ensuing decade, going to a Canadian doctor named McTaggert, who changed the company name to Scotch Lumber in honor of his ancestry, and then to a group of New York investors, which began acquiring timber, formed the Alabama and Tombigbee Railroad Co. and changed the name of the town to Fulton. In 1902, they sold out to two partners who began building a bustling mill town, pieces of which Scotch Lumber would own for decades. One of those partners was William Harrigan, and the Harrigan family would remain a partner in the business until it sold to Canfor in 2013. According to a document posted on the town’s web site, South Carolina lumberman D.W. Alderman took a syllable from his last name (Al), one from the last name of a
friend named Coldwell (co) and one from his only daughter at the time, Lula (lu), to create the name Alcolu in the late 1880s. This is contrary to reports that the name represents three of Alderman’s daughters named Alma, Colleen and Lucille. The Alderman company store was erected in 1914. All sawmill workers were paid in “babbit,” metal coins stamped with the Alderman “A,” and were considered legal tender at the store. The building, now used as an antique showroom, still looks much like it did 100 years ago. Georgia-Pacific acquired the old Alderman mill in 1968. Century, Fla. emerged on the Florida panhandle-Alabama line in 1900—thus the name—to support Alger-Sullivan Lumber Co., owned by Gen. Russell A. Alger, the former Michigan Governor, U.S. Senator and President McKinley’s Secretary of War; and Martin H. Sullivan of Pensacola, Fla. Bogalusa, La. sprang up at the hands of the Goodyear family of Buffalo, NY, which amassed vast longleaf pine timber holdings in Louisiana and Mississippi and erected a gigantic sawmill just after 1900. The town’s name is a derivative of the Indian name for a local SLT creek, the Bogue Lusa.
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Achieving Inner Peace If you can start your day without caffeine. If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains. If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles. If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it. If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time. If you can take criticism and blame without resentment. If you can conquer tension without medical help. If you can relax without alcohol. If you can sleep without the aid of drugs… Then you are probably the family dog! Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can’t eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away.
The Price Of Passion
Rattlesnake Logic After the Boston Marathon bombing the news media spent days and weeks trying to determine why the perpetrators acted. They wanted to know what America did to make them so angry with us. They wanted to know why the men were not arrested before they did something so terrible. The media was in a tizzy about the presence of homegrown radicals and about why they could live among us and still hate us. Leave it to a Texan to put it all in perspective: “Here in west Texas I have rattlesnakes on my place, living among us. I have killed a rattlesnake on the front porch, on the back porch, in the barn, in the shop and on the driveway. In fact, I kill every rattlesnake I encounter. “I kill rattlesnakes because I know a rattlesnake will bite me and inject me with poison. I don’t stop to wonder why a rattlesnake will bite me; I know it will bite me because it’s a rattlesnake. That’s what rattlesnakes do. I don’t try to reason with a rattlesnake; I just kill it. I don’t try to get to know rattlesnakes better so I can find a way to live with them and convince them not to bite me. I just kill them. I don’t quiz a rattlesnake to see it I can find out where the other snakes are, because (a) it won’t tell me, and (b) I already know they live on my place.
Rome Plow Tree Puller Back in the 1970s when oil prices began to escalate, the whole tree chipper was developed, among other things, to utilize smaller trees and the branches and tops of larger ones. One attachment manufacturer at the time, Rome Plow Co., went the other way by devising a tree puller, which could extract a plantation pine— stump, roots and all. The idea was that the root balls could be used as boiler fuel, but it never “took root.”
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“So, I just kill them as I encounter them. “I don’t look for possibilities that may help change the rattlesnake to a non-poisonous snake. Also, I know for every rattlesnake I kill, two more are lurking out there in the brush. “In my lifetime I will never be able to rid my place of rattlesnakes. Do I fear them? No! Do I respect what they can do to me? Yes! And because of that respect I give them the fair justice they deserve. I kill them. “Maybe as a country we should start giving more thought to the fact that these jihadists are just like rattlesnakes, and act accordingly! “I love this country; it’s the damn government I’m afraid of!”
