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Vol. 49, No. 8
(Founded in 1972—Our 575th Consecutive Issue)
F E AT U R E S
August 2020 A Hatton-Brown Publication
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www.southernloggintimes.com Publisher David H. Ramsey Chief Operating Officer Dianne C. Sullivan Editor-in-Chief Senior Editor Managing Editor Senior Associate Editor Associate Editor
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Alabama’s John “Punch” Haney has had to fight— for his life after a health crisis, and then to save his business and his marriage. After a religious experience altered his perspective, Haney came out the other side with an enthusiasm for helping others. Story begins on Page 8. (Photo by David Abbott)
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SOUTHERN STUMPIN’ By David Abbott • Managing Editor • Ph. 334-834-1170 • Fax: 334-834-4525 • E-mail: david@hattonbrown.com
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re you tired of hearing and talking about the coronavirus yet? I sure am. I am sick of coronavirus—though hopefully not sick with coronavirus, so I’m gonna focus on the bright side and be thankful for that. In the meantime, we may be sick of coronavirus, but it isn’t sick of us yet. The numbers just keep going up at increasing rates and some are already talking about another shutdown. As I write this, my older nephew, a formerly healthy and athletic 22-year-old, is still struggling to overcome lingering aftereffects from his coronavirus infection, damage to his respiratory system that will hopefully not be permanent. And we’re trying to decide if our kids are going back to school in a few weeks, or doing another nine weeks of virtual learning, and if my wife will be going back to work or not. Families all over are facing these things. I wish it would just go away, but it’s the hand we’ve been dealt, so we have no choice but to play it; no bluffing, probably best not to raise, and folding’s not an option. I don’t know when it ends. Some of my more conspiracy-minded friends believe on November 3; others believe it’s just the beginning of the end…of the world, as in the apocalypse, the mark of the beast, the rapture, the return of Christ. I myself don’t know but I say if so then that’s up to God anyway. There were things I had planned. I had been hoping to take my sons to Washington, DC this summer, and to spend a weekend at the beach with my sister’s family to go do some saltwater fishing. With summer shot, I still want to get back to normal stuff this fall, like football games, and going to restaurants, movies and concerts. I had bought, going on two years ago now, tickets to take my wife and kids to see Charlie Daniels and Alabama (the band) in concert; originally this was to have been last October, 2019, but was delayed due to Alabama lead singer Randy Owen having suffered some health issues at the time. The concert was rescheduled for the week of my wife’s 35th birthday in August. I’ve seen Charlie and the boys from Fort Payne several times in the last 25 years, but this was going to have been a first for my wife and kids. But then Charlie Daniels died, and Alabama’s tour is being delayed again. Maybe next year. But that’s the thing: next year is a possibility. As far as we can know right now, those of us still privileged to be here still have next year. One day that won’t be the case, and for many it already isn’t (Charlie Daniels, for instance). We can quibble over the accuracy of reported numbers…officially, close to 150,000 American lives lost to COVID as of this writing…but,
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whether it’s more or less than that, the fact is that a lot of people have died, perhaps more than would normally have been the case without a global pandemic. Two of my own friends died this summer, and I know of several others, including some very young and previously healthy people. So, all those things we’re missing, those things are great and fun, but I’m not going to whine over their hopefully temporary loss, because God willing, we’ll still have other chances. I just thank God that, for now, we’re still here. One day we won’t be.
Relief Act Tired of it or not, coronavirus is our reality, so while we’re talking about it, I received the following release from Carolina Loggers Assn. Executive Director Ewell Smith. In last month’s Southern Loggin’ Times, we told you about the American Loggers Council’s proposed COVID relief act for loggers. Looks like they found sponsors. The numbers Smith reports here are for North Carolina, but the information should be of interest to loggers everywhere. I urge all our readers to contact their representatives and support this act. Loggers don’t ask for much, but you provide an essential service to our society. America needs loggers, and right now, loggers need America. The release reads: The Carolina Loggers Assn. is urging support for the Loggers Relief Act introduced by Congressman David Rouzer (NC-07), U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Senator Tina Smith (DMN), and Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02), which would provide relief to family logging and log hauling businesses that have been seriously impacted by COVID-19 and the resulting economic crisis. The Loggers Relief Act is supported by the American Loggers Council, National Assn. of State Foresters, Intertribal Timber Council, Forest Resources Assn., American Forest Resources Council and multi-generational family-owned businesses in every region of the country. The lawmakers’ bipartisan bill (House - H.R. 7690; Senate - S. 4223) would establish a new program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide direct payments to timber harvesting and hauling businesses that can demonstrate they have experienced significant economic hardship compared to the previous year. The COVID-19 related losses loggers are facing threaten America’s wood supply chain. According to a recent study completed by the
CLA in cooperation with the Carolina Forest Service and NC State’s Dr. Rajan Parajuli, North Carolina’s $33.6 billion wood economy has suffered a 30-35% reduction in production, resulting in an estimated $139.6 million total economic loss over two quarters. A survey of loggers across the country predicts that more severe impacts are yet to come. The program envisioned is modeled after the USDA’s Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, which has been providing direct relief to growers and producers experiencing dramatic drops in prices and overall business activity due to the pandemic. Specifically, the legislation would direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide payments to eligible logging businesses that have experienced at least a 10% loss in revenues from January through July 2020 as compared to the same timeframe last year. Those who qualify would receive direct payments equal to 10% of their gross revenue from January through July of last year, and would only be permitted to use the funds for operating expenses, including payroll. Under the CARES Act, Congress has already provided $300 million to the nation’s fishing industry and $16 billion for dairy and livestock producers as well as fruit and vegetable growers. Chip Capps, CLA chair and owner of Arcola Logging Co., said this: “The impacts of COVID19 are being felt across our entire state. Our members run on 2% and 3% margins at best in a business that’s very capital intensive—in the millions. For our rural family-owned businesses, there’s simply no room for error in good times, much less the prolonged severe impacts we’re experiencing from the virus. The reductions of 30% to 35% in production across the state are devastating to the industry's supply chain, from the rural communities to the mills, the consumer and the homebuilders. We want to thank Congressman Rouzer for introducing and continuing to be a champion for the logging industry in NC.” CLA Executive Director Ewell Smith adds, “The CLA has been honored to work in collaboration with Congressman Rouzer and his office to launch this initiative to support our loggers during this unprecedented time—an effort that spurred a national coalition that has gained the support of Congressional Senate and House offices across the U.S. Despite decades of Congressional relief packages for other sectors, like farmers and fishermen, this is a first for the logging industry. The investment will help ensure that this country’s $300 billion wood economy keeps progressing and that the supply chain stays SLT intact. Without the loggers, that stops.”
