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Vol. 48, No. 9

(Founded in 1972—Our 564th Consecutive Issue)

F E AT U R E S

September 2019 A Hatton-Brown Publication

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SOUTHERN STUMPIN’ By David Abbott • Managing Editor • Ph. 334-834-1170 • Fax: 334-834-4525 • E-mail: david@hattonbrown.com

Maine Logging Unions? I

know this is Southern Loggin’ Pennsylvania and West Virginia–that Times, and Maine is about as far already have similar exemptions for north as any state in the U.S. can forest products businesses. get. But just the same, there’s been a development in Maine that I thought Lifelong Fight might be interesting for our readers Jackson has been in this fight for in the South. decades, a fight that for him has Maine loggers and wood haulers always been personal. He remembers will now have the right to engage in at age 11 accompanying his dad to a collective bargaining after Governor strike in 1981. More than 100 loggers Janet Mills signed LD 1459, “An called the strike in response to a cut in Act to Expand Application of the pay rates. The landowner, he says, Maine Agricultural Marketing and didn’t even get out of the car or make Bargaining Act of 1973 to Harany effort to discuss or resolve the vesters and Haulers of Forest Prodproblem or to de-escalate the situation ucts” into law on June 7. Maine Senat all. Instead he simply told the men ate President Troy Jackson, D-Allato get back to work or he’d replace gash, who is also a fifth-generation Maine Senate President Troy Jackson signing LD 1459 before sending it to the goverthem all with Canadian workers. logger, sponsored the bill. nor's desk “That was the whole negotiation,” The conventional wisdom has been Jackson says. that federal antitrust laws would proThanks to the exchange rate, not to hibit any attempts by loggers to coormention that they already have health dinate negotiations as illegal price fixcare from their own government, ing in restraint of trade. However, Canadians—called “bonds” because states can exempt certain industries they have to be bonded under the Hfrom federal anti-trust laws, and 2A temporary agricultural workers Maine had already made anti-trust program—could afford to work for exemptions for other key agricultural less, giving landowners an easy threat industries in the state—namely, potato if any contractors tried to change farmers, fishermen and lobstermen— things. Maine loggers started asking to form cooperatives and collectively state lawmakers to stop landowners bargain for improved conditions. This from hiring Canadians in the 1950s, new bill extends the same exemptions and as far back as 1975 they tried to to timber harvesters and log haulers organize a union and first blocked borby expanding the definition of “indeders to keep Canadians from coming pendent agricultural contractor” to Jackson speaking about the bill on the Senate floor in and taking their jobs. include those who harvest or haul forJackson’s political career started in 1998 when est products under contract. expands application of the Maine Agricultural Marhe took part in a border blockade (he emphasizes The bill states, in part, that “The harvesting and keting and Bargaining Act of 1973 to include harthat there is no ill will toward the Canadians, hauling of forest products are performed by numer- vesters and haulers of forest products.” whom he calls good, hard working people: “The ous loggers and forest products haulers who indiIn Maine, 95% of the forestland is privately vidually are not able to bargain effectively with for- owned—62% by companies and 33% by families. blockades were against landowner greed.”). “I figest landowners. The marketing and bargaining The biggest company is J.D. Irving, which report- ured I wasn’t getting anywhere anyway so I might as well,” he recalls. Of the 90 men at the meeting position of individual loggers and forest products edly owns over a million acres of timberland. that October, only 15 showed up at the blockade haulers is adversely affected unless they are free to Most loggers there are independent contractors, for fear of being blackballed by the big landowner join together voluntarily in cooperative organizaand contractors are generally not granted collections. The inequity of power in determining comtive bargaining rights. That’s likely one reason the companies. Over several days they ended up blocking three roads before police removed them. pensation and the lack of opportunity to join big mill and landowning companies stopped hirtogether in bargaining over compensation can ing loggers as employees. Jackson, the Senate result in unfair contract rates for the services of President who sponsored and wrote the bill, saw it Pickup Progressive loggers and forest products haulers. Current law first-hand. “My dad was a truck owner and driver Jackson says the law stated that foreign workauthorizes the membership of farmers in cooperaall my life, and he was an employee,” he recalls. ers couldn’t adversely affect the wages of Ameritive organizations and requires handlers of agricul- “They paid him wages for a 40-hour week, took can workers, but that didn’t seem to matter. “I tural products to bargain in good faith with such out unemployment and payroll taxes on him. One organizations. This bill recognizes that market day he was an employee, the next they reclassified had always believed laws protect people, but that is not the case,” he says. “They only have meanforces that affect the marketing and bargaining him as a contractor; nothing else changed—the ing if they’re enforced, and state officials were position of individual farmers similarly affect the same job, same equipment.” not enforcing them. That upset me.” Jackson marketing and bargaining position of individual With this Act’s passage, Maine joins six other started getting calls from people, not just ➤ 54 harvesters and haulers of forest products, and it states–California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho,

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Deep Thinker ■ Chip Capps says his logging operation is fairly typical, but as a businessman, he’s anything but.

By Jessica Johnson MACON, NC hip Capps, 59, has been logging all of his life. Minus a small stint at NC State in Raleigh, where he earned a degree in engineering and a job in Texas upon graduation, Capps has been involved in logging in North Carolina. But, he’s quick to say his logging operation isn’t that different than the others dotting the southern landscape. He calls his two crews—a threeman crew and a five-man crew— ordinary. “Loggers tend to be very homogenous,” he adds. “There’s not a lot of difference in treelength loggers in the South.” But for the logger located halfway between Rich-

mond, Va. and Raleigh, NC, Capps is also aware that every logging job is slightly unique. “What they do is ★ right for them,” he adds. Currently serving as the President of the Carolina Loggers Assn. (CLA) and a partner in timber dealership River Ridge with Virginian Ronnie Wright, Capps has seen a lot of logging crews in his time. He and Wright formed River Ridge after International Paper bought Union Camp’s land and Champion International’s land and mills in the area of North Carolina and Virginia where the two work. Today, the dealership is thriving with seven to eight crews, including Capps’ two. Thanks to his experience with River Ridge and the CLA, Capps is hyper cognizant of the cost of doing

business and is frequently outspoken on issues of concern to his industry. As a partner in the timber dealership, Capps realizes that the way River Ridge (and by default he) makes money is in separations. So, Capps’ crews, which do business as Arcola Logging, strive to process every single tree. On the five-man crew, Arcola runs one skidder and two loaders with CTR delimbers and a processor. Capps added the processor, the machine he runs daily, in 1999 following a trip to British Columbia, Canada with Champion International. After watching how Canadian loggers, who mainly do roadside logging, operated, Capps had the idea to add the processor to his lineup, enabling him to touch every single tree and sort tracts for the most

value. “I’ve gotten away from it a little bit now because I can’t afford to replace it in today’s world,” he admits. “But with that processor I am way over capacity here.” With today’s cost structure, Capps believes, getting production is vital. That’s something he tries to teach Weldon, his 20 year-old son who operates one of the loaders on the bigger crew. “I am trying to get him to understand the idea that that is our only source of income. We’ve got to get as much as we can every day.” Depending on trucking, timber type and the mills, the bigger crew averages about 85 loads per week, 80% of the time working in plantation pine. Because of the crew setup, bigger timber slows the process down, reducing efficiency.

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Crews In addition to teaching Weldon about cost structure, Capps is trying to teach him about how to properly manage the employees—a key element to making a logging operation successful. “Managing people is an art. Sometimes you have to turn your head and walk away. I didn’t always do that when I was younger,” Capps admits, while also recognizing that everyone manages people differently. What the Arcola Logging crews do works for them, but that doesn’t mean it’s always rainbows and puppy dogs. Everyone, including the two crews, all truck drivers and Capps, meet at the shop every morning at 5:00 before going to the job site, which is usually within 30 to 40 miles. Sometimes Capps will just wave at the guys; other times this is when they will have a quick safety meeting or discuss plans for the week. He likes to get moving that early before the typically big onslaught of trucks at the mills. In the heat of the summer, he also likes to have the men out there at that time, plus working through lunch, in order to knock off early. “It is hard on men and machines when it’s 2:30 p.m. and 100°. You go to work on a piece of equipment when it’s 100° outside and every piece of

liquid is 200°. It’s tough,” Capps says of his rationale. “I do not have the energy I did at 30,” he says of the fine balance between pushing as hard as possible and knowing when to rest. “I still am out here every morning and stay all day. At 4:30 p.m. I am ready to go home. I don’t work until 7:00 p.m.” The smaller, three-man crew thins pine plantations 75% of the time, typically in the 50-acre range for smaller, local landowners in the area. Capps says the crew is productive, averaging 35 loads a week, and he tries to equip them so they can get the job done while he stays with the bigger crew. While the crew still uses an older John Deere 643K cutter and older John Deere bulldozer to push out roads, Capps recently replaced an older skidder with a 2019 Tigercat 620E model and the older loader with a 2018 Tigercat 234B. The smaller crew does have a fourth man to fill in on equipment as needed, operate chain saws and handle other odds and ends. Unlike the smaller crew, the big crew makes use of primarily older equipment, including Capps’ processor that has 30,000 hours on it. When needed, the crew also has a ’12 Bandit 2590 chipper, with only 5,000 hours. Capps admits that he doesn’t run it a lot because the tim-

SLT SNAPSHOT Arcola Logging Co. Macon, NC Email: capps01@aol.com Founded: 1985 Owner: Chip Capps No. Crews: 2 Employees: 16 Equipment: 5 loaders, 4 skidders, 2 feller-bunchers, processor, chipper, 3 dozers, backhoe, excavator Trucks/Trailers: 8 trucks, 14 trailers, 2 lowboys Average Haul Distance: 40 miles Average Production: 120 loads/week (2 crews combined) Tidbit: After Capps graduated from NC State in 1981, he worked in Texas for two years, before coming back to work for his dad’s family logging operation before ultimately buying them out and starting Arcola as a 50/50 with him and his dad. Capps has always been cost-conscious and a progressive thinker; when featured in SLT in 1994, he was using a specialized computer program to track costs on each individual piece of iron in his lineup.

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Chip Capps

Capps likes to keep skidders and cutters newer, while he believes loaders can run well longer.

