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Vol. 48, No. 10

(Founded in 1972—Our 565th Consecutive Issue)

F E AT U R E S

October 2019 A Hatton-Brown Publication

Phone: 334-834-1170 Fax: 334-834-4525

www.southernloggintimes.com Publisher David H. Ramsey Chief Operating Officer Dianne C. Sullivan Editor-in-Chief Senior Editor Managing Editor Senior Associate Editor Associate Editor

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out front: Florida’s R.J. Nathe & Sons, Inc. has been logging, and more recently chipping, since 1957.

Pictured from left to right, Joe, Jimbo, R.J., Patsy, Junior, Bill, Charlie and Chad, the Nathe family has added chipping to the mix and is also involved in beef cattle and orange groves. Story begins on Page 8. (Photo by David Abbott) Southern Stumpin’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Industry News Roundup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Machines-Supplies-Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 ForesTree Equipment Trader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Coming Events/Ad Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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SOUTHERN STUMPIN’

By Jessica Johnson • Sr. Associate Editor • Ph. 334-834-1170 • Fax: 334-834-4525 • E-mail: jessica@hattonbrown.com

CBI Rolls Out The Red Carpet kay, I am going to just come out and say it—I sort of hate the fall season in the south. David Abbott is instantly regretting throwing his column over to me with that doozy, but stay with me here for a second. And by sort of I mean I totally hate the fall season in the south, and it is 100% about the weather.

It’s decidedly not really ever “fall” where SLT is headquartered in central Alabama, thanks to temperatures at the above 90° mark in October. I mean, I watched an elementary school football practice get canceled at the end of September because it was too hot, with the heat index over 110° in the afternoon, for the boys to be outside in pads runAttendees came from all over the world to see the new grinder from CBI. ning around. That doesn’t make me want to wear a cozy sweater, get a hot coffee and go stomping around a pumpkin patch.

Now, there’s one thing about the fall season that I absolutely love: Football. I grew up in a household were Saturdays were for college football games and Sunday was dominated by the NFL. More than once I can remember my birthday in early February being overshadowed by the Super Bowl. Thankfully, by October the meaty part of college football is about to begin and my beloved Crimson Tide, after looking not quite their usual NFL quality best, are ready to show what they are really made of with conference games and, God willing and the creek don’t rise, a spot in CBI gave customers a chance to look at machines up close alongside factory engineers. the CFP. So, by October I can kinda, sorta get over my aversion of melting from summer into second summer, I mean fall, because at least the good games are on—in the air conditioning.

Roll tide!

So, imagine my surprise when the invitation for someone from Southern Loggin’ Times to visit Newton, New Hampshire in late September arose as part of the 2019 CBI Factory Forum. New England in the fall?

Where it is actually fall? Yes, please!

Temperatures were a bit brisk in the morning, and once it hit high noon with full sun, the hottest it got was 61° (and that wasn’t a southern 61°, where it really felt like 75°, it was an honest to goodness 61°).

The star of the show, the new 6400CT horizontal grinder Over two days, CBI hosted deal-

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ers, customers and others in the industry from around the world at its headquarters for seminars, factory tours, live demonstrations and a little fellowship in the place where the leaves actually start to change color in late September.

The star of the show was the new CBI 6400CT horizontal grinder, engineered for resiliency when grinding contaminated demolition debris, whole trees, storm debris, slash and stumps. CBI Engineering Manager Nate Fuller says when his team first began to design the new generation of machines, ease of service and overall versatility were incredibly important to them.

Where it used Nate Fuller and his to take 40 hours infant son to swap rotors to take the machine from being a chipper to a grinder, with the cassette style rotor, a CBI 6400CT can switch from a chipper to a grinder in about four hours.

To make maintenance easier, Fuller and his team took all the regular service items (like the hydraulics and filter racks) to ground level—eliminating the need for a mechanic on a ladder for the routine items.

In addition to the new 6400CT grinder, the annual event also demonstrated the CBI log and stump screw, designed to split wood up to 7 ft. in diameter and up to 20 ft. in length into more manageable-sized material to be further processed, as well as the Magnum Force 6800CT horizontal grinder and Magnum Force 5800BT portable upswing grinder.