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The Good Fight ■ John “Punch” Haney is a fighter with faith, making good use of his second chance. By Patrick Dunning ★ BROOMTOWN, Ala. ust a down-home, thirdgeneration logger from a town you wouldn’t know—that’s how John “Punch” Haney, 52, might describe himself. Haney grew up in the woods with his father, Glenn Haney, tying off chokers and trimming the bark off the pine trees. It was John’s grandfather who gave him the nickname “Punch,” simply because the kid loved punching his grandpa when he was young. It turned out, though, that he’d live up to the meaning of the word.
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Since founding his company in March 1995, the owner of Haney Logging Co., Inc. has experienced every emotion from despair to pure joy, and he’s lived to tell the tale. Soft-spoken and standing scarcely six feet, Haney might project a mellow image, but don’t be fooled: this is one tough dude. He’s had to be strong. Life has tested him, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. In November 2004, Punch flatlined during a routine hernia surgery. A difficult and lengthy recovery took its toll on him and on his family, but he came back, only to then have his woods equipment repossessed a scant
four years later. None of it kept him down for good. The highs and lows of the years— nearly losing his business, his marriage and his life—have opened Haney’s eyes to this perception of his reality: that for him, logging is less about who he is, and more about how he can bless others. He’s always been a fighter, but now he’s fighting the good fight by faith.
Trial By Fire That 2004 surgery left Haney bedridden for three months. It was no easy undertaking for him. He admits it affected his marriage as he lost all
Sons Wesley, left, and Hayden, right, accompanied their dad John Haney to the woods for SLT's visit. ★
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confidence and assumed he was in everyone’s way. A twisted vein cut off all blood flow to Haney’s stomach, which caused him to temporarily code. He was on a feeding tube for three months, spent seven weeks on life support at the UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Hospital, and for three of those weeks he was not expected to make it. Doctors even discussed pulling the plug at one point due to infection. He learned how delicate life really is. “I swelled up to 250 pounds because of infections and dropped to
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A pair of ’20 model Deere loaders put pressure on the cutter operator to increase production.
130 pounds after,” Haney recalls. “I had a 105-degree fever for a week straight and the doctors thought my brain might be damaged. They rocked on a couple more days, I almost died again, but they got the infection cleaned up and attached tubes to my stomach for the medicine.” Haney had to learn to adjust to his changing body. A strict diet of elk, deer, baked fish and other lean meats became his new normal. He made progress with knowing some things would never be the same. Four years after surviving that, Haney found himself engulfed in financial hardships, like many other Americans at the twilight of the Bush years. John Deere repossessed his woods equipment on November 11, 2008, leaving only a GI truck and his buck saw. Parked at a gas station across from the local court house, Haney admits that he balled his eyes out worrying about how he was supposed to provide for his children. “I had a black book of phone numbers from when some Deere engineers came and dialed in my skidders,” he recalls. “I’ll never forget it. It was a Wednesday morning and they had repossessed my equipment that Monday.” He got in touch with Ryan Steenblock, Director of Marketing in the U.S. and Canada at John Deere Financial. “I had a power plan bill. He told me he would look into my case and call me tomorrow. Ryan called me within the next hour before I had even made it home and told me they would refinance the equipment if I
paid the power plan bill up.” The loans were reestablished and Haney began his uphill climb, but dark times persisted, leaving Haney longing for something more.
Larger grapples on the L2 series helps deliver more wood in fewer skids.
Altered Ego Persistent marriage troubles made it difficult to concentrate on the business, which as a result began slipping. Haney knew he needed a deeper change. Though he had attended church functions growing up, he confesses that his life never changed. “When I died during that surgery, I died a lost man,” he says. One Sunday morning in January 2011, at his home church, Union Number 3 Baptist Church in Gadsden, Haney remembers feeling called to the altar. He says his spirit came alive. The pastor announced it would be his last Sunday before moving churches. Already contrite, Haney says, “I went down to the altar and prayed that Sunday. I just laid it all out there before the Lord. And I noticed by Wednesday something had happened spiritually. A transformation in my mind started. When the new pastor came, Joey Hanner, one of his first messages was on surrender. I’ve learned now if I have any trouble I need only to get out the way and let the Lord fight my battles.” And, he believes, the Lord did indeed
Weyerhaeuser provided the tract for Haney’s crew.
Haney and wife Jessica, left, with Francisco Sanjurjo Davila, right, the mayor of Iquitos, Peru, on a missionary trip in 2019
Haney Logging is averaging 70 loads weekly.
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fight his battles on his behalf. While he was still lagging on payments and considering filing for bankruptcy, a tornado came through and leveled several hundred acres of local timberland. What’s bad for many can be good for some. The tornado damage resulted in Haney getting paid twice as much as normal to cut storm wood, enabling him to get his payments caught up. “It’s just amazing how the Lord works in your favor,” he says. “We were just about to file bankruptcy until this storm came through. I owed three payments and was about to throw in the towel but I was too close to quit. I kept going, sold one of my skidders to get my payments up on my other one, and here we are now, bigger than ever.”
Bad To Good “What the enemy meant for bad, God uses for good,” Haney bears witness. Even as the business recovered, he and his wife Jessica found healing in their marriage. Now they speak everywhere they go. “We try to help other people with marriage problems from our own experiences,” he says. The two are also part of local jail ministry teams in Etowah and Cherokee counties. “You’d be sur-
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From left: Wesley Haney, Van King, Tracy Holmes, Cody Pankey, Curtis Sims, Danny Richardson, Hayden Haney, John Haney, Drew Bentley (Flint Equipment)
prised how receptive they are,” Haney says. “You learn a lot about life through the inmates.” In addition, Jessica is one of the leaders at their home church’s Celebrate Recovery ministry and volunteers in many other areas of the church. The couple has also made mission trips to South America in recent years, traveling the Rio Napo region, witnessing to tribes and
speaking at prisons in Iquitos, Peru. Haney says after speaking at an event one evening in Iquitos, the mayor offered him 10 acres of land and one million capirona trees, exclusive to the Amazon rainforest, to maintain if he chooses. Haney and Jessica have three children: Wesley, Hayden and Megan. Wesley and Hayden are still in high school but it looks like they might be
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interested in joining the family business when they’re old enough. Down the road a piece when he retires, Haney plans to leave the business to his boys, take care of eventual grandbabies and be the parts chaser. As a father, his proudest moment has been leading his kids to the Lord in the living room at different times and watching them get baptized. “I got a second chance at life,
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second chance at my marriage, second chance at this business,” Haney testifies. “I trust Him. I remember when I was going through marriage problems, health issues, asking the Lord why. The Lord said why not you; I am strong enough to do it.”
