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50 Years Of Trucking Reflections: The Journey From There To Here Much like a New Yorker named Trump, the transportation sector of the wood fiber supply chain has received lots of attention of late. Moving wood fiber safely and effectively from forest to market has never been a cinch, but it has evolved into a monumental challenge, the degree of which varies from one region to another, and even within a given region. How did the trucking sector get from there to here? It’s a long story that has many parts, actors, and contributors. Reflecting on developments over the last 50 years, here are some things that come to mind… Haul distances are longer, thanks to changing market dynamics that, despite some new plants for established and new generation products, resulted in downsized or shut facilities. Other factors included less reliance on railroads, elimination of most satellite wood yards and some chip mills, industry consolidation, and restrictions on local roads and bridges. One-way hauls of 100 miles are now considered routine; longer ones not that unusual. Add extra highway traffic of all kinds. According to info found on statista.com, as of 2014 the number of cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles and other vehicles registered in the U.S. was about 260 million, a number now distant in the rear view mirror. Factor in the motoring public’s growing habit of distracted driving— texting, talking, game playing, eating, putting on makeup, pulling off or putting on clothing, riding with a pet up front, whatever—that leads to more mishaps. Another impact can be credited to increasing federal regulations, two prime examples being the mandatory CDL requirement and the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) initiative of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Overall, regulations have enhanced commercial vehicle safety and accountability, but enforcement by some state authorities can be inequitable
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and/or excessive, leading to unreasonable, costly delays. Although not new but certainly outdated, another ‘reg neg’ is that, with few exceptions, the legal GWV allowed on interstates is 80,000 lbs. All states with a viable forest industry allow log truck GVWs that exceed 80,000 lbs., even on local secondary roads. This restriction often forces drivers to take more dangerous and congested routes that require more fuel and time and result in greater wear and tear for drivers, rigs and roads. Moreover, loggers and log truckers are guilty of making the mud deeper. Many pay drivers by the load, a practice that can encourage speeding and/or other reckless acts. Confronted with a shrinking pool of candidates, truck owners at times take chances with suspect drivers, perhaps foregoing a drug test at the outset and later waving off such random testing. Too many fail in adequately training recruits, requiring refresher training for experienced drivers, formulating official driver policy, or schooling drivers in what they expect of them. Over the years many have successively cultivated a harvesting-based safety culture but unfortunately have not extended it to trucking. Often a puzzle in all this is the contract trucker, who can perform admirably, appallingly, or somewhere in between. Some are conscientious, trustworthy and loyal; some are not, and thus compound the dilemma. Wood consuming entities likewise contribute to the complexity. They instigate quotas and/or unload trucks in a slow motion manner. Either step can tempt drivers to drive recklessly or loggers to overload trailers to offset related lost income opportunities. Also, procurement personnel have been known to habitually single out lower tier trucking entities, dictating very marginal rates, knowing they typically will be accepted and by extension applicable to upper tier entities that perform at a higher level. Quotas, which have been the norm
in many places for more than a year now, have another downside in that they may move some loggers to overload. Not long ago I received a report from a credible source that a few loggers were routinely sending rigs weighing around 100,000 lbs. to a certain Mid-Atlantic coast mill whose scale house personnel evidently accepted them without so much as a grunt. The legal state GVW for log trucks at that location is 90,000 lbs. If flagrant overloading has become the new normal, even in an isolated case, it’s a very disturbing development in that it flies in the face of accountability and professionalism and only heightens risk. Elevated operating costs figure into the equation. New and used trucks and trailers are expensive, as is keeping them roadworthy. Although fuel costs have ebbed from historic highs, they are still relatively high, and insurance costs have recently soared for many. Local governments compound the issue by restricting weights on select roads and bridges and placing certain routes off-limits to log trucks. Our litigious society, one overpopulated with zealous trial lawyers who pour big bucks into advertising efforts, is part of the problem. These lawyers know that insurance companies tend to settle accident-related lawsuits, regardless of who may be at fault, because settlements are less costly than drawn-out jury trials. The insurance industry has aggravated the situation. Over time many carriers got into the log/chip transportation segment of the commercial auto game, sensing it could be lucrative, but some did so with little to no knowledge of the segment. Without performing much due diligence, they offered lowball rates that they could not sustain, and this created a constant turnover of carriers. Today there aren’t many log truck insurers, their rates are relatively high, as are losses for most, and their governance is rather stringent. All this begs the question: What of trucking’s future? It won’t get any better until all parties involved climb in the cab to drive change. As Trump is TH fond of saying, “Believe it.”
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NewsLines determination due February 20 and its preliminary antidumping duty determination due May 4. The Committee Overseeing Action for Lumber International Trade Investigations or Negotiations (COALITION) had petitioned the U.S. Dept. of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission in November, alleging that Canadian provincial governments provide standing trees to Canadian producers for an administered fee that is far below the market value of the timber. In addition, the COALITION alleges that Canadian lumber sells for less than fair value in the U.S. The petition details the injury suffered by U.S. industry and workers. In the aftermath of the expiration of the 2006-2015 U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Trade Agreement, Canadian imports surged from 29.5% of U.S. total consumption in the third quarter of 2015 to 33.1% in the fourth quarter and to 34.1% in 2016.
Another Honor For Arkansan Allen Bedell Allen Bedell, influential and eminent forestry leader in Arkansas and beyond, has been selected for induction into the Arkansas Farm Bureau’s Agriculture Hall of Fame. When officially inducted in early March, Bedell will join 157 others who have been so honored since 1987. Bedell, 78, who holds a BS in forestry from LSU and an MS in forest management from Yale, currently serves as one of two forestry representatives on the Arkansas Dept. of Agriculture Board and is serving his second term on the ArkanAllen Bedell sas Forestry Commission, which he previously chaired. In 1973 he transitioned from forester (G-P) to logger, over the next 30-plus years building a career that intersected with many opportunities, achievements, and challenges. He helped form the Arkansas Timber Producers Assn. (ATPA), helped develop its award-winning training and education program, helped organize its Log-A-Load for Kids program, and promoted passage of legislation that exempted sales tax on logging equipment. After being twice honored as the Arkansas Outstanding Logger of the Year and a finalist in FRA’s national logger recognition, his dual logging businesses were selected as the inaugural Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year in 1998. For more than a decade he was deeply involved in the Forest Resources Assn. and in 2002 became the first supplier/logger to be elected chairman of the group. He has served as both vice president and president of the Arkansas Forestry Assn. and currently serves on the group’s executive committee and board.
Huber Will Reopen Tennessee OSB Mill Huber Engineered Woods LLC will reopen its oriented strandboard (OSB) plant in Spring City, Tenn. in 2018. The mill, located in the Tennessee River Valley northeast of Chattanooga, is undergoing facility upgrades in preparation of manufacturing specialty panel products. The facility opened in 1997 but halted production during the housing market downturn in 2011.
Enviva Selling Wiggins Pellet Mill Enviva is selling its wood pellet plant at Wiggins, Miss. to Guthrie Pellets Inc., a family owned business that once owned the plant before Enviva purchased it. The smaller scale of the Wiggins facility (110 million metric tons per year capacity) doesn’t fit with Enviva’s larger facilities. The other Enviva facilities will make up for the lost production at Wiggins. Enviva will now list six plants in operation: Cottondale, Fla. (700 MTPY), Southampton, Va. (510 MTPY), Northampton, NC (510 MTPY), Ahoskie, NC (370 MTPY), Amory, 6
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Miss. (110 MTPY), and its most recent at Sampson, NC which is expected to produce 500,000 MTPY in 2017 and reach 600,000 MTPY in 2019. Meanwhile Enviva is moving ahead on construction of a plant in Hamlet, NC (500 MTPY), and is assessing possible projects—all 500 MPTY—at Laurens, SC; Childersburg, Ala.; Abbeville, Ala.; and Lucedale, Miss. Worldwide industrial wood pellet demand could top supply by 6.7 million metric tons annually come 2020, according to a report by Enviva Chairman and CEO John Keppler for the Drexel Hamilton’s Emerging Growth Investor Conference in early December.
Conifex Moves Ahead On El Dorado Sawmill Construction is going forward on a new sawmill being built by Conifex Timber-Union County Lumber at the site of the former GP sawmill at El Dorado, Ark. The new operation reportedly issued several purchased orders in recent weeks and has received $130 million in credit to put toward the plant. The city of El Dorado is contributing $600,000 from the El Dorado Forward economic development sales tax to install a natural gas supply line to the facility.
LeMoyen Mill Gains Investment
Trade Commission Continues Investigation United States International Trade Commission (USITC) has determined that there is a reasonable indication that the U.S. softwood lumber industry is materially injured by reason of imports from Canada that are allegedly subsidized and sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. As a result of the Commission’s affirmative determinations, the U.S. Dept. of Commerce will continue to conduct its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations, with its countervailing duty
Gov. John Bel Edwards and CEO Robert Latimer of Adobe Machinery Group LLC announced that LeMoyen Mill & Timber LLC will acquire and invest $2 million to develop a wood products manufacturing facility in LeMoyen, La. LeMoyen Mill & Timber, a wholly owned subsidiary of Adobe Machinery Group, will repurpose a lumber mill previously operated by Bayou State Lumber Co. The operation will saw boards and timbers and then assemble timber and laminated mats.
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“They Call Me The Urban Logger” Grinders include Peterson and Morbark makes, including this tracked 4600XL.
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t’s not a sight one sees often on a logging job: suburbanites jogging on a residential cul-de-sac sidewalk as a loader fills a tractor-trailer. But it’s not uncommon in the world of Davey Fitzgerald, Jr. of Fitzgerald Excavating and Construction, Inc. The company specializes in clearing timber, often for residential development, in the metro areas around Washington, DC, far to the east of its home base in Covington, Va. “They call me the urban logger,” Fitzgerald, 35, says of his peers in the southern portions of the state, who are accustomed to more rural settings. “When they come up here, the amount of traffic is what blows them away. The biggest question they ask me is how our trucks manage to haul in all this.” The answer to that question, of course, is “slowly.” Drivers of the company’s four trucks strive for two loads a day on a haul that averages between 75 and 100 miles. That doesn’t bother Fitzgerald, though, because production doesn’t have to be the main focus. The company gets paid for the job, not just for the logs and mulch it hauls. “I’m not worried about getting a certain number of loads,” he asserts. “I am more worried about doing the job in the sequence it needs to be done.” The organization’s commitment to 8
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quality pays. In times when fewer jobs are available, Fitzgerald Excavating usually manages to stay busy. Fitzgerald says he still clears for the same companies under which he first contracted when the family brought its business to northern Virginia in 2004. “The project managers have told me that we are still on their job because we get it done,” he relates. “They don’t have to wait on us; we’re not full of excuses. We keep rolling somehow. We have a 12-year relationship with them because we do what we say we will do and we do a very good job cleaning up. What we do and what we say, keeping a good name, keeping on schedule, has gotten me more repeat work than anything.” Davey is part of the family behind the company. His father, Dave, Sr., and mother Barbara, both 65, own the business. For the last three years, Dave, Sr. has settled in as a foreman/ equipment operator, allowing his son to step up and supervise day-to-day operations, a step in their long-term succession plan. The younger Fitzgerald says their company is one of the only land clearing outfits in the area actually marketing the timber it encounters, separating grade logs. Competitors simply chip everything, regardless of value. Property owners hire an exca-
vating company to clear land, and Fitzgerald subcontracts under that company to clear the timber and remove all stumps. The wood is his, but in a roundabout way Fitzgerald still pays the landowner for it. He bids lower than his competitors, and makes up the difference on the back end by merchandizing the timber. So, whereas another company might charge $10,000 an acre to clear the timber, Fitzgerald might only charge $6,000 an acre, and haul grade logs out instead of only chips. Though Fitzgerald hasn’t run into much trouble with environmentalists in the DC area, there have been a handful of incidents, including one with a literal tree hugger. “I was ready to push a tree up and a woman walked right up to it and sat down in front of it. She said ‘you won’t push this tree over.’ I said ‘maam, 15 years ago there were trees we cleared where your house is now.’” That, evidently, had not occurred to her.
Equipment For the Fitzgerald family, forestry machines are mostly Tigercat and include three feller-bunchers (’16 Tigercat 720 and ’15 John Deere 843L wheel-type feller-buncher and ’15 859M tracked cutter), three skidders
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For skidding, loading and hauling, Fitzgerald goes with Tigercat and Kenworth.
(two ’15 Tigercat 620Es and a ’16 635E); and three loaders (two Tigercat 250Ds, ’15 and ’16 models, and ’16 Tigercat 234D), all coupled with CSI 264 Ultra delimbers. For removing stumps the crews use four dozers (two ’13 Caterpillar D6Ts and two 963Ds, ’15 and ’16 models, all with root rakes) and 10 excavators (a ’16 Cat 329 and the rest John Deere: 200C LC, 300G, 350D, and six 350Gs, from ’10 to ’16 models). John Deere 250D articulated dump trucks move stumps to grinders. These include a Peterson 4710B and Morbark 4600XL, both on tracks, and a Morbark 6600 on tires, purchased last year, alongside two wheeled Morbarks, both 4600XLs. The grinders range in horsepower from 780 to 1050. Stumps, tops, limbs and all unmerchantable material go through a grinder, as burning is banned by law in northern Virginia. For hauling, Fitzgerald has five Kenworth T800s ranging from 2006 to 2016 models, that pull three Big John and seven Pitts trailers. Davey estimates the company’s total investment at close to $10 million. Equipment dealers are Alban Cat in Manassas, James River Equipment in Winchester for John Deere, and Forest Pro in Scottsville for Tigercat. To keep up with all maintenance, Fitzgerald employs just one full-time mechanic at its shop/wood yard in Foremost Authority For Professional Loggers
Winchester, Va. However, Davey says they buy almost all their equipment with a preventive maintenance plan, so most everything is taken care of by the dealer. This is one reason they keep machines relatively new. “We swap machines in that 4-5,000 hour range, which is about every three years or so,” he notes. Fitzgerald has high praise for Rockland excavator attachments. “I have two hydraulic thumbs, but our other excavators all run manual thumbs. Rockland is in Bedford, Pa., just a couple of hours north of us, so the local rep has been taking good care of us.”
How It Began In 2000 Dave, Sr. had a contract to run two Bandit machines to process oversized logs going into the MeadWestvaco paper mill in Covington. It was thought this would be a cheaper alternative to taking those logs to a company landfill, which was getting full. Unfortunately, the cost of running the grinder was never factored into the mill’s budget, so local management evidently faced some difficulty explaining to corporate where that money was going. “We did a few 40-hour contracts and were told that JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017
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pany, Grant County Mulch, based in Peterson, W. Va. “They own the chipper, they pay me for the wood and it is theirs from there,” Davey says. “They contract with Verso and Glatfelter, so I am not actually trucking to the mills.” As for what Fitzgerald grinds in the woods, Grant County takes about 250,000 yards of that mulch annually, while two other companies, Lowe Products, in Shepherdstown, W. Va., and Remington Mulch, in Fairfax, Va., each takes about 150,000 yards.