A young man found himself lost in a forest when he came upon a small house. He knocked on the door and was greeted by an ancient Chinese man with a long, gray beard. “I’m lost,” said the man. “Can you put me up for the night?” “Certainly,” the Chinese man said, “but on one condition. If you so much as lay a finger on my daughter, I will inflict upon you the three worst Chinese tortures known to man.” “Ok,” said the man, thinking that the daughter must be pretty old as well, and entered the house. Before dinner, the daughter came down the stairs. She was young, beautiful, and had a fantastic figure. She was obviously attracted to the young man since she couldn’t keep her eyes off him during the meal. Remembering the old man’s warning, he ignored her and went up to bed alone. But during he night he could bear it no longer, and sneaked into her room for a night of passion. He was careful to keep everything quiet so the old man wouldn’t hear. Near dawn he crept back to his room. He awoke later with the feeling of pressure on his chest. He found a large rock on his chest with a note on it that read, Chinese Torture 1: large rock on chest. “Well, that’s pretty crappy,” he thought, yawning and trying to become fully alert. He moved the rock off his chest, got out of bed, shuffled over to the window and threw it out. As he did so he noticed another note that read: Chinese Torture 2: rock tied to left testicle. Panicking, he glanced down and saw the cord that was getting close to the end. Figuring that a few broken bones would be better than castration, he jumped out of the window after the rock. As he plummeted downward he saw a large sign on the ground that read, Chinese Torture 3: right testicle tied to bedpost.
The Flour Sack In that long time ago when things were saved, When roads were graveled and barrels were staved, When worn-out clothing was used as rags, And there were no plastic wrap or bags, And the well and the pump were way out back, A versatile item was the flour sack. Pillsbury’s Best, Mother’s and Gold Medal, too, Stamped their names proudly in purple and blue. The string sewn on top was pulled and kept The flour emptied and spills were swept. The bag was folded and stored intact— That durable, practical flour sack. The sack could be filled with feathers and down For a pillow, or t’would make a nice sleeping gown. It could carry a book and be a school bag, Or become a mail sack slung over a nag. It made a very convenient pack, That adaptable, cotton flour sack. Bleached and sewn, it was dutifully worn As bibs, diapers, or kerchief adorned. It was made into skirts, blouses and slips, And mom braided rugs from one hundred strips. She made ruffled curtains for the house or shack, From that humble but treasured flour sack! As a strainer for milk or apple juice, To wave men in, it was a very good use; As a sling for a sprained wrist or a break, To help mother roll up a jelly cake, As a window shade or to stuff a crack, We used a sturdy, common flour sack! As dish towels, embroidered or not, They covered up dough, helped pass pans so hot, Tied up dishes for neighbors in need, And for men out in the field to seed; They dried dishes from pan, not rack, That absorbent, handy flour sack! We polished and cleaned stove and table, Scoured and scrubbed from cellar to gable, We dusted the bureau and oak bed post, Made costumes for October (a scary ghost), And a parachute for a cat named Jack, From that lowly, useful old flour sack! So now my friends, when they ask you, As curious youngsters often do: “Before plastic wrap, Elmer’s Glue And paper towels, what did you do?” Tell them loudly and with pride don’t lack, “Grandmother had that wonderful flour sack!”
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INDUSTRY NEWS ROUNDUP As We See It—It Just Makes Sense! By Danny Dructor
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or 17 years, members of the American Loggers Council have been going to Washington to promote the idea that trucks hauling state legal weight limits for agri- Dructor cultural commodities,
including unrefined forest products, should be allowed to access interstate highways, and for 17 years, this common sense approach to standardizing weight limits within state boundaries has gone unnoticed. Until recently!
On July 24 Congressman Steve Southerland of Florida introduced the Right To Haul Act of 2014, H.R. 5201, that if passed would do just that, so long as they do not exceed individual state weight limitations. The language is simple, “…individual state weight limitations for an agricultural commodity that are applicable to state highways shall be applicable to the Interstate System within the state’s borders for vehicles
carrying an agricultural commodity.” In the bill such a commodity is defined as, “…any agricultural commodity (including horticulture, aquaculture, and floriculture), food feed fiber, forestry products, livestock (including elk, reindeer, bison, horses, or deer), or insects and any product thereof.” What does this mean for the logging industry? Several things. First, you would now be able to transport your state legal loads on a safer and more efficient route to the mill or processing facility, avoiding the intersections in town and communities where vehicle and pedestrian accidents are more likely to occur. Second, your loads would be hauled on infrastructure that is typically much better than the secondary roads found in the state and county. Third, when you travel through a weigh station along the interstate, as long as you meet the state legal requirements of the state you are hauling in, you would not be fined for an overweight load. There are many states that already have in place weight tolerances for agricultural commodities, and allowing those loads on interstate highways would help to standardize state and federal policies and improve the overall safety to the motoring public. One key element of the bill is that it does not require the states to change their existing regulations. This has been a deterrent of other attempts to change weight limits on the interstates, as often states and counties do not have the funds to bring secondary roads and bridges up to the level where they can support heavier loads. One such proposal being pushed by other groups calls for a 6-axles 97,000 pound maximum on interstates, but the question remains, how do you legally get it there? We thank Congressman Southerland for introducing the Right to Haul Act and request that you seek the support of your members of Congress in seeing that H .R. 5201 is passed in both the House and the Senate. It just makes sense! Dructor is Executive Vice-President of the American Loggers Council, a non-profit 501(c) (6) corporation representing professional timber harvesters in 30 states. For more information, visit www.americanloggers.org or phone 409-625-0206.