Operations When Southern Loggin’ Times found Haney this summer, he was clear-cutting a 140-acre tract of 25year-old plantation pine in Chero-
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kee County with his newly purchased lineup of John Deere equipment. A series of rolling hills led to the landing where Haney had his loaders positioned adjacent to one another. As he marks the 25th anniversary of his company’s founding this year, Haney says he’s always been a John Deere man, but this is the best he’s felt about his equipment over the years. His lineup includes two 2020 Deere 437E loaders equipped with CSI delimbers, ’19 and ’20 model Deere
948L-II skidders, and a ’20 Deere 843L-II feller-buncher. He also has a ’19 Deere 700K dozer. For sales and service, Haney looks to two Deere dealers: Flint Equipment in Adairsville, Ga., and Warrior Tractor in Oxford, Ala. He purchased his ’19 model skidder through Michael Phillips at Warrior Tractor last March, while at Flint, Haney works with Drew Bentley, Flint Equipment’s north Georgia forestry equipment sales manager. Haney buys trucks from The
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Peterbilt Store in Knoxville, Tenn., including three ’13 Peterbilts and one ’14 model. Recently he began converting to trucks with disk brakes. “That’s the best way to go, in my opinion,” he recommends. “We have two trucks and trailers with disk brakes right now. No adjustments to them and maintenance free.” He’s also put a $4,000 turbo in one of his Peterbilts and an ISX 15 Cummins under the hood of another. Skidder blades make a small divot in the dirt to place Haney’s Maxi-Load scale, which weighs loads on his Magnolia trailers before hauling to mills. Back at the office, Haney’s secretary, Louis Hood, keeps record books on everything done to the trucks: mileage, repair dates, if there was an accident, and how it was worked on. For upkeep, Haney prefers Schaeffer’s synthetic blend 7000 engine oil. On woods equipment, every 500 hours the crew changes oil at the job site, bringing special pans for draining then disposing of it in a waste oil tank back at the shop. They replace truck oil every 15,000 miles using Schaeffer’s as well. Haney uses Green Grease 101 on all equipment weekly. His Dodge 3500 work truck comes to the woods equipped with a generator, fuel tank, pressurizer and lift gate. Harold Moore, Warrior Tractor mechanic and Haney’s good friend, helps him service his equipment regularly as well as in-house shop mechanic, Larry Myres. Progressive Insurance covers the logger’s insurance needs. Haney holds tailgate safety meetings with the crew once every quarter. Employees include Van King and Curtis Sims on skidders, Tracy Holmes in the loader and Cody Pankey manning the cutter. Truck drivers are Danny Richardson, Scott Gray, Thomas Mathew and Larry Crain. As the heat of summer gives way, pulpwood markets are beginning to return from lockdown lows. Haney says that the International Paper mill in Rome, Ga., having its paper machine catch on fire in the middle of March affected his load count more than the pandemic. “I didn’t stress about it though,” he says. “We hauled every load they’d let us.” With that mill shut down, Haney Logging averaged 15 loads weekly for the next month. He also hauls to Southern Parallel Forest Products in Albertville, and Georgia-Pacific in Rome. “They gave us 15 loads a week, so we’d come get our two or three loads a day and then go home. We never had to lay anybody off. I would rotate workers and run a tight ship for a while, but we’ve been back SLT to normal recently.”
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Stepping Stones â– Appalachian logger Shane Lusk was the TFA Logger of the Year 2019.
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Logger Shane Lusk, left, and Huber forester Robert Walters, right, enjoy a strong working relationship.
injury, the Lusk men upgraded their equipment, developing into a fully mechanized operation by the end of the decade. But a few years into the new millennium, Mike decided it was time for him to retire. Shane tried other jobs, but the sawdust was strong in him. In 2007, he went on his own to start Tennessee Tree Cutters.
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By David Abbott ALTAMONT, Tenn. o those who ★ know him, or even know his reputation in the logger-rich rural county from which he hails, it surely came as no surprise when the Tennessee Forestry Assn. named Shane Lusk the state’s 2019 Logger of the Year. Lusk, 43, is also one of the Appalachian Region’s nominees for the Forest Resources Assn.’s 2020 National Outstanding Logger of the Year. Along with TFA’s Candace Dinwiddie, Huber Engineered Woods forester Robert Walters sponsored Lusk’s FRA nomination. This is the third year that Lusk’s
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company, Tennessee Tree Cutters, LLC, has enjoyed a healthy working relationship with Huber Engineered Woods in Spring City. Walters buys all the stumpage for Lusk’s crew. “He has been with us since the mill came back on line in 2018,” Walters says. “Quotas were real tight, obviously, and he has hung in there. He’s been really helpful in filling the mill’s needs. It has been a great relationship. He is a great logger, and a pleasure to work with.”
Roots Lusk has been working in the woods for more than 25 years. “I grew up on a vegetable farm, but
when I got older, my dad took me up to where my grandfather had gotten into logging, and from that I got into it and the sawdust just took over,” he relates. He joined his father, Mike, and his maternal grandfather, Douglas Hobbs, in the woods immediately after graduating high school in 1994. “They taught me the ropes: how to drive a skidder, how to cut logs up,” the younger man recalls fondly. Less than a year into his career, unfortunately, tragedy struck. In January 1995, a logging accident left Hobbs paralyzed for the rest of his life; he just died last year. “I wish he was here to see me now,” Lusk reflects. Following his grandfather’s
“I hope to be in a lot fresher equipment in the next five years,” Lusk laughs, looking ahead. For now, he has a pair of newer machines among several older, though well-maintained, pieces. “It’s stepping stones,” the logger believes. “I don’t want to get too ahead of myself. I have seen things go sour in the logging business. I say tackle one then go after the other.” He owns four cutters but keeps three in the woods, two for daily use and one as a backup for breakdowns. The two primary units are a John Deere 643J and a 2018 model 643L, purchased in May this year. The spare is a Timberjack 840, and he has a Valmet three-wheeler. Skidders are John Deere: two 748G-IIIs, a 748H, 648H and a ’19 model 948L, bought in December. Of the five, he uses three regularly, keeps one in reserve and hopes to sell the fifth one soon. One he won’t be selling, though, is his ’06 Deere 748G-III. It was the first skidder he purchased after starting Tennessee Tree Cutters. “That is the first year they painted them green,” he points out. “It is kind of sentimental I guess. You see people frame that first dollar they made; that’s why that skidder’s still here.” It had 5,000 hours when he bought it used; it now has 20,000. After an engine replacement at 18,000 hours, it is still running good. Lusk observes, “It’s one of the more durable machines I’ve had.” Lusk sets up two knucklebooms,
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a John Deere 437C and a Barko 495, on separate ramps. He had just purchased a Chambers Delimbinator about a week before Southern Loggin’ Times came calling in early June. “We are just kind of learning it,” he admits. That and a Cat D6
dozer round out his iron lineup. Besides the 2018 cutter and 2019 skidder, all his equipment has over 10,000 hours. “You still have overhead with maintenance, but I don’t owe the debt for most of them so we can keep them running.”