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Davey Fitzgerald, left, pauses with his father, Dave, Sr.
was it; so it didn’t work out,” Davey recalls. Around that time the younger Fitzgerald was completing high school and eager to join the family business. Dave Sr. in the ’90s had done a lot of concrete work for MeadWestvaco and U.S. Cellular on cell phone towers, and that’s primarily what Fitzgerald Excavating and Construction had done prior to 2000, when it started transitioning. Since they already had the Bandits, but no more contracts, they decided to put the machines to good use, picking up some smaller land clearing jobs around Salem, Blacksburg and Roanoke, 40-50 miles south of Covington. “That was just spurred by having the grinder,” Davey admits. “We weren’t set up to get into land clearing. My first land clearing job was five acres and I think it took me six weeks to do it. Now we do five acres in a few days, per crew.”
Operations The company separates its assets into multiple crews as required by each job; at times they run as many as eight crews, other times the operations are consolidated into only three or four. “It depends on the job,” Davey notes. “There may be a three or four week hold on one job while the dirt guys create ponds and establish erosion and settlement control (E&S) around the perimeter. We may clear a job and only be in a few days, and then out for a few weeks until the dirt guys call us to come back. But with managing eight jobs, we can always 10
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stay busy. If you can’t work here, you might be able to do something on another job.” Usually, one of the jobs is a sizeable, like the one Timber Harvesting visited in November. It was a 62-acre subdivision project in Woodbridge, near Dumfries and close to DC, along the Potomac River. A job of that size usually takes two or two and a half months, and they had been on this one just about a month. “No clearing job is a breeze,” Davey warns. “It has to be done right. The county has laws and regulations you have to follow. County inspectors check on it.” The job in November was in Prince William County, and the company works a lot in Fairfax and Loudon counties, and in the Richmond and Charlottesville areas. Most of the work is for subdivisions and churches, and most of it is in hardwood natural stands. Davey says work is slower in the winter due to weather, but for seven months a year, from April through October, he has all he can handle. Grade logs go to American Hardwood, Waynesboro, Va., and low grade logs to Kessel Sawmills in Kaiser, W. Va., 150 miles away. All pulpwood is delivered to the Winchester wood yard where it is run through a Peterson 5000H debarker and chipper combo unit. The vast majority of ground material ends up at the Verso Corp. paper mill in Luke, Md., with the balance bound for Glatfelter’s pulp mill in Spring Grove, Pa. All transportation to those mills, however, is handled by another com-
Fitzgerald Excavating employs 22, with five foremen overseeing operations. They are Jared Whetzel, Keith Gardner, Eddie Loy, and Dave and Davey Fitzgerald. Other crew members are Edward Akers, Timothy Edwards, Ethan Hargrove, James Howard, Jody Jenkins, Joe Kaiser, Luiz Lopez, Jeff See, Todd Suits, Gary Swisher, Johnny Thompson, Randy Trenary, Howard Whitaker, and Charles Whittington. Office workers are Janice Miller, Barbara Fitzgerald, and April Fitzgerald. The company holds “lunchbox talks,” as they call it, to discuss safety concerns once a week, usually on Monday mornings. As well, they conduct an annual safety meeting at a hotel or restaurant in Winchester, usually in January or February when business is slower. These meetings last all morning, through breakfast and lunch. Also, each of the five foremen has undergone CPR and first aid training and is certified under the Virginia SHARP Logger program. Davey and his wife April have three sons: Dave Fitzgerald III (better known as Tripp), 8; Kiptyn, 5, and infant Bryson. Davey is an avid deep sea fisher and hunter. He takes trips three or four times a year from Oregon Inlet, NC, and has been taking his sons with him since Tripp was only six weeks old. Dave, Sr., still hunts occasionally, but that is his only hobby. He says one of the changes he hopes to see with the new presidential administration is a return of manufacturing jobs to the U.S., which he hopes would lead to more clearing jobs for industrial and commercial applications. “They are out there, but I may do 10 residential or private jobs and only two commercial jobs. There were more commercial jobs 10 years ago.”
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Also on his wish list for the incoming President: a renewed focus on infrastructure development. “That would relate to more jobs for us. Roads and highways go along with residential housing; roads have to be put in.” Although the DC area housing market was impacted in 2008, the housing market in the area has been more robust than in most of the rest of the country in the years since, according to Davey. “Northern Virginia is in a niche. Because of the government jobs and a lot of tech jobs, and they make good money, so housing has not been as slow here since 2010. The last three years have been like it was in 2005-2007.” When things did slow in 2008-10, Davey admits that it almost put Fitzgerald out of business, as he saw happen to many of his industry peers. Somehow, though, they managed not to lose a single piece of equipment. “We squeaked by and made interest-only payments; Wells Fargo helped me out a lot.” Weather, he admits, is probably one of his top concerns, as it is for most loggers. “The winters in northern Virginia are wet, and the dirt guys can’t
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Deere machines handle and haul material to be processed by grinders.
move dirt when it’s wet, so they don’t want the land to be cleared. If you have a couple of rainy days, then we probably won’t be able to work the rest of the week, because with the low temperature the ground won’t dry out. We don’t quit, though, we work on through; we just don’t work profitably.” Last winter was mild, he says,
and he is hoping this year will be as well. “Sure, I like snow too, but just not too much of it.” As for what keeps him awake at night these days, the younger Fitzgerald can only chuckle. “My wife says I worry when I have too much work and she says I worry just the same when I TH don’t have enough work.”
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70 Years Strong Throughout transitions and adjustments, Tidewater has adhered to its core values.
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ounded in 1947, Tidewater Equipment Co. today ranks among the nation’s largest logging equipment distributors with 16 locations in five southeastern states. The privately owned organization has existed longer than any of today’s leading manufacturers have made purpose-built logging equipment. It continues to grow, fueled by strong relationships with customers and manufacturers and leaders that emphasize faith, family and dedication to Jamie Young the job. Tidewater is Tigercat’s oldest dealer, having taken on the line in 1993 Tidewater personnel were instrumental when newcomer Tigercat offered only a in forest machine evolution, helping wheel-type feller-buncher, and is one of Franklin develop its Swamp Buggy Tigercat’s largest dealers in the world. skidder, Pack-A-Back forwarders and as Now with more than 200 employees, series of wheel-type feller-bunchers. Tidewater does business in Georgia, Today, the company continues to stay Florida, the Carolinas and Alabama. Infocused on the forest industry while cluding its flagship store at Brunswick, maintaining its family values, according Ga., 10 of its locations are full service, to Earl Terry, Vice President and CFO. five are parts outlets and its newest, loTerry started with the company in 1988. cated in Tampa, Fla., is a Morbark-only dealership. A coastal Georgia entrepreneur, the late Charles Whittle, started the company as a small manufacturer of tools for cutting and handling pulpwood. Early examples included a wheel saw, a system of portable steel racks that streamlined the handling and loading or short pulpwood, and a large pulpwood grapple used on mill wood yards. In the late ’50s and early ’60s Tidewater moved away from manufacturing and embraced equipment distribution, becoming a dealer for Bombardier, Franklin and Husky. Through a companion entity in the late ’70s it revisited manufacturing in a small way, for Full Service Locations Parts Only Locations a time making a feller-buncher atDedicated Morbark Location tachment, circle saw slasher, inverted grapples, car toppers, and self-propelled loader carriers, all at Brunswick. As well, for decades 12
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Growing Together Jamie Young, who started with Tidewater in 1996 and has been its President and CEO since 2010, tells how the company first became aware of Tigercat: “Ben Reavis, who was a partner in the company, saw this machine at a show (in south Georgia in 1992) and he thought, ‘We need to look at these guys.’ That singlehandedly was an epic turn at Tidewater.” He continues: “When we Earl Terry started with Tigercat, they were considered the more expensive machines. They were the new player. But they quickly established themselves as being the market leader with innovation, quality and reliability.” After Tigercat developed a broad range of equipment, Tidewater went ‘all in’ with the manufacturer. “We were sold that they were the future, and they have been. We’ve consistently grown market share. We’re a leader in our territory. It’s phenomenal,” Young relates with enthusiasm.
Bringing On Morbark Tidewater began carrying Morbark in 2010, a move that Young says was born out of a need for diversification and the growth in biomass markets. “Morbark has given us some satisfaction for diversification, which is critical in our business. The logging industry isn’t always going to sustain itself year over year, so Morbark gave us another fallback with an established base,” he says. Morbark has awarded Tidewater with Gold Dealer status for the past three years. Tidewater offers Morbark whole tree chippers, horizontal grinders, tub grinders and slow speed shredders at all of its full service locations and one dedicated location. “We took our model for running a dealership
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and applied it to a different product line and it’s working very well,” comments Terry. “We feel in our heart that we’re aligned with the best forestry equipment made in the world, which is Tigercat. We wanted to do the same with industrial equipment, so we looked at many manufacturers. Morbark came out on top and we went full on to bring Morbark in. It’s been a great partnership for us. We’ve seen growth in that market for us every year,” Brunswick location’s mobile service truck is a rolling billboard. says Young. Tidewater has a separate inThen & Now dustrial team that handles the Morbark line. The Tampa store opened in April For years Tidewater was the largest 2016. Franklin dealer in the country and conWhat has sustained Tidewater for trolled the skidder market in its territory. 70 years? Young says it was the comFranklin Equipment Co. started in pany’s ability and willingness to Franklin, Va. in 1962 and closed its change. “Markets will change and doors in 2008. Tom Morgan, Ken Trowbridge Jr. people will change. If you can’t see and Ben Reavis acquired the company and identify those changes and adapt, in 1971 from Whittle’s widow, who you will fail. We’ve maintained what had assumed control following her works and we change what doesn’t husband’s death in 1967. They guided work. We’re very good at identifying and expanded the company to market weaknesses and we correct weakdominance in several states over the nesses quickly.”
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next decade and a half. After both Trowbridge and Reavis retired and Tom Morgan died, Trowbridge’s son, Ken III, and Morgan’s son, Gil, managed the company for several years. Tidewater is based “in the bullseye of the Southern yellow pine lumber market,” as Young puts it, and numerous paper mills and pellet plants in the territory mean a high demand for pulpwood. Current locations include Polkton and Elizabethtown, NC, Newberry, Conway and Walterboro, SC, Forsyth, Statesboro, Hazlehurst, Waycross, Brunswick and Thomasville, Ga., Thomasville and Evergreen, Ala., and Maxville, Perry, and Tampa, Fla. Tidewater keeps each branch well stocked with new machines. Buying and selling all makes of used equipment is an important part of the business as well. Tidewater also carries Pitts and Big John Trailers, CSI delimbers and ground saws, R Squared Solutions delimbers, Rotobec grapples, Maxi-Load scale systems and ➤ 14 HANFAB slashers.
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Service Commitment If a customer has an ‘in warranty’ Tigercat machine that needs repairs and takes it out of service, Tidewater provides a replacement to use until the machine is back in service. “Our job is to keep our customers producing, whether that means selling a new piece of equipment, servicing machines, or replacing equipment on the job if we have to bring something in,” Terry explains. Adds Young: “The customer should always be up and running. We can’t make everyone happy all the time, but we sure try.” Tidewater’s workforce is heavy to service technicians. Much of the technician training is done in-house, although manufacturer training and visits to Tigercat and Morbark facilities are regular. “Manufacturer training is important, and the relationship between the techs and the manufacturer is important. Our technicians are the ones that keep our customers coming back,” says Young. Each full service branch has three to four service trucks, along with a full product service team, and will service or
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repair any machine make not under a manufacturer warranty. Tidewater offers an extended warranty on Tigercat equipment, something that Young says is an “industry exclusive” and only offered through their company.
Management Style Tidewater’s corporate office is located in St. Simons Island, about 10 miles from the Brunswick branch. Young and Terry continue to adhere to the decentralized management philosophy that previous Tidewater principals embraced. They “view everything from 30,000 feet above,” as they put it. Young wants branch managers to “take ownership” of their branches. “I want them to run it like it’s theirs,” he says. “We love the people we have working for us and we want to see them succeed. We try to make sure they see that from us, and it makes them that much more of a dedicated employee,” Terry says. Tidewater regularly promotes from within, which Young says is always, “our first choice.” The company has managers that have been in place for more than 30 years.
Young insists that Tidewater’s business comes second to people. “Tidewater is bigger than a team. One thing that we try to bring is the ‘family feel’ where the whole company is a family. We know our customers like family, we know our employees like family and our vendors are part of our family. I tell our people regularly, ‘If you get up in the morning and you’re not enjoying what you do, having the time of your life, then go find whatever that is and do it’,” Young says. Young is very clear about his values. “My values, and I’ll tell our employees this, are: God, family, then work. That will never, ever change. We don’t get in the way of anything that’s above work. We allow our people to take care of their faith and their families first,” he says. Looking ahead, Tidewater is preparing for another Demo Days event this spring. Its last one, held in 2015, drew a sizable crowd of customers, employees and media to Brunswick. “We hosted over 200 people at our event then and expect to have the same turnout if not more this year,” comments Allie Poirier, TH Tidewater’s Marketing Specialist.
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The Young swinging grapple on an older John Deere skidder provides flexibility in log sorting situations.
A Tough, Dirty Job Made Even Worse Small Idaho company takes on wildfire salvage challenge in St. Joe National Forest. JAYDonnell
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aul Sverdsten started his logging business in 2009, but it’s worth noting how he got there. Sverdsten’s family has a long history of logging in Idaho. His grandfather bought his first team of horses and started logging in 1922. He built up a large company and sold it to his three sons in the 1960s. When the logging industry took a major downturn in 1983, they went bankrupt. That’s when Paul, his brother and a cousin started a logging outfit called Triple Tree Logging. They logged together for five years and then went their separate ways. Paul took one of the line machines and line skidded for several years. Beginning in 1993 and until 2009, Sverdsten joined logger Dave Weingart. When Weingart retired, Sverdsten bought some of his equipment, including the used line machine they had 16
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purchased in 1993, and went out on his own with his son, Chris. Paul Sverdsten Logging (PSL), based near Cataldo, Id., eventually started logging for Tricon Timber, a longtime sawmill in St. Regis, Mont. A logger Sverdsten knew had become fed up with trying to keep his crew together while working on a job for Tricon and called Sverdsten about finishing the work. Sverdsten has now been logging for Tricon for about 15 years and there’s plenty of work. “They’re by far better than some other mills I’ve dealt with,” Sverdsten says. “They’ve got great foresters and they’re really easy to work with.” Tricon Timber’s Angelo Ververis and Skyler Hillford help PSL find tracts. Sverdsten will look at a job before the Tricon foresters bid on it.
Hot Terrain Paul Sverdsten Logging was working on a salvage job (wildfire burn) in the St. Joe National Forest when Timber Harvesting visited. Last year wildfires blackened much of the area. “You get kind of dirty in here,” Paul says with a smile. Chris Sverdsten knows firsthand how dirty everything can get. “Burnt timber is hard on everything and everything turns black from the char,” he says. “The fine ash gets into air filters on the machines and the chain saws” (meaning more maintenance). “The crew is always covered in it, too. It makes a tough, dirty job tougher and dirtier.” This was fairly steep terrain, but it was nothing compared to what the company is used to. “Steeper is usu-
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ally a little better because you don’t have problems with getting the skyline up in the air,” Paul comments. The company works on mostly federal land while also doing some work on state land and private property. On this tract, Paul and his crew were making a half dozen sorts of mostly cedar and lodgepole pine. Chip-N-Saw and peeler logs were going to Potlatch at St. Maries, where Tricon sells logs. Anything under 9 in. and burned, along with a couple of larger sawlogs sorts, was destined for Tricon. The crew produces six to eights loads a day during a good week and three to four on the low end. PSL has six employees, including Paul. Two employees had just been hired when TH visited, replacing two workers who had discipline issues. Most workers live in Pinehurst, Id., which is just a few miles from the company’s 56x60 ft. shop located between Rose Lake and Cataldo. “I’ve got a pretty good reputation so it’s pretty easy for me to put out the word that I need somebody and get some calls,” Sverdsten says. He will hire “greenhorns” and let Chris work with them. “Some work out and probably half of them don’t. It takes a lot of drive to be out here.” Employees receive a “good wage,” Christmas bonus and get time off for major holidays PSL holds a safety meeting every Monday to discuss issues specific to the job they’re working. “It changes all the time, especially on steep ground,” Sverdsten explains, adding that his workers’ comp experience mod is really low, which helps curb insurance costs.