The day of demos and presentations ended with the “Golden Grizzly” awards reception and dinner, where CBI paid homage to its hard working dealer partners around the world who made an impact in their respective communities. Following the awards, attendees danced the night away on a patio in the perfect New England fall SLT weather to live music.

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Living Legacy ■ R.J. Nathe is still going strong, as is his family’s multigenerational, diversified business.

On the day SLT visited, the Barko loader fed the chipper a tree with a beehive. Many stings ensued.

David Abbott DADE CITY, Fla. child of the Great Depression, R.J. Nathe, 84, has been in logging, one way or another, ★ for well over 60 years—closer to 70, truth be told. He ran a chain saw five days a week for, in all, 34 (and a half) years, he says. The vast majority of his chain sawing days took place prior to January 15, 1986. That was the day when a tree fell on Nathe, crushing his leg. He stayed in the hospital for 61 days; he should have stayed longer, he now admits: “I came home too soon.” He underwent 10 major surgeries to rebuild his leg with bone from his hip and skin and muscle grafts from both legs. “The doctor said, ‘You can thank the wars we’ve had for me being able to do this,’” R.J. recalls. The procedure had been pioneered by field medics finding ways to treat the damaged limbs of wounded soldiers.

The doctor was not optimistic, though, and warned his patient plainly of his low expectations. “This is the worst part of my job, but somebody’s got to do it,” he told the life-

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long logger, who was then in his early 50s. “You need to know that you will never walk on that leg again.

I’m sorry, but it will never happen.”

R.J. did not share his physician’s pessimism. “I said, ‘No, sir, you don’t know who you’re talking to.” Some 33 (and a half) years later, when Southern Loggin’ Times visited the R.J. Nathe & Sons, Inc. logging crew on a dry morning in late July, R.J. was walking the woods with scarcely a limp. He still can’t bend the leg all the way and says the nerves are dead from the knee down, but that doesn’t stop him. Not only did he walk again

but, after spending about a year recovering from that accident, he even went back to running a chain saw for a few more years.

R.J. started the company he now co-owns with his wife and sons on October 7, 1957. He had just turned 22, but he was already a kind of a veteran in the woods. His own dad had already logged for 28 years, and R.J. had started riding in log trucks at age 7. “I just never left,” he says. He was driving a homemade skidder by the age of 10, and when he was big enough he started felling with a cross cut saw: “We

John Deere skidders work together with a Tigercat, but the Nathes still have a few Franklin cable machines for rough ground.

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called it a gator tail. Then dad bought a Homelite chain saw and I could just see us getting rich,” R.J. chuckles at the recollection.

After his dad retired, R.J. and his cousin Walt Gude briefly got out of logging and tried to make a go in the land clearing business. “But every little piece of land we cleared always had pine trees on it, so first thing you know we was back to logging,” R.J. recalls. They ran about 13 loads a week of short logs with chain saws, a straight truck, front end loader and a boom truck with a cable.

Much like their father, R.J. Nathe’s five sons started following him to the woods when they were young, and learned to drive skidders by their tenth birthdays. Today all of them still work for the family business one way or another. Oldest brother Robert Nathe, Jr., 59, runs a feller-buncher.

Next is Bill Nathe, 58, who is Vice President of Tall Timber Cattle & Grove, the family’s cattle operation.

James Nathe—everybody knows him as Jimbo—is 54 and serves as President of R.J. Nathe & Sons, Inc., and as business manager over timber procurement, while also operating equipment and driving trucks. “Jimbo is now the engine driving the train,” his mother Patsy says. “He’s the force

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Back row, left to right: Joe Nathe, Damian “D.J.” Arnold, R.J. Nathe, Robert Nathe, Jr., Jimbo Nathe; kneeling in front, from left: Nick Haberle, Chad Nathe

Three Tigercat feller-bunchers get the job done.

Left to right: Charlie Nathe, mechanic; Robie Ward, secretary; Bill Nathe, cattle operation; Patsy Nathe, mom, secretary, treasurer, CFO, and the real boss according to her husband and kids

that gets everyone going and keeps everything running.” Joe Nathe, 51, runs the chipper, while the baby of the family, Charlie, 46, is the company’s shop mechanic who also runs a portable Wood-Mizer custom cut sawmill and helps his big brother Bill with the cattle when needed. “These five boys have never worked one day for anyone else,” R.J. says with just a hint of pride in his voice.