The 948 skidder was the first band new machine Lusk has bought. “My father bought new years ago, but this is a first for me,” he says. He bought it from Meade Tractor of Chattanooga. Though he bought the 643 cutter at an auction,
he signed a preventive maintenance agreement for both the newer machines with Meade. “They look at it on that JD Link, and when the hours are up, I pull that machine off to the side and let the John Deere mechanic handle it,” he explains. Otherwise, he and his crew handle their own preventive maintenance and routine repairs. “We’ve always done it ourselves, but it always seems to be a wrestling match,” he observes. “I know I’m not giving it the proper love, so I wanted to try it this way. Seems to be a little more expensive but in the long run I think it will save me money.”
Markets The market started off pretty steady in 2020, Lusk reports. “Then corona hit and for a little over a month, things slowed way down to what felt like an idle speed compared to what we had gotten used to,” he says. “Huber still took real good care of me and we managed. And just as quick as it cut off, it cut right back on. We aren’t full throttle yet but we are really close.” According to Walters, Huber had planned to go to a 24/7 schedule just before the pandemic broke out. The Spring City mill cut back its
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hours briefly in March, but has been running close to wide open since. Lusk is capable of delivering around 100 loads a week when the mills can take it. Last summer, Walters says that Lusk delivered 19 loads in a single day from a job in Tullahoma, a 125-mile trip, one way, from Spring City. And of course Lusk hauls to other mills besides Huber, too. These days he hauls exclusively with contract trucks. “It’s easier on my mind just to focus on this part,” he says. He has three 6x6 pullout trucks to set loads out in advance. “We try to spoil the truckers. It’s the only way you can get them. They don’t have to pull under the loader, we pull straps for them and everything. They just drop and go.” In early June, Lusk was working 832 acres of high elevation but level timberland on the Cumberland Plateau. “The ground is hit and miss up here,” Walters explains. “We tried to come up here about December and it was awful, so we went right up the road a few miles and it was fine. Even though it is flat, don’t let it fool you.” Lusk adds, “The rock is usually not very deep, and in the winter all that water sits on that rock.” The skidder was still running duals even in June; Walters figured Lusk might not take the extra tires off till July, while Lusk was unconvinced he’ll take them off at all this year. He has considered using tracks or chains, but for the payload, on this tract, he thinks the duals float better. He does keep a set of tracks to run in some terrains. Also a tree farmer, Lusk owns more than 800 acres of his own land. Between 75-80% of it has been clear-cut and replanted in pine, he estimates.
Manpower Though he has enough men and iron to run two crews, Lusk prefers to keep it all together. “We used to keep the crews divided but the second that Huber allowed me to group it up, I begged them not to make me ever split again. It’s just too much of a juggling act.” On the Deere loader is Brannon Barrett. His brother Jarron Barrett drives a skidder, as do Austin McGee and Alan Whittman. Brian Ellis and Dalton Ingram man the cutters. Lusk fills in on the Barko or other machines as needed. His dad, now 67, still helps out here and there, mainly as a parts gopher. “If he has the choice, he’d rather fish or play golf,” Lusk laughs, but admits the elder Lusk has earned the right to enjoy his retirement. Lusk and his wife Miranda have two kids: son Noah, 15, and daughSLT ter Mia, 13. 18
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Making A Way ■ All Jerry Johnson wanted was to have his own job, and seven years ago he made it happen.
By Jessica Johnson WATSON, Okla. ike many logging contractors, Jerry ★ Johnson, 51, has been in the woods most all his life. It’s all he’s done and all he ever wanted to do. But for Johnson, he was usually on the sideline of decisions, working for someone else as the “go-to guy.” Before making the commitment to step out on his own, Johnson approached timber dealer Chuck Battles to see if the Oklahomabased buyer had a need for a smaller thinning crew. Battles did and thus the dream starting becoming a reality, and J&J Logging was born. “He didn’t buy new equipment, but he wanted to work for himself,” Battles says of the man. “I respect that. He’s a good one.” J&J is the first and only one of Battles’ crews that thins using a Chambers Delimbator. Johnson says starting a crew was something he’s always wanted to do, and though he loves what he does, it has not been easy. “Battle gave us a job; I don’t know if it was a good thing or a bad thing,” the logger laughs. “It’s tough. It isn’t easy, I promise you.”
ally concentrates on running the loader and getting contract trucks out. “It is just a hard dollar job,” the mild-mannered Johnson says of the day-to-day grind in the woods. “But, we knew what we were getting into, so here we are.” While he is an ace mechanic,
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Challenges Fortunately for Johnson, he says he’s got a good group of guys in Kenny Martin, Britton McCleskey, Shane Provence, Jay Hill and Leslie Shores. “We have good help. If you don’t have good help you might as well go back to the house,” Johnson emphasizes. “I don’t care what anyone says, you’re only as good as your help.” The crew works in smaller timber on extremely rocky ground, which would offer enough of a challenge even with brand new equipment. But thankfully, since he’s been around the block with other crews before starting his own, Johnson is an ace mechanic fully competent to keep his machines producing. He can also run the cutter and delimber if needed, though he usu-
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Johnson says that’s not by choice: “I love logging; I hate mechanicing,” he told SLT while he was belly up under a piece of equipment last fall. “But the single biggest challenge for J&J Logging is keeping all the stuff running.” But Johnson has a special some-
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thing that some start-up crews lack: a perspective. He doesn’t want to be the biggest logger in his community, and he didn’t bury himself and his new little company in a pile of debt to get started. Explaining why he chose the used route instead of the attractive financing packages out there for brand new equipment, he says, “You have to crawl before you can walk. If you’re going to spend everything that you make for payments, why not just have a daily job? You aren’t going to get anything in life for free. It’s just a lot of work.” That doesn’t mean that Johnson is without a wish list though. Without hesitation he says, the good Lord and the bank willing, a new cutting machine will be on its way to his job site, hopefully sooner than later.
The J&J crew uses a mix of older Deere and Cat machines to deliver about 50 loads a week to nearby mills.
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Equipment Lineup
From left, Kenny Martin, Britton McCleskey, Shane Provence, Jerry Johnson, Leslie Shores and Jay Hill
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Since Johnson’s crew focuses on first thins in the rocks, teeth and discs aren’t always a good choice, so one of J&J’s two ’16 John Deere 643K cutters has a shear head. The thought was the shear head would be more economical, and Johnson is happy with the purchase, reporting that it runs nearly ever day. Both machines are set up with 28 in. tires. The machines handle all felling. “Saws are against my reli-
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gion,” Johnson says sternly. He does have one saw on the job to cut firewood and that’s about all it gets cranked for. Both skidders are Caterpillars, 525Cs, one a 2011 model with 30.5 in. tires and the other a 2013 with 35.5s. Why the different tire sizes? “That’s what was on them when we bought them,” Johnson says. Loaders are a mix: a 2015 Caterpillar 559C to delimb with and one ’08 John Deere 335 to load trucks. The Chambers Delimbinator is brand new. Johnson bought the Delimbinator for short logs with lots of limbs, and the machine has done its job upping production. Though Johnson’s equipment has some age on it, he prefers having two of each machine as a precaution. In case one breaks down, there’s still one working, ideally. Plus, it frees up a machine to be able to handle if something pops up that needs attention. Johnson’s crew is turning out about 10 loads per day, five days a week, using three or four contract trucks. “I can’t stand six days,” he says. With hauls on the closer side, it is only about 15 miles to the Teal-Jones Lumber Co. sawmill in Antlers, Okla., and about 40 miles to the pulpwood market, International Paper in Valliant. The crew handles most maintenance themselves, changing oil every 300 hours, air filters every few days, and greasing daily. The crew uses Mystik grease because, “that stuff you just can’t wear off,” in this logger’s experience. While Johnson does have a registry of outside mechanics and help if needed, he prefers to handle it in the woods when he can to keep production up. Tucker Payroll in Broken Bow handles bookkeeping, and Johnson and his wife Janice handle contract trucks. BITCO provides SLT insurance services.