Arcola Timber Transport drivers, from left, Tommy Evans, Andrew Spruill, Willie Macon and Calvin Williams

The bigger crew, from left, Weldon Capps, Marvin Alston, Eric Davis, Shearon Alston and Deon Alston

ber dealership has a full-time chipping contractor so he usually doesn’t need the extra chip loads. “We’re comfortable with that,” he says. Both loaders have some age; the ’14 Caterpillar 559C has 10,000 hours and the ’15 Cat 579C has 9,000 hours. Capps has no plans to replace them immediately, though, thanks to two spare loaders at the shop. “A loader is something you can run and work on,” he believes. “A cutter and skidders, not so much.” Capps likes keeping new skidders, and to keep the cutter far enough ahead that if a breakdown happens an older spare cutter can

float between the crews. Another take away from the Canadians— the way they keep each piece of the operation separate—Capps tries to compartmentalize as best he can, with the idea that one breakdown won’t completely kill the flow of wood. On that line of thinking, Arcola pre-decks as much wood as the crew can so when trucks pull into the tract they can be turned around as quickly as possible. Additionally, Arcola has a set out truck and about eight extra trailers, though Capps doesn’t like using it too much. “Logging costs are very, very dif-

The cutters work well ahead of the skidders on both crews.

The smaller crew, from left, Alfred Richardson, Marcus Williams (driver), Michael Alston, Malcolm Richardson and Steve Richardson (driver); Dell Copeland not pictured

ficult to predict. It’s pretty easy to predict trucking costs,” Capps believes. “But there are so many variables in logging, there’s no way to accurately predict everything.”

Trucking Capps’ trucking arm, Arcola Timber Transport, owns eight trucks. “I’ve got eight, because it takes eight to run six,” he laughs. Using six trucks and one contractor takes care of the hauling needs— two trucks dedicated to the smaller crew and four on the big crew, with one floater and spare. “In today’s market you have to make sure every load is right, so I don’t rely on my truck drivers to do their trimming,” Capps believes. As such, each crew’s deck hand is responsible for trimming and a trucking foreman keeps tabs on all drivers, loads and trucks. This helps alleviate some of the pressure of trucking off of Capps. The foreman is also responsible for the handling of certain trucking-related issues and keeping Capps in the loop. The majority of Arcola’s pine pulpwood goes to the WestRock paper mill in Roanoke Rapids, Va. A little bit goes to IP in Ridgeway, NC, but the timber dealership, River Ridge, is basically built around the paper mill in Roanoke Rapids, Capps says. West Fraser in Seaboard, NC are the main outlets for small pine sawlogs. Ply logs head for GeorgiaPacific in Emporia, Va. “We’re limited in our markets,” Capps says. Hardwood pulpwood is shipped to Enviva Pellets facility in Northampton, NC, while hardwood logs mainly go to small local mills including Broadnax Lumber Co. in Virginia.

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Trucks are a mix of Peterbilt and Kenworth, a change for Capps, who was a Mack man for years. But after the first round of emissions standards started cropping up, Capps says Mack struggled and he had a lot of trouble keeping his trucks moving. “I had to get out of them,” he says, aware that Kenworth and Peterbilt also struggled some with the new engine requirements. He says he just faired better with these, so he divested from Mack and made the switch. Trailers are a mix of Evans and Pitts, all 42 ft. Four are plantation trailers; 10 are standard double bunks. Arcola Timber Transport also has two lowboys for hauling equipment. Three dozers, a Case backhoe and a Cat 320CL excavator help with pipe laying and road building. Skyrocketing trucking costs, exhaust standards that have severely hurt log trucking and the cost of doing business in the industry are among the things he hopes to address in his role as President of the CLA. While discussing trucking rates is off the table, Capps really would like more people to talk about the real costs and try to help each other control costs. He’s quick to say that dispatch trucking is not something he believes in yet—too many variables—but that overall the industry needs to be talking not about these kinds of “one-size-fits-all” solutions but real ways to control costs. “I will be the first to say as a logger I wish I could get rid of my trucks,” he laughs. “It sucks money. The only way to gain efficiency is to increase your loaded miles, which is what backhauls do.” Unfortunately for Capps, backhauls don’t always work for his trucks because of how closely his tracts and mills are typically located. An issue he’s passionate about, Capps has worked with mills in the past to nail down variable costs and fixed costs relating to trucking. His findings showed that while increasing the percentage of loaded miles eats greatly into the fixed costs, the savings in the variable costs still outweigh the savings. “This cost

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issue must be addressed by all of us if we are to make progress on overall trucking problems,” he says firmly.

Maintenance Capps has a shop located on his property, adjacent to his standalone office and home. For 15 years, Capps employed a full-time mechanic and a helper. Not quite a year ago, the mechanic retired. Since it didn’t make sense to have a

The 579C has racked up 9,000 hours.

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helper without a mechanic, Capps let the helper go and moved away from keeping a full-time mechanic busy. Now, a contract mechanic works in the Arcola shop two days a week. The crew handles all service work and minor repairs in the woods and the mechanic does major repairs and truck work at the shop, aided by a computer system that allows him to diagnose everything. Every Saturday Weldon and Capps work on trucks, changing oil and other routine maintenance. “Our whole industry has changed to where you can’t work on your stuff with a big hammer,” Capps laments. “I don’t know what the answer is—whether we need to have a co-op to work on these trucks or what, but you can’t afford to send stuff to a truck dealership anymore. It’s going to cost $3,000 just to get in the door and then it’s whenever they can get to it, because everyone is having problems with trucks. Exhaust emission standards are changing our whole truck operating paradigm.” On in-woods equipment, Capps does not purchase extended warranties, and hasn’t exactly figured out how to maximize equipment to their potential without laying out a large investment into an extended warranty. “With every piece of equipment costing $250,000 you can’t afford to run it and trade it every two years like you could when it was $100,000. Things have to run beyond warranty,” he believes. While Capps admits he hasn’t figured out some things, he is certainly thinking ahead. “When you’re making these equipment purchases you better be thinking five to 10 years from now. It might look good for three months, but when you’re buying a $300,000 machine it better be looking good for five or six years,” Capps believes. In the same line of thinking into the future, Capps firmly believes in loggers getting out, going to association meetings and networking and that there is tremendous value in having discussions on what works, and what doesn’t, in all aspects of running a logging operation. “A lot of the stuff that the association does is not something that can be defined in your paycheck this week,” he admits. “Some of it is but a lot of it is not. I gain a tremendous amount more in listening to people at the meetings than I do spending all my time in the woods.” He adds, “We all have made our own way by individual effort, but I do believe there is a lot to be gained by discussing our successes and failures with others like ourselves, and by meeting with our peers from other parts of the industry away from the daily pressure of SLT running the business.”

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Father Figures ■ Cousins Ty and Linc Carswell strive to honor and continue the legacy left them by their fathers.

The Carswells bought the Barko from Quality Equipment in Lake City earlier this year.

By David Abbott LAKE CITY, Fla. hird gen★ eration loggers Ty Carswell, 56, and Linc Carswell, 54, are first cousins, but, by their own account, they grew up more like brothers, and as adults they’ve always been partners. The joint owners of Carswell Timber Co., Inc., say they really can’t talk about their company today without talking about its past. Their fathers—Linc’s dad Alex and Ty’s dad Jerry—started the company in the late 1950s. “It’s really their company; they just taught us how to run it.” Linc says. “We wouldn’t be here without them.”

Seth, Ty and Linc Carswell

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Linc says the 2018 skidder may be the last he buys, since he expects it to last a long time.

When they moved to this part of Florida, the Carswell brothers Jerry and Alex were among the first loggers hauling to what is now the Packaging Corp. of America (PCA) mill in Clyattville, Ga., an unincorporated community south of Valdosta (both in Lowndes County). Ty and Linc came up together going to the woods with their dads. “We were raised out here,” Linc says, gesturing to the woods. “I never had another job, never even put in an application for anything else. Dad kept me out here; he paid me enough where I’d be happy. It kept me out of trouble, probably.” For his part, Ty did spend one summer working at a mill, but otherwise, he too spent all his summers in the woods, and both boys joined their dads in the family business full-time after they graduated high school in the early ’80s. “Everything we know, we learned from our dads,” Ty says, and he includes not only their work ethic and professional skills, but also their Christian morals among the lessons that were passed down. Linc adds, “They taught us that if you do things the right way you don’t have to worry about going to sleep at night.” The elder and younger Carswells continued working the woods together for about the next 30 years. Then, in March 2011, Jerry died unexpectedly. The same day he buried his brother, Alex learned he had cancer, and started radiation treatment a week later. “The radiation was hard on him,” Linc says, and, ultimately, it was the treatment that actually killed him. The brothers were born seven years apart— Alex was the older—and died seven months apart.

Double Coverage Bereft of their mentors, the cousins had no choice but to carry on, and no intention of doing otherwise. So Linc

The pullthrough delimber, added just months ago, is the first the cousins have owned.

SLT SNAPSHOT Carswell Timber Co., Inc. Lake City, Fla. Email: Carswelltimber@comcast.net (Ty); linccarswellR@yahoo.in (Linc) Founded: late 1950s Owners: Ty Carswell, Linc Carswell No. Crews: 1 Employees: 1 Equipment: 2 skidders, 1 cutter, 1 loader, pullthrough delimber Average Production: 50 loads/week Average Haul Distance: 50 miles Tidbit: Cousins Linc and Ty inherited the company from their fathers, Alex and Jerry, who were brothers. Before they planted their own families’ roots in the north Florida/south Georgia area, Alex and Jerry’s mother actually came from Ozark, Alabama, where she also came from a family of loggers.

and Ty continued running Carswell Timber as a two-man tag team for the next eight years. Ty alternated between the cutter and loader while Linc manned the skidder and jumped in the loader cab when needed. All the more impressive: they also trimmed with a chain saw, since they didn’t have a delimber. Even with just the two of them, they stayed productive. “We did get 102 loads in one week once, just the two of us,” Linc says—and that was even after losing a half a day on the Monday of that week to move equipment to a new location. “Everything clicked just right that week,” Ty adds. They stayed a two-man crew until this year, when Ty hired his son, Seth. Now, Ty is on the loader, Linc mans the skidder and Seth handles felling duties. Seth, 31, had worked for them briefly when he was fresh out of college, before pursuing his own career elsewhere. When he was laid off, his dad and uncle offered him a place back on the team. “We needed help and he

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needed work, so he moved back to Lake City,” Ty says. Linc’s son Caleb has also worked on the crew a few times over the years, and who knows? He may also return one day, and a new generation of Carswell cousins may just carry on the family tradition.