Besides their five sons, R.J. and Patsy have a daughter, Irene, who is also married to a logger, Donny Johnson.

For his part, R.J. is officially Senior Vice President of R.J. Nathe & Sons, where he still works as a loader operator, and President of Tall Timber Cattle. His wife Patsy serves as secretary and treasurer for the family businesses and manages the office, where Robie Ward works as administrative assistant. Representing the third generation now in the woods, Charlie’s son Chad Nathe runs a cutter. D.J. Arnold and Nick Haberle drive the skidders.

Truck drivers are Eddie Harrin, Paul Heisler, Buddy Gibbs, Danny Hardin, and Matt Walker.

The Nathes still do some landclearing jobs as well; employee Chris Newsome handles that side of the business, with help from other members of the team when necessary. On the Tall Timber Cattle side, Bill manages 400 mama cows, a mix of Braford and Brangus crossed with Charolaise and Angus bulls, for the beef market. The family was also in the citrus business until just a few years ago, before a bacterial

Tigercat machines come from Tidewater in Maxville.

SLT SNAPSHOT R.J. Nathe & Sons, Inc. Dade City, Fla. Email: rjnathe@htwc.biz Web Site: www.NatheMasterLogger.com Founded: 1957 Owner: R.J., Patsy, Robert (Jr.), Bill, James (Jimbo), Joe and Charlie Nathe No. Crews: 2

disease spread by an insect the size of a gnat wiped out much of the state’s industry. “We had 200 acres of orange tree bearing groves, and that little bitty old bug killed every one of them,” R.J. says.

The Nathes are members of the Florida Forestry Assn. and the Southeastern Wood Producers Assn., where for 20 years Jimbo severed on the board, even as President once. The family is also no stranger to industry accolades. In 1996 it was Florida’s Logger of the Year and the Southeastern Regional Logger of the Year in ’97.

Employees: 17 Equipment: 6 skidders, 3 cutters, 3 loaders, a chipper, 6 trucks and multiple trailers Average Production: 75 loads a week Average Haul Distance: 100 miles Tidbit 1: Nathe clan matriarch Patsy Nathe was selected as a representative from Florida, among about 200 small business owners from around the country, to accompany George W. Bush in his first administration—and wound up on stage with him—when he introduced his tax cut proposal in 2001. On that occasion she was there not as a logger but on behalf of the Florida Cattle Assn., another industry in which the Nathe family works. And because of the work she had done there as well as with the Florida Forestry Assn., Patsy in 2008 was named Florida’s Agriculture Woman of the Year.

Tidbit 2: Meanwhile, family patriarch R.J. Nathe has the scars to show for his many decades in the woods, and not just from the time an accident nearly crippled his leg in 1986. A decade after he beat those odds, the elder Nathe was diagnosed with colon cancer—and he survived that, too, by 23 years and counting.

Production For a long time they specialized in swamp logging, performing select cypress cuts, and the family’s patriarch readily admits he still prefers swamp logging. “Then the government bought all the swamps and shoved us on the hills cutting pine,” R.J. laments. They started converting from swamp hardwood to hill pine in the ’90s. According to Jimbo, as competition for tracts grew increasingly fierce, they started looking for something else, and that led them to get into chipping in the early 2010s.

The crew averages 75 loads a week, but has broken 100 on occasion. Average haul distance is about 100 miles. They haul fuelwood to Deerhaven Renewable Energy, the biomass power plant in Gainesville; pine saw logs to Conifex (formerly Suwanee Lumber) in Cross City; chip-n-saw to Wood Mulch Products, a shaving plant in Lakeland, or to

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West Fraser in Maxville; poles to Robins Mfg. in Tarrytown; hardwood mat logs to Hartsock Sawmill, a division of South Eastern Timber Corp. in Lady Lake; and soft hardwood logs to Cross City Veneer.

They used to send pulpwood primarily to Oldcastle in Fort Green, but it hasn’t taken any in two months.