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Wild Pigs: A Telling Lesson
There was once a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back, that he had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a communist regime. After completing his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question: “Do you know how to catch wild pigs?” The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke. He explained: “You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free food. “When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are feeding. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. “They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all three sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. “The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. “Predictably, the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.” The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America. The government keeps pushing the people toward communism/socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops, welfare entitlements, medicine, drugs, etc., while Americans continually lose their freedoms, just a little at a time.
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Select Epitaphs If you can read this, you’re standing on my boobs! I told you I was sick. I was hoping for a pyramid. Raised four beautiful daughters with only one bathroom, and still there was love. Now I know something you don’t. Here lies an atheist: all dressed up and no place to go. That’s all folks. (On the tombstone of Mel Blanc, man of 1,000 voices, including Bugs Bunny.) 24
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Here lies John Yeast. Pardon me for not rising. It’s dark down here. Go away! I’m asleep. I came here without being consulted and I leave without my consent. She always said her feet were killing her, but no one believed her. Jesus called and she answered. The shell remains but the nut is gone. Here lies Clyde. His life was full…until he tried to milk a bull. Here lies Lester Moore. Four slugs from a .44. No Les, No More. Here lies the body of Deanna…Done to death by a banana. It wasn’t the fruit that laid her low, but the skin of the thing that made her go! I made some good deals and some bad ones. I really went in the hole with this one.
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Glorious Insults The following are from an era before the English language got boiled down to four-letter words. A member of Parliament to Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.” “That depends, sir,” said Disraeli, “whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.” “He had delusions of adequacy.”—Walter Kerr “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”—Winston Churchill “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”—Clarence Darrow “He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”—William Faulkner about Ernest Hemingway “Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.”—Moses Hadas “I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”—Mark Twain “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”—Oscar Wilde “I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.”— Stephen Bishop “He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”—John Bright “I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.”— Irvin S. Cobb “He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”—Paul Keating “In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.”— Charles, Count Talleyrand “He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”—Forrest Tucker “Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”—Mark Twain “I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I’m afraid this wasn’t it.”—Groucho Marx
For Lovers Of English It’s told that no dictionary has ever been published that presented a clear distinction between the words complete and finish. However, in a linguistic conference in London, Sun Sherman, an Indian American, was credited with coming up with a most clever distinction and use of the words. Here is how he put it: “When you marry the right woman, you are ‘complete.’ If you marry the wrong woman, you are ‘finished.’ And, when the right woman catches you with the wrong woman, you are ‘completely finished.’” He received a standing ovation that lasted for five minutes.
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Smooth Transition ■ Georgia Cat dealer Yancey Bros. says Weiler is here to stay.
By David Abbott EDITOR’S NOTE: Southern Loggin’ Times editor David Abbott recently talked with Kevin Simmons, southeast regional sales manager for Yancey Bros., Inc., the Georgia-based heavy equipment company known as the nation’s oldest Caterpillar dealer.
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ment business, and in their size class, they are #1 in the country,” Simmons points out. Their success, and his own experience with them so far, has instilled him with faith in Weiler. “They are very common sense guys. Pat Weiler doesn’t live a big elaborate lifestyle; he is involved in everything and I look for these guys to be here for the long haul.” Simmons reports that the Weiler transition has gone as smoothly as possible, and he gives credit for that to executives at Weiler, Cat and Yancey. “Yancey leadership has done a fantastic job helping us with the transition and with the under management to continue to do business and support customers.” The announcement worried some customers, of course. “Anytime there is change there will be those with doubt and concern, wondering if we are still going to support them, and our competitors are whispering in their ears that they were going to get dropped and left holding the bag. But in the end I think we have done a good job of continuing to service our Cat customers, and Cat has done a good job of continuing to support us as a dealership with those customers. So I think some of those doubts and concerns are starting to fade away. But like with any-
thing else, it takes time. You can tell them all you want, but you have got to show them.” As far as Simmons knows, none of Yancey’s loyal Cat customers have abandoned ship. “All of our traditional Cat customers have certainly given us a shot.” So what’s the difference between Weiler and Cat? Because Weiler is a smaller company, Simmons points out, he’s just one phone call away from owner Pat Weiler or Vice President Bill Hood. “You can solve a problem real quick with these guys,” he says. “They are hands-on, one-onone. You can tell them about an issue and they can stop the line if they need to or pull something off the line to do some testing. If you see something in the field, there is a lot more proximity to engineering and management. That’s the benefits of a smaller, family owned company.” Simmons continues, “Forestry machinery is purpose built. There is no other use for it, and you need that hands-on with someone who can identify problems and make a change right away and that is what those guys bring to the table.” He says Weiler is continuously working to improve the product. While a complete design overhaul would have been both unnecessary
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and impractical, incremental change seems to be the plan. “They are listening to us, which is a great thing, and we are all listening to the customer,” Simmons says. “That is the beauty with these guys. They really want to hear from the customer. They are going to build a machine that customers want. That’s their ultimate goal.” One example: there had been some visibility issues on the boom in the back of the skidders, so Weiler rearranged some hose routings and cylinder guards to solve the problem. “They are steady working to get better every day,” Simmons says. “That is what I like about these guys. They didn’t buy it to sit on it, slap a Weiler sticker on it and buy market share. They intend to be a leader in this industry.” Cat still builds forestry machines, too, of course—the carriers often used for log loaders and processors. Simmons says they are currently updating that product line, and Yancey will continue to sell and service those and other Cat products. Yancey already has several customers using Weiler machines in the field. “And a lot of them were sold in the last 90 days, and really in the last 60,” he adds.