Rebuilding Begins At Plywood Mill Winston Plywood and Veneer is rebuilding the plywood complex in Louisville, Miss. that was 38
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smashed by a tornado on April 28. WPV’s parent companies, New Wood Resources and Atlas Holdings, reportedly acquired the idled veneer and plywood mill in the first
quarter of this year. Oregon-based Natron Wood Products took over the former GP facility in 2013 and was about to hire production personnel when the tornado hit Win-
ston County, killing 10 in the area. Demonstrating its commitment to rebuild the plant, New Wood Resources presented a check for more than $72,000 to the Commu-
nity Based Recovery Committee known as “Winston Strong.”
Weyco To Upgrade Philadelphia Sawmill Weyerhaeuser announced it will make a significant capital investment over a three-year period to install two continuous direct-fired kilns and a new planer mill at its softwood lumber mill in Philadelphia, Miss. Work on the upgrades is expected to begin immediately. To launch these projects, the company has been working with the Mississippi Development Authority. “Customer demand for lumber products has improved over the last year, and we are excited for this reinvestment opportunity at Philadelphia,” says Stan Webb, unit manager at Weyerhaeuser’s lumber mill in Philadelphia, Miss. Weyerhaeuser’s Philadelphia lumber mill employs 188 and produces 220MMBF of southern yellow pine lumber.
‘Black’ Pellet Mill Planned For Monticello Zilkha Biomass Energy announced it is building a facility in Monticello, Ark. to manufacture Zilkha’s “Black” pellet, the first commercially available “advanced pellet” in the biomass industry, according to the company. Zilkha plans to invest $90 million in the facility and create 52 jobs. “Power companies across the globe are looking for renewable energy alternatives and biomass wood pellets stand as one of the most practical and cost-effective solutions,” says Jack Holmes, CEO of Zilkha Biomass Energy. “This plant in Monticello will be one of Zilkha’s largest and will help us capture more of the growing biomass energy market. Our Black pellets have a set of beneficial qualities, such as water-resistance, that make it a more attractive option than traditional wood pellets.” Zilkha Black pellets can be easily integrated into coal-fired plants to create cleaner emissions, allowing plants to more easily comply with clean air regulations, and energy companies to build fewer new power plants, Zilkha claims. The pellets are water resistant, which allows them to be transported and stored outside like coal. “Monticello is proud to have been chosen as the site for Zilkha Biomass Energy,” says Nita McDaniel, executive director of the Monticello Economic Development Commission. “The manufacturing of Zilkha Black Pellets is a natural fit for the community ➤ 44 40
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Tigercat Breaks Ground For Manufacturing Facility
Tigercat is expanding its manufacturing footprint by 20%.
Tigercat broke ground for a $12 million, 127,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Paris, Ontario, Canada. Several hundred employees, community officials, Tigercat partners and supporters attended an official ceremony in early August to mark the start of construction. Tigercat also announced the purchase of an existing 66,000 sq. ft. plant in Kitchener, Ontario. “This is a significant milestone for our company,” states President Tony Iarocci. Tigercat has seven southern Ontario locations, a large parts distribution and training center in Georgia, a sales and distribution facility in Sweden and a dealer network that spans the globe, covering the forestry regions of North America, South America, Australasia, southern Africa, Europe and Russia. The new building will be located on the same property as the current Paris, Ontario facility, on a previously vacant lot at the northwest corner. The plant will initially focus on swing machines and cut-to-length attachments including the 200 series material handlers and the 800 series track feller-bunchers, harvesters and shovel loggers. “These two projects will increase the company’s manufacturing footprint by 20%,” Iarocci says. “The space is urgently needed for existing demand and future growth. We already have over 1,200 employees and 200 or 300 more subcontractors.” Vicano, the construction company hired for the project, will be including numerous crane lanes and flexible assembly lines along with a large office space for an engineering group allowing the building to be flexible for future projects.