“Markets got bad for their product and they lost one of their major contracts,” Jimbo says. “We don’t know if they will come back online; they say they will but we don’t know for sure.” For now, they send pulpwood to One Mulch in Tarrytown, since there are no paper mills close enough to haul to. Jimbo explains, “Right now we are the closest to a paper mill we’ve been in five years and it’s still 100 miles away, and the mulch mill is 40 miles.”

Equipment Evolution “We eased into it with mechanization,” RJ. says. Their first cut down machine was actually an extra loader, a 920 Cat used in land clearing, to which they mounted an 18 in. shear head. “But the machine was narrow and the tires were narrow and we couldn’t keep it upright,” R.J. recalls.

“So we bought new tires with offset rims to make it wider and stable.”

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Chipper loads Peerless van.

with a 20 in. shear, and from there to Tigercat cutters.

In their swamp logging days the Nathes also skidded with three Bombardiers, track machines made in eastern Canada and sold by Tidewater Equipment. “They had sides built on them so they could wade deep water—ours would go in shoulder deep water, the sides were that high,” Jimbo says. “You crawled in from the top like in a tank, and in the deeper water it almost floated. Logs floated so it didn’t take much to pull them. That was before they started making

super wide tires for cable skidders.

Once we started running those super wides, they wouldn’t go as far as the Bombardiers, but they’d go far enough, and they were just cheaper to operate.” The Nathes still kept a track Bombardier as a backup for the wettest spots till they switched to hill logging.

Today, they have three Tigercat cutters (a 720E and two 720Gs). A Tigercat 620E and two John Deere machines, 648G and 648H, handle skidding duties, with three Franklin skidders (two 105 cables and a 170 grapple) still in reserve. Two 495

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Barko loaders, one feeding a Bandit 3590 chipper and one for logs, work full time, with a Tigercat 234 as backup. “Occasionally we split off into three crews if we have some small jobs,” Jimbo acknowledges.

“We have enough equipment to do that.” Usually they operate two crews, one for chipping and one for roundwood, but occasionally they all work from the same deck, as was the case when SLT visited. Dealers are Tidewater Equipment in Maxville for Tigercat and Quality Equipment in Lake City for Barko; the Deere machines were all bought used.

Operators handle routine maintenance at regular intervals, while Charlie Nathe handles most out-ofwarranty repairs at the family shop, with some help from independent contract mechanic David Bridges.

Trucks, Insurance The crew runs six Mack trucks— two 2019s, a 2018, ’14, ’08 and ’07—pulling a mix of Magnolia and OT log trailers and Peerless chip vans. They pre-load setout trailers and also hire two contract hauler companies, WBT Trucking and DMT Trucking.

“Insurance is our biggest obstacle today,” Jimbo says. He knows several truckers who have gone out of

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Set out trucks move loaded trailers through a field closer to the highway.

At a recent safety meeting are, from left, land clearing operator Chris Newsome and truck drivers Buddy Gibbs Jr., Eddie Harren, Matt Walker and Danny Hardin. Not pictured here, driver Paul Heisler was also at the meeting.

business because they couldn’t keep up with high insurance costs.

“We get up every morning and work to pay the insurance company,” R.J. jokes.

Robert, Jr., believes he knows what’s to blame for the ever-escalating rates: litigation. “Lawyers advertise that the insurance companies have got all the money,” he points out. “No. It’s the people they’re insuring who pay the bill.

Everything you buy comes on a truck, and it is costing you more because of the insurance and the lawsuits.”

Patsy adds, “You see all these billboards up and down the highway, and all the TV advertisements. We remember when a lawyer was not allowed to advertise. We didn’t have this kind of problem.”

Junior doesn’t blame the insurance companies, continuing, “The insurance company is in the business to make money. It’s going to cost $100,000 to go to court and fight, or they can settle for $40,000. It’s a business decision.”

The Nathes have their insurance through local agency StoutamirePavlik & Associates, Inc., in Monticello, underwritten by Bitco.

The crew conducts monthly safety meetings, and Jimbo notes that topics these days seem to focus on trucking issues due to all the liability. In the summer heat they also stress keeping hydrated.

“We don’t work on the ground as much as we used to, but we still do a little topping sometimes,” Jimbo says, with Husqvarna chain saws. “They have performed excellent for us.” They trim trucks with Stihl pole saws.