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Upswing Like most businesses, Yancey was impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, particularly on the construction side. “People were locked in, so jobs weren’t being bid and were being pulled off the table because of uncertainty,” Simmons admits. As a consequence, he predicts, there may be something of a delayed lull in a few months. “I think we are going to feel some of that going into the end of this year or first of next, as other projects wind down and new ones haven’t started up yet.” For now, though, things have picked up significantly in the last 90 days or so for Yancey and its customers. “Our people had a backlog of work and they were able to keep going. We have truly been blessed in the state of Georgia.Corona didn’t slow us down much at all.” At least on the forestry side of Yancey’s equation, sales were down slightly even before the pandemic started. “It was a little slow right out of the gate this year,” Simmons acknowledges, while noting that other factors may arguably have played a bigger role than the virus—he cites weather (the persistent rain in the first quarter of the year) and the trade war with China as major culprits. “Now that a lot of that is out of the way, things seem to have been picking back up.” Although the first half of the year has been rocky, it’s par for the course in forest products. “This business expands and contracts, and we went through that contraction for several months, a little longer than I thought it would last,” Simmons says. “It was delayed by the China deal and all the normal woes with rain and quota, and the virus compounded everything. But now it is expanding again. People are back to hauling wood every day, there is plenty of wood to cut and the mills are asking for more. That is different from one area to the next but in our patch, at least, it seems to be busy, and our guys are back to 100% again.”
Used “It seems to be we are in this strange twilight zone,” Simmons says of the used forestry machine market. “Years ago, people bought a tractor and ran it till it was worn out. Now everyone is on a threeyear buying cycle and then trades in. That is a great thing on new sales, but the flip side is that now we are getting so many used machines on the market that it pulls values down because you have a flooded market.” Traditionally, some of that surplus would have found its way to export markets in developing nations, such as South America. But
A Yancey forestry sales team poses with their first Weiler machine delivered.
Simmons says that Yancey customers in Georgia have several Weiler machines working in the woods now.
loggers down there, unburdened by the same level of environmental mandates, aren’t eager to pick up used Tier 4 machines of any brand, since many of them lack the means to mechanically repair this more complex technology. “Everyone wants to buy new so it hampers you now with used machines,” Simmons continues. “It is a good thing and a bad thing. It is great for selling new machines but what do you do with the used ones when you get them back on tradeins? When there is a surplus of used machines on the market it drives the price down.” As a Cat dealer, Yancey of course doesn’t only sell logging equipment. Construction, earth moving and mining are also part of their bread and butter. All in all, Simmons figures forestry represents 25% or better of the dealer’s annual revenue, taking sales, service and parts into account. “Sales had been a little slowed down, but parts and service is steady,” he elaborates. Simmons, who was previously Yancey’s forestry sales manager, earlier this year accepted the role of southeastern sales manager, for all the different types of Cat and
Weiler machinery Yancey sells to different industries.
Yancey History A detailed and fascinating history is posted on the company’s web site, yanceybros.com, but here is a summary. Yancey Bros. Co. came into being in 1914, and in fact started with two Yancey brothers, Goodloe and Earle Yancey, who originally founded the Yancey Hardware Co. on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. The Yanceys quickly grew, establishing branches on Marietta Street and beyond Georgia, in Alabama, Florida and South Carolina. Yancey’s association with Caterpillar started early. In 1918, the brothers went to investigate the Holt Manufacturing Co. of Peoria, Ill., hoping to convince Holt to let them represent his product in the Southeast. He was initially reluctant, but when the Yancey brothers sold every Model 45 in Holt’s inventory within a year using only a single photograph to show customers, he changed his tune. Holt merged with Best Tractor Co. in 1925, and Caterpillar was born. Based on its 1918
agreement with Holt, Yancey can indeed claim its title as the nation’s oldest Cat dealer. Yancey’s ownership and management passed down from fathers to sons for most of the remainder of the century. In 1994, third-generation President Don Yancey sold primary stock ownership to his daughter Donna and her husband Jim Stephenson, who became President and CEO the following year. Last year, Stephenson retired as CEO, handing the mantle to Trey Googe, the fifth generation of Yancey leaders. It was 2008 when Yancey added forest products to its offerings when it, among five other southeastern Cat dealers, purchased assets of Pioneer Machinery, which had been a dealer for Peterson and Cat’s logging side. The acquisition also added new stores to Yancey’s list of locations throughout Georgia. The company has15 machinery sales, parts and service stores, not counting equipment rental and truck sales centers. Simmons indicates that the branches most heavily involved in the forestry side include Waycross, Statesboro, Macon, Washington, SLT Calhoun and Albany.
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As We See It: Help Us Help You By Shannon Jarvis To say that this year has been tough for us is definitely an understatement. We are finally halfway through the year and I hope it ends better than it started. Jarvis I’m not certain what the rest
of the year has in store, but it needs to improve for many of us. As the COVID-19 pandemic goes on we are seeing markets slowing down, mills closing, quotas going into effect and other pandemic related disruptions in
the supply chain that are having negative impacts on many of our businesses. According to those that responded to our survey conducted in June, approximately 72% of the logging businesses throughout the country have requested and received some type of federal assistance, either through the Payroll Protection Program or perhaps the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program administered by the Small
Business Administration. While these programs have helped thousands of small business across the United States to remain solvent, for many of us in the timber harvesting and timber hauling business, payroll is a small percentage of the operating costs that we incur and high fixed costs from equipment payments to insurance as well as other operating costs such as fuel and maintenance costs far outweigh our labor expenses. I know that all loggers are not facing the same struggles; however one thing is for sure, when we face an issue such as the COVID19 pandemic, the question is not if it is impacting us, but how bad are those impacts going to be and how long will they last. The ALC has been working with all of our member states to come up with a relief bill to benefit loggers and log truckers. We have hired a firm to help get it introduced into Congress; however, without the loggers contacting their representative in DC, it does not stand a chance. They need to know your story and how this assistance can help you, their constituent. I know that most of us would rather tackle the worst day in the woods rather than talking to a politician for a few minutes, but logging is our business and we must protect it. Although most loggers are not looking for handouts, if we can get a program in place that offers low interest loans and possibly forgivable loans, this could prove to be very beneficial for most logging and log trucking businesses in this current pandemic. Again, we cannot do this without your help. Please visit https:// healthyforests.org/action-center /?vvsrc=%2Fcampaigns%2F7473 7%2Frespond and take the five minutes that is required to send a letter to your Senators and Congressmen and Congresswomen in your district and ask them to support the Logger Relief Fund so that we can continue to provide the essential services including paper products that this country needs. I thank you in advance for your participation and time to respond to this urgent request. Shannon Jarvis owns and operates Jarvis Timber Company in Potosi, Mo., and serves as President of the American Loggers Council. American Loggers Council is a 501(c)(6) not for profit trade association representing professional timber harvesters throughout the United States. For more information please contact the American Loggers Council at 409-625-0206, or american logger@aol.com, or visit our website at www.amloggers.com.