The crew, from left: Paul Sverdsten, Chris Sverdsten, Jessy Groth, Dustin Hendzel, Ryan Morris
Sverdsten says about half of his new hires stick with him.
Good As New (Almost)
Forty-year-old Bucyrus-Erie 30-B line machine is slow but steady.
PSL operates a vintage early ’70s highly modified Bucyrus-Erie 30-B skyline track machine fitted with large drums. It has the capacity to skid 2,600 feet with ⅝ in. skyline, but they were having trouble with the skyline staying together and have gone to ¾ in. cable. It now goes out to about 1,800 feet and skids 1,300-1,400 ft. per minute. “It’s not a super fast machine, but it is a good sound one,” Sverdsten emphasizes. Newest equipment is a 2013 John Deere 210G excavator mated with a 622B Waratah processor. Sverdsten purchased it in good shape in 2016. The excavator had 1,200 hours on it Foremost Authority For Professional Loggers
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and the processor had 3,200 hours. The processor will also fall some timber but most cutting is contracted. A John Deere 648GIII skidder equipped with a Young swinging grapple provides flexibility in sorting situations. Sverdsten says it’s one of the best investments he’s made. “You’re not paddling up and down the road trying to sort with the proAll trucking is subcontracted; turn time can be lengthy at some mills. cessor or having the loader constantly running back and forth,” he explains. “I can throw stuff on the road and the skidder can cart it off to wherever. That has helped me more than anything. It speeds up the processing process.” A mid-’60s D7 dozer is used for road work and as a skidding anchor. The processor and skidder are greased daily. They’ll put the boom on the ground at least twice a week to check bolts and guideback shivs. The Waratah 622B processor is fitted to John Deere 210G excavator. main shaft that runs through the skyline has broken three times. It’s a 4¾ in. solid Paul operates the processor, Chris steel shaft. PSL has had to redesign it. is the setup man and does climbing Oil is changed every 250 hours on and rigging. He also runs the skidder the line machine while the processor and has started to take over the role uses a special oil that only needs to be of looking at jobs and bidding on changed every 500 hours. It’s a John them. Jessy Groth is the high lead Deere recommended oil. PSL runs operator/head mechanic. Dustin HenGoodyear tires on its skidder. dzel and Ryan Morris set chokers and Roads are usually taken care of are also tree climbers. The head sawwhen PSL moves onto a tract, but ocyer is Wes Perkins; Biron Weingart casionally PSL will have to build a does the loading. trail across the hillside. If they have a PSL contracts its trucking. “I don’t skid trail, the crew will install water have to deal with the trucks at all and bars and have the guys handsaw and it’s pretty nice,” Sverdsten says. He take some of the little stuff and throw has run his own trucks in the past but it on the trails. the profit just wasn’t there, while PSL hasn’t experienced much payroll and paperwork most defiequipment vandalism, but they have nitely were. Most of the contractors had a few radiators shot. In order to run Western Star and Kenworth thwart fires, Paul does not allow trucks. smoking in the brush. While Sverdsten doesn’t own Employees usually start working trucks, he knows that his contracted around 6:30 a.m. and don’t stop for drivers have to deal with long lines at lunch. They leave the job around 2:30 certain mills from time to time. Drivp.m. The crew will work on Saturdays ers are waiting as long as two and a occasionally, but during hunting season half hours in some cases, especially on many of them prefer to work on Saturthe second loads. “That’s pretty ridicday so that they can take Monday off. ulous. Guys feel like they’re just wast18
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ing their life down there sitting in a truck, waiting. These drivers aren’t getting paid by the hour.” Sverdsten says the Tricon mill is not a problem.
Challenges Starting any business in 2009 amid the deep recession was a challenging endeavor and starting a logging business during those times was no easy feat for Sverdsten. “We got a $3 a ton cut when I started,” he says. “To keep paying the wage that everybody had been paid and to take a cut right off the bat was a real tough deal.” PSL has always been about the same size. Sverdsten owns another line machine and has thought now and then about expanding and putting his son in charge of a second crew. “But I’m doing okay with one machine so I think I’ll probably stick with that,” he says. Chris, who is 34, has been working for his dad since graduating from high school. Paul is 53. Although their markets have been pretty strong lately, Paul worries about another downturn. “You never know what’s going to happen. Nothing is certain and everything can be going fine, but if the economy takes a downturn you just don’t know if things will just stop.” Chris is a 10% shareholder in the business. He plans to take over the company when his dad retires. For many years Paul had to work every weekend, but now that Chris is up to speed, he doesn’t have to. Paul estimates he’s invested a little more than $500,000 into the business and spends $60,000 per year on parts, components, reairs, and supplies. He was already a half owner of the line machine when he got started so he didn’t have to invest as much money at first. He says his after tax business profit was probably not on par with his investment in 2016 due to unforeseen breakdowns, but he expects 2017 to be TH a good year.
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PRODUCTS/SERVICES/SUPPLIES (Address listings begin on page 23.)
AFTERMARKET PARTS
Aftermarket Parts Inc.
C W Mill Equip. Co. Inc. Covestro LLC Cutting Systems Inc. DRM Diversafab Corp./ CENTRI Precleaaners Hendrickson
Hercules Sealing Products Kenworth Truck Co. LM Powertrain Parts Morbark Inc. Risley Equip. Ltd. Stens Taimi Hydraulics Tireboss
AIR CONDITIONING SYS.
Hammond Air Conditioning Ltd.
AUCTIONEERS/ APPRAISERS
Deanco Auction Co. Nolan Sales LLC Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers TRI State Auction & Realty LLC J M Wood Auction
AXLES
1. Off-road vehicles 2. Truck & trailer
Hendrickson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 L&M Powertrain Parts . . . . . . . . . 1,2
BABBITT METAL
Precision Husky Corp.
BAR REPAIRS
Gem Chain Bar Pacific Trail Mfg. Inc.
BEARINGS
Aftermarket Parts Inc. Stens
BIOMASS BALERS
Stens Vermeer
BLOCKS & SHEAVES
Young Corp.
BOGIE TRACKS
KMC Kootenay Tractor OLOFSFORS
BRAKES
ACME Mfg. Inc. Aftermarket Parts Inc. Force Control Industries Inc. Hendrickson
BRIDGES
Enviro Span/Trinity Composites LLC
BULLDOZERS
Caterpillar John Deere Forestry
Komatsu America Corp., Forest Machine Business Div.
CABS & CANOPIES
Pierce Pacific Mfg. Inc.
CARRIAGES (LOGGING)
ACME Mfg. Inc. Alucar Oy Eagle Carriage & Machine Inc.
1. Boom 2. Flail 3. Logging 4. Skidder tire 5. Truck tire
CHAIN
Chambers Delimbinator Inc. . . . . . 2
Cutting Systems Inc. . . 2,3 Forest Chain Corp. LLC. . . . . . . . . 4 George Kahler Sales LLC . . . . . .3-5 Peerless Chain Co. . . . . . . . . . . .1-5
Pewag Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-5
Precision Husky Corp. . . .2
TraxPlus LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-5 Wallingfords Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-5 White Mountain Chain Inc. . . . . .2-5
CHAIN SAW CHAIN, BARS & ACCESSORIES
Cannon Bar Works Ltd. Chain-Serts
Cutting Systems Inc.
Gem Chain Bar Husqvarna Forest & Garden Co. Iggesund Forest George Kahler Sales LLC Oregon Blount Inc.
PFERD Inc.
Stihl Inc. Wallingfords Inc.
CHIPPER KNIVES/PARTS
Bandit Industries Inc. Barko Fecon Inc. Morbark Inc. Peterson
Precision Husky Corp. Terex Environmental Equip. Trelan Mfg. Vermeer
CHIPPERS
1. Brush 2. Total tree
EQUIPMENT SEATING
Aftermarket Parts Inc. Industrial Seating Inc.
EXCAVATOR CONVERSIONS
6K Products Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment America Pierce Pacific Mfg. Inc. Young Corp.
EXCAVATORS
Caterpillar John Deere Forestry Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment America
Komatsu America Corp., Forest Machine Business Div
LBX Co. Link Belt Forestry Equip. Terex Construction Americas
FANS (REVERSIBLE)
Cleanfix North America Ltd.
FELLER-BUNCHERS
1. Track-type 2. 4-wheel 3. 6-wheel
Barko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Caterpillar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,2 John Deere Forestry . . . . . . . . . . 1,2
Komatsu America Corp., Forest Machine Business Div. . . . . . . . .1
Madill Equip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Risley Equip. Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Rayco Mfg. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
TimberPro Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,3
Seppi M. SpA . . . . . . . . . 1,2
Terex Environmental Equip.. . . . . . 2 Trelan Mfg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Vermeer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,2
CULVERTS
Advanced Drainage Sys. Inc. Enviro Span/Trinity Composites LLC
CUSTOM HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS
KMC Kootenay Tractor
DEBARKERS (TOTAL TREE FLAIL)
Tigercat Industries Inc. 1,2
FELLING DEVICES
1. Sawheads (bar & chain) 2. Sawheads (rotary) 3. Shearheads
6K Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Caterpillar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Cutting Systems Inc. . . . .1
John Deere Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fecon Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
GN Roy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Gem Chain Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Gilbert Products Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Komatsu America Corp., Forest Machine Business Div. . . . . . . . .1
Morbark Inc. Nicholson Mfg. Ltd. Peterson
Madill Equip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Quadco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 Risley Equip. Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,2 Ryans Equip. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3
Terex Environmental Equip. Trelan Mfg.
TimberPro Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,2 Waratah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Precision Husky Corp.
DELIMBERS
1. Gate 2. Flail 3. Flail/pull-through 4. Pull-through (loader powered) 5. Pull-through (auxiliary powered) 6. Rake 7. Stroke
6K Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,5
Big John Trailers . . . . . . . .1
Caterpillar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Chambers Delimbinator Inc. . . . . . 2
Cutting Systems Inc. . . 2-4
Peterson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Pierce Pacific Mfg. Inc. . . . . . . . . . 7
Precision Husky Corp. . . .3 Quadco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Stripper Tree Delimbers. . . . . . . . . 4 Terex Environmental Equip.. . . . . 2,4
ENGINEERING/DRAFTING
Alucar Oy Pro Mac Mfg. Ltd. Winkle Industries
ENGINES
Kenworth Truck Co. Western Star Trucks
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HARVESTERS
Blockbuster Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hahn Machinery Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hakmet USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Tajfun USA. . . . . . . . . . . 1,2
Timberwolf Mfg. Corp. . . . . . . . . . 1,2 Young Corp.
FORKS
Tigercat Industries Inc. 1,3
FILES
Cutting Systems Inc.
Husqvarna Forest & Garden Co.
PFERD Inc. Stens
FILTERS
Aftermarket Parts Inc. Baldwin Filters Stens
FINANCING/LEASING
Caterpillar John Deere Forestry
Komatsu America Corp., Forest Machine Business Div.
FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT
1. Extinguishers 2. Plows 3. Pumps 4. Vehicles
AFEX Fire Suppression Sys. . . . . . 1
KMC Kootenay Tractor . 2,4
Barko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Caterpillar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-4 John Deere Forestry . . . . . . . . . .1-3
GN Roy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Komatsu America Corp., Forest Machine Business Div. . . . . . . 1,2
FORWARDERS
1. 4 wheel drive 2. 6 wheel drive 3. 8 wheel drive 4. Other
LBX Co. Link Belt Forestry Equip. . 3 Logset Oy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Barko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Caterpillar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,3 John Deere Forestry . . . . . . . . . .1-3
KMC Kootenay Tractor . . .4 Komatsu America Corp., Forest Machine Business Div. . . . . . . 2,3 Logset Oy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Ponsse North America Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,3
Rottne Industri AB . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,3
Tigercat Industries Inc. 2,3
FUEL STABILIZERS
Ponsse North America Inc.1 Tigercat Industries Inc. . .1
HYDRAULIC EQUIPMENT
1. Brakes 2. Couplings 3. Cylinders 4. Manifolds 5. Motors 6. Pumps & Drives 7. Seals/Seal Kits 8. Valves
6K Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,4,7,8
Cutting Systems Inc. .3,5,6 Geartex Div. of Hydraulic Analysis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,6
Stens Texas Refinery Corp.
1. Ring 2. Planetary 3. Worm 4. Other
1. Dedicated CTL (single grip) 2. Excavator type 3. Landing type 4. Other
Hahn Machinery Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hakmet USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,4
TimberPro Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Bandit Industries Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 1,2 D rate Ind Int’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fecon Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,2 Morbark Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,2 Peterson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Precision Husky Corp. . . .2
FIREWOOD PROCESSORS
Hercules Sealing Products . . . . . . . . . . 3,7
Serco Loaders Two Harbors Machine. . . . . . . 3,4 Taimi Hydraulics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,4
GEARS
HYDRAULIC REPAIR
L&M Powertrain Parts . . . . . . . . . 1,2 Pro Mac Mfg. Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,2
GRAPPLE SAWS
KMC Kootenay Tractor Winkle Industries
INSURANCE
BITCO Insurance Co. Caterpillar Forestry Mutual Hawkins & Rawlinson Inc.
6K Products Caterpillar Hultdins Inc. Rotobec USA Inc. Ryans Equip. Inc.
LOAD BINDERS
George Kahler Sales LLC Pewag Chain Wallingfords Inc.
GRAPPLES
1. Knuckleboom 2. Remote controlled line 3. Shovel 4. Skidder
LOADERS
6K Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,4 Caterpillar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,3 John Deere Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Hakmet USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hood Equip. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Hultdins Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
KMC Kootenay Tractor . . .4
Morbark Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Pierce Pacific Mfg. Inc. . . . . . . . . 1,3
Precision Husky Corp. . . .1
Pro Mac Mfg. Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rotobec USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ryans Equip. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . SENNEBOGEN LLC . . . . . . . . . . . Serco Loaders Two Harbors Machine . . . . . . . . . . .