Equipment In May, the Carswells bought a 2019 Barko 295 loader from salesman Randy McKenzie at Quality Equipment in Lake City. They also got a new 264 CSI delimber in the deal, their first ever. “It is like night and day,” Linc says of the difference the CSI makes. “It’s a lot safer now. Before, we topped everything by hand. It’s taken the risk off the table of having that man on the ground.” As for production, Ty says he is still learning how to handle the delimber and stack logs efficiently. “It takes some getting used to because you set your deck up totally different.” The crew also runs a 2016 John Deere 643L cutter and two Deere 648 skidders—an ’18 L model and a ’14 H model kept as a spare. “I still run it (the older skidder) in the morning for an hour or two, before daylight, just to keep it running,” Linc says. “If you run it every day you won’t have problems with it.” He does give it a break on Fridays, though. Beard Equipment, also in Lake City, is their Deere dealer. For almost 20 years, the Carswells have hired contractor L&L Wood Hauling of Live Oak to handle trucking. L&L owner Lonnie Cason has 20 trucks in his fleet, giving him the scope and flexibility to accommodate the Carswells’ needs. Linc notes: “Say if we have a

When Ty's son Seth joined to run the cutter this year, the double team became a triple threat.

breakdown early in the week, he has extras that can help us make up for it at the end of the week.” Linc, Ty and Seth keep up with basic routine maintenance and take oil samples back to the dealers. “We keep them serviced,” Linc says. “That’s why we have good machines, we take care of them. Used to be that the salesman would have somebody lined up to buy our machines before we were even ready to sell. That was how good we kept them up. He had some loggers on a waiting list to let them know when the Carswells were ready to trade because they knew it

was good equipment.” Over the past five years or so, the cousins admit they have been running equipment longer because the cost has gotten so high and the trade in value has dropped considerably. At one time they were on a schedule, keeping pieces three or four years, rotating a machine out and trading one every year. “We had that sweet spot, where a trade-in was still worth something to somebody, but now the gap between trade-in and new is too big,” Linc says. “Those L-series machines jumped up to $300,000, and that was way over what we expected.”

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They are careful to stay on budget because they pay cash for anything they buy. Since they don’t finance purchases, they are more sensitive to price increases. “We do it how our dads did it,” Linc continues. “They put money in the bank and paid cash and then kept the motor clean.” Although the dealers do well by them, Ty says, they still want to avoid the service charge. “We do as much as we can to keep them out of the woods as much as possible, but on some of the newer equipment it is harder for us to diagnose it without specialized equipment and with-

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out training.” Linc adds, “A lot of things you don’t want to mess with. Machines cost too much to try to fix something with trial and error.” They do keep machines longer than they used to, but Ty notes that machines also last longer than they used to, especially when properly maintained. The 2018 Deere, Linc expects, will likely be the last skidder he buys. “We kept the last one for eight years, and this one should last longer than that. I’ll be retired by then; I won’t bounce over the

stumps but so long.” What then? “I don’t know,” he admits. “Go fishing, maybe. I want to roll out of here while I can still move around with the grandkids.”

Operations In the years before Seth joined them, Ty says, there were times when he and Linc might go all day without actually talking to each other, except on the ride to and from the job site. They were in a rhythm,

they knew what to do and to some extent could reach other’s minds. “That was about every day,” Linc laughs. Now, Ty says, “We implement safety through the master logger program. Both Linc and I do our continuing education every year.” Seth is not master logger certified yet, so, the downside, Linc points out, is that they can no longer say they are a 100% master logger crew. Although they often harvest and haul in Georgia, they are based in

Florida and are members of the Florida Forestry Assn. Carswell Timber contracts under Big Bend Timber Services out of Monticello, Fla. Though they can usually turn out around 60 loads a week, quota typically keeps production throttled back closer to 50 loads. “That is about what we are geared up for with the trucks,” Ty notes. They send pine pulp to PCA in Clyattville and saw logs nearby, to Langdale Lumber in Valdosta. Hauls usually range from 40 to 60 miles. Most chip-n-saw goes to West Fraser in Lake Butler, a 58mile haul, but they send some chip-n-saw to Cross City Lumber, 90 miles away; that is the furthest haul they make.

Family Matters Sundays are for family and church, the cousins agree; that is another thing they picked up from their dads. “They didn’t work, or hunt or fish, on Sundays,” Linc says. “They wouldn’t do it. A hurricane came though once and they (timber procurement people) told us there was a mandatory work Sunday for all their contractors. My uncle told him that would be a problem for us. They wouldn’t do it.” The cousins have raised their children with the same commitment to faith and family—one of Linc’s daughters teaches at a church in Orlando, where her husband is also the CPA. Though Linc is currently between churches, Ty still attends New Life Christian Fellowship in Lake City. “Our dads were married to two extraordinary ladies,” Ty says. “Our mothers are still living, and they, along with our dads’ will to work, are the backbone of this whole thing. They were very family oriented. They started a tradition 30 years ago that every year all the family gets together for a reunion.” With Ty and Linc now hosting the event, that annual reunion has grown to include around 75 people. “We are a pretty close family, I would say,” Ty explains. “We want to keep that tradition alive. Our fathers would have wanted it that way, and without them none of this would be here. So we have to honor them and carry their legacy on. We have to pass it on—not just the company but the family values.” Though they both hope to be retired within a decade, for now the cousins are unsure how that will unfold. If their sons choose to come on and take over the business, Linc says they are welcome to do so. “Our dads would want it that way, so that is how it will SLT have to be.” 18

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Trevor Haywood

For Haywood, money doesn’t grow on trees, money is the trees.

Top Of Its Game ■ Trevor Haywood Timber is one of the best operations going in Tennessee. By Patrick Dunning HUNTINGDON, Tenn. eliberate, ★ proud, and qualified across the board, Trevor Haywood, 35, owner of Trevor Haywood Timber Company LLC, comes from a long line of decision makers and leaders. Haywood gives credit to his grandfather, Billy Sellers, who would take him along when he was

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five years old to watch him fell trees with a chain saw. “Of course, I was always in the way,” Haywood says. Too little to pick up boards at his grandpa’s sawmill, Haywood could still get the edging strips off the lumber. Mr. Sellers even built Haywood his own rack to stack the strips in and paid him for his time. “He always believed that if a man wanted to work, he should be able to work,” Haywood reminisces.

Before graduating high school, Haywood knew he wanted to work in the woods despite his mother insisting he go to college. “Mom grew up with a daddy who worked in timber, and she knew it could be a tough life,” Haywood says. Even so, after graduating high school, Haywood went to work full time in the woods for his uncle, Terry Sellers, for the next two years. His father, Patrick Haywood, 59, a construction worker and business

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owner for 40 years, told him it was okay if he wanted to be a logger. “But if a leadership role opens up in the business, you should take it,” the elder Haywood advised his son. Not long after, his uncle decided to venture into the sawmill industry, leading Trevor to buy out his logging business on September 2, 2004. Trevor was 20 years old. After taking the reins from his uncle, Trevor went two years without paying himself a dime. “I didn’t

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The crew typically does select harvests and averages 45 loads a week.

From left: Trevor Haywood, Patrick Haywood, Scott Sampson, Willy Bailey

have much money at first,” Haywood says. To get his company off the ground, he had to work six to seven days a week and live with his mother and father. Without a wife or children at the time, Haywood could direct his focus wholeheartedly on his operation. “Fortunately, it didn’t take much for me to live. I had three meals a day regardless,” he says. Because he didn’t take anything out of the company for himself, it slowly began running more like a business after a few years.

Operations Now with 15 years in the industry under his own LLC, Haywood has met the right people and developed a rock-solid crew, cutting anywhere from Kentucky in the north down to the Mississippi state-line in the south. Southern Loggin’ Times found Trevor Haywood Timber Co. in Weakley County right outside the community of Palmersville, Tenn., cutting a 75-acre tract of red and

white oak, poplar, ash, hickory and sweet gum for Altenburg Hardwoods. The tract consisted of two ridges with a large ditch and gullies separating them. The tract’s hills are just as wet as the bottoms due to a tremendous amount of rain throughout the summer months. The crew had moved off a 3,000-acre job for Beasley Timber Co., located along the Tennessee River in Stewart County. The terrain on the Beasley job is steep and rocky, which works well during the wet weather. “We don’t like to pull off a job, but Altenburg needed logs worse than our other markets,” Haywood says. “They helped us when we needed a job in the past, so it was time to return the favor.” His crew consists of four workers, along with three truck drivers. Haywood believes, “We’re more efficient for the wood that we cut in comparison to other crews. We’re small but up to production.” Using a technique Trevor coined as “semi-shovel logging,” Haywood fells hardwoods with his tracked feller-buncher before shoveling logs up or down hill for his skidders to begin pulling. For this smaller job, they’re currently producing 8-10 loads a day. “Most guys don’t do that many loads with our size, but it all goes back to the equipment you have and, most importantly, your men,” he says. Haywood’s crew consistently

SLT SNAPSHOT Trevor Haywood Timber Co., LLC Huntingdon, TN Email: trevor.haywood@yahoo.com Founded: 2004 Owner: Trevor Haywood No. Crews: 1 Employees: 7 Equipment: two skidders, one cutter, two loaders, two dozers, one excavator, one delimber and ground saw Trucks/Trailers: four trucks, 10 log trailers, two lowboy trailers, three setout trucks, one fuel truck, one service truck Average Haul Distance: 65 miles Tidbit: Trevor Haywood operates throughout the Tennessee River region harvesting privately owned tracts. He also subcontracts for companies such as Volner Sawmill, Altenburg Hardwoods and Beasley Timber Co. The 2018 Tennessee Logger of the Year, Haywood has an activist spirit and has spoken with legislators in Nashville about sustainable forestry. He’s a Tennessee Master Logger and Kentucky certified Master Logger and an active Tennessee Forestry Assn. member.

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All woods equipment is Tigercat, except for support machinery.

produces an average of 40,000 tons per year but is projected to produce close to 50 this year. “The contract on the Beasley land and the new pulpwood markets have really helped our production,” he says.