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40 ➤ alongside the University of Arkansas at Monticello’s School of Forest Resources. Our heritage is rich in the timber industry and this heritage continues to move us forward with sustainable wood-based products.” Zilkha Biomass Energy LLC is headquartered in Houston. Its web site reports that another Zilkha plant, Zilkha Biomass Selma (ZBS), will be commissioned to produce Zilkha Black Pellets in Selma, Ala. this year. This plant will have production capacity of 275,000 metric
tons of pellets per year. The plant is at the site of the former Dixie Pellets plant, which Zilkha is retrofitting with ZBE process technology to produce the Zilkha Black pellet.
Canfor Buys Two More SYP Sawmills Canadian-based Canfor Corp. announced the purchase of the operating assets of Balfour Lumber Co., including a sawmill at Thomasville, Ga., and of Beadles Lumber Co. and
Beadles Lumber’s history goes back to 1941.
its sawmill at Moultrie, Ga. The Balfour and Beadles SYP mills have a combined capacity of 210MMBF. The purchase is structured with 55% being acquired in January 2015 and the balance after a two-year period. “The Balfour and Beadles sawmills are strong high performing assets in a supply area of sustainable and quality fiber,” says Canfor Corp. President and CEO Don Kayne. “These mills and the management team in Georgia will contribute to the strength of Canfor.” A year ago Canfor purchased Scotch Gulf Lumber and its three sawmills in Alabama. Beadles Lumber has operated at Moultrie since 1951, though the company started sawmilling under Clarence Beadles in Mississippi in 1941, before he moved the mill to Moultrie. His son, Victor, and Victor’s son, Bryant, have led the business through the years, including the purchase of the sawmill at Thomaston from Balfour Lumber in 2001. Since 2012, three Canadian companies—West Fraser, Interfor and Canfor—have purchased 13 southern pine sawmills.
SYP Sawmillers Are Upgrading Operations A readership survey conducted in the spring by Timber Processing magazine, an affiliate of Southern Loggin’ Times, reveals that many southern pine sawmill operators are investing their operations. Here are some of the findings: —61% have already or will commit $1-4 million toward investment in machinery and systems in 20142015. —The leading areas of that investment (besides maintenance) are: dry kilns and/or controls; planer mill strapping/packaging; downstream sawing (gang/edger/trimmer); boilers; automated lumber grading in the planer mill; planer mill sorting/stacking. —50% had already invested and put into operation $1-4 million in machinery and systems during 2012-2013. —44% say their 2012-2013 project return on investment was excellent, and 33% say it was good. —67% forecast their lumber market situation for the remainder of this year and next year as good, and 28% say excellent. —44% expect to take less downtime this year as compared to last. —61% expect to produce at 90100% of capacity this year. 44
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6 ➤ represent more than 50% of the market share in their respective territories all on their own. The #1 priority, Wright believes, is taking care of customers. That’s what creates repeat business, which in turn makes the company profitable. “Repeat business keeps us alive,” he says. Personal relationships, he believes, play as a big a role as brand loyalty. “It’s very important to establish trust,” he advises. “Don’t tell the customer anything you can’t fulfill, even if it costs you the deal. Don’t make empty promises. That’s where we gain people’s business. Earn a reputation that you will do what you tell the man you’re going to do and he won’t forget that.” He notes that it takes a salesperson about three years
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Concerns When I asked him what things worry him about the industry today, he quickly listed the top two: age and trucking (note that these are the very reasons cited for downsizing by Pilgrims’ Logging, on page 18). “The rates they get paid for trucking are so low that nobody wants to get into it, but it’s a necessary evil.” Because of this, there aren’t enough private contractors to go around. As for the age of the logging force, he says, “Everybody’s getting like me.” The majority of his customers are 55 and over; many in their late
60s and early 70s, and he’s seen few under 40 entering the field. “It’s tough for the young to get started and some of the parents now are teaching their kids not to get into it because there’s not enough money.” The same is true, he observes, in the labor force. Logging is apparently no country for young men, these days. “We are looking for a work force that’s really not there,” he says. Most go to college, and too many of those available just want to work long enough to pay for booze or meth. The irony is that many loggers he’s seen are paying their men more than those with college degrees can make—$40,000 a year and more. And, more and more loggers are offering health insurance. And the
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work is much safer and less physically demanding than it’s ever been. But some of the young still don’t want to work in the woods. Wright points to one logger who paid a loader operator $1,000 a week ($52,000 a year); he still walked off the job.