1 1 1 1
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Tajfun USA. . . . . . . . . . . . .1
TimberPro Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Young Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
GRINDERS (REFUSE)
1. Horizontal 2. Tub
Bandit Industries Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 1
CW Mill Equip. Co. Inc. . 1,2 D rate Ind Int’ . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,2 Jones Mfg. Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Morbark Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,2 Peterson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Precision Husky Corp. . 1,2 Rayco Mfg. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Rotochopper . . . . . . . . . . .1 Seppi M. SpA
Terex Environmental Equip.. . . . . . 1 Vermeer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,2 WHO Mfg. Co. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 West Salem Machinery . . . . . . . . . 1
1. Front-end 2. Knuckleboom 3. Knuckleboom (self-propelled) 4. Knuckleboom (track-mounted)
Barko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-4 Caterpillar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 John Deere Forestry . . . . . . . . . .1-4 Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment America . . . . . . . . . 1 Hakmet USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Hood Equip. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,3
Komatsu America Corp., Forest Machine Business Div. . . . . . . 1,4 Madill Equip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Precision Husky Corp. . 2-4
SENNEBOGEN LLC . . . . . . . . . .2-4 Serco Loaders Two Harbors Machine. . . . . . . 2,3 Terex Construction Americas . . 1,3,4
Tigercat Industries Inc. . . . . . 1-4 Wicker Machine Co. . . . . . . . . . . . 1
LOG DIAMETER DETECTION SYSTEMS
1. Grapple saw 2. Pull-through delimber 3. Slasher Cutting Systems Inc. . . . .3
LOG SCALING SYSTEMS
Haglof Inc. Haglof Inc.
LOG TAGS
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PRODUCTS/SERVICES/SUPPLIES (Address listings begin on page 23.)
LUBRICANTS
BEKAWORLD LP (formerly Beka-Max of America Inc.) Stens Texas Refinery Corp.
MACHINING
6K Products Caterpillar Pro Mac Mfg. Ltd. Serco Loaders Two Harbors Machine Winkle Industries
PAINTS
1. Log/tree marking 2. Lumber end 3. Other
Forrest Paint Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 George Kahler Sales LLC . . . . . . . 1 Nisus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PIVOT PINS
Aftermarket Parts Inc.
PROCESSOR HEADS
Caterpillar
GN Roy Komatsu America Corp., Forest Machine Business Div. Log Max Logset Oy Pierce Pacific Mfg. Inc. Quadco Risley Equip. Ltd. Waratah
ROTATORS
6K Products Hakmet USA Inc. Hultdins Inc. Quadco
SAFETY APPAREL/ EQUIPMENT
Stens Stihl Inc.
SAWHEAD DISCS
GN Roy
Gilbert Products Inc. Quadco Risley Equip. Ltd. Waratah
SAWHEAD TEETH
SAWMILLS (PORTABLE)
Mighty Mite Ind. Inc. Mobile Mfg. Co. Morbark Inc. Wood-Mizer Sawmills and Wood Processing Equipment
SAWS (HAND-HELD)
1. Chain 2. Clearing 3. Pole
Husqvarna Forest & Garden Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 George Kahler Sales LLC . . . . . .1-3 Stihl Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3
SILVICULTURAL GROUP
1. Aircraft services 2. Brushcutters 3. Cultivators 4. Discs 5. Drag chains 6. Drip torches 7. Drum choppers 8. Fertilizers 9. Fungicides 10. Harrows 11. Herbicides 12. Mulchers 13. Plows 14. Rippers 15. Root rakes 16. Scarifiers 17. Spot cultivators 18. Sprayers 19. Tractors 20. Tree crushers 21. Tree planters 22. Tree pruners 23. V-blades
Advanced Forest Equip. . . . . . . 2,12 Barko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Bron R W F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Caterpillar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,12,19 D&M Machine Div. Inc. . . . . . . . . 12 Gilbert Products Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Hakmet USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,12 Jarraff Industries Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 2
KMC Kootenay Tractor . . . . . 2,12,17,19 Pro Mac Mfg. Ltd. . . . . . . . . . 2,4,12
Seppi M. SpA . . . . . . . 12,20 Tigercat Industries Inc. .12,16,18 Vermeer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Gilbert Products Inc. Mobile Mfg. Co. Quadco Risley Equip. Ltd. Timberblade Inc. Waratah
KMC Kootenay Tractor
KMC Kootenay Tractor . . . . . . . . . . . 1,2
Logset Oy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Terex Construction Americas . . . . 2,3
Tigercat Industries Inc. . . . . . 1,3 TimberPro Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,3
SKIDDING COMPONENTS
1. Arches 2. Chokers & Fittings 3. Fairleads 4. Winches
Aftermarket Parts Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 4
Cutting Systems Inc. . . . .4 KMC Kootenay Tractor . . .1 Wallingfords Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
SLASHERS
1. Bar & Chain Saw 2. Circular Saw
6K Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Cannon Bar Works Ltd. . . . . . . . . . 1
Cutting Systems Inc. . . 1,2
Gem Chain Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hood Equip. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George Kahler Sales LLC . . . . . . . Pacific Trail Mfg. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . Serco Loaders Two Harbors Machine. . . . . . . . Wallingfords Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2 1
SNOW REMOVAL EQUIPMENT
KMC Kootenay Tractor
SNUBBERS
Aftermarket Parts Inc. Prolenc
SOFTWARE
1. Logging 2. Procurement
Automated Accounting Systems Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,2 Caribou Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Haglof Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Logset Oy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Tajfun USA. . . . . . . . . . . . .1 aristra Int’ In
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SUSPENSION SYSTEMS
Hendrickson
Caterpillar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 John Deere Forestry . . . . . . . . . . . 3
STRAPPING, STEEL
GN Roy
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SKIDDERS
1. Clam bunk 2. Track type 3. Wheel type
Magnolia Trailers Inc.
TIRE PRESSURE CONTROL SYSTEMS
Hendrickson Magnolia Trailers Inc. Tireboss
TIRES
1. Flotation 2. Non-Flotation 3. Truck/trailer
Alliance Tire Americas Inc. . . . . .1-3 Firestone Tire Div. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,2 OTR Wheel Engineering Inc. . . . .1-3 Pitts Trailers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 Titan Tire Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,2
TRAILER ACCESSORIES
Alucar Oy Pitts Trailers Stens
TRAILERS
1. Delimber carrier 2. Flatbed 3. Folding pole 4. Frame 5. Loader carrier 6. Lowboy 7. Pole 8. Vans (Chip) 9. Vans (Moving Floor) Big John Trailers . . . . .1,4-7
Caterpillar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,4
Cutting Systems Inc. . . . .1 Great Lakes Mfg. Inc. . . . . . . . 2,4,5 Hakmet USA Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,5 Magnolia Trailers Inc. . . . . . .2-3,5-6 McLendon Trailers . . . . . . . . . . 1,4-6 Pitts Trailers . . . . . . . . . . .1,2,4-6,8,9 Rogers Bros. Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Titan Trailers Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 2,6,8,9
TRANSFER CASES
Aftermarket Parts Inc.
TRANSMISSIONS
Aftermarket Parts Inc. John Deere Forestry L&M Powertrain Parts Western Star Trucks
TROMMEL SCREENS
Peterson Terex Environmental Equip. Vermeer West Salem Machinery
TRUCKS
Alucar Oy Caterpillar Kenworth Truck Co. Mack Trucks Inc.
UNDERCARRIAGES
Caterpillar
KMC Kootenay Tractor
WEDGES
George Kahler Sales LLC
WEIGH SCALES
1. On-board 2. Platform 3. Portable 4. Non-portable platform
Magnolia Trailers Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Maxi Load Scale Systems . . . . . .1-3 Pacific Scale Co. Inc.. . . . . . . . . . 2,3 RMT Equip. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,3 SI Onboard Scales . . . . . . . . . . . 1,3 Smart Scale Technologies . . . . . . . 1 Vulcan On-Board Scales . . . . . . . . 1
WELDING
6K Products
KMC Kootenay Tractor
Pro Mac Mfg. Ltd. Serco Loaders Two Harbors Machine
WHEEL TRACKS
OLOFSFORS Pewag Chain Wallingfords Inc.
WINCHES
ACME Mfg. Inc. Kenworth Truck Co.
Tajfun USA
WIRE ROPE
George Kahler Sales LLC Wallingfords Inc. WireCo WorldGroup
WIRE ROPE CUTTERS
George Kahler Sales LLC Wallingfords Inc.
1. Swing 2. Tower 3. Other
YARDERS
ACME Mfg. Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3 Madill Equip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,2
Tajfun USA. . . . . . . . . . . . .2
TIMBER HARVESTING & WOOD FIBER OPERATIONS
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MACHINERY MANUFACTURERS/SUPPLIERS INDEX 6K Products ................................ 23 ACME Mfg. Inc. .......................... 23 ASV LLC ..................................... 23 AFEX Fire Suppression Sys. ...... 23 Advanced Drainage Sys. Inc. ..... 23 Advanced Forest Equip. ............. 23 Aftermarket Parts Inc. ................. 23 Alliance Tire Americas Inc. ......... 23 Alucar Oy .................................... 23 Anthony Hardwood Composites . 23 Automated Accounting Systems Inc. .......................... 23 BEKAWORLD LP (formerly Beka-Max of America Inc.) .... 23 BITCO Insurance Co. ................. 23 Baldwin Filters ............................ 23 Bandit Industries Inc. .................. 23 Barko .......................................... 23 Big John Trailers ...................... 23 Blockbuster Inc. .......................... 23 Bron R W F ................................. 23 CW Mill Equip. Co. Inc.............. 24 Cannon Bar Works Ltd. .............. 24 Caribou Software ........................ 24 aristra Int’ In ....................... 24 Caterpillar ................................... 24 Chain-Serts................................. 24 Chambers Delimbinator Inc. ....... 24 Cleanfix North America Ltd. ....... 24 Covestro LLC ............................ 24 Cutting Systems Inc. ................ 24 D&M Machine Div. Inc. ............... 24 DRM Diversafab Corp./ CENTRI Precleaners ............. 24
Deanco Auction Co. .................... 24 John Deere Forestry ................... 24 Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment America ............... 24 D rate Ind Int’ ...................... 24 Eagle Carriage & Machine Inc. ... 24 Elmia AB/Elmia Wood................. 24 Enviro Span/Trinity Composites LLC .................... 24 Fecon Inc. ................................... 24 Firestone Tire Div........................ 24 Force Control Industries Inc. ...... 24 Forest Chain Corp. LLC.............. 24 Forestry Mututal Ins. Co. ............ 24 Forrest Paint Co. ........................ 24 GN Roy ...................................... 24 Geartex Div. of Hydraulic Analysis Inc............................ 24 Gem Chain Bar ........................... 24 Gilbert Products Inc. ................... 24 Great Lakes Mfg. Inc. ................. 24 Haglof Inc. .................................. 24 Hahn Machinery Inc.................... 24 Hakmet USA Inc. ........................ 24 Hammond Air Conditioning Ltd. .. 24 Hawkins & Rawlinson Inc. .......... 26 Hendrickson................................ 26 Hercules Sealing Products ...... 26 Hood Equip. Inc. ......................... 26 Hultdins Inc. ................................ 26 Husqvarna Forest & Garden Co.......................... 26 Iggesund Forest.......................... 26 Industrial Seating Inc. ................. 26
Jarraff Industries Inc. .................. 26 Jones Mfg. Co. ........................... 26 KMC Kootenay Tractor ............. 26 George Kahler Sales LLC........... 26 Kenworth Truck Co. .................... 26 Komatsu America Corp., Forest Machine Business Div. ....................... 26 L&M Powertrain Parts................. 26 LBX Co. Link Belt Forestry Equip. ...................... 26 Laser Technology Inc.................. 26 Log Max ...................................... 26 Logset Oy ................................... 26 Mack Trucks Inc.......................... 26 Madill Equip. ............................... 26 Magnolia Trailers Inc. ................. 26 Manac ......................................... 26 Maxi Load Scale Systems .......... 26 McLendon Trailers ...................... 26 Mense Oy ................................... 26 Mesera Cranes Finland Oy......... 26 Mighty Mite Ind. Inc. ................... 26 Mobile Mfg. Co. .......................... 26 Morbark Inc................................. 26 Nisus Corp. ................................. 26 Nolan Sales LLC......................... 26 OLOFSFORS ............................. 26 OTR Wheel Engineering Inc. ...... 26 Oregon Blount Inc....................... 26 PFERD Inc. ................................ 27 Pacific Scale Co. Inc................... 27 Pacific Trail Mfg. Inc. .................. 27 Peerless Chain Co...................... 27
Pemberton Attachments ............. 27 Peterson ..................................... 27 Pewag Chain .............................. 27 Pierce Pacific Mfg. Inc. ............... 27 Pitts Trailers ................................ 27 Ponsse North America Inc. ...... 27 Postle Industries ......................... 27 Precision Husky Corp. ............. 27 Pro Mac Mfg. Ltd. ...................... 27 Prolenc ...................................... 27 Quadco ....................................... 27 RMT Equip. Inc. .......................... 27 Rayco Mfg. Inc............................ 27 Risley Equip. Ltd......................... 27 Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers ........... 27 Rogers Bros. Corp. ..................... 27 Rotobec USA Inc. ....................... 27 Rotochopper ............................. 27 Rottne Industri AB....................... 27 Ryans Equip. Inc ........................ 27 SENNEBOGEN LLC................... 27 Seppi M. SpA............................. 27 Serco Loaders Two Harbors Machine............ 27 SI Onboard Scales ..................... 27 Smart Scale Technologies .......... 27 Southstar Equip. ......................... 27 Stens .......................................... 27 Stihl Inc. ...................................... 27 Stripper Tree Delimbers.............. 27 TRI State Auction & Realty LLC ......................... 27 Taimi Hydraulics ......................... 28 Tajfun USA................................. 28
Terex Construction Americas ...... 28 Terex Environmental Equip......... 28 Texas Refinery Corp. .................. 28 Tigercat Industries Inc. ............ 28 Timberblade Inc. ......................... 28 TimberPro Inc. ............................ 28 Timberwolf Mfg. Corp. ................ 28 Timken ILS Ltd. .......................... 28 Tireboss ...................................... 28 Titan Tire Corp. ........................... 28 Titan Trailers Inc. ........................ 28 Trelan Mfg. ................................. 28 U.S. Blades................................. 28 Vermeer ...................................... 28 Vulcan On-Board Scales ............ 28 WHO Mfg. Co. Inc. ..................... 28 Wallingfords Inc. ......................... 28 Waratah ...................................... 28 Watts Auction Realty Appraisal..................... 28 West Salem Machinery............... 28 Western Star Trucks ................... 28 Western Trailer Co...................... 28 White Mountain Chain Inc. ......... 28 Wicker Machine Co. ................... 28 Winkle Industries ........................ 28 WireCo WorldGroup ................... 28 J M Wood Auction....................... 28 Wood-Mizer Sawmills and Wood Processing Equipment........... 28 Young Corp. ................................ 28
MACHINERY MANUFACTURERS/SUPPLIERS (Special type treatment requested by respective companies. Product listing begins on page 21.)