Machinery Lineup Most of Haywood’s machines are Tigercat. “We run Tigercat, so we don’t have many problems; I know it’s cliché but it’s the truth,” he says. “I went with newer equipment because growing up, we used older machinery and you couldn’t help but wonder what might go wrong

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with something today. I like being a logger, not so much a mechanic.” The crew operates a 2018 Tigercat LX 830D cutter outfitted with a 5185 bar saw, ’18 Tigercat 620E skidder, ’15 Tigercat 620E skidder, ’15 Tigercat 234 loader working with a CSI delimber and ground saw, ’16 Doosan DX 225 loader, and ’11 Komatsu PC200 excavator. The crew uses an ’09 Deere 700J and a ’15 Komatsu D65 dozer to build roads and decks and, after the job is completed, to re-level the decks and leave them clear of debris. Trevor Haywood Timber Co. runs four Mack trucks (two ’14 models,

Service truck includes crane, air compressor, welder, hand tools and spare parts inventory.

a ’13 and one ’07) pulling 10 log trailers (five Pitts, three from, Woods Trailer Shop, one GCL, one McFall) and two lowboys (one Pitts, one Sun Trailer). Haywood also has three setout trucks and a newly purchased ’18 Ram 5500 crew cab service truck with a Maintainer service bed. Haywood gives his truck drivers the option between being paid by the trip or the hour. Whenever they start a new tract, he

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lets them know which way pays more, and he’s more than okay with it. “Drivers are hard to come by so when you get good ones you keep them; it doesn’t matter how much wood you cut if you can’t get it to the mill,” he says. “A lot of guys separate the two but those truck drivers are just as big a part of this company as anybody.” White oak stave logs are hauled 43 miles to American Stave, located in

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Benton, Ky. “A huge blessing,” Haywood says, is the reopening of Phoenix Paper Mill in Wickliffe, Ky., a 60-mile haul from the tract Haywood was working this summer. After closing down in 2016, costing more than 300 people their jobs, Phoenix reopened as of May, 29, 2019. Under new owner, Chinese manufacturer Shanying International, the mill is now fully operational. Truck drivers also haul red oak and other hardwood sawlogs 90 miles to Altenburg Hardwoods in Marion, Ky. Haywood keeps a maintenance book for each machine, truck and trailer so he can see what has been done and when. His woods machinery is serviced every 250 hours

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using Chevron 15-W40 Ursa oil along with Chevron hydraulic oil purchased through Parman Energy in Camden, Tenn. Equipment is pressure cleaned every 250 hours. Every 15,000 miles, truck engine oil is changed and every other week the trucks are greased. All routine maintenance is done in-house. All Tigercat equipment is dealt through B&G Equipment of Iuka, Miss. Haywood notes the quality service B&G gives him. “Their service is really good down there; they’re always there if we need them.” The other equipment providers with which Haywood does business are all in Tennessee: Bobcat of Nashville (Doosan), Stri-

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bling Equipment of Jackson (Deere), Tri-State Truck Center in Jackson (Macks) and Power Equipment in Memphis (Komatsu).

Accolades Haywood received the 2018 Tennessee Master Logger of the Year award from the Tennessee Forestry Assn. by virtue of his environmental awareness, his habits of closing tracts by the books and his impressive safety record. Former water

quality forester Mike Sherrill asked to use a tract Haywood had operated on as a “demonstration site” for a field tour he was conducting for 15 professionals to observe his tendencies. “Trevor did a great job implementing forestry BMPs in regards to water quality,” Sherrill says. After accepting the award on behalf of his crew, Haywood says it’s opened his eyes to the political aspect of sustainable forestry. “People understanding forestry is important; they also need to understand

the process,” Haywood believes. “The general public needs better education on timber harvesting. It’s such a big industry and vital to the state of Tennessee.” Attending talks such as TFA Tree Day and the West Tennessee Wood Summit in Nashville creates dialogue between Haywood and other loggers with legislators and congress members to discuss industry and landowner issues. Haywood believes the best way to accomplish this is through a grass roots cam-

paign. “If you can educate the masses on the reality of sustainable forestry, and where the wood your desk is made of comes from, that’s the best chance at getting people to vote pro-forestry. As a forest industry, we should be proactive because the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” he adds. Every year Haywood supports the Richard Jones Memorial Log-ALoad golf tournament in Adamsville. Loggers and forestry professionals come together and donate time and money to the nearest Children’s Miracle Network affiliated hospital for state-of-theart care and research. In 2019, $33,000 worth of proceeds from the tournament went to LeBonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis.

Solid Crew One thing Haywood appreciates about his crew is how they’ve stuck by his side for several years through the good and bad. “Without their help, there is no business to run,” Trevor says. The in-woods roster includes loader operator Willy Bailey, skidder operator Scott Sampson, and the newest addition to the crew, starting in April 2019, Trevor’s dad Patrick Haywood. Patrick enjoys working with his son and Trevor says it’s good to be able to spend time together. Patrick built custom houses his entire life and has no previous background in the logging business. “My only relation would be I married a logger’s daughter, that’s about the extent of it,” Patrick adds. Truck drivers are Matt Mann, Ken Carson and Glenn Lee. Employees receive production bonuses based on tonnage and safety bonuses as long as PPE is worn. Come September they will also begin receiving health insurance through BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Trevor’s wife, Mandy Haywood, recently left her job as a school nurse to handle the books of the business and to assist in other areas. Mandy manages the books electronically through Quickbooks. “Talk about taking a load off of me,” he says about his wife. “It’s one click and you can see where we are and what we’re doing. I’m thankful that she stands behind us.” Forestry Mutual Insurance has covered general liability, workers’ comp, equipment, and trucks for the last several years. “You meet some good people out here and it’s real. This is our life, this is what we get up for,” Haywood says. Being the head of the operation brings its share of stress. But Trevor keeps 10 toes down. “I don’t want to do anything else but cut logs; you’ve got to see through the troubles of today to find the SLT bliss of tomorrow.” 28

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Ponder On These

LAZY

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phoned her blonde male neighbor, saying, “Close your curtains the next time you and your wife are having sex. The whole street was watching and laughing at you yesterday.” To which the blonde man replied: “Well, the joke’s on all of you because I wasn’t even at home yesterday!”

My luck is like a bald guy who just won a comb. I’m bored. I think I’ll go to the mall, find a great parkis such an ugly word, ing spot and sit in my car with the reverse lights on. If you answer the phone with “Hello, you’re on the so I prefer air,” most telemarketers will quickly hang up. When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison. Most kids today don’t know what an apron is, or was. My uncle Bert is a very responsible drinker: he The principle purpose of the apron was to protect the doesn’t spill a drop. dress underneath because grandma only had a few. When I say “the other day,” I could be referring to any Besides, it was easier to wash aprons than dresses, and aprons required time between yesterday and 15 years ago. less material. Cop: “Please step out of the car.” Driver: “I’m too drunk; you get in.” But along with that, aprons served as a potholder for removing hot pots I remember being able to stand up without making sound effects…good and pans from the oven. Grandma often wiped her perspiring brow as she times! bent over the hot wood stove. I recently had my patience tested. I’m negative. Aprons were wonderful for drying children’s tears, and on occasion Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperwere even used for cleaning out dirty ears. ware lid that doesn’t fit any of your containers. From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs or fussy If you’re sitting in a public place and a stranger takes the seat next to chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming you, just stare straight ahead and say, “Did you bring the money?” oven. If age 60 is the new 40, then 9 p.m. is the new midnight. And when the weather was cold, grandma used her I finally got 8 hours sleep. It took me three days, but apron to warm her arms. whatever. Mirror, Mirror Kindling wood was brought into the kitchen in that I run like the winded. On The Wall... apron. I hate it when a couple argues in public and I missed the What The Heck Grandma carried vegetables from the garden in her beginning and don’t know whose side I’m on. apron. After the peas were shelled, she carried out the When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I hulls in her apron. In the fall, the apron was used to bring squint and ask, “Why? What did you hear?” in apples. I don’t remember much from last night but the fact that I When unexpected company neared the house, it was surprising how needed sunglasses to open the fridge this morning tells me it was awemuch furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds. And when some. company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids. When you do squats, are your knees supposed to sound like a goat When the mid-day meal was ready, grandma walked out onto the porch chewing on an aluminum can stuffed with celery? and waved her apron, signaling to the men in the fields that it was time to I don’t mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and to eat. get really excited about it. It will be a long time before someone invents something that will When I ask for directions, please don’t use words like East. replace that old fashioned apron that served so many purposes. Yes, that It’s the start of a new day and I’m off like a herd of turtles. apron may have had its share of germs, but most people never caught anyI walked into a giant spider web and suddenly turned into a karate master. thing from an apron but love. The older I become the earlier it gets late.

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man is in the bathroom and his wife shouts, “Did you find A good ole boy by the name of Bubba walked into a doctor’s office and the shampoo?” He answers, “Yes, but I’m not sure what to do. It’s for dry the receptionist asked him what he had. hair, and I’ve just wet mine.” Bubba said, “shingles.” l A blonde man spies a letter lying on his doormat. Printed on the enveSo she wrote down his name, address, medical insurance information lope are the words DO NOT BEND.” He spends two hours trying to figure and told him to have a seat. out how to pick it up. Fifteen minutes later a nurse’s aide came out and asked Bubba what he l A blonde man shouts frantically into the phone, “My wife is pregnant had. and her contractions are only two minutes apart!” The doctor, “Is this her Bubba said, “shingles.” first child?” The man shouts, “No! This is her husband!” So she wrote down his height, weight, a complete medical history and l A blonde man is in jail and a guard looks in his cell and sees him told Bubba to wait in the examining room. hanging by his feet. “Just what are you doing?” the guard asks. “Hanging A half hour later a nurse came in and asked Bubba what he had. myself,” the man replies. “The rope should be around your neck” says the Bubba said, “shingles.” guard. “I tried that,” he man replies, “but I couldn’t So the nurse instructed him to provide a urine sambreathe.” Common sense is not ple, took some blood, checked his blood pressure, did l An Italian tourist asks a blonde man: “Why do an electrocardiogram, and told Bubba to take off all a gift but a punishment his clothes. A half hour later the doctor came in and scuba divers always fall backwards off their boats?” The answer: “If they fell forward, they’d still be in the found Bubba sitting patiently and asked Bubba what because you have to boat.” he had. l Two blonde men find three grenades and they Bubba said, “shingles.” deal with everyone decide to take them to a police station. One asked, The doctor asked, “Where?” who doesn’t have it. “What if one explodes before we get there?” The Bubba said, “Outside on the truck. Where do you other says: “We’ll lie and say we only found two.” want me to unload ‘em?” 30