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Enviva Purchases Georgia Pellet Mill Enviva Partners is purchasing a wood pellet production plant (known as Georgia Biomass) in Waycross, Ga. with associated export terminal capacity in Savannah, Ga. from innogy SE. The purchase price is $175 million (US). In operation since 2011, the Georgia Biomass plant exceeded 800,000 metric tons in annual production last year. The Waycross plant exports its wood pellets through a terminal at the Port of Savannah under a longterm terminal lease and associated services agreement. Enviva Partners also has agreed to purchase Enviva Pellets Greenwood Holdings II, LLC, which, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, owns a wood pellet production plant in Greenwood, SC from its sponsor for cash consideration of $132 million and the assumption of a $40.0 million thirdparty promissory note. The Greenwood plant has been operating since 2016 and its wood pellets are exported through the partnership’s terminal at the Port of Wilmington, NC.
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Prior to the two acquisitions, Enviva Partners owned and operated seven plants with a combined production capacity of 3.5 million metric tons of wood pellets per year in Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi and Florida. In addition, Enviva exported wood pellets through its marine terminals at the Port of Chesapeake, Va. and the Port of Wilmington, and from third-party marine terminals in Mobile, Ala. and Panama City, Fla. The two acquisitions will add two operating plants with a combined production capacity of 1.4 million metric tons of wood pellets per year, and thirdparty marine terminal in Savannah.
Study: Interstates Are Safer For Trucking
resentatives and the American Loggers Council. Introduced into Congress last year, it would allow logging trucks that meet state-determined requirements to travel up to 150 miles on interstates. According to Joe Conrad, assistant professor of forest operations at UGA, “The goal of the research was, if you made the weight limit the same on interstate and state highways, would it improve the efficiency of our timber transportation industry? The results were a resounding yes.” Interstate highway weight limits, 80,000 total lbs. and no more than 34,000 lbs. per axle, are generally less than state limits. For example, in Georgia the weight limit on state
Research by the University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources shows that log hauling and trucking operations are inherently safer when able to use interstate highway routes as much as possible. The findings bolster support for the federal Safe Routes Act, co-sponsored by Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA) and multiple other timber state rep-
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and U.S. highways is 84,000 lbs. total, including 48,300 lbs. per two axles (including state weight tolerances). In Alabama the limit is 80,000 lbs. with a 10% tolerance so most loggers load for around 88,000 lbs. As a result, log trucks are kept off interstates and must spend more time starting and stopping, going through red lights and intersections and encountering numerous additional safety concerns on state highways and county roads. Conrad’s research compared log truck haul routes and how each might change if they were allowed on the interstate. His research found that, on average, nearly half of the trucks’ routes could be over the interstate instead of on local roads,
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which would significantly lower transportation costs. The project was supported by the Georgia Forestry Foundation Center for Forest Competitiveness and the Forest Resources Assn. and examined timber transportation in Macon, Brunswick, Augusta and Savannah, Ga. and also Brewton and Prattville, Ala.; Eastover, SC; and Roanoke Rapids, NC. The research team counted intersections, school zones and other
potential hazards between logging landings and mills. Conrad noted that in the eight areas studied, if log trucks were able to use interstates they would encounter 33% fewer traffic lights and at least one school zone per trip. Unloaded trucks are allowed on interstates, and research showed fewer than 5% of log truck accidents occurred there. Using interstates also shaved eight minutes off each trip, reducing fuel consumption in addition to increasing safety.
Ashton Lewis Buys Virginia Sawmill Ashton Lewis Holding Co., an affiliate of major treater Great Southern Wood, has acquired the family-owned W.T. Jones & Sons, Inc. southern pine sawmill in Ruther Glen, Va., and is planning to invest $11 million in the facility to modernize it. The company has also committed to source 90% of all the
mill’s pine timber purchases from Virginia forestland owners. The Virginia Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) worked with Caroline County on incentives to secure the project. A $50,000 grant from the Governor’s Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development (AFID) Fund assisted Caroline County with the project. Funding and services to support the company’s employee training activities will be provided through the Virginia Jobs Investment Program administered by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership.
TN State Forests Meet Standards All 15 of Tennessee’s state forests are now certified to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Forest Management Standard. The Tennessee Dept. of Agriculture’s Div. of Forestry recently announced that all state forests—covering 168,359 acres—passed the thirdparty audit for forestry management practices. This independent certification assures that forests are managed sustainably, which is essential for clean water, wildlife habitat and market access. Tennessee Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher noted that certification is a key tool in helping state forests remain healthy and productive. SCS Global Services conducted the audit required for certification. The company specializes in third-party environmental and sustainability certification with 30 years of experience in forest management assessment. Certification under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative helps
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improving degraded lands and making them healthy and productive forests,” State Forest Unit Leader Philip Morrissey said. “SFI Certification is an independent verification that we manage all
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Tapscotts Lose Shop In Fire Diversified Virginia entity Tapscott Brothers Logging suffered an apparent electrical fire in May that wiped out a shop and office space. “We had a shop that had been there since 1994,” says Binky Tapscott, who owns the company with his brother Guke. “We ran our trucks and logging equipment and the office for the company from there in Scottsville.” Investigators think the blaze started when a faulty wire in a bathroom wall shorted out. The night of the fire, Guke Tapscott received a call just past midnight that the burglar alarm had gone off at the shop. When Guke and police arrived to investigate, it turned out the alarm had actually been set off because of the fire. Firefighters and the Tapscott brothers themselves tried to stop the
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inferno, but to no avail. The fire destroyed three trucks and consumed everything in the shop and office—welders and tools, paper records and computers, everything. All told the insurance estimated the loss at $1.5 million. The Tapscotts lost everything in the building, with one exception. While they were cleaning up the mess, Binky and Guke found one shiny object in the piles of debris and ash. It was a framed photo that had been in Binky’s office of a truck they entered into an annual cancer awareness parade in Keysville. The truck had a banner on the bumper that read, “In Memory of Jim Mooney.” Mooney, the former head of the Virginia Loggers Assn., died of lung cancer in 2014. Notably, Jim’s son, Jonathan Mooney, was among the firefighters at the Tapscott’s shop struggling to save the building. The Tapscotts, who also own Tigercat dealer Forest Pro’s three locations in the state, have temporarily relocated their offices to Forest Pro’s Scottsville location, and are using an old family farm shop for trucks and equipment until they can rebuild.