Changes “It’s amazing to see how far we’ve come in 40 years,” Wright reflects. “Equipment has gotten bigger, more productive, with more creature comforts. When I moved to Milledgeville, one customer had 11 skidders on one job. Now you can do with one skidder what you used to do with four.” And it’s not just the equipment.
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Loggers have changed as well. “When I started, a man could make a better than average living just by being a hard worker 15 hours a day. Today the man that owns the job really needs to take care of business more than work in the woods, because the expenses will eat you up.” He has seen more logging owners with college degrees and generally become more business savvy. “There was a time when there was more money in it,” he says. “So there was more room for mistakes. Today there is no room because the margins are so tight.” One thing that hasn’t changed: pay. “It’s pretty close to what it was in 1980,” he says. “We’ve squeezed more productivity, the mills have squeezed profitability on the other end.” Fuel efficiency is another change, with skidders now burning sometimes about half of the gallons per hour as they did a few years ago, he says. Despite some concerns about Tier 4 regulations, Wright says that the skidders are running under 4.8 gallons per hour, compared to 5.8 on Tier 3-compliant engines. “With all the changes in engines, I think all the manufacturers—Cat, Deere and Tigercat— have done a pretty good job.”
Around the time he was getting his career with Tidewater going, Wright was also starting his family life. He and his wife Robbin have been married for almost 40 years. Their son Stacey, 38, has been a parts manager with Tidewater for 19 years, and their other son Kevin,
35, is a Tigercat field rep. Does he have any plans for retirement? “No,” he gives an answer decidedly lacking in hesitation. “I don’t have a lot of hobbies or habits.” He spends about 50% of his time in the woods, even now, and still sees many of the same loggers
he’s known for 35 years. In other cases, he sees the sons of old friends and customers taking over the operations. I ask him if he still enjoys what he does. “I love it,” he replies immediately and with utter conviction; by the tone of his voice SLT I can tell he really means it.
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Telematics; Your Link To Equipment Cost Savings By Chris Rowan Product Support Training Manager, Cat Dealer Thompson Machinery
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o remain competitive successful loggers are always trying to find ways to boost production or reduce expense, to either sell more or Chris Rowan spend less. The key to finding ways to do either is more information. Telematics, or remote reporting of equipment information through satellite or cellular service, can generate the information a business needs to sell more and spend less. Many forestry equipment manufacturers are now offering a telematics option on their products and some of them come standard. Telematics installed by the OEM as a standard option will often be less
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expensive than a retrofit, and it is certainly hard to beat the convenience; however, a quick search of the internet will turn up aftermarket telematics vendors who can provide varying degrees of information on your equipment. At its heart, a telematics system includes hardware and software that provides information ranging from the location of your equipment all the way up to complete diagnostics of all machine components, including fault codes, event codes, preventive maintenance due, and so on. Many of these systems include a controller installed on the machine that communicates via a satellite link to the vendor or manufacturer’s computers. The equipment owner is then able to access the information on a web site from anywhere in the world, even via smart phone. Some telematics systems use cellular service rather than satellite. This can be less expensive depending on options, but may come at the cost of
less reliable communication due to gaps in cell coverage. Some ways that telematics can help you spend less on your equipment: Reduce idle time: For an average size machine, idle time is the equivalent of throwing a dollar bill on a fire every four minutes. One of my customers allows one hour of idle time a day for warm up and cool down in the morning and at lunch. (They shut down their machines at lunch.) Through VisionLink™, the user interface for Caterpillar’s telematics system, he found an operator had run a midsize dozer for 40 hours one week, with 22 of those hours running at low idle. At about five gallons an hour and roughly $3 a gallon for off-road diesel, the operator had cost his company $330 that week. The operator was asked to find employment elsewhere. Reduction of catastrophic failures: If the telematics system is capable of “talking” to the machine’s electronics, it can report Level 2 and Level 3 fault codes, emailing them directly to the owner or fleet manager. Recently, a customer had a machine that had three Level 3 fault codes for the transmission overheating. Not only did he receive three emails, he received a phone call from Caterpillar asking him to shut down the machine. The customer found the operator had deliberately overridden the fault codes and continued to operate the
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machine. This operator was also asked to find employment elsewhere. The problem was corrected and the transmission did not suffer a catastrophic failure. Fleet tracking: Eliminate wasted trips to refuel a machine that isn’t there; no more phone calls to five different people trying to track down a machine that’s due for service. You know where every machine is. Uptime: Most telematics systems can determine the number of hours run by a machine, and many have a maintenance tracking system. Say farewell to missing a service and running with dirty air filters. Preventive maintenance can more easily be done regularly, on schedule, and at a time that doesn’t interfere with productivity. Cost per hour calculation: Telematics capable of tracking fuel burn and maintenance intervals can help you figure out how much it costs to keep a machine productive. Armed with this information, you can make better decisions about whether to rebuild a machine coming to the end of its life or to purchase a new one. If you decide to go new rather than rebuild, you’ll have good data to decide what size, make or model machine to buy. Like any information you gather about your business, telematics only provides value if you act on it. If your equipment came standard with telematics, you are already a long way toward selling more and spendSLT ing less.