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Juggling Act ■ Bradley Sanderson plans to keep shortwood hauling Bigfoot Logging small. By David Abbott BOGUE CHITTO, Miss. ack in the old days, logging was often sort of a part-time profes★ sion. Many loggers worked in the woods certain times of the year, around the weather and the seasons, when they weren’t farming or earning their livelihood in other ways. There are still those who juggle logging among multiple other careers. Bradley Sanderson, 41, could be considered a continuation of this tradition. The owner of Bigfoot Logging has a number of irons in his fire; hauling logs is just one of them. By trade, Sanderson is a land surveyor, handling both commercial and residential properties. Before that, though, he got his first taste for logging when he was just 15, hauling short pulpwood with his stepdad from 1993 till the local International Paper mill stopped taking shortwood in 1998. By then an adult, he started doing odd jobs while trying to figure out where he fit in the world. “I did a lot of grunt work for lots of people and finally it paid off,” he recalls. One day he was at a deer camp to help a plumber when a surveyor, Lane Knight, was there asking for anyone who could help him with a survey job. “I said I would do it, but I didn’t know anything about it. He told me I didn’t have to know how to do anything, I just had to hold a stick.” After that job, Knight asked Sanderson if he could come back the next week, and then again the week after that, and so on until a week turned into a month and a month to six months. Knight knew Sanderson had picked up on it; it turned out he understood the concept naturally. “I’m not a smart person, but that just happened to fall into place for me,” Sanderson says. “It was the only thing that ever did.” Knight told him he was figuring out trigonometry in his head and offered to pay for his schooling in exchange for a promise to keep working for him for at least two years. Sanderson accepted the deal. After honoring that commitment, he looked for more local work when a gas price surge in the early 2000s

advised him to get back into made it too expensive for shortwood trucking. At first Sanderson to drive his ’78 he was skeptical, initially Chevy C10 Bonanza all the protesting that mills don’t buy way to Knight’s job in Jackshortwood anymore, but he son. The truck theoretically listened to Daughdrill and would get 10 miles a gallon, realized there were opportunibut Sanderson notes, “I probties, if done on the right scale. ably got about five because I He bought a crane truck with was young and hard on it.” a straight six diesel engine A new job was quickly from a billboard sign compafound and quickly lost when ny for $900 and spent five conflicts with nepotism put months building his own bed him at odds with his boss—an and self-loader for it. “I had inexperienced nephew of the never welded in my life,” he company’s owner was posiadmits. He trained himself tioned as his supervisor, but with YouTube videos and trial Sanderson was the one held and error. “The welding I did responsible when the job wasbroke every week or two and n’t done right. He was disI’d have to redo it, but finally gruntled by the situation and These big logs came from two trees Sanderson removed from after about six months, my didn’t mind letting everyone a yard. welds got better and held know it, finally giving the longer.” boss an ultimatum: “him or He soon partnered with me.” Needless to say, the another man who would load nephew kept his job. Easy pulpwood with a skid steer he come, easy go. owned, and Bigfoot Logging His big break came when started making tracks. By he went to work for Michael 2017, they were hauling four Baker International, which loads a day on the one or two was the biggest survey comdays a week they could coorpany in the U.S. for a long dinate to get together on it. time, according to Sanderson. Both men juggled, then as “I was making $160 an hour.” they do now, multiple jobs: With that job he spent nine Sanderson still has Southern years on the road, doing surLand Surveying while his partner is a veys all over the country. He was son drives Ford trucks now. doing so well that he planned to retire He stayed with Michael Baker, but constable who also owns grass cutting and gravel hauling businesses, before he turned 40, and he was on eventually the company invested in and both have multiple other side track to do so. “Every time somebody LIDAR (Light Detection and Rangventures. retires it isn’t very long before they ing) surveying equipment, which Sanderson works all these jobs so die,” he explains. “They don’t have measures the reflection of pulsed he can retire while he’s young time to enjoy it. I wanted to be able to laser light to calculate distances. enough to enjoy it. He just had to enjoy the fruits of my labor. I had “This technology wiped out the need shift the target age. The goal now is enough head on my shoulders to look for all the stuff we were doing, so to be out before he turns 50. at it that way.” they laid us off,” Sanderson says. To make that goal, for years he had “But I can’t complain because two been setting aside a significant porand a half years later I still drew a Bigfoot, Small Footprint tion of his considerable paycheck check from them. They took care of Sanderson operates Bigfoot as a towards a retirement fund, and his us.” kind of tree removal service, clearing employer matched his contribution In 2010 Sanderson started running both for residential and commercial dollar for dollar, with no cap. “No a survey crew for Gerald Wicker; in customers. He does a fair amount of matter what you put in, they matched 2018 Gerald retired and Sanderson commercial development clearing for you.” Then came the market crash in started his own survey company, 2009 and the auto manufacturer Southern Land Surveying, in partner- Dollar General, a company known for building stores in out-of-the-way bailouts of the year before. “When it ship with Gerald’s brother Troy. locales. Many of his jobs come from all fell out, I lost all my retirement,” his survey work, and he gets a lot of he says. “Chevy needed a bailout, Back To Shortwood wood for free from small, private and that bailout came at a price for a About five years ago, Sanderson landowners. Because he surveyed lot of us, including Wall Street. It’s did a survey job for long-time Missis- their land, owners will often ask him because of Chevrolet that I’m not sippi forester Mike Daughdrill, who to cut whatever he wants from a few retired right now.” Notably, Sander-

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acres they want cleared, whether for development or recreational use. The more he cuts and hauls away, the less they have to pile and burn. For felling, Sanderson has a collection of chain saws, including several Stihls and industrial Poulan Pros, but he’s partial to his Husqvarna 450. Husqvarna is more heavy duty, he says, and better suited to the long hours and large diameter trees he often cuts. He also has a McCulloch Eager Beaver he says will get him out if the Husqvarna is in a pinch. “A man gave it to me when I cut on his place,” Sanderson recalls. “He said he was too old to use it. He’d had it since he was a kid, and he was in his 70s when he gave it to me.” His partner uses a 50HP John Deere skid steer for loading, and Sanderson has a Ford F800 bucket truck and a F700 for hauling logs. The single axle truck weighs 12,400 lbs. empty. Though Sanderson can load 15 tons, what he gets is usually more like 11 or 12 tons of logs to a load. He purposefully governed the truck down to 40 MPH for safety

after he almost turned it over once doing 55. Bigfoot sends big logs to Bird Lumber in Magnolia, smaller pine logs to Rex Lumber in Brookhaven, pulpwood to Georgia-Pacific in Brookhaven, chip-n-saw to Seago Lumber in McComb, and hardwood pallet logs to Wallace Lumber in Summit. He also still hauls to Bennie Ray Newell’s pulpwood yard in Hazlehurst, the same place where he and his stepdad hauled shortwood 25 years ago. “I want to stay small,” Sanderson

says. “I take advice from those loggers who have been there and done it.” The big loggers always tell him they started out doing it like he does it, and that they were actually making more money then than now, by the time they pay employees and the notes on all those newer, bigger machines and trucks. As long as he can haul logs two or three days a week and make a good profit, he’s happy. Sanderson’s wife, Tanya, 32, is from Madrid, Spain. He met her while he was on a survey job on the

Gulf Coast, and she was visiting the United States with her family for a few weeks. They were both booked at the same extended stay hotel. Sanderson and a coworker named Tony saw her walking by, but it was actually Tony who whistled and got her attention. Mistaking him for the whistler, Tanya came over and started talking to Sanderson (hopefully Tony has no hard feelings about it). Several months later, Sanderson and Tanya were married. They have a son, Hunter, 12, and a daughter, Hannah SLT Lynn, 6.

SLT SNAPSHOT Bigfoot Logging Bogue Chitto, Miss. Email: bigfootlooging@ gmail.com Founded: 2015 Owner: Bradley Sanderson No. Crews: 1 Equipment: Ford F800 and F700 trucks, John Deere skid steer and several chain saws Average Production: 3 loads/week (part-time) Average Haul Distance: 25 miles Tidbit: There are two Bogue Chittos in Mississippi. Sanderson lives in the one with a 39629 zip code, located further south, near Brookhaven. An unincorporated community in Lincoln County that takes its name from the Bogue Chitto River, it is the only municipal hamlet in the state. The other Bogue Chitto, situated in Kemper and Neshoba counties, has a zip code of 39350. Southern Loggin’ Times

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Martco Makes The Big Ones ■ Louisiana plywood operation merchandizes timbers sawlogs.

Inotech canter processes merchandized logs.

By Jessica Johnson CHOPIN, La. hings are done a little differently at the Martco L.L.C. huge pine plywood plant in Chopin. Instead of just processing cores coming off the lathe for various markets, Martco went about three steps further. In October 2014 the company added a full-blown timbers sawmill, complete with dry kilns, making 26MMBF of southern yellow pine (SYP) timbers operating at the same 24/7/365 rate as the plywood plant. Products are marketed under the RoyOMartin brand name. The Martin family of companies is no stranger to the sawmill business, so when President, CEO and CFO Roy O. Martin III and other executives noticed that a vast amount of canter wood was being shipped off to area paper mills, they recognized an opportunity to maximize yield on the existing (and underutilized) merchandizer. The decision was bolstered by their forestry team’s ability to meet the needs of the expansion with second thinnings from both fee and vendor

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sourcing, and an available market for some key timber sizes. The company went to work making plans. By using the bigger ends off the butt cut to make plywood, the rest now makes timbers, creating essentially the perfect middle piece: Now Martco operates a timbers mill, with a planer mill, for material of the “middle” size. Timber Mill Manager Rob Blankenship says that while every day offers its own opportunities to improve, the mill is a perfect fit for the facility and the material that is processed. A seasoned sawmill guy, having joined Martco’s former LeMoyen, La. pine and hardwood sawmill in 1983, Blankenship has been with the Chopin timbers mill since March 2014 and was part of its single shift startup in October 2014. He started with about 12 people working days only, seven days a week, 52 weeks per year. Blankenship’s team has worked so well that the single day shift gradually increased to two shifts, and now operates four shifts, giving the timbers mill the same schedule the plywood plant has.