With deer hunting season fast approaching it will soon be time for the Nathe men to engage in their favorite…well, don’t call it a hobby. “It’s an obsession,” Jimbo laughs. “My wife says we’re crazy,” R.J. admits. “She says, ‘You work in the woods six days a week and can’t wait till the seventh day to get back in it. Wouldn’t you like to go to the mall instead?’ I tell her absolutely not!”

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Money To Be Made ■ Rural town and logger Charles Money are benefiting from new sawmill.

State-of-the-art facility accepts logs within a 50-mile radius of plant.

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By Patrick Dunning ABBEVILLE, Ala. he quiet town of Abbeville offers more to the timber industry than ★ meets the eye. Home to just above 2,600 residents and a single grocery store, “The City of Dogwoods” is blossoming with the addition of a sawmill that’s creating jobs and increasing sales tax revenue. The new mill is located at the site of the old West Pepperell textile mill that was vacated in 2008. Charles Money, 64, owner of Charles Money Logging, had the privilege of delivering the first load of logs to Abbeville Fiber Mill on July 8.

The mill is owned by Jimmy Rane, founder and CEO of Great Southern Wood Preserving, better known as the “Yella Fella,” who built the mill to provide lumber to his treating operations. Money has known Rane his entire life, both having grown up in Abbeville. He says Rane was good for Abbeville before the mill was even a thought. “He’s all about Abbeville; he’ll tell you he could live anywhere in the world but he loves Abbeville,” Money says. Rane asked Money personally to deliver the first load of logs to the mill so Money one-upped him and delivered two.

Rane started his business from humble beginnings, running a three-man fence post treating plant he took charge of after settling an in-law’s estate. He couldn’t tell the difference between a 2x4 and 2x6 when he started in the business, Money says of Rane, who was in law school at the time. “He did that for several years and he’ll tell you it wasn’t always good. It was a tough start but he continued to build and he’s gone up from there.”

Great Southern Wood now operates 14 treating plants mostly in the Southeast.

The Abbeville Fiber sawmill is running better every day, Money observes. What makes the process unique is Rane’s method of putting the little end of the log in first and making a fence post out of the tops. “It’s real modern, I’ve never

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seen anything like it,” Money says.

Rane also purchased log trailers and trucks and hired full-time haulers to drive out to tracts and pick up loads of logs with no larger than a 15 in. butt. Money has cut on Rane’s personal land and hauled logs to the new mill.

The $40 million facility currently employs 65 with plans to expand up to 115 people in the next year once the mill begins increasing production. Utilizing 40-45 truckloads of locally sourced logs daily, Money believes the mill will soon accept 80 to 90 truckloads of logs a day.

Family Ties Money is a third-generation logger, behind his grandfather, Joe Money, who started the family business in the mid 1940s hauling pine pulpwood using box cars to St. Joe Paper Co. A World War I veteran, Joe realized he didn’t have a plan upon returning to Abbeville following the war. He got on with a logging crew after a sawmill built near Shorterville increased the demand for timber and by the end of the Second World War, had his own business.

Joe’s son, Charles “Lindy” Money, 90, inherited the business in 1949, bought two short trucks from Joe and immediately expanded the business. At one point he was running 10 to 12 shortwood crews with over 150 people working for him.

“My daddy had been in the business all these years and quit because there wasn’t any stumpage around home,” Lindy says. “He said, ‘the timber is gone in this country,’ and how wrong was he.” Joe lived 15 more years after that statement and told Lindy, “’I lied to you.’”

Lindy says he never missed a day due to lack of stumpage. Georgia Southern Paper Co. opened a mill in Cedar Springs and made him a dealer. “They needed the wood and they paid what it took to get the wood,” Lindy says. “I’d like to see that happen again.”

Money says at 90 years old his father still has his wits about him.

“He used to be able to buy timber when nobody else could,” Money reflects. “He loves to sit out in the woods with my crews. This is what he’s always done.”

As former recreation director for the city of Abbeville and with a deep love for the game of baseball, Lindy had a stint in the Class AAdvanced league as an umpire in the Carolina League for two years during the 1950s. That’s the league known for producing some major league baseball greats and also the 1988 baseball movie “Bull Durham.” One of the most wellknown quotes from the renowned movie was: “This is a simple

Money runs eight Caterpillar skidders.