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skidder was still hooked to the loader during this moving process.
Near-Fatal Electrocution Involving Knuckleboom Loader BACKGROUND: On a foggy and slightly rainy day in the Appalachians, a logging crew was moving a skidder and log loader to a new tract. The loader had been
moved from the log deck to a location nearer the highway. The operators had chained down the bucksaw and delimber heel to the trailer, and the loader operator was in the
process of “heeling” or securing the grapple to the boom. He did this by raising the boom straight up and causing the grapple to sway back to grab the heel on the boom. The
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The owner-operator and the loader and skidder operators were all experienced, with individual logging work histories ranging from 15 to 40 years. Two of them were “cardholders” with their state’s logger training & education program. UNSAFE ACTS AND CONDITIONS: The loader was close to a low-strung power line that paralleled the state road. The loader operator saw that the owner-operator had secured the slasher saw and moved away from the loader. Without communicating with the loader operator, however, the owner-operator walked back over to the loader, grabbed some excess chain hanging from the trailer tongue and was touching the loader during the time that the operator had raised the boom quickly in order to “heel” the grapple. ACCIDENT: Although the loader boom was still several (10+) feet away from the power line, the electricity from the line arced to the loader boom. The skidder operator saw a green flash and then saw the truck driver nearby waving his arms. The loader operator also saw the truck driver waving and thought that the loader may have been too close to the power line, so he quickly lowered the boom. At this point the logging crew members saw the owneroperator lying on the ground. INJURY: The equipment operators immediately looked for anything that might still be “live” with electricity and saw nothing. The operators exited their equipment and then checked the logger for a pulse and signs of life—there was no pulse or breathing. They immediately began CPR and called 911. The truck driver ran to the main road to flag down the ambulance, and first responders were on the scene in minutes, followed by EMS. The paramedics took over CPR and “shocked” the logger’s heart back into rhythm. He was then transported to a local hospital. The logger sustained some mild burns on his right hand, and doctors had to remove a portion of a toe on his right foot. He survived the incident because of the immediate life-saving actions taken by the crew and the speedy arrival of paramedics and first responders. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CORRECTION: Equipment operators must be aware of all hazards at the work site. Safety meetings should ➤ 52
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50 ➤ be conducted on the dangers of overhead hazards. Never operate a loader within 100 ft. of any electric power line. (See FRA Loss Control Overview #30 for additional power line safety recommendations at http://loggingsafety. com/sites/loggingsafety.com/files/b ulletin_pdfs/LCO-30.pdf.) During the equipment loading or moving preparation process, only
the workers directly involved in running the equipment (or spotting/aligning the machine if loading onto a lowboy) should be in the immediate proximity. Individuals should not approach working, moving equipment. It is essential that crew members communicate visually and/or ver-
bally when there is a worker on the ground. Additionally, highvisibility clothing or vests will improve safety to ground workers. Be aware that it is possible for electricity to arc to a machine even if it does not actually touch the power line. High humidity can increase the likelihood of electricity jumping
Logger Cuts Wrist on Feller-Buncher Sawbar Chain BACKGROUND: On a fall day in the Appalachians, a logger was performing maintenance on the sawbar of his feller-buncher.
wrist protection. He began loosening the saw blade by turning one side using an open ended wrench with a cheater bar extension and turning a long-handled socket wrench on a nut in the other direction.