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MACHINES-SUPPLIES-TECHNOLOGY New Waratah Heads
The new H212 from Waratah Forestry Equipment is a lightweight, agile harvesting and processing head. Waratah’s smallest harvesting head, designed for 8-16 metric ton tracked carriers or 16-18 metric ton wheeled carriers, provides enhanced productivity for early thinning operations. The multi-purpose head can handle mixed hardwood and softwood stands as well as multi-tree harvesting, processing or debarking applications. The H212 features the new and highly efficient SuperCut 100S saw unit with improved auto tensioning and easier servicing, which can fell and process trees up to 520 mm (20.5”) in diameter. The delimb arms, which are designed to provide premium delimbing, complement the feeding power and grip of the drive arms on large or crooked stems. Likewise, the processing arm option, with an extended upper and lower knife offset, enables picking stems from the ground or piles to reduce processing time. The H212’s two-roller-design permits drive arms to float and easily follow crooked or straight stems while also achieving superior debarking when fitted with debarking options. The wide roller and delimb arm opening allows for fast grabbing of standing trees for increased productivity and evenly processes to the smallest top size. With the ability to nimbly weave through the stand, the H212 is ideal for first thinnings in dense stands. The narrow head design provides excellent visibility even when knives and rollers are open, which helps increase agility in small diameter dense stands. The saw box also provides good visibility for aiming felling cuts as well as pivot position for efficient cutting. Waratah also recently unveiled the new H415HD, a heavy-duty harvesting head with new features and options to suit customer feedback and rugged application needs. “The new H415HD extends durability to our customers providing another configuration to suit their needs and bolster uptime within the size class of 400 Series model Waratah heads,” said Brent Fisher, 38
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To increase durability across the range, the frame on the H415HD as well as the H415 and H415X have been strengthened at several locations based on customer feedback – providing more durability and increased uptime. The H415HD’s base weight is 1401 kg (3,089 lb.), which is 71 kg (157 lb.) more than the standard H415. Standard features of the H415HD include an HD tilt frame with thicker steel plate, expander pins for upper tilt cylinder, feed roller arms, and lower delimbing knives, to improve pin durability and frame longevity. Additionally, HD feed motor and hose guards help improve durability. Likewise, to lengthen the service life of the saw bar and alleviate interference in some applications, the H415HD’s saw position was changed to provide more room between the saw bar and stem. All three configurations of the H415 heads now feature the possibility for a wider saw bar and improved saw chain tensioning to reduce chain loss and bar wear and promote more operational productivity. The models also share a lower saw box height (30 mm / 1 in.) creating lower stump height and more wood recovery. This is complemented by an improved lower delimbing knife profile for larger stem sizes. In addition to being featured on the H415HD, select new features of this model can be configured for the H415 and H415X. Some are also compatible with older H415 harvester heads and can be purchased through spare parts sales. “With these options for the H415, H415X and the new H415HD, Waratah is providing customers the configurable head they need to increase efficiency and uptime,” Fisher said. “The H415HD is delivering what our customers are telling us they need.” The Waratah H415HD is currently available to customers in Europe, the United States, Canada, Aus-
tralia, New Zealand, Russia, Asia Pacific, Brazil and Latin America. For more information, please visit waratah.com or contact Sarah Larson at slarson@mindfirecomm.com.
Compact Hose Assembly The Compact Hose Assembly Device (CHAD) series from Schwab Brothers Hydraulics— CHAD Max, CHAD Lite and CHAD Custom— gives you multiple size designs to fit your exact needs. The CHAD’s durable, service truck-mountable, compact design and air-over-hydraulic crimping capability easily gives you the ability to efficiently build hose assemblies on the job site. Implementing the CHAD on your job site, you are guaranteed to reduce downtime costs due to hydraulic hose failures. The CHAD easily plugs into existing air compressors and is air-overhydraulic operated, with 120-ton crimping force, manual adjustable micrometer and accurate crimp specifications. Maximum crimping ability is 1" 4-wire and 1" 2-wire. The CHAD is service truckmountable, and built tough in a Camlocker truck cabinet that fits in tight storage areas. The CHAD includes air-over-hydraulic crimping machine, crimping dies, foot pedal for operation, air-powered hose cutting rotary saw, 10 durable cutting discs, crimp specifications and Camlocker Box. Visit schwabbrothershydraulics.com.
Forestry Software Let’s cut to the chase: we’re all tired of hearing about COVID19, but it’s still drastically changing how we interact with one another, within our companies, and even with things like paper tickets. So, how does TRACT forestry soft-
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ware help minimize risk and exposure? It helps by minimizing the amount of interaction landowners, foresters, administrators, and managers have with one another and paper reports, forms, and tickets. Here are a few examples: John is a forester whose office closed back in March, due to COVID-19. Typically, when he needed to get info on a timber tract, he’d go into the office and pull a file from the filing cabinet, but he can’t do that now. With TRACT, John can open the browser on his smartphone or laptop and access all of his job info without having to pull a single file, because they’re all available on the cloud. Pat is an administrator who typically prints and handles 250 scale tickets, 30 settlement statements, 8 forester reports, 6 reconciliation reports, and a trucking report every week. Instead of having truck drivers turn in each ticket every week, she now accesses their tickets digitally and prints them out with a couple of clicks. Instead of printing out a report that reflects job cutout for every forester, they can log in and quickly see that data for themselves. And instead of printing out every settlement or report, their vendors can simply log in and check them themselves. John is a wood flow manager who depends on real-time load data to know how the business is doing. Without being in the office, this job is almost impossible, because he usually depends on reports and first-hand accounts from his foresters. With TRACT, John opens his smartphone and uses the dashboard to see all of their live load data. He can even get individual load details as well. With so many moving parts, and so much information being accessed from a central office, COVID-19 is an especially difficult challenge in the forest industry. But, luckily, with new digital solutions, it’s not an impossible one. So, whether you want to empower your employees to work from home, reduce how often they interact with tickets and paperwork, or improve the efficiency of your operation in general, there’s probably a forestry software solution out there that can help. For more info, visit gettract.com or contact Taylor Griffith at taylor@gettract.com or 478-447-2893.
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COMING EVENTS 12-13—Virginia Forestry Assn. Virtual 2020 Forestry Summit, Call 804278-8733; visit vaforestry.org.
24-26—American Loggers Council annual meeting, Hilton Branson Convention Center, Branson, Mo. Call 409-625-0206; visit amloggers.com.
25-27—Kentucky Forest Industries Assn. annual meeting, Brown Hotel, Louisville, Ky. Call 502-695-3979; visit kfia.org.
29-October 1—Arkansas Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Doubletree Hotel, Little Rock, Ark. Call 501374-2441; visit arkforests.org.
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November 11-13—Forestry Assn. of South Carolina annual meeting, Myrtle Beach Marriott at Grande Dunes, Myrtle Beach, SC. Call 803-7984170; visit scforestry.org.
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April 2021 30-May 1—Mid-Atlantic Logging & Biomass Expo, near Laurinburg, NC. Call 919-271-9050; visit malbexpo.com.
May 2021 TBD—Expo Richmond 2020, Richmond Raceway Complex, Richmond, Va. Call 804-737-5625; visit exporichmond.com.
August 2021 5-8—Virginia Loggers Assn. annual meeting, Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke, Va. Call 804-677-4290; visit valoggers.org. 11-13—Forest Products Machinery & Equipment Expo, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. Call 504-443-4464; visit sfpaexpo.com. Listings are submitted months in advance. Always verify dates and locations with contacts prior to making plans to attend.
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