6K PRODUCTS 1006 143rd Ave. SE Tenino, WA 98589-9242 360-264-2141 Fax: 360-264-5105 Email: ed@6kproducts.com Website: www.6kproducts.com
AFTERMARKET PARTS INC. 150 Market St. New Bern, NC 28560-6704 252-633-2155, 800-487-2335 Fax: 252-633-3701 Email: info@rightparts.com Website: www.rightparts.com
A ACME MFG. INC. 90099 Prairie Rd. Eugene, OR 97402-9601 541-741-2200 Fax: 541-741-2212 Email: email@acmecarriages.com Website: www.acmecarriages.com
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ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYS. INC. 4640 Trueman Blvd. Hillard, OH 43026 800-821-6710 Fax: 614-658-0204 Email: info@ads-pipe.com Website: www.ads-pipe.com ADVANCED FOREST EQUIP. INC. PO Box 2735 L Hayden, ID 83835-2735 208-772-0999 Fax: 208-762-1369 Email: jmoffet@advancedforest.com Website: www.advancedforest.com AFEX FIRE SUPPRESSION SYS. 5808 Lease Ln. Raleigh, NC 27617-4708 919-781-6610 Fax: 919-787-3915 Email: info@afexsystems.com Website: www.afexsystems.com
ALLIANCE TIRE AMERICAS INC. 201 Edgewater Dr., Ste. 285 Wakefield, MA 01880-6223 800-777-9926 Website: www.atgtire.com ALUCAR OY Maxmovagen 186 FI 66640 Voyri-Maksamaa, Finland 358-207-851-720 Fax: 358-207-851-740 Email: virpi.hattula@alucar.com Website: www.alucar.com ANTHONY HARDWOOD COMPOSITES ✧ 606 E. Center St. Sheridan, AR 72150 870-942-4000 Email: tedwards@anthonycomposites.com Website: www.anthonycomposites.com AUTOMATED ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS INC. PO Box 436 Livingston, AL 35470-0436 800-237-0252 Fax: 205-652-4509 Email: jack.warbington@ forestproductsaccounting.com Website: www.forestproductsaccounting.com
BITCO INSURANCE CO. 3700 Market Square Cir. Davenport, IA 52807 563-232-0241, 800-475-4477 Fax: 844-233-7299 Email: randy.hervey@bitco.com Website: www.bitco.com
BIG JOHN TRAILERS
10514 Highway 1 Folkston, GA 31537-4808 912-496-7469 Fax: 912-496-4577 Website: www.bigjohntrailers.com Established: 1974 Big John Trailers was established in 1974 and has been manufacturing superior quality forest product trailers and lowboys since that time. The company builds a complete line of log trailers which styles include recessed center, drop center, straight frame and plantation trailers as well as custom designs. Big John also manufactures lightweight models referred to as the “full load series.” Knuckleboom loader trailers, loader/delimber trailers, self-propelled loader carriers and lowboys up to 50 ton capacity are other popular trailers in the Big John product line. Kodiak hydraulic trailers are available in the loader/delimber trailer design. All of these trailers are built for rugged and dependable use. Call for more information, 800-771-4140.
BALDWIN FILTERS 4400 Highway 30 E. Kearney, NE 68847-0724 308-234-1951, 800-822-5394 Email: clarcor.info@clarcor.com Website: www.baldwinfilter.com BANDIT INDUSTRIES INC. 6750 W. Millbrook Rd. Remus, MI 49340-9662 989-561-2270, 800-952-0178 Fax: 989-561-2273 Email: sales@banditchippers.com Website: www.banditchippers.com BARKO 1 Banks Ave. Superior, WI 54880 715-395-6700 Fax: 715-392-3931 Email: info@barko.com Website: www.barko.com
BLOCKBUSTER INC. 2756 Kentucky Ave. Mount Pleasant, IA 52641-8072 319-986-5525, 888-775-4883 Email: kerry@blockbuster-inc.com Website: www.blockbuster-inc.com
B BEKAWORLD LP (FORMERLY BEKA-MAX OF AMERICA INC.) PO Box 234 Buffalo, NY 14225 888-862-7461 Fax: 905-858-0597 Email: sales@beka-lube.com Website: www.beka-lube.com
Foremost Authority For Professional Loggers
BRON RWF 873 Devonshire Ave. Woodstock, ON N4S 8Z4 Canada 800-263-1060 Fax: 780-489-6891 Website: www.bronrwf.com
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MACHINERY MANUFACTURERS/SUPPLIERS (Special (Special type type treatment treatment requested requested by by respective respective companies. companies. Product Product listing listing begins begins on on page page 21.) 29) DOOSAN INFRACORE CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AMERICA 250 E. Beaton Dr. West Fargo, ND 58078-6000 701-241-8700 Website: www.doosanequipment.com
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C W MILL EQUIP. CO. INC.
Sheffield, MA 01257 413-528-7812 Fax: 413-229-4066 Email: sfdinfo@covestro.com Website: www.sheets.covestro.com Covestro is a global leader of extruded thermoplastic sheets that can be used in diverse and innovative applications. With extrusion facilities around the globe sheet products are produced to consistently high quality standards. With many years of sheet extrusion experience, Covestro offers a wide product portfolio of solid and multiwall sheets suitable for many applications and industries.
14 Commerce Dr. Sabetha, KS 66534-9413 800-743-3491 Fax: 785-284-2010 Email: hogzilla@cwmill.com Website: www.hogzilla.com Established: 1973 CW Mill Equipment Co. Inc. is a diversified manufacturing, sales and service company, founded in 1973. Being customer-driven is the basis for all that CW Mill Equipment does, and that approach is backed with experienced staff and advanced manufacturing equipment. ill’s prod cts incl de large ind strial grinding machines, and high performance hammer mill cutting and grinding tools for both rigid and swing hammer style grinding machines. Visit www.hogzilla.com for industrial tub and horizontal end feed style grinding machines. Visit www.armorhog.com for extreme-duty parts for rigid hammer style grinding machines. Visit www.dynahog.com for heavy-duty parts for swing hammer style grinding machines.
CUTTING SYSTEMS INC.
774 Zeb Rd. Union Grove, NC 28689-9148 877-844-1274 Fax: 704-592-4458 Email: email@cuttingsys.com Website: www.cuttingsys.com Established: 1995 When you buy CSI you not only get a superior product that is well engineered and job tested, but a product backed by the best parts and customer service in the ind stry. r goal is o r c stomer’s s ccess. That’s hy e se high alloy steels, bushings and bearings where necessary and computer aided design (CAD) models to make sure our pull-thru delimbers, slasher saws and dangle head grapple felling saws are the best available. We have lots of models to choose from. Check our website for the latest brochures or mini DVD.
CANNON BAR WORKS LTD. Unit A120, 5525 272nd St. Langley, BC V4W 1P1 Canada 604-856-6682, 888-604-9990 Fax: 604-856-6690 Email: info@cannonbar.com Website: www.cannonbar.com CARIBOU SOFTWARE PO Box 6421 Hinton, AB T7V 1X7 Canada 850-532-6206 Fax: 780-865-4248 Email: sales@caribousoftware.com Website: www.caribousoftware.com RI R I ’L I 1760 Fortin Blvd. Laval, QC H7S 1N8 Canada 450-667-4700 Fax: 450-663-1520 Email: akarass@caristrap.com Website: www.caristrap.com
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CATERPILLAR 100 S. L. White Blvd. LaGrange, GA 30241-9310 706-880-4300 Website: www.cat.com/ forestry or prenticeforestry.com
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CHAIN-SERTS 1356 N. Main St. Punxsutawney, PA 15767-2645 814-938-1031 Email: info@chain-serts.com Website: www.chain-serts.com
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D&M MACHINE DIV. INC. 12 Monte Brady Rd. Montesano, WA 98563-9521 360-249-3366 Fax: 360-249-1171 Email: dmm@slashbuster.com Website: www.slashbuster.com
E EAGLE CARRIAGE & MACHINE INC. 62500 Commerce Rd. La Grande, OR 97850-8719 541-963-4646 Fax: 541-963-3415 Email: eaglecarriage@eoni.com Website: www.eaglecarriage.com ELMIA AB/ELMIA WOOD Box 6066 SE 550 06 Jonkoping, Sweden 46-36-152000 Fax: 46-36-164692 Email: wood@elmia.se Website: www.elmiawood.com
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ENVIRO SPAN/TRINITY COMPOSITES LLC 1250 Gateway Dr. Gallatin, TN 37066-4673 615-649-3700, 877-864-4034 Fax: 615-442-1313 Email: rob.propst@trin.net Website: www.envirospan.ca
F FECON INC. 3460 Grant Ave. Lebanon, OH 45036-6432 800-528-3113 Fax: 513-696-4431 Email: sales@fecon.com Website: www.fecon.com
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FIRESTONE TIRE DIV. 4600 NW 2nd St., Ste. 100 Des Moines, IA 50313-2202 515-242-2300 Fax: 515-283-1610 Website: www.firestoneag.com
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FORCE CONTROL INDUSTRIES INC. 3660 Dixie Hwy. Fairfield, OH 45014-1105 513-868-0900 Fax: 513-868-2105 Email: info@forcecontrol.com Website: www.forcecontrol.com
JOHN DEERE FORESTRY 1 John Deere Plaza Moline, IL 61265 844-809-1508 Website: www.johndeere.com
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761 Avenue Du Parc Amos, QC J9T 4M1 Canada 819-732-8871 Email: marketing@gnroy.net Website: www.gnroy.com We are manufacturers of feller buncher heads. We produce 4 models of heads with stem cut capacities of 18, 20, 22, 24 inches and have shipped over 400 units as of 1999. Our heads are light, fast, productive and most importantly….reliable. The original design and improvements over the years are the result of recommendations from experienced forestry operators. GN ROY heads provide optimum tree accumulation with minimum stem crossing. Bunches are thus aligned which provides for optimal handling. Please feel free to contact us for any questions you may have. GEARTEX DIV. OF HYDRAULIC ANALYSIS INC. PO Box 2160 Corinth, MS 38835-2160 662-286-2252 Fax: 662-287-6580 Email: haisales@geartek.com Website: www.geartek.com GEM CHAIN BAR PO Box 608 Grangeville, ID 83530-0608 208-983-0203 Fax: 208-983-0213 Website: www.gemchainbar.com
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GILBERT PRODUCTS INC. 1840 Boulevard Marcotte Roberval, QC G8H 2P2 Canada 418-275-5041 Fax: 418-275-2624 Email: sales@gilbert-tech.com Website: www.gilbert-tech.com
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FORREST PAINT CO. 1011 McKinley St. Eugene, OR 97402 800-537-7201 Fax: 541-342-1821 Email: pbouchard@forrestpaint.com Website: www.http://forrestpaint.com/
DEANCO AUCTION CO. PO Box 1248 Philadelphia, MS 39350-1248 601-656-0192 Fax: 334-671-0149 Website: www.deancoauction.com
CLEANFIX NORTH AMERICA LTD. 250 Wright Blvd. Stratford, ON N4Z 1H3 Canada 519-275-2808, 855-REV-FANS Fax: 519-275-3995 Email: cleanfix-ca@cleanfix.org Website: www.cleanfix.org
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GREAT LAKES MFG. INC. 8450 County Rd. R Suring, WI 54174-9541 920-842-2012 Fax: 920-842-2497 Email: cfrench@greatlakesmfg.com Website: www.greatlakesmfg.com
FOREST CHAIN CORP. LLC 20945 SW Pacific Hwy. Sherwood, OR 97140-9242 800-288-0887 Fax: 503-625-2799 forestchain@bgplanet.com FORESTRY MUTUTAL INS. CO. PO Box 19467 Raleigh, NC 27619 800-849-7788 Fax: 919-755-5791
DRM DIVERSAFAB CORP./ CENTRI PRECLEANERS 820 Industrial Ct. Baraboo, WI 53913-2785 608-356-4882, 800-356-4882 Fax: 608-356-4883 Email: info@drmdiversafab.com Website: www.centriprecleaner.com
CHAMBERS DELIMBINATOR INC. ✧ PO Box 777 Ackerman, MS 39735-0777 800-533-2385 Fax: 662-285-2778 Email: info@chambersdelimbinator.com Website: www.chambersdelimbinator.com
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HAWKINS & RAWLINSON INC. PO Box 3493 Auburn, AL 36831-3493 888-822-1173 Fax: 334-821-5801 Website: www.hrinsurance.com
JONES MFG. CO. 1486 12th Rd. Beemer, NE 68716-0038 402-528-3861 Fax: 402-528-3239 Email: mightygiant@mightygiant.com Website: www.mightygiant.com
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LBX CO. LINK BELT FORESTRY EQUIP. 2004 Buck Ln. Lexington, KY 40511-1073 859-245-3900 Fax: 859-245-3909 Website: www.lbxco.com
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PO Box 31 Cresent Valley, BC V0G 1H0 Canada 800-562-5303 Email: kmckoot@telus.net Website: www.kmc-kootrac.com Established: 1989 Announcing the re-introduction of the Remanufactured KMC Track Skidders to the East Coast, Mid-West and South East USA! The KMC Tracked Log Skidder is designed specifically to skid logs on steep slopes, wet/boggy ground or environmentally sensitive soils. The unique design of balanced weight distribution/torsion bar sprung suspension/high speed steel tracks allows the KMC to traverse areas where other log skidding machines cannot. When the KMC Track Skidder is integrated with your existing timber harvesting equipment, your production will increase while your operating cost will decrease! Check out our website: kmc-kootrac. com or call us direct -1 800 562-5303 for more information.
1016 N. Belcher Rd. Clearwater, FL 33765-2100 727-796-1300, 866-625-0395 Fax: 727-797-8849, 800-759-6391 Email: sales@herculesus.com Website: www.herculesus.com Established: 1962 Hercules Sealing Products offers a complete line of hydraulic cylinder repair seals, seal kits, repair parts, replacement cylinders and engine/transmission gaskets for forestry applications. Replacement seal kits and parts are in-stock and ready for next day delivery for wellknown logging, loading and harvesting equipment manufacturers such as Case, Caterpillar®, JCB, John Deere, Komatsu, Peerless, Timberjack, Volvo and many more. Hercules Sealing Products is an ISO9001 registered distributor. HOOD EQUIP. INC. PO Box 307 Iron River, WI 54847-0307 715-372-4222 Fax: 715-372-4221 Email: joyce@hoodloaders.com Website: www.hoodloaders.com
GEORGE KAHLER SALES LLC 4833 Rome New London Rd. Rome, NY 13440-8517 888-330-7297 Fax: 315-337-2041 Website: www.gksales.net
HULTDINS INC. 22 Morton Ave. E. Brantford, ON N3R 7J7 Canada 519-754-0044 Fax: 519-754-1569 Email: info@hultdins.com Website: www.hultdins.com HUSQVARNA FOREST & GARDEN CO. 9335 Harris Corners Pkwy. Charlotte, NC 28269-3818 704-597-5000 Fax: 704-599-4302 Website: www.husqvarna.com
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IGGESUND FOREST 121 Roy Blvd., Unit 4 Brantford, ON N3R 7K1 Canada 519-754-2190 Fax: 519-757-1100 Email: info@olofsfors.com Website: www.iggesundforest.com
PO Box 168 Chattanooga, TN 37405 423-668-3235 Email: syolitz@komatsuna.com Website: www.komatsuforest.us Established: 1946 Komatsu is a leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of innovative world-class forestry equipment including: CTL Harvesters & Forwarders, Harvesting & Processing Heads, Track Feller-Bunchers & Harvesters, Track Log Loaders and Forestry Excavators. Komatsu Crawler Dozers, Wheel Loaders, Excavators and other support equipment supplement these purpose-built forestry products, providing comprehensive solutions for all stump-todump forestry application needs.