Merchandizing line produces ply logs and sawlogs.

Timbers Mill Flow Logs are loaded onto the stem deck with a LeTourneau pedestal crane and are debarked with a Nicholson A8 debarker. Once scanned for optimum cut, logs are broken down into either 8 or 10 ft. blocks on a PSI merchandizer. Blocks larger than 9.5 in. are processed strictly for plywood, and

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the remaining stem goes for timbers. Any waste wood is broken down with a Bruks wastewood chipper. At the Inotech canter, optimization makes cutting decisions of 4x4, 5x5 and 6x6. Cants travel to an Inotech tray sorter, which sorts by both width and length, then to the green stacker. Cants are dried either in the package kiln using hot oil or the

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The 26MMBF pine timbers mill was added to the Chopin plywood site in 2014.

New American Wood Dryers kiln

Martco saw an opportunity for a timbers mill based on its raw material sizes.

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brand new American Wood Dryers gas-fired track dry kiln installed in early 2019. Blankenship states the performance of the new American Wood Dryers kiln has reduced drying time by half. Timbers are dried to 19% moisture content and are then cooled for 24 hours before planing. Inotech provided a near complete solution in the planer mill, with the exception of the strapper, which is a Signode machine. Most products are planed S4S, though Blankenship says they do run rough products, mainly 5x5s, every so often. All products are graded to Timber Products Inspection standards, #1, #2 and industrial mostly for the Texas market, though some is shipped to Arkansas and the Midwest. Chopin’s timbers mill has another area of maximization that is slightly different than others—the mill has the ability to cut boards off the Inotech planer. Blankenship explains the planer has both a horizontal and vertical saw, and it will take a 5x5 and cut a 1x4 board off the top and side creating a 4x4. “This is just another way we’re able to maximize recovery with this mill,” he adds. “Before this planer, those diameter logs, the 5x5s, were making 4x4s. And the 1x4 would have been in the chipper.” The original Weinig planer is used for the boards coming off the Inotech planer. The timbers mill uses two Hyundai forklifts and one Hyster lift to move products throughout the grounds. Every Thursday a two-man maintenance team takes over to perform a range of PM checklist items to keep the mill running as smooth as possible. The same “5 STEPS to Zero” incidents safety protocol, a complement to the corporate-wide “I Believe in Zero” safety culture, is practiced in the timbers mill as in the plywood mill, and results prove it works: In its five years of operation, the timbers mill has had only one recordable injury. The Chopin site team was recently recognized by APA—The Engineered Wood Assn. with the “Annual Safety and Health Honor Roll 2018, First Place, Division 1-Plywood” as the safest plywood plant in North America for a recordbreaking seventh time. The company’s land and timber departments have completed 12 years of no recordables. Blankenship credits his whole 30person team with the quality and production continually getting better year over year. “It’s not just me or a couple of other people,” he emphasizes. “It’s a team of dedicated employees striving to be better SLT each day.”

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■ Fond of the South’s climate, this tenatious vine overtakes whatever it encounters.

This is what can happen when vehicles—even a train—stay put for too long near the lurking plant, which can grow up to 60 ft. in a single season.

Kudzu can transform utility poles into works of art.

Kudzu infestations have moved beyond the Southeastern U.S., but they are most prevalent in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

The federal government paid farmers to plant kudzu as part of an erosion control program in the 1930s and 1940s.

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9 KUDZU HEALTH BENEFITS (found on the Internet) 1 – CURB ALCOHOLIC TENDENCIES Kudzu has been used in Chinese culture to curb alcoholic tendencies for over two thousand years. The isoflavanoids daidzin and puerarin contribute to this property of Kudzu.

Over time, buildings of all types can be swallowed up in a thick tangle. Kudzu roots can penetrate the soil for more than 15 feet and a single root mass, partly shown here, can weigh more than 400 lbs.

2 – BREAST CANCER AND MENOPAUSE Kudzu root isoflavones such as puerarin and daidzin are part of a group of dietary estrogens called phytoestrogens. Kudzu root has been promoted as a hormone replacement therapy and its applications include reduction or prevention of perimenopausal symptoms, osteoporosis and breast cancer. 3 – CARDIAC HEALTH Kudzu puerarin extract has been suggested to improve vascular structure and function in coronary patients. Puerarin is also scientifically supported as a safe and effective secondary preventive strategy for adults with cardiac health risks. Kudzu is also effective in the treatment of blood pressure and heart rate, heart attack prevention and the promotion of new blood vessels.

Swarms of kudzu bugs, also natives of Asia, favor all types of bean plants, and can decimate kudzu plants. They were first seen near Atlanta, Ga. beginning in 2009.

Kudzu was brought to the U.S. in 1876 as an ornamental plant. It was part of the Japanese exhibit at the national centennial celebration in Philadelphia, Pa. Owners of a nursery in Chipley, Fla. are credited with helping spread the popularity of kudzu in the first half of the 20th century.

4 – INFLAMMATORY DISEASES Kudzu roots and isoflavone constituents have been found to provide therapeutic and preventative benefits for various inflammatory diseases and diseases related to oxidative stress. 5 – IMPROVE EYE SIGHT Puerarin in Kudzu can facilitate recovery of eye sight in patients suffering from ischemic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration. 6 – KIDNEY DISEASES Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a common cause of late-stage kidney disease that occurs in 20-40% of diabetic patients which may eventually lead to renal failure. A study including 669 participants found that Puerarin may benefit individuals with DN. 7 – MIGRAINES AND HEADACHES A correlational analysis based on data collected with interviews of participants of a medical study found that 69% saw a decrease in intensity of pain, 56% experienced a decrease in frequency of migraines and 31% a decrease in duration of migraines. 8 – STROKE 35 studies covering 3224 participants have shown that kudzu extract (i.e., puerarin) injections performed better than placebo by showing considerable improvements with neurological deficits following an acute ischemic stroke. 9 – WEIGHT REDUCTION Reductions in visceral fat and overall BMI was seen when kudzu flower extract was consumed in a controlled study involving 81 obese participants.

Only a few herbicides are effective against kudzu, and follow-up treatment is usually required for years.

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INDUSTRY NEWS ROUNDUP passionate enough to put their As We See It: Success Starts At Home were work and businesses aside to go to By Danny Dructor The American Loggers Council is described as “loggers working for loggers.” The forest products industry is very broad and diverse in our Dructor country, ranging from forestland owners to manufacturers. The ALC works to promote and strengthen the whole industry. However at the end of the day, we are the only organization that focuses on supporting the needs and interests of professional timber harvesters. As loggers, we must stand up, speak out and support each other, because nobody else will. “Loggers working for loggers” is a constant theme of our “As We See It” columns not only because it defines who we are, but how we as loggers can be most effective. The strength of our organizations is our members—our 30 state and regional logging association members and our individual members. The ALC is at its best when everyone works as a well-oiled machine to achieve a shared goal, whether it’s passing legislation, promoting professional logging standards, or improving

safety for log truck operators. When one part isn’t working, the machine tends to break down. And when loggers are active at the grassroots level, there’s nothing that we can’t accomplish. I was reminded of this in June, when individual loggers and log truck drivers organized themselves as “Timber Unity” at the end of the Oregon legislative session. Concerned about proposed “cap and trade” legislation, these individuals got together on Facebook and put together demonstrations at the State Capitol unlike anyone in Salem had ever seen. Its third demonstration, consisting of hundreds of log trucks, attracted thousands of people in the timber industry to make their voices heard. Timber Unity was successful in helping to defeat this harmful legislation, which was a top priority of the state’s governor and legislative leaders. These loggers and log truck drivers didn’t just show up because they were called upon by the Associated Oregon Loggers (AOL), our member association representing over a thousand logging companies. They showed up because they were informed—thanks to AOL’s efforts to educate them—about how this legislation would affect them, and

the Capitol and make a difference. It is an example of how our industry is stronger when an association, with its professional staff and lobby team, is supplemented by an organic and truly-authentic grassroots effort of people supporting each other. The ALC was launched 25 years ago when a group of loggers decided we needed a strong, consistent presence in order to impact issues on a national level. As a trade association, we are stronger than ever. But an association itself cannot solve all the problems facing an industry. It requires commitment by individuals to get educated and to take the time to contact their legislators, attend the meetings and ultimately influence the decisions. ALC and its association members will continue to travel to Washington DC to work on our shared priorities. Yet success for our industry always starts at home, at the grassroots level, of individuals taking responsibility for themselves to get involved and make things happen. That’s the true definition of “loggers working for loggers.” The 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 americanlog ger@aol.com, or visit our website at www.amloggers.com.

‘Timber Unity’ Defeats Oregon Legislation Loggers, truckers and others gathered by the hundreds outside Oregon’s State Capitol in late June— with trucks rolling and hardhats and caulk boots worn as badges of solidarity—to protest and ultimately help defeat proposed state cap-andtrade legislation that they say would have drastically raised fuel prices and hampered operations in multiple natural resource industries. Under a cap-and-trade program, the state puts an overall limit on emissions and auctions off pollution permits or “allowances” for each ton of carbon industries plan to emit. Only the largest polluters are targeted. Opponents argued the pollution caps would raise energy prices, create a competitive disadvantage and cause companies to relocate, all while doing little to address climate change. A state analysis found lowering carbon emission caps would raise gasoline prices 22 cents a gallon by 2021 and $3 a gallon by 2050. Collectively, the protest brought more than 2,000 trucks, tractors and other work vehicles to the state Capitol and circled it, horns honking and lights flashing while hundreds of supporters waved signs and showed solidarity. Speakers took to the podium to exhort the crowd. A driving force behind the event was the “Timber Unity” Facebook page, founded by Oregon grass seed farmer Marie Bowers and log trucker Todd Stoffel, who has operations in Oregon and Washington. Acting as an information and organizing vehicle, Timber Unity’s Facebook page grew to more than 50,000 followers in barely more than a month and was a major force in putting “boots on the ground” at the Capitol to protest the legislation. As a testament

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to their success in defeating the legislation, Bowers and Stoffel found themselves guests at the White House in July. After the issue gained national notoriety and proved so controversial in-state, late in the legislative session Democrat party officials announced the cap-and-trade proposal couldn’t gain enough votes from its own party. Following Timber Unity’s success in Salem, rapid growth on-line and impact on rural and natural resource issues, a recent post on its Facebook page says the group is catching its breath, already engaging in new issues, and spending time expanding its reach and adding to its grassroots credibility.