From left: Charles Money, Kevin Money, Willie Mills, Willie Grubbs

game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball.”

Lindy similarly lived by the code: you cut the wood, you skid the wood, you load the wood—“As long as there’s money to be made.”

The president of the Carolina League at the time, who was also the athletics director of Duke University, made Lindy a $500 a month offer to umpire. He declined, saying, “I was making more than that cutting pulpwood back home.”

Charles Money went to work for his father at 15 years old, and remembers being alongside him almost every day in the woods.

Lindy sold out to Canal Wood, LLC, in the late ’70s. It wasn’t long after, in 1981, when Charles Money Logging was founded. Beginning with just one crew, Money has stretched to as many as five crews, though says he’s more than comfortable at three.

Operations Money currently has three crews working on three different size tracts simultaneously. Spread throughout Henry County, his

SLT SNAPSHOT Charles Money Logging Abbevile, Ala. Abbeville, Ala. Email: cmlogging@comcast.com Founded: 1981 Owner: Charles Money No. Crews: 3 Employees: 18 Equipment: 9 skidders, 3 cutters, 3 loaders Trucks/Trailers: 9 trucks, 11 log trailers, 1 lowboy trailer Average Haul Distance: 45 miles Average Production: 120 loads/week (2 crews combined) Tidbit: Charles Money has harvested timber for 40 plus years in the Wiregrass region. He’s part of a community thriving from the addition of a new sawmill in Abbeville. A personal friend to Jimmy Rane, financier of the mill, Money was privileged to have one of his truck drivers haul the first load of logs. Money keeps himself busy, owning three businesses on top of his logging operation.

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biggest tract is currently a second and third thinning of 38-year-old slash pine on 140-acres in Carnegie, Ga. About nine miles from Charles’ office is another tract of first and second thinning of pine pulpwood.

Southern Loggin’ Times visited Charles Money Logging in September at his smallest tract, right outside city limits in Wills Crossroads on 15 acres, harvesting pine pulpwood under a first thinning prescription. The flattest part of the tract is used as the loading deck, but is scattered with subtle hills.

Money confers with company forester Homer Willis. “I’m in and out of the woods every day and look at most the wood we buy,” Money says. “Homer does all of our landlines and buys the wood, he even helps look after the crews.”

All land is contracted through private landowners, Money says he never cuts for somebody he hasn’t cut for before.

The three crews average 120130 loads a week. Crewmen on the roster includes foreman Kevin Money, Willie Mills and Willie Grubbs; foreman Foy Turner, David McCray, Tyler Spann and Willie Davis; foreman James Spann, Keith Smith, Calvin Nunnally and Travis Ricks.

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Among the eight truck drivers, Johnnie Mills and Willie Williams have both driven 30 years. Mills personally drove the first load of logs to Rane’s sawmill. Other truck drivers include Jeff Chitty, Eric Williams, Allen Money, Scott Lehr, Jeremy Prise and Morris Jackson.

Along with their newest buyer at Abbeville Fiber mill, Charles Money Logging hauls most of its pine sawlogs 70 miles to Interfor in Preston, Ga. The second farthest

Money has a good relationship with his equipment dealers.

Pulpwood logs are hauled 57 miles to WestRock in Cottonton.

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drive, 50 miles, is to Rex Lumber Co. in Graceville, Fla. M.C. Dixon Lumber Co. of Eufaula, a 26-mile haul, receives sawlogs frequently and WestRock of Cottonton accepts pulpwood. Money says his company does most of its own hauling, although they do contract truck drivers occasionally.

Caterpillar makes up a large portion of Money’s woods equipment inventory, including: a ’13 525C Caterpillar skidder, ’14 525C Caterpillar skidder, four ’15

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525C Caterpillar skidders, ’18 525C Caterpillar skidder, ’18 525D Caterpillar skidder and ’15 648C John Deere skidder. Fellerbunchers include a ’05 Tigercat 720B, ’13 John Deere 843L, and ’15 Caterpillar 563C. Two ’15 model John Deere 437D loaders and a ’12 Caterpillar 559B loader complete the lineup.