INDUSTRIAL SEATING INC. 1144 SW Berg Pkwy. Canby, OR 97013 503-266-6885, 800-346-2839 Fax: 503-266-6886 Email: sales@indseat.com Website: www.indseat.com
J JARRAFF INDUSTRIES INC. 1730 Gault St. St. Peter, MN 56082 507-934-8688, 800-767-7112 Fax: 507-934-8690 Email: jarraff@jarraff.com Website: www.jarraff.com
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NISUS CORP. 100 Nisus Dr. Rockford, TN 37853-3069 865-577-6119 800-264-0870 Fax: 865-577-5825 Email: jeffl@nisuscorp.com Website: www.cellutreat.com
LOGSET OY Hannisentie 2 Koivulahti, FI-66530 Finland 358-6-2103-216 Fax: 358-10-286-3200 Email: info@logset.com Website: www.logset.com
NOLAN SALES LLC PO Box 486 Marion, WI 54950-0486 715-754-5221 Fax: 715-754-1321 Email: email@nolansales.com Website: www.nolansales.com
M MACK TRUCKS INC. PO Box 26256 Greensboro, NC 27402-6256 336-291-9001 Website: www.macktrucks.com
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S SENNEBOGEN LLC 1957 Sennebogen Trail Stanley, NC 28164 704-347-4910 Fax: 704-347-8894 Email: sales@sennebogenllc.com Website: sennebogen-na.com
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9201 W. Heather Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53224-2419 262-255-3200, 800-342-9015 Fax: 262-255-2840 Email: sales@pferdusa.com Website: www.pferd.com Established: 1799 For over 200 years, PFERD files have been renowned worldwide as a top-quality product. With their consistently high cutting performance, they provide significant economic benefits by reducing labor time and increasing productivity. PFERD has used its centuries of experience to develop perfect file shapes and cuts for use in forestry applications. All PFERD chain saw files feature a uniform structure and hardness, precise cuts and shaping and even tooth spacing that eliminates clogging, optimizes sharpening and quickly puts a perfect edge on every tooth. For more information on PFERD chain saw files and accessories, please contact us at (800) 342-9015 or email sale@pferdusa.com
4400 International Ln. Rhinelander, WI 54501-8187 715-369-4833 Fax: 715-369-4838 Email: diana.olkowski@ponsse.com Website: www.ponsse.com Established: 1970 onsse is one of the orld’s leading manufacturers of forest machines for the cut-to-length method, and its customer-oriented operations are still guided by the wishes and needs of forest machine entrepreneurs. Ponsse products cover the diverse requirements of efficient harvesting faced by machine entrepreneurs around the world. Tree species vary from old pine to eucalyptus, and the machines have to endure tropical heat and arctic cold, travel without destroying the terrain and briskly climb the steepest slopes. Ponsse constantly develops its products and services, keeping a close eye on the new features expected by the forest machine industry and entrepreneurs. Without exception, our new products are designed on the basis of preferences expressed by our customers.
PACIFIC SCALE CO. INC. PO Box 1606 Clackamas, OR 97015-1606 800-537-1886 Fax: 503-657-5561 Email: psco@pacifier.com Website: www.pacificscale.com
POSTLE INDUSTRIES 600 Superior Ave. E. Cleveland, OH 41104 216479-6841 Email: pjmorin@pjmorininc.com
ROGERS BROS. CORP. 100 Orchard St. Albion, PA 16401-1218 800-441-9880 Email: info@rogerstrailers.com Website: www.rogerstrailers.com
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PEMBERTON ATTACHMENTS ✧ 103 Highline Dr. Longwood, FL 32750-4939 407-831-6688 Fax: 407-831-0497 Email: ron@pembertonattachments.com Website: www.pembertonattachments.com PETERSON PO Box 40490 Eugene, OR 97404-0082 541-689-6520, 800-269-6520 Fax: 541-689-0804 Email: sales@petersoncorp.com Website: www.petersoncorp.com PEWAG INC. USA 3825 Cincinnati Ave. Rocklin, CA 95765 800-445-2895 Fax: 866-472-8775 Email: tammyk@pewagchain.com Website: www.pewagchain.com PIERCE PACIFIC MFG. INC. PO Box 30509 Portland, OR 97294-3509 800-760-3270 Fax: 503-808-9111 Email: info@piercepacific.com Website: www.piercepacific.com PITTS TRAILERS PO Box 127 Pittsview, AL 36871-0127 800-321-8073 Fax: 334-855-3507 Email: info@pittstrailers.com Website: www.pittstrailers.com
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PO Box 507 Leeds, AL 35094-0010 205-640-5181 Fax: 205-640-1147 Email: sales@precisionhusky.com Website: www.precisionhusky.com Established: 1964 Precision Husky Corp. engineers and manufactures world-class equipment for chipmills, sawmills, wood-yards, log loading and inwoods debarking/chipping and wood waste grinding. THREE DIVISIONS Precision produces sawmill, chipmill equipment, in-woods flailers, whole tree chippers and a combo unit that combines both functions. Husky manufactures a complete line of knuckleboom loaders available as truck mount, on crawler tracks, trailer mounted and as a stationary unit. The ProGrind line of shredders offers nine different sizes of horizontal and tub grinders with production to 100 TPH and horsepower options from 100-860 HP. PRO MAC MFG. LTD. 2940 Jacob Rd. Duncan, BC V9L 6W4 Canada 800-665-5405 Fax: 250-746-4799 Email: promac@promac.bc.ca Website: www.promac.bc.ca PROLENC 951 Great St. Prince George, BC V2N 5R7 Canada 877-563-8899 Fax: 250-563-6704 Website: www.prolenc.com
Foremost Authority For Professional Loggers
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Zona Artigianale 1 Caldaro BZ, 39052 Italy 718-717-2791 Email: sales@seppi.com Website: www.seppi.com Established: 1939 Manufacturer of Mulching Equipment & Brush Technology -Forestry Mulchers-Stump & Root Grinders -Stone Crushers & Forestry TillersMulchers with Chute for Biomass Collection -Attachments for Tractors up to 500 HP, Hydraulic Drive Mulchers for Excavators or Prime Mowers. Outstanding Performance & Robust Construction
RAYCO MFG. INC. 4255 E. Lincoln Way Wooster, OH 44691-8601 330-264-8699, 800-392-2686 Fax: 330-264-3697 Email: rayco@raycomfg.com Website: www.raycomfg.com RISLEY EQUIP. LTD. 10820-89 Ave. Grande Prairie, AB T8V 6R7 Canada 780-532-3282, 866-783-7243 Fax: 780-513-4065 Email: sales@gorisley.com Website: www.gorisley.com
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SERCO LOADERS TWO HARBORS MACHINE 511 25th Ave. Two Harbors, MN 55616-5068 218-834-5118 Fax: 218-834-2498 Email: dwilliamson@sercoloaders.com Website: www.sercoloaders.com SI ONBOARD SCALES 39521 Place Rd. Fall Creek, OR 97438-9732 541-937-2070 Fax: 541-937-2095 Website: www.weighingsolutions.com SMART SCALE TECHNOLOGIES 1595 Bedford Hwy. Bedford, NS B4A 3Y4 Canada 877-757-7888 Email: derrick.hearn@truckweight.com Website: www.truckweight.com SOUTHSTAR EQUIP. ✧ 728 Tagish St. Kamloops, BC V2H 1B7 Canada 250-828-7820 Fax: 250-828-7825 Email: mike@southstarequipment.com Website: www.southstarequipment.com
ROTOCHOPPER
217 West St. Saint Martin, MN 56376 320-548-3586 Fax: 320-548-3372 Email: info@rotochopper.com Website: www.rotochopper.com Rotochopper manufacturers electric and diesel grinding equipment for converting wood waste to biomass fuel, colored landscape mulch, and other premium fiber products. For fine grinding applications like pellet fuels and animal bedding, Rotochopper multi-stage grinding systems take raw materials down to short fiber specifications in a single pass. In North America, all Rotochopper equipment is backed by factory-direct customer support.
STENS 1919 Hospitality Dr. Jasper, IN 47546-6700 800-457-7444 Fax: 800-222-7836 Email: stens@stens.com Website: www.stens.com STIHL INC. PO Box 2015 Virginia Beach, VA 23450-2015 800-GO-STIHL (800-467-8445) Fax: 757-631-5778 Email: stihlcs@stihl.us Website: www.stihlusa.com STRIPPER TREE DELIMBERS 98 Old Route 26 South Paris, ME 04281-6304 207-890-6597 Email: samsessions@yahoo.com Website: www.stripperdelimber.com
ROTTNE INDUSTRI AB Fabriksvägen 12 SE 363 30 Rottne, Sweden 46 0-470-75-87-00 Email: info@rottne.com RYANS EQUIP. INC. 111 Quicksilver Ln. Edmore, MI 48829-7306 989-427-2829 Fax: 989-427-4008 Email: info@ryansequip.com Website: www.ryansequip.com
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TAIMI HYDRAULICS 192 Parc Industrial St. Prime, QC G8J 2B1 Canada 418-686-6868 Fax: 418-251-1108 Email: info@taimi.ca Website: www.taimi.ca
TIGERCAT INDUSTRIES INC.
PO Box 637 Brantford, ON N3T 5P9 Canada 519-753-2000 Fax: 519-753-8272 Email: comments@tigercat.com Website: www.tigercat.com Established: 1991 Tigercat specializes in the design and manufacture of premium quality harvesting systems that deliver wood to roadside at the lowest cost per ton. With a full range of full-tree and cut-tolength equipment including feller bunchers, skidders, loaders, harvesters, forwarders, felling and harvesting attachments as well as a range of site preparation and land clearing equipment, Tigercat is the most highly focused player in the forestry equipment industry. www.facebook.com/Tigercat
TAJFUN USA
960 Harris Ave., Ste. 201 Bellingham, WA 98225 360-594-8877 Email: tajfunusa@tajfun.com Website: www.tajfun.com Established: 1967 Tajfun is the largest European manufacturer of small forestry machinery (firewood processors, tractor cranes, tower yarders) and implements (logging winches and grapples). The company’s fifty year-old tradition is reflected in its development, production and marketing of technologically advanced forestry machinery, which is designed to ensure efficient, safe and environmentally-friendly harvesting and processing of timber. Our main goal is to offer a complete solution in the field of forestry logistics. We are sucessfully operating in 57 countries around the globe including the east and west coast of the USA! TEREX CONSTRUCTION AMERICAS 8800 Rostin Rd. Southaven, MS 38671-1022 662-393-1800 Fax: 662-393-1700 Email: mark.luttmann@terex.com Website: www.terex.com/construction
TITAN TRAILERS INC. 1129 Hwy. #3 Delhi, ON N4B 2W6 Canada 519-688-4826 Fax: 519-688-6453 Email: info@titantrailers.com Website: www.titantrailers.com
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(See Komatsu America Corp.) TIMBERBLADE INC. 508 Meadow Wood Ln. Woodstock, ON N4T 0J2 Canada 519-532-3283 Fax: 888-763-2336 Email: maurice@timberblade.com Website: www.timberblade.com
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TEREX ENVIRONMENTAL EQUIP. 22 Whittier St. Newton, NH 03858-3524 603-382-0556 Fax: 603-382-0557 Email: nwt.infofwd@terex.com Website: www.terex.com/environmental-equipment
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U.S. BLADES 600 Grantham Ave. West Monroe, LA 71292-8014 800-862-4544 Fax: 843-673-0440 Website: www.usblades.net
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(See Komatsu America Corp.) VERMEER 1210 Vermeer Rd. E. Pella, IA 50219 641-628-3141, 888-VERMEER Fax: 641-621-7734 Email: salesinfo@vermeer.com Website: www.vermeer.com VULCAN ON BOARD SCALES 5920 S. 194th St. Kent, WA 98032-1196 800-237-0022 Fax: 253-872-9626 Website: www.vulcanscales.com
TIMBERWOLF MFG. CORP. 126 Spruce St. Rutland, VT 05701-4420 802-775-4227 Fax: 802-773-1275 Email: info@timberwolfcorp.com Website: www.timberwolfcorp.com
TEXAS REFINERY CORP. PO Box 711 Fort Worth, TX 76101-0711 817-332-1161, 800-827-0711 Fax: 800-582-3329 Email: lube1@texasrefinery.com Website: www.texasrefinery.com
TRELAN MFG. 498 8 Mile Rd. Remus, MI 49340-9316 989-561-2280 Fax: 989-561-2530 Website: www.trelan.com
WEST SALEM MACHINERY PO Box 5288 Salem, OR 97304-0288 503-364-2213, 800-722-3530 Fax: 503-364-1398 Email: info@westsalem.com Website: www.westsalem.com
WICKER MACHINE CO. PO Box 338 Hollandale, MS 38748-0338 662-827-5434 Fax: 662-827-7800 Email: robert@wickermachinecompany.com Website: www.wickermachinecompany.com ✧
W WHO MFG. CO. INC. PO Box 1153 Lamar, CO 81052-1153 719-336-7433 Fax: 719-336-7052 Email: whomfgco@bresnan.net Website: www.who-mfg.com WALLINGFORDS INC. 1010 Kennedy Memorial Dr. Oakland, ME 04963-4830 207-465-9575, 800-323-3708 Fax: 207-465-9601 Email: info@wallingfords.com Website: www.wallingfords.com WARATAH 375 International Park, Ste. 200 Newnan, GA 30265 770-692-0380 Fax: 770-692-0384 Email: michael.campbell@us.waratah.net Website: www.waratah.net WATTS AUCTION REALTY APPRAISAL 7661 Wards Rd. Rustburg, VA 24588 434-821-5263 Fax: 434-821-0009 Email: richard@wattsara.com
WINKLE INDUSTRIES 2080 W. Main St. Alliance, OH 44601-2187 330-823-9730 Fax: 330-823-9788 Email: sales@winkleindustries.com Website: www.winkleindustries.com WIRECO WORLDGROUP 2400 W. 75th St. Prairie Village , KS 66208 816-270-4700 Fax: 816-270-4707 Email: info@wirecoworldgroup.com Website: www.unionrope.com J M WOOD AUCTION 3475 Ashley Rd. Montgomery, AL 36108-3709 334-264-3265 Website: www.jmwood.com
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WOOD-MIZER SAWMILLS AND WOOD PROCESSING EQUIPMENT 8180 W. 10th St. Indianapolis, IN 46214-2430 317-271-1542, 800-553-0182 Fax: 317-273-1011 Email: infocenter@woodmizer.com Website: www.woodmizer.com
Y YOUNG CORP. PO Box 3522 Seattle, WA 98124-3522 800-321-9090 Fax: 206-682-6881 Email: sales@youngcorp.com Website: www.youngcorp.com
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FORESTRY & LOGGING ASSOCIATIONS/TRADE SHOWS Alabama Forestry Assn.
555 Alabama St., Montgomery, AL 36104-4395; 334-2658733, Fax: 334-262-1258; Email: afa@alaforestry.org; www. alaforestry.org; C. Isaacson, exec. vp. Annual Meeting: September 10-12 2017, Perdido Beach Resort, Orange Beach, AL
Alabama Loggers Council
555 Alabama St., Montgomery, AL 36104-4309; 334-2658733, Fax: 334-262-1258; J. Moon, exec. dir.
Alaska Forest Assn.
111 Stedman St., Ste. 200, Ketchikan, AK 99901; 907-2256114, Fax: 907-225-5920; Email: afa@akforest.org; www. akforest.org; O. Graham, exec dir. Annual Meeting: October 18-20 2017, Best Western Plus Landing, Ketchikan, AK
www.oregonloggers.org; J. Geisinger, exec. vp. Annual Meeting: January 19-21 2017, Valley River Inn, Eugene, OR
California Forestry Assn.
1215 K St., Ste. 1830, Sacramento, CA 95814-3947; 916-4446592, Fax: 916-444-0170; Email: info@calforests.org; www. calforests.org; D. Bischel, pres. Annual Meeting: March 1-2 2017, Westin Verasa, Napa, CA
Carolina Loggers Association Inc.