Komatsu America Names TEC As Dealer Komatsu America appointed Tractor & Equipment Company (TEC) as the forestry equipment distributor for the states of Alabama, Georgia and the northwest region of Florida. TEC will handle the full-line of Komatsu forestry equipment, which includes track feller-bunchers, log loaders, wheeled harvesters, forwarders, and harvesting/processing heads.

Trailer Racks Can Reduce Headaches Standard cab-mounted headache racks for hauling trucks help with smaller objects and provide a level of protection, but do little to minimize the risk of logs sliding forward and crushing the truck cab during a sudden stop or evasive maneuver. According to Jimmy Locklear with FMIC Locklear reccomends trailer racks. Insurance Agency, loggers should take a close look at adding trailer-mounted headache racks that do a better job of keeping logs bolstered inside the confines of the trailer during a sudden stop while also preventing a load from spilling. Locklear believes driver and public safety must be constantly evaluated and improved. “I want to encourage all logging and trucking operations to give serious consideration to adding a trailer mounted headache rack if you don’t already have them,” he says. Preventing the rack of logs from gaining momentum during a crash can substantially decrease overall damage and reduce injuries. TEC is already the distributor in these regions for Komatsu construction and mining equipment. “Tractor & Equipment Company is an excellent addition to the Komatsu forestry equipment team and will provide us with greater forestry sales coverage in the southeast United States,” says Jim Williams, director, sales and serv-

ice, forestry, Komatsu. “They have done a great job representing and growing Komatsu’s construction and mining business in this region, and we feel confident that they can replicate that success for forestry.” Tractor & Equipment Company was founded in 1943. Based in Birmingham, Ala., TEC has operations throughout Alabama, Georgia

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and northwest Florida. Forestry equipment will be sold and serviced at all of the company’s 20 branch locations. “We are pleased to be building on our long-term relationship with Komatsu with the addition of their forestry line of equipment,” says Dan Stracener, President/CEO, Tractor & Equipment Company. “It gives us the opportunity to offer greater value to our forestry customers and to do so with a trusted partner.”

RoyOMartin Timber Group Runs Safe Wood-products manufacturer RoyOMartin announced that its land and timber department has completed 12 years without an OSHA-recordable injury, effective August 2. Given the vast amount of timberland managed by RoyOMartin foresters—nearly 550,000 acres—this accomplishment is especially noteworthy.Keys to the team’s success include reporting near-misses, performing quality safety audits, and making daily contacts, in cooperation with a dedicated team of health, safety and environmental professionals. “Our team of dedicated ladies

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and gentlemen continues to effectively grow our work-family’s safety culture,” explains RoyOMartin Vice President of Land and Timber Cade Young. “We believe that positive safety culture is a living thing

that must be nurtured, educated, and protected from unhealthy influence. Individual recognition and acceptance of personal safety responsibility is necessary to avoid recordable accidents and protect our peers. I

am amazed and proud to be a part of a group whose members have renewed this commitment each of the last 4,383 days.” Executive Vice President and COO Scott Poole states, “These professionals renew their commitment to safety each day, serving as role models to our company and industry. Congratulations on their remarkable accomplishment.” In recognition of working 12 years without a recordable injury, the department will host a celebration for its approximately 50 foresters and support personnel.

Nokian Acquires Levypyörä Oy In line with Nokian Heavy Tyres’ growth strategy, the company is acquiring a Finnish heavy equipment wheel company, Levypyörä Oy. With its two business lines, wheels and steel structures, Levypyörä serves several original equipment manufacturers and aftermarket customers in forestry, agriculture and earthmoving applications. “With the acquisition, Nokian Heavy Tyres can offer innovative new solutions to its existing cus-

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tomers and increase wheel volume as well as further improve its service level. Levypyörä has already been a trusted partner of ours for many years. The acquisition provides additional growth opportunities and offers a full-service solution for our key OEM and AM customers,” says Manu Salmi, Managing Director, Nokian Heavy Tyres.

CLA’s Smith Attends Huntsman Event Continuing to collaborate for charity, Carolina Logging Assn. (CLA) Executive Director Ewell Smith recently attended Brad Keselowski’s 2nd annual Huntsman Event in Dryden, Mich. The Huntsman Event is held on behalf of Brad Keselowski’s Checkered Flag Foundation that supports veterans and first responders. After the devastation that Hurricane Florence left in NC in fall 2018, a partnership was formed between CLA and the Checkered Flag Foundation and the CLA developed Logs for the Cause. Since that time the two organizations have worked on projects together and currently have several ongoing projects in place. According to to Smith, the event

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provided the opportunity to be a voice on behalf of the CLA and the logging community. “This event allowed for the CLA to be put in front of a lot of key people in other industries that experience the same issues that loggers experience; it also provided a much clearer understanding of the great work that the Checkered Flag Foundation provides,” Smith said, adding that the event included a service dog awarded to a very deserving veteran due to funds raised by the foundation.

Canfor Weighs Great Pacific Offer Canfor Corp. confirmed that on August 10 it received an unsolicited and non-binding proposal from Great Pacific Capital Corp. (and its CEO Jim Pattison) pursuant to which Great Pacific has suggested that it would be willing to acquire all outstanding common shares of Canfor (excluding those already directly or indirectly owned by Great Pacific) at a price of $16 per common share and reportedly take the company private. The Canfor Board has constituted

a special committee to review the offer and, in consultation with its legal and financial advisors, consider Canfor’s strategic alternatives, including Canfor’s response, if any, to the offer. Pattison (Great Pacific) reportedly already possesses a 51% stake in Canfor. “The elimination of the significant administrative expenses incurred in maintaining a public company listing in Canada will allow for reinvestment of these funds into stabilization of the company’s operations,” Great Pacific said in a statement . The statement also said that Canfor is facing strategic and capital decisions that are “best suited to a private company with a long-term focus.” Canfor, which has curtailed many of its sawmills in British Columbia, reported a loss of $50 million in the second quarter. While its BC sawmill business has lagged, Canfor in the past decade has purchased and now operates numerous sawmills in the U.S. South. It also operates a pulp and paper business. Pattison also reportedly has a 10% stake in West Fraser, and rumors of a West Fraser-Canfor merger have persisted for the past couple of years.

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MACHINES-SUPPLIES-TECHNOLOGY MAXAM LogXtra Tire MAXAM introduces the LogXtra forestry line to its broad range of specialty tire programs. MAXAM has engineered the MS931 LogXtra to provide the industry with the best solution for abusive forestry applications. Throughout the development and performance validation phase of the LogXtra program, the design components and tire construction have displayed increased efficiency, durability and traction compared to industry benchmarks. The steel belt stabilized construction along with heavy duty shoulder and sidewall thrives in harsh environments while also resisting cuts, cracks, impacts and punctures. A high performance rubber compound has been developed by the MAXAM engineering group specifically for the LogXtra tread to maximize tire resilience in the working environment. To prevent bead winding defects and protect against mounting damage, the LogXtra goes through an enhanced bead wrapping process that has been developed and implemented during

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The new John Deere 910G and 1010G forwarders provide loggers with a reliable solution designed with their needs in mind. Equipped with ultra-comfortable cabs and available with a variety of boom, load space, axle and cabin options, the 910G and 1010G machines can be customized for different worksites or operational needs. Available in a six-wheeled or eight-wheeled configuration, the 910G and 1010G models are ideal for early-to-late thinning operations and smaller end final felling applications. Both machines feature an

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Tigercat Coverage Plan Tigercat announced the launch of SECURE - its new extended coverage program. SECURE offers customers a selection of four competitive coverage plans for engines and drivetrain components that begin after the standard warranty period on drivetrain components has ended. SECURE increases engine and drivetrain component coverage to 3year/6000 hours, with the option to add in travel time and mileage allowance. It is a factory-backed program that can be applied to any machine equipped with a Tigercat FPT engine. This program replaces all extended warranty offerings previously available. The program is available for purchase up to one year after the machine’s service date, allowing you the flexibility to increase your machine coverage after your machine purchase. Visit the Tigercat Coverage page in the related links below to learn more about the SECURE extended coverage program. Visit tigercat.com.

Alliance CTL Tires Alliance Tire Group (ATG) has launched two tires into the demanding CTL market under its Alliance Forestar line. The Alliance 643 Forestar III LS2 and Alliance 644 Forestar III LS2 feature steel-belted construction and special chunk-and-chip-resistant compound to meet the challenges facing tires on heavy CTL machinery. They are engineered to minimize soil compaction and surface disturbance, and to excel in the broad range of conditions CTL harvesters face year-round. The Alliance 643 features wide shoulder lugs specially designed to accommodate tracks and chains. A specially engineered hexagonal bead ensures snug contact between the tire and rim, eliminating wheel slip. Like the 643, the Alliance 644 also features a reinforced hexagonal bead as well as four shoulderto-shoulder steel belts that ensure complete protection of the tread area and maximum integrity of the tire casing. A hefty stabilizer bar 50

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John Deere offers Intelligent Boom Control (IBC) on the 1470G Harvester—the largest harvester

model available in the John Deere line-up. The IBC technology, first introduced to the harvester category by John Deere in 2018, increases precision and accuracy during operation, boosting operator productivity. Available exclusively on the CH9 boom, with IBC the operator no longer controls each independent boom joint movement separately. Instead, the operator maneuvers the harvester head and the IBC technology automatically guides the boom accordingly. Designed to suit the work cycle of the harvester, the movement and operation of the boom adjusts as the boom is taken

to a tree, and when the tree is in the grapple. With IBC, work is more precise, efficient and enjoyable, and new operators are able to quickly learn how to operate machines. Another key benefit of the IBC system is the improvement to the durability of the boom. The IBC system features electrical end damping for all the main boom movement directions, stopping strong blow-like loads in the end positions. As a result, work is more fluent and the boom structures and hydraulic cylinders last longer. Additionally, IBC increases the

quality of harvested timber, as there are no wounds to the remaining trees. Visit johndeere.com.