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 38-year-old logger had approximately 20 years of logging experience and was considered fully trained to perform this type of maintenance. He was wearing personal protective equipment, including gloves.
ACCIDENT: While applying upward pressure on the open-end wrench with the cheater bar extension, his hand slipped off the cheater bar, and the back of his hand and wrist smacked into the sawbar.
UNSAFE ACTS & CONDITION: His gloves only covered his hands—they did not provide any
INJURY: The logger severely lacerated the back and side of his wrist behind the thumb and severed a ten-
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don. The four-inch-long cut required a hospital visit and surgery to repair the cut tendon. Later, the tendon separated and follow-up surgery was required to repair. All told, he lost 3 to 4 days of work. If the cut had occurred an inch to the inside of the wrist, the artery could have been severed—a life-threatening injury. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CORRECTION: Wear cut-resistant gloves that provide protection over the wrist and a portion of the forearm. They
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from a power line to the equipment. Employers should ensure that each employee’s first-aid and CPR training remain up-to-date. Due to the rural nature of logging sites, ensure that emergency plans are in place for each site (911 or other emergency number, location/directions, who flags ambulance, etc.) Supplied by Forest Resources Assn. can prevent injuries to tendons and arteries when sharpening or working on saw chains or chipper knives. (See FRA Technical Release 12-R-1 for one example of a protective arm guard: http://www.forest resources.org/app/bulletin_pdfs/12r1.pdf) Use the correct, safe tools for the maintenance job required, and know when to ask for assistance in loosening tightly held nuts or connections. Place a protective covering such as a rubber strip or a plastic sleeve over the sawbar when loosening the bolts to prevent this type of injury. Supplied by Forest Resources Assn.
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2010 Deere 753J Feller Buncher STK# LU190130; 6,098 hrs $210,000
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2012 John Deere 648H Feller Buncher STK# LU645953; 3,436 hrs; $185,000
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2003 TIGERCAT 822; sn 8220176; 7,163 Hours; Track Drive; New Engine with Only Approx. 400 Hours; 0% Tail Swing; 5401 Tigercat Felling Saw with Side Bunching Pocket; Internal Tilt Saw Head; 95% U/C ......$144,500
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2011 Deere 843K Feller Buncher STK# LU631962; 6,800 hrs; $105,000
2005 Cat 140H Motorgrader STK# LUCA1788; 6,746 hrs; $145,000
2003 CAT 517; sn 5WW0231; 2,369 Hours; Track Drive; ESCO Grapple and Winch; 75% U/C; Open Cab; 24" Pads; With Stump Rail on Outer Track ............................................$159,500
2010 PRENTICE 2384B; sn PR63925; 7,520 Hours; with 426 CSI Delimber Mounted on Kodiak Trailer with Hydraulic Legs ............$114,900
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COMING EVENTS September 5-7—Virginia Forest Products Assn. annual convention, The Homestead Resort, Hot Springs, Va. Call 804737-5625; visit vfpa.net. 7-9—Alabama Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Perdido Beach Resort, Orange Beach, Ala. Call 334-2658733; visit alaforestry.org. 19-20—Mid-South Forestry Equipment Show, Starkville, Miss. Call 800669-5613; visit midsouthforestry.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 Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Pitser Garrison Convention Center, Lufkin, Tex. Call 936-632-8733; visit texasforestry.org. 22-24—Mississippi Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Golden Nugget, Biloxi, Miss. Call 601-354-4936; visit msforestry.net.
November 5-7—South Carolina Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Westin Hilton Head Island Resort, Hilton Head, SC. Call 803-798-4170; visit scforestry.org. 7-8—Sawdust and Splinters, Shirard Gray Estates, Magnolia, Miss. Call 601-876-9635; email contact@sdsfest.com; visit sdsfest.com.
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April 2015 27-29—Forest Resources Assn. annual meeting, Sheraton Nashville Downtown, Nashville, Tenn. Call 202-296-3937; visit forestresources.org.
September 2015 18-19—Kentucky Wood Expo, Masterson Station Park, Lexington, Ky. Call 502-695-3979; email Michele@kfia.org; visit kfia.org. Listings are submitted months in advance. Always verify dates and locations with contacts prior to making plans to attend.
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