PO Box 785, Henderson, NC 27536-0785; 828-421-8444; Email: contact@ncloggers.com; www.ncloggers.com; J. Swanner, exec. dir.; N. Nance, COB. Annual Meeting: February 24-25 2017, Hilton Wilmington Riverside, Wilmington, NC
Council On Forest Engineering (COFE)
American Loggers Council
PO Box 966, Hemphill, TX 75948-0966; 409-625-0206, Fax: 409-625-0207; Email: americanlogger@aol.com; www.amloggers.com; K. Martin, pres; M. Turner, 1st vp; C. Potts, 2nd vp. Annual Meeting: Sept. 28-30 2017, Natchez Grand Hotel, Natchez Convention Center, Natchez, MS.
Arkansas Forestry Assn.
1213 W. 4th St., Little Rock, AR 72201-1905; 501-374-2441, Fax: 501-374-6413; www.arkforests.org; P. Prutzman, pres.; M. Braswell, exec. vp. Annual Meeting: October 3-5 2017, Holiday Inn Airport, Little Rock, AR
Arkansas Timber Producers Assn.
2311 Biscayne Dr., Ste. 206, Little Rock, AR 72227-3393; 501224-2232, 888-403-2232, Fax: 501-224-9625; Email: lboccarossa@sbcglobal.net; www.arkloggers.com; S.Word, pres.; J. Wilson vp. Annual Meeting: August 25-26 2017, Hot Springs Convention Ctr., Hot Springs, AR.
Associated California Loggers
555 Capitol Mall, Ste. 745, Sacramento, CA 95814-4581; 916441-7940, Fax: 916-441-7942; www.calog.com; E. Carleson, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: January 10-12 2017, Atlantis Casino Resort & Spa, Reno, NV
Associated Contract Loggers & Truckers Of Minnesota
3961 S Barker Rd, Gilbert, MN 55741-8145; 218-780-5927, Fax: 888-317-7591; Email: 4danes@cpinternet.com; www. acltmn.com; S. Dane, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: April 2017, Fortune Bay Resort, Tower, MN
Associated Logging Contractors Inc.
PO Box 671, Coeur D Alene, ID 83816-0671; 208-667-6473, 800-632-8743 (ID), Fax: 208-667-2144; Email: alc@idahologgers.com; S. Sherich, pres.; M. Mahon, vp.; S. Keough, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: April 28-29 2016, Best Western Lodge at River’s Edge, Orofino, ID
Associated Oregon Loggers Inc.
PO Box 12339, Salem, OR 97309-0339; 503-364-1330, Fax: 503-364-0836; Email: aol@oregonloggers.org;
PO Box 6125, Morgantown, WV 26506; 240-382-2633; Email: admin@cofe.org; www.cofe.org; B. Spong. Annual Meeting: July 30-August 2 2017, TBA, Bangor, ME
Forest History Society
701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701-3162; 919682-9319, Fax: 919-682-2349; Email: andrea.anderson@ foresthistory.org; www.foresthistory.org; S. Anderson, pres.; E. Lehman, lib./archivist.
Forest Products Society
106 Progress Dr., Frankfort, KY 40601-8695; 502-695-3979, Fax: 502-695-8343; Email: bob@kfia.org; www.kfia.org; T. Leanhart, pres.; M. Strader, vp; A. Middleton sec. Annual Meeting: April 4-6 2017, Embassy Suites, Lexington, KY
Louisiana Forestry Assn.
PO Box 5067, Alexandria, LA 71307-5067; 318-443-2558; Email: lfa@laforestry.com; www.laforestry.com; M. Toms, pres.; P. Spillers, 1st vp.; P. Huber, 2nd vp.; T. Diaz, 3rd vp.; M. Rachal, treas. Annual Meeting: August 29-31 2017, Hilton Riverside New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Maryland Forests Assn.
PO Box 904, Brooklandville, MD 21022-0904; 410-823-1789; Email: director@mdforests.org; www.mdforests.org; T. Berman, pres.; V. Finney, exec. dir.
Michigan Association Of Timbermen
7350 State Hwy. M123, Newberry, MI 49868-8179; 906-2933236, Fax: 906-293-5444; www.timbermen.org; A. Frampton, admin.
Minnesota Timber Producers Assn.
Forest Resources Assn.
Mississippi Forestry Assn.
1901 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Ste. 303, Washington, DC 20006-3459; 202-296-3937; www.forestresources.org; T. Reed, chair; J Contino, vice chair; M. Fryer, vice chair; J. Parnell, vice chair; D. Hawkinson, pres. Annual Meeting: May 2-4 2017, Marion Hotel, Charleston, SC
Georgia Forestry Assn.
PO Box 1217, Forsyth, GA 31029-1217; 478-992-8110; Email: info@gfagrow.org; www.gfagrow.org; M. Hestad, dir. of comm. Annual Meeting: July 21-23 2017, Jekyll Island Convention Center, Jekyll Island, GA
Great Lakes Timber Professionals Assn.
PO Box 1278, Rhinelander, WI 54501-1278; 715-282-5828, Fax: 715-282-4941; Email: gltpaadvertising@gltapa.org; www.gltapa.org; H. Schienebeck, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: September 7-9 2017, UP State Fairgrounds, Escanaba, MI.
Independent Logging Contractors Of Alabama
1212 Highway 239, Union Springs, AL 36089-4414; 251-9662406, Fax: 251-966-5336; E. Castleberry, chmn.
324 W. Superior St., Ste. 903, Duluth, MN 55802-1717; 218722-5013, Fax: 218-722-2065; W. Brandt, exec. vp.
620 N. State St., Ste. 201, Jackson, MS 39202-3398; 601354-4936, Fax: 601-354-4937; Email: mfa@msforestry.net; www.msforestry.net; msforestry.blogsport.com.
Mississippi Loggers Assn.
PO Box 659, Quitman, MS 39355-0659; 601-776-5754, Fax: 601-776-2737; Email: mla@msloggers.org; www.msloggers. org; C. Johnson, dir.; S. Benefield, asst. dir.; K. Martin, pres.
Missouri Forest Products Assn./ Missouri Loggers Council
505 E. State St., Jefferson City, MO 65101-3024; 573-6343252, Fax: 573-636-2591; www.moforest.org; B. Brookshire, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: July 21-23 2017, TBA, Lake of the Ozarks, MO
Montana Logging Assn.
PO Box 1716, Kalispell, MT 59903-1716; 406-752-3168, Fax: 406-756-9574; Email: coleen@logging.org; www.logging.org; D. Krueger, pres.; K. Olson, exec. dir.; D. Sheets, vp. Annual Meeting: May 19-20 2017, Grantree Hotel, Bozeman, MT
NH Timber Harvesting Council
Intermountain Logging Assn.
PO Box 482, Saint Maries, ID 83861-0482; 208-245-3425;
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Kentucky Forest Industries Assn.
15 Technology Pkwy. S., Peachtree Corners, GA 30092-8200; 855-475-0291; Email: deepa@forestprod.org; www.forestprod. org; D. George, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: June 26-28, 2017, Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront, Portland, OR
February 9-11 Sierra-Cascade Forest Products & Construction Equipment Exposition, Shasta District Fairgrounds, Anderson, CA: 530-222-1290; sierracascadeexpo.com February 23-25: Logging, Construction, Trucking & Heavy Equip. Expo, Lane County Convention Center & Fairgrounds, Eugene, OR: 541-686-9191; oregonloggingconference.com March 16-18: Redwood Region Logging Conference, Red Lion Hotel, Eureka, CA: 707-443-4091; rrlc.net April 5-7: Intermountain Logging Equipment Show & Conference, Mirabeau Park Hotel, Spokane Valley, WA: 208-245-3425; intermountainlogging.org April 21-22: Loggers Plus Expo, Bloomsburg Fairgrounds, Bloomsburg, PA: 315-369-3078; nefpexpo.com May 19-20: Northeastern Forest Products Equipment Expo, Bangor, ME: 315-369-3078; www.nefpexpo.net June 7-10: Elmia Wood, Jonkoping, Sweden: +46 36-15 20 00; elmiawood.com; (U.S. contact: David Abbott, 334-467-9663; e-mail david@hattonbrown.com) August 25-26: Southwest Forest Products Expo, Hot Springs, AR: 501-224-2232; e-mail lboccarossa@global.net; arkloggers. com September 8-10: Lake States Logging & Heavy Equipment Expo, EAA Event Grounds, Oshkosh, WI: 715-282-5828; timberpa.com September 15-16, Kentucky Wood Expo, Materson Station Park, Lexington, KY: 502-695-3979; kfia.org September 15-16: Mid-Atlantic Logging & Biomass Expo, Selma-Smithfield, NC: 828-421-8444; malbexpo.com October 7-9: Paul Bunyan Show, Cambridge, OH: 740-452-4541; ohioforest.org
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Email: julie@intermountainlogging.org; www.intermountainlogging.org; T. Stone, pres.; S. Kuehn, vp.; R. Hansen, treas. Annual Meeting: April 5-7 2017, Mirabeau Park Hotel & Convention Center, Spokane Valley, WA
54 Portsmouth St., Concord, NH 03301-5486; 603-224-9699, Fax: 603-225-5898; www.nhtoa.org; J. Stock, exec. dir.; E. Johnson, program dir.; D. Park, office mgr.; S.Pattey, program dir.
North Carolina Forestry Assn.
1600 Glenwood Ave., Raleigh, NC 27608-2356; 800-2317723, Fax: 919-832-6188; Email: cbrown@ncforestry.org; www.ncforestry.org; P. Gibson, exec. vp.; C. Brown, comm. dir. Annual Meeting: October 4-6 2017, Hilton Riverside, Wilmington, NC
Northeastern Loggers Assn.
PO Box 69, Old Forge, NY 13420-0069; 315-369-3078, Fax: 315-369-3736; Email: nela@northernlogger.com; www.northernlogger.com; J. Phaneuf, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: May 19-20 2017, Cross Insurance Center, Bangor, ME
Ohio Forestry Assn.
1100 Brandywine Blvd., Ste. H, Zanesville, OH 43701-7303; 614-497-9580, Fax: 614-497-9581; Email: info@ohioforest. org; www.ohioforest.org; B. Perkins, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: March 1-2 2017, Embassy Suites, Dublin, OH
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Oklahoma Forestry Assn.
4878 E. State Hwy. 3, Idabel, OK 74745-5113; Fax: 580-2861071; www.okforestry.org; D. Lewia, pres.; C. Bouffleur, vp.
Olympic Logging Conference
190 NW 32nd Ct., Redmond, OR 97756; 360-202-7014; Email: register@olcnw.com; www.olcnw.com; D. Oster-Courtney, mgr. . Annual Meeting: April 26-28 2017, Fairmont Empress Hotel, Victoria, BC
Oregon Logging Conference & Show
PO Box 10669, Eugene, OR 97440-2669; 541-686-9191, Fax: 855-866-0572; Email: rikki@oregonloggingconference. com; www.oregonloggingconference.com; R. Wellman, mgr. Annual Meeting: February 23-25 2017, Eugene Hilton & Lane Events Center & Fairgrounds, Eugene, OR
Pacific Logging Congress
PO Box 1281, Maple Valley, WA 98038-1281; 425-413-2808, Fax: 855-866-0572; www.pacificloggingcongress.com; R. Wellman, exec. dir.
Pennsylvania Forestry Assn.
116 Pine St., Fl. 5, Harrisburg, PA 17101-1222; 717-234-2500, Fax: 717-635-2317; Email: thepfa@paforestry.org; www. paforestry.org; .
Professional Logging Contractors Of Maine
PO Box 1036 , Augusta, ME 04332; 207-688-8195; www. maineloggers.com; D. Doran, exec. dir.; B. Souers, past pres.; S. Madden, pres. Annual Meeting: May 5 2017, Bangor, ME
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Redwood Region Logging Conference
5601 S. Broadway St., Eureka, CA 95503-6904; 707-4434091, Fax: 707-443-0926; Email: rrlc@sonic.net; www.rrlc.net; K. Ziemer, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: March 16-18 2017, Red Lion Hotel, Eureka, CA
South Carolina Forestry Assn.
PO Box 21303, Columbia, SC 29221-1303; 803-798-4170, Fax: 803-798-2340; Email: scfa@scforestry.org; www.scforestry.org; C. Crawford, pres.
South Carolina Timber Producers Assn.
PO Box 811, Lexington, SC 29071-0811; 803-957-9919, 800371-2240, Fax: 803-957-8990; Email: bcjpaw@windstream. net; www.scloggers.com; B. McKinney, chmn.; J Seckinger, vice chmn.; C. Jaynes, pres./ceo.; R. Crowder, sec./treas. Annual Meeting: February 10-12 2017, DoubleTree by Hilton Myrtle Beach Oceanfront, Myrtle Beach, SC
Southeastern Wood Producers Assn. Inc.
PO Box 9, Hilliard, FL 32046-0009; 904-845-7133, Fax: 904845-7345; www.swpa.ag; J. Lane, pres.; S. Gies, vp; R. Fowler, sec.treas.; T. Carroll, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: June 2-3 2017, Jekyll Island Convention Ctr., Jekyll Island, GA
Tennessee Forestry Assn.
PO Box 290693, Nashville, TN 37229-0693; 615-883-3832, Fax: 615-883-0515; Email: cdinwiddie@tnforestry.com; www. tnforestry.com; J. Almond, pres.; C. Dinwiddie, exec. dir.
Texas Forestry Assn.
PO Box 1488, Lufkin, TX 75902-1488; 936-632-8733, Fax: 936-632-9461; Email: tfa@texasforestry.org; www.texasforestry.org; R. Hufford, exec. dir.
Texas Logging Council
PO Box 1488, Lufkin, TX 75902-1488; 936-632-8733, Fax: 936-632-9461; www.texasforestry.org; D. Duren, coord.
Virginia Forestry Assn.
3808 Augusta Ave., Richmond, VA 23230-3910; 804-2788733, Fax: 804-278-8774; Email: vfa@vaforestry.org; www. vaforestry.org; C. Moon, pres.; J. Hancock, vp. Annual Meeting: May 3-5, 2017, Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke, VA.
Virginia Loggers Assn.
5251 Tavern Ln., Goochland, VA 23063; 804-677-4290; Email: info@valoggers.org; www.valoggers.org; V. Wright, pres.; R. Jenkins, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: August 17-20, 2017, The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Ctr., Blacksburg, VA
Washington Contract Loggers Assn.
PO Box 2168, Olympia, WA 98507-2168; 800-422-0074; Email: jerryb@loggers.com; www.loggers.com; E. Bryant, chmn. of board; J. Bonagofsky, pres/ceo. Annual Meeting: March 24-25 2017, Tulalip Resort & Casino, Tu lalip, WA.
West Virginia Forestry Assn.
PO Box 718, Ripley, WV 25271-0718; 304-372-1955; Email: wvfa@wvfa.org; www.wvfa.org; F. Stewart, exec. dir.
Wood Supply Research Institute
317 Domingo Rd., Valley Head, WV 26924; 304-572-5195; Email: stevecarruth@yahoo.com; www.wsri.org; St. Carruth, exec. dir. Annual Meeting: May 1 2017, Charleston, SC.