Horizontal Grinder

Peterson Pacific Corp has introduced the new Peterson 1700D horizontal grinder—a smaller and lighter model than their other grinders but still delivering impressive production. Heavy duty and mobile, the 1700D can easily reduce a wide range of wood biomass materials. Its large feed opening measures 54" x 27". When boosted by Peterson’ high lift feed roll, the feed opening’s maximum lift of 41.5" can tackle the largest of feed stock, and allows excellent accessibility to the rotor for maintenance. Equipped with a Caterfpillar Tier 1V C9.3 455 HP engine, or an optional, export only C9 Tier III, 350 HP engine, at 41,000 lbs. the 1700D is the lightest of Peterson’s grinder series, and is easily transportable. Visit petersoncorp.com.

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6 ➤ loggers, but farmers and nurses, who were also angry about Canadians taking their jobs. “For two years I chased down officials and tried to get them to do something and they wouldn’t. So I decided if they wouldn’t do their job, I would do it for them.” He first ran for office in 2000 and was elected in 2003, originally as an independent. “You can’t go far as an independent,” he says, so he joined the Democrats, becoming the majority leader in 2013 and Senate President in 2018. A “purple” state, Maine is fairly evenly balanced between Republicans and Democrats. Jackson calls himself fairly conservative. “People call me the Pickup Truck Progressive.” For the first 12 years he served, Jackson continued to log with his company, J&J Trucking (it stood for Jackson and Jackson, a father and son team) but says once he got into leadership, it would have been impossible to keep up the logging, too, so he devoted himself to public service full time. His son now logs with his company, Cross Rock Logging.

Passage “Mills knew roundwood prices had been at alltime highs but saw that loggers were still going out of business, and they wanted to know why,” Jackson says. “I told them landowners were squeezing the loggers.” As the bill was debated in the state legislature and loggers and truckers were asked to testify, he says, “The landowners were sitting right there in the front row. It was an intimidation tactic.” Retaliation from landowners was an obvious concern for many, and while many still came forward, many others didn’t. Jackson doesn’t blame them. “I can’t in good conscience put people at risk.” Instead, many who were already retired spoke on their behalf. One of those who spoke up and who campaigned for the legislation was St. Francis log hauler Dana Gardner. Gardner owned his own company for 10 years, but poor business conditions forced him to sell out last year. He still drives part time. “The best part about it is that we can actually go in as a group of loggers to the

landowners and talk about price, road maintenance, incentives and all the aspects of the job, where before you could not do that as a group,” Gardner says. “I think it will give us leverage, if we can stick together. When we all have the same mindset about the job, it’s not just one squeaky wheel, it is everybody combined.” Not everyone, though, was on board, at least not completely. The Professional Logging Contractors of Maine officially neither supported nor opposed the bill. The association’s Executive Director Dana Doran had this to say: “Our position was, and still is, that we strongly favor some parts of the legislation but think other parts went too far. We’re pleased to see that it will provide some equilibrium for logging and trucking contractors in Maine, so they can speak without fear of retribution and anti-trust regulation, but we weren’t comfortable supporting it as written.” Most of the voting followed party lines and, Jackson notes, Republicans don’t believe in collective bargaining. The bill passed 21-14 in the Democrat-controlled Senate, but the vote was much tighter in the House, which is closely split between the parties. In the end, Jackson convinced two Republicans to cross the aisle and vote his way. Jackson says that because of the way the legislation has been carefully crafted, he doesn’t expect there to be any successful legal challenge in the courts. He says Maine’s logging community has tried this on two previous occasions and failed. It seems he’s learned from what didn’t work before. “I feel pretty strongly that we are on good ground this time, and we’re only asking for fair wages and a fair work day.” Still, he says there will be no premature celebration. “It was a significant win but I remember the losses we have been through so many times.” What he thinks is different this time: in the past loggers had no organization, but this time they have the International Assn. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) union, with its 700,000 members, political connections and resources, standing with them. “They are experienced negotiators who know collective bargaining,” Jackson says. With IAMAW support, around 200 Maine loggers have formed the New England Loggers Cooperative and selected Jackson as the new

organization’s first president. The example was set by the Maine Lobster Union, which was formed in 2013 as IAMAW Local 207. Gardner campaigned vigorously to get people to join the Cooperative. “We’re trying to get some traction,” he says. “We are looking forward to getting this co-op going to save people some money, and it will just lead to better things.”

How Will It Work? “If the loggers can stick together and form the cooperative the bill refers to, then this could be a game changer for the current procurement system that has stymied loggers for decades,” according to Danny Dructor, the Executive Director of the American Loggers Council. “They would do well to take a look at the practices and outcomes from the farmers who are members of cooperatives who have been operating successfully under this structure.” Jackson says it could work a lot of different ways. “The number one thing in the legislation is that there is no violation of anti-trust laws if two loggers talk about prices.” Loggers are now allowed to negotiate; it will be up to them to do so. The goal is for loggers to be able to negotiate better pay, better hours and health insurance via the coop. Jackson says that among loggers, “There is hope and there is excitement.” It’s a different story on the landowner side, he admits. “From them it is all doom and gloom. They say the industry is just now on the rebound and we shouldn’t be doing this at this time.” Jackson doesn’t believe their concerns are legitimate. “They’ve had their way so long that they perceive any loss of control as a threat to their kingdom.” He suggests, though, that those opposed should see it as a blessing, assuming they want there to be a logging force in the future. “Very few of us want to keep beating our heads against the wall, and some of the hardest working people I’ve ever known have given up on logging.” Jackson worries that Maine is losing too much of its logging force, but in his opinion, “The best way to get people back in the woods is for them (Maine’s landowners, mills, etc.) to quit being as SLT greedy as they are.”

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Center Mount Boom Left Up Makes Contact with Powerline Background On a winter afternoon day in the Lake States, a logging business owner was training a new employee. The business owner and employee scaled-in and were directed by the scaler to unload the wood at a specified landing where the truck was to be unloaded. Personal Characteristics The business owner was experienced and had delivered pulpwood to the facility on several occasions. The new employee had truck driving experience, but was delivering to this mill for the first time. Unsafe Act and Condition The entry to the small landing crossed underneath a powerline. No overhead powerlines crossed at the exit. The business owner and new employee, who was driving the vehicle, entered the landing from the wrong direction. Rather than passing the vehicle through and directing the driver to enter from the correct direction, the mill employee proceeded to unload the pulpwood. The business owner fully raised the boom of the center mount and then hopped back into the vehicle with the driver during unload-

ing. No signs were posted at either the entry or exit reminding drivers to lower their booms. Accident The pulpwood was unloaded and the mill employee moved to another landing to unload trucks. During the unloading process, the business owner received a phone call. After unloading, the driver proceeded to exit the landing with the center mount boom fully extended. Upon leaving the landing, the boom slightly touched the power line. After crossing underneath the powerline, the business owner and driver were notified that they had left their boom up and made contact with the high voltage wire. The driver then exited the truck to lower the boom. Incident The driver and business owner, fortunately, were not injured. They

scaled out and headed back to the job site. The contact of the boom and the powerline caused an outage for a large portion of the town and to a manufacturing facility that was supplied by the line. The business owner was liable for line repair and potentially the loss that was incurred by the manufacturing facility due to the power outage. Safety Procedures if Contact is Made with Powerline ● Don’t panic. Remain in the vehicle until the line is de-energized. ● Don’t move towards the vehicle to render aid. ● Keep everyone away from the area. The vehicle and ground around could be energized. ● Contact scaler or appropriate mill authorities and notify them of the incident. The scaler can then implement safety protocol for this type of incident including contacting the local utility company. ● The machine should be moved well away from the powerline, if possible. If You Must Leave the Vehicle for Safety Reasons (Fire) ● DO NOT step down. Under no

circumstances should you step down from the vehicle allowing part of your body to be in contact with the ground while touching the machine. ● Jump clear of the machine with your feet together. Because there may be hazardous voltage differential with the ground, you should jump with both feet together, maintain balance and shuffle across the affected area. ● DO NOT take large steps, making it possible for one foot to be in a high voltage area and the other foot to be in a lower voltage area. ● DO NOT touch any person who is in contact with energized equipment. ● After the victim has been cleared from contact with energized equipment, administer CPR if necessary, and seek immediate medical attention. Other Safety Actions ● Establish clear communications between the truck driver, scaler and mill equipment operator. ● Place exit and entry signs at landings. ● Place “Is Your Boom Lowered” signs near powerlines. ● Maintain focus on the task at hand. DO NOT allow yourself to be distracted. Supplied by Forest Resources Assn.

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COMING EVENTS September 5-7—Great Lakes Logging & Heavy Equipment Expo, UP State Fairgrounds, Escanaba, Mich. Call 715-282-5828; visit gltapa.org. 6-7—Virginia Forest Products Assn. Annual Conference, The Homestead Resort, Hot Springs, Va. Call 804-737-5625; visit vfpa.net. 8-10—Alabama Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Perdido Beach Resort, Orange Beach, Ala. Call 334-265-8733; visit alaforestry.org. 20-21—Kentucky Wood Expo, Embassy Suites Newtown Pike, Lexington, Ky. Call 502-695-3979; visit kfia.org. 26-28—American Loggers Council annual meeting, Perdido Beach Resort, Orange Beach, Ala. Call 409-625-0206; visit amloggers.com.

October 1-3—Mississippi Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Hilton, Jackson, Miss. Call 601-354-4936; visit msforestry.net. 2-4—North Carolina Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Hotel Ballast, Wilmington, NC. Call 800-2317723; visit ncforestry.org. 2-4—2019 National Hardwood Lumber Assn. Convention & Exhibit Showcase, Sheraton New

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March 2020 25-27—Hardwood Manufacturers Assn. 2019 National Conference & Expo, JW Marriott, Nashville, Tenn. Call 412-244-0440; visit hmamembers.org.

April 2020 7-9—Kentucky Forest Industries Assn. annual meeting, Brown Hotel, Louisville, Ky. Call 502-695-3979; visit kfia.org.

May 2020 1-2—Expo Richmond 2020, Richmond Raceway Complex, Richmond, Va. Call 804-737-5625; visit exporichmond.com. Listings are submitted months in advance. Always verify dates and locations with contacts prior to making plans to attend.

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