He deals with Coffman International in Dothan for his truck inventory. Caterpillar woods equipment is handled through Thompson Cat in Dothan, John Deere machinery is equipped through Flint Equipment Co. and Tigercat through Tidewater out of Evergreen.

Money runs nine trucks (two ’05 Macks, and seven International, two ’19, two ’15, two ’11 and two ’07). Behind it are 11 Pitts trailers, (six ’15 models, two ’16 models, two ’18 models and one ’17 model lowboy).

Money’s administrative office also houses the maintenance shop, servicing all equipment. Money changes oil every two months, using Delo 400 for the last 40 years. “We used Delo 400 for as long as I can remember and I’ve never had a single issue.” Money favors Ursa hydraulic oil when needed.

Twenty-year employee Robert Sanders is the mechanic. Glenda Roberson handles the bookkeeping at the office.

Truck insurance is with Wiregrass Insurance in Eufaula. Equipment insurance is through Singluff United Insurance in Dothan. Every Friday Money holds safety meetings with his crews out on the tracts at the back of his Ford pickup.

Money is more than just a logger to the community. He co-owns a Ford dealership run by his two sons, Mills Money and Mathew Money; a floral shop his wife, Jane Money, runs named The Flower Pot; and a restaurant called Money’s Grill, located in the heart of downtown Abbeville.

Charles Money Logging isn’t the only business benefiting from the startup of the sawmill. Sales tax revenue has increased 15-20% since they first started turning dirt at the intersection of U.S. 431 and Alabama Highway 27. “The hotel has stayed full out there,” Money says.

“It’s helped our business for sure, it’s helped everything. He never slows down,” Money says about Rane. “He’s done a lot for this town that can’t be repaid.” Rane refurbished the square in the downtown sector of Abbeville, giving it a vintage 1950s feel. Antique signs can be seen everywhere. “He’s the man.

And he’s proud of where he’s from.”

The city has much to look forward to, and Money is just a hometown fellow who’s happy to have a little SLT bit to do with the progress.

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Step By Step ■ Diverse land clearing tree service Sun State Tree makes mulch with CBI grinders.

By David Abbott LONGWOOD, Fla. Sun State Tree Service, ★ Inc., provides tree removal and arboricultural services to customers in central Florida. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. The tree service includes disaster recovery crews, which have mobilized to clean up after hurricanes deemed natural disasters in locales as far west as Texas and as far north as New York. There is also a land clearing division, removing trees and grinding debris for site developers and contractors. A wood recycling division manufactures mulch at a SOPF (source-separated organic processing facility) or wood yard. At its headquarters, Sun State Tree also houses a sister company, Sod Express Nursery, a retail store that sells trees and landscaping materials, mulch, rocks, top soil, and which offers landscaping services from installation to maintenance.

Sun State Tree operates a wood yard in Orlando, where other tree service and land clearing companies bring their wood debris. “We want to be centrally located because the work is centralized in the city where people are doing urban tree removals, from mom and pop companies to big national companies,” according to Greg Smith, executive officer at Sun State Tree. “They see a wood yard centrally located where they can drop off, and it saves them gas, time and money.” Sun State Tree converts that material into mulch, chips and fines; screens it, dyes it and supplies it to local mulch distributors, largely for

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animal bedding and playgrounds.

On the industrial land clearing side, Sun State Tree uses Komatsu excavators to push down trees into piles. The excavators then feed CBI grinders palm trees, oak trees and root balls. All the while, Case wheel loaders move piles toward and away from the grinders to be screened or loaded into walking floor trailers. The company owns and leases several Kenworth and Mack trucks to transport material to customers or back to its wood yard.

“There is no byproduct anymore,” Smith notes. “Everything gets used.

A lot of innovations have opened up now that wood has become a commodity again like it was 100 years ago. We are looking into different ways to recycle it and to keep it 100% organic.”