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Software Tools Streamline Tasks For Bisballe Forest Products, Inc. Like most loggers, Kurt Bisballe, principal in Bisballe Forest Products, Lake City, Mich., had much rather be in the woods than in the office. He prefers being on the job, seeing firsthand what is working well and what needs improvement. Preferences aside, the reality is that he brings the most value to his customers and employees when he is able to spend more time in the woods and with his customers, not stuck behind his desk. Yet somehow he found himself spending more and more hours in the office as his business grew, trying to ensure that landowners and employees were being paid properly, and that, in turn, he was also being paid properly by the mills. And then, of course, there were the countless hours spent analyzing job performance and production information after the fact to see if he was actually making money. About 10 years ago, Kurt ran across an article in Timber Harvesting featuring the magazine’s 2006 Logger of the Year, Dick Walsh Forest Products in Minnesota. In that article, Jodi Walsh, the office manager, mentioned her investment in Caribou Software’s Logger’s Edge system as one of the best and most cost-effective changes they had introduced to the business. She talked about using the Logger’s Edge to track timber contracts, keep up with production by product categories, track deliveries and record actual trucking
and equipment costs. That got Kurt’s wheels turning, and within a month of reading that article, he made the same investment. At the time, Kurt’s business was much smaller than Walsh’s operation, but Caribou’s special price for smaller loggers made for a very worthwhile investment.
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By getting the jobs and rate information set up in the software, it meant that Kurt could enlist the help of others, including his mother, Norma, and more recently his sister-in-law, Kristi, to assist with the paperwork. For example, with all the rate information set up in advance, someone else (specifically his ever-faithful mother) could take the tickets from truckers, enter them into the Logger’s Edge, push a button in the software to match all the rate information with the tickets, and automatically separate them onto individual pay settlements for each of the logging crews and truckers. The software also calculates the production bonuses that are owing to each of his crew members for the week based on the volume harvested. Norma also enters the hours worked by each crew member into the software, and the software calculates the hourly pay for each employee as well. All Kurt has to do now is come into the office to review the software’s output, provide any rate information that he may have missed, and sign checks. He can also review production and delivery reports that help him manage his quota more efficiently, and he can review job reports that show the revenue from each job compared to trucking, labor, stumpage, and other job-specific costs. The software has allowed Bisballe to leverage his time much more effectively, freeing him to spend more time in the woods. When Bisballe first started Norma Bisballe brings up Logger’s Edge software at the beusing the software in 2006, ginning of another work day.
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the family had two crews. They have grown substantially and now have seven crews and two subcontract crews.
Maintenance Too With all that growth, the ever-increasing burden of staying on top of machine and truck maintenance—the business owns 40-plus machines, trucks, and trailers—became overwhelming. They tried to keep manual records in a notebook and a series of paper files, but as Cody Caron, their mechanic, put it, “it was a real pain to stay on top of when services were coming due for what equipment.” It became clear after a couple years that they needed some kind of software tracking tool in the shop as well. After trying a maintenance tracking product from another company without much success, they adopted Caribou’s Mechanic’s Edge software system. Kristi took ownership of getting the system set up, but now Cody maintains the data day-to-day. The software generates a report that lists all equipment that is coming due or is overdue for various services. Each equipment or group of equipment can be assigned a service schedule, indicating the frequency of major inspections or service events such as oil changes, hydraulic filter changes, fire extinguisher changes, tire changes, annual DOT inspections, etc. The software then keeps track of when an event was last performed, and can flag Cody when it is coming due. The software has allowed Cody to be much more organized about gathering parts at the beginning of the day, and doing multiple services at once. Upon completion of the service, he updates the software to indicate the meter reading at which the service was completed, and that equipment drops off the list until its next service is due. Norma and Kristi cannot imagine having been able to sustain their growth over the years without efficiency-enhancing software tools in place. The software has enabled Bisballe Forest Products to complete administrative responsibilities with ease and organization, and as a result has enabled Kurt and his brother Chad to stay focused on harvesting operations while still being able to efficiently analyze the economics of their business.TH
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RiskWatch
Most Rollovers Can Be Prevented J.J. LEMIRE Have your ever been affected by a truck rollover? Most, if not all, of these incidents are preventable. In a very small number of cases, some rollovers occur due to the action of other drivers, while some occur due to equipment failure. Rollovers happen more often with log trucks than with chip vans. Log trailers have a higher center of gravity than a typical cargo load. It takes .4gs (gravitational forces) or less to roll over. A car must exceed 1.3gs to roll over; a pickup 1.1. For an SUV, it’s .8. It’s extremely easy to exceed the g-forces on a log truck. Rollovers usually occur when: —Drifting off pavement onto a soft shoulder —Making a tight turn —Striking a curb —Running into a ditch
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—Entering or exiting onto a ramp at excessive speed —Going into a curve too fast Speed is the number one cause of rollovers. Add rain, ice, sleet or snow to excessive speed and you will turn your loaded trailer over. Slow down and adjust to weather and road conditions. When a truck drifts off the pavement onto a soft shoulder, the load weight can cause rutting, making it difficult for the driver to return the ve-
hicle to the road. Sometimes a driver overreacts and jerks the steering wheel, causing a rollover. So, what can a driver do? It all starts with building the load. Put the heaviest logs toward the bottom. Distribute the weight evenly throughout the bunks. Make sure binders are tight before leaving the deck. Check binders along the route, as they usually will loosen as the load settles. While driving, use caution when turning or changing lanes. Keep tires on the pavement. Follow the speed limit when going into a curve. Do not let cell phones or CB radios, or anything else, distract you. Adjust your speed to weather conditions. Give yourself extra time so as not to feel rushed. Keep following distances far enough so that you can safely react to traffic TH changes. Lemire is Director, Loss Control, for Forestry Material Ins. Co.
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EquipmentWorld Nortrax Hosts Live Demo In Minnsota
Nortrax Equipment Co., the John Deere Forestry and Construction dealer in northern Minnesota, Wisconsin and the U.P. of Michigan, hosted a live cut forestry event for loggers and timber industry professionals late last summer near Twig, Minn. The all-day event started with live demos that featured the full lineup of John Deere forestry equipment as well as Morbark industrial chipping and grinding machines. Approximately 200 loggers attended the event. They also had the opportunity to attend four seminars offered throughout the day for eligibility for MLEP (Minnesota Logger Education Program) and FISTA (Forest Industry Safety & Training Alliance) and SFI Credit (Sustainable Forestry Initiative). The seminars covered topics such as machine optimization, safety initiatives, diesel exhaust fluid, battery and hydraulic and engine oils. Lunch was served under a big tent. On hand for the event were several John Deere factory representatives and forestry specialists, as well as Nortrax President Tim Murphy, Nortrax Midwest Vice President Dale Gessell, and Nortrax Forestry Specialist Ken Knauf. Jacob Kesanen, Nortrax product support technology representative, offered TimberNavi demonstrations on the jobsite mapping solution designed for full-tree operations. It provides accurate, in-machine visibility of terrain, harvesting area Registration was handled by Sandy Bennett, Brooke Dahm, and Taylor Kangas. and land boundaries.
John Deere skidders and feller-bunchers were lined up for the start of the demo.
The event attracted approximately 200.
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EquipmentWorld Komatsu Appoints Midlantic Machinery Komatsu America Corp. named Midlantic Machinery as forestry equipment distributor for Delaware and most of Maryland. Midlantic Machinery will handle the full line of Komatsu forestry equipment. Machinery is also the distributor in these areas for Komatsu construction and mining equipment. Midlantic Machinery was founded in 1941 and began selling Komatsu equipment in the late 1960s, making it one the oldest continuous Komatsu distributors in the U.S. Headquartered in Hatfield, Pa., Midlantic Machinery has seven locations.
Terex Pushes Forward With Two-Brand Strategy Terex has determined it will proceed with a strong two-brand market strategy—CBI and Terex Ecotec. The company has continued to advance its business strategy in the wood
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processing and recycling industries through the acquisitions of Continental Biomass Industries (CBI) and Neuson Ecotec Environmental Technology, combined with the introduction of new recycling products from its Northern Ireland facility. The CBI product line includes stationary and portable horizontal grinders, drum chippers, flail debarkers, disc chippers and screens. Additionally, customized stationary recycling systems can be configured using CBI equipment to meet specific processing needs. The full Terex Ecotec product line now includes slow and medium speed shredders, biomass chippers, horizontal grinders, trommel and recycling
screens, waste handlers, and windrow turners. “This brand strategy gives Terex two strong brands of well-known and reliable equipment to meet virtually any environmental processing need,” comments Elaine Donaghy, Marketing Manager. “Depending on the market and how to best serve the customer, we will employ a mixed sales channel strategy that includes both distributors and direct sales.” The global Terex Ecotec organization is headquartered in Dungannon, Northern Ireland with CBI Global headquarters in Newton, NH in the U.S. and another branch Nijverdal, Netherlands.
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Election Brings New Opportunities, But Established Challenges Remain NICK SMITH Against all odds, Donald Trump was elected president. Republicans also kept control of both houses of Congress. Many stories have been
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written about rural America’s influence on the election. But what does it all mean for the American Loggers Council, its members and professional timber harvesting?
There’s no doubt the new year will bring opportunities to reform federal forest management, restore the health of our federally-owned forests, and create more family-wage jobs where they’re desperately needed. For ALC, there will be new opportunities to advance key priorities such as ensuring uniform truck weight Smith limits and passing Youth in Careers in Logging legislation. It will also be easier for ALC and its partners to stop anti-forestry measures before they can hurt the industry. But make no mistake, getting things done in Washington, DC won’t be easy. Our work isn’t done. It’s only just beginning. When it comes to federal land management, Trump now has the chance to appoint officials who can change the culture of federal agencies, emphasizing a shift back to multiple-use management of our lands and natural resources. But the truth is the Trump Administration will be saddled with the same counterproductive and complex web of federal laws, rules and regulations that have resulted in the neglect of our forests and the loss of thousands of jobs across the industry. It’s already clear anti-forestry groups will double-down on lawsuits that bring projects to a halt and put forest health in the hands of judges instead of foresters. Relieving our federal agencies of obstructive litigation, “analysis paralysis,” and chronic budget shortfalls requires congressional action. Given the enormous power and influence anti-forestry groups continue to enjoy in Washington, it’s likely any real change will require bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate, where Republicans lost seats. Any legislative measure will likely require 60 votes in the Senate before Trump is able to sign it into law. Many policymakers, even those in the new administration, will need to be educated on responsible logging practices and the benefits loggers provide to the American public. The new administration and Congress offer new opportunities, but many of the old challenges facing the industry will remain. ALC members, led by Executive Vice President Danny Dructor, are working proactively with key leaders to hit the ground running. But
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SelectCuts ALC still needs your help, even with a federal government that will be friendlier to timber harvesting. Now more than ever, it’s important for all loggers to stay informed and stay engaged to make the most of the opportunities that American voters have given us. Stay tuned to for updates in future issues, and don’t forget to “like” us on Facebook! Smith is a Communications Specialist for the American Loggers Council and founder of Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities, a non-profit, non-partisan organization that advocates for active forest management on federal forests. The American Loggers Council is a 501 (c)(6) not-for-profit trade organization representing professional timber harvesters in 32 states. Visit www.amloggers.com or phone 409-625-0206.
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LP, Norbord Do OSB Mill Swap Louisiana-Pacific is swapping its Chambord, Quebec OSB mill for Norbord’s Val-d’Or, Quebec OSB mill. This transaction, along with the recent acquisition of a former OSB site in Cook, Minnesota, is part of LP’s strategy to increase siding capacity. LP’s immediate priority will be to conduct a detailed evaluation of the Cook site and Val-d’Or mill. The assessment will determine the operational feasibility, including access to timely and adequate wood supply, the ➤ 46 work required to convert the
All Systems Go For Arauco Mill Arauco announced it has received all required official approvals to build its new particleboard plant located in Grayling, Mich. Arauco’s $400 million investment will create 300 jobs during construction, along with 250 permanent jobs to run the plant. The Michigan plant adds to acquisitions Arauco has made in recent years, including Moncure and Biscoe, NC facilities, and seven former Flakeboard plants throughout the U.S. and Canada.
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SCTPA Sets Program For 18th Annual Meeting The 18th annual meeting of the South Carolina Timber Producers Assn. (SCTPA) will be held February 10-12 in Myrtle Beach at the newly remodeled DoubleTree by Hilton Resort Myrtle Beach Oceanfront. Theme of the meeting will be Loggers Are Heroes! Following a Friday evening reception, the general session gets underway Saturday morning. Speakers will address wood supply and markets, a WSRI research project, loggers as heroes, and national legislative issues. On tap Saturday afternoon will be a SCTPA business session, presentation of awards, and drawings for prizes. There will be no outside equipment exhibits this year but numerous displays will be set up inside. Also, a tie-in meeting for TEAM Safe Truck-
ing will be held at the hotel beginning at 1 p.m. February 9. To register visit scloggers.com or phone 800-371-2240. To make hotel reservations call 800-774-1500 or book on line at myrtlebeachresort.doubletreebyhilton.com. The room reservation code is SCT.
frame, according to TEAM Leader Jimmie Locklear (910-733-3300). The meeting will take place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Resort Myrtle Beach Oceanfront. This is the same hotel hosting the annual meeting of the South Carolina Timber Producers Assn. on February 10-12.
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Logger Ricky Deacon Eulogized December 15
Organizers and supporters of TEAM Safe Trucking (TST) will gather in Myrtle Beach, SC February 9 to discuss the initiative’s 2016 progress and to address ways to accelerate additional progress going forward. The meeting, which begins at 1 p.m., is open to anyone interested in helping make log/chip trucking safer, more accountable and professional. TST recently launched a work-inprogress web site (teamsafetrucking. com) and has streamlined internal communications and committee responsibilities to get more done in a tighter time
Memorial services for Ricky Stuart Deacon, 55, a long-time logger and board member of the Virginia Loggers Assn., were held December 15 in Rockbridge County, Va. Deacon died in a local head-on collision on December 10, according to news accounts. Deacon owned Deacon Bros. Logging of Fairfield, Va. and was known for his honesty and integrity. He was a member of McElwee Chapel and Lexington Moose Lodge. Survivors include his widow, one daughter, one son, one brother, one sister, and three grandchildren.
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February 10-12—South Carolina Timber Prod. Assn. annual meeting, DoubleTree by Hilton Myrtle Beach Oceanfront, Myrtle Beach, SC. Call 803-957-9919; visit scloggers.com. February 9-11—68th Annual 2017 Forest Products & Constr. Equip. Expo, Shasta District Fairgrounds, Anderson, Calif. Call 530-222-1290; visit sierracascadeexpo.com. February 23-25—Oregon Logging Conference & Show, Eugene Hilton & Lane Events Center & Fairgrounds, Eugene, Ore. Call 541-686-9191; visit oregonloggingconference.com. February 24-25—Carolina Loggers Assn. annual meeting, Hilton Wilmington Riverside, Wilmington, NC. Call 828421-8444; visit ncloggers.com. March 1-2— California Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Westin Versa, Napa, Calif. Call 916-444-6592; visit cal forests.org. March 1-2—Ohio Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Embassy Suites, Dublin, Ohio. Call 614-497-9580; visit ohio forest.org. March 1-5—Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers annual meeting, The Diplomat Resort & Spa, Hollywood, Fla. Call 336-885-8315; visit appalachianwood.org. 46
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