Other avenues Sun State Tree has explored include mixing dirty mulch with soil. “It’s in most of the topsoil you see in Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Lowe’s,” Smith says. “Dave Shelly is a big provider for that industry. He has helped us out a lot and we’ve helped him, so there is a synergy involved.” For the future, the company is also looking at biofuels, pellet production, and enzymatic technologies that produce cellulosic ethanol. “We’ve looked into using bio-generators to burn dirty mulch or wood chips to generate electricity. It’s expensive but one little yard like ours could produce maybe 5MW.”

Early Days Owner Randy Nellis started Sun State Tree as a lawn maintenance and landscaping company in 1992.

When some customers asked for

CBI grinder is mobile on tracks at the wood yard and at development sites.

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friends to work in storm debris cleanup. He made enough money to see a future for himself and his family in the arbor industry.

“It’s a bit ghoulish when you think about the money made off someone else’s misery,” Smith admits. “But it is a fact of life; when an extreme event like Andrew happens, part of our service is to clean up after it so communities can rebuild and recover.”

An idea struck Nellis: he would start a tree service to educate homeowners about the benefits of taking care of their trees by trimming every few years, removing bad trees and stumps, and planting instead something more viable. “There is a profit, but it was more about informing the public about arboriculture and minimizing storm debris,” Smith says.

In his late 20s then, Nellis had no formal education in forestry but he had already owned several businesses, like steam cleaning and lawn maintenance. Smith says, “He had always been shrewd enough to take the right risk. We’ve won and we’ve lost but it’s his resolve that’s always pushed us forward teaching us to not give up or quit.”

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tree trimming or removal, Nellis hired a few of his friends, who already did tree climbing for other companies, to come help him on their off days. When Hurricane Andrew hit, he went south with four

For Nellis, mulching was an extension of the landscaping company, a way to get rid of wood as an alternative to municipality disposal cost.

“Taking wood to the dump for them to throw it in a pile in a landfill, it’s a waste,” Smith says. Why pay to dispose of material that could instead itself generate revenue? That was a plus, but it wasn’t the point for Nellis.

He wanted the wood to be used for

Sun State partners with contractors to clear urban development sites.

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something. “We don’t make a lot of money off of it,” Smith says. “We make just enough to pay for equipment, fuel, employees, and the breakdowns that come with it, and we barely ride in the black.”

Nellis and his son Thomas bought their first Morbark 1200 tub grinder mainly to chip excess wood from tree jobs. “Then other people started to ask if we could chip their wood, but we could only do ours,” Smith says.

“So we started a bigger operation across the street from our business.”

Once again, a natural disaster gave Nellis the inspiration for the next evolution of his company. During the cleanup in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Sun State Tree first sent its grinders to be utilized in debris mitigation sites in Louisiana. “They went through almost two million yards of debris just in the one part of Slidell and Baton Rouge where they were,” Smith says. After, Nellis decided to invest in more and bigger grinders.

In hindsight, the investment was, perhaps, a good move at a bad time.

Fortunately for others but unfortunately for Nellis, it turned out there were no more hurricanes to speak of for several years following Katrina.

Coupled with the downward trend in the economy during that time, the situation forced Nellis to restructure. He lost a few grinders but kept key personnel. “We had these million dollar pieces of equipment sitting around doing nothing and we had to find something for them to do,” Smith recalls. He and Nellis soon hatched a plan to diversify.

Following the same logic that led Sun State Tree to add grinders in the first place, Nellis started a new division aimed at helping land clearing companies dispose of their wood debris. “They had been throwing it away and we could save them 4060% of their disposal cost just by grinding on land clearing sites,” Smith explains. He started contacting site developers; one of the first was the Briar Team, a company Sun State

Tree still partners with today. “The industry laughed at us at first and said we were crazy,” Smith recalls. “They said we can’t do it for this cost. I asked them to take a chance.” That marked a turning point for Sun State Tree. Now the grinders could work all year round: in mulch season, hurricane season and land clearing and site development in any season.

CBI For the plan to work, though, the Sun State Tree team knew they

would need a grinder capable of handling the hard work and that could be easily transportable and mobile on different job sites. CBI horizontal grinders, they determined, fit the bill.

“It has its own tracks so it’s like a big remote control car,” Smith says.

“Once we pull it off the lowboy and wheel it to where the job is, boom, we are in action.”

Dealer Power Screen of Florida introduced Sun State Tree’s team to CBI. “They said, ‘We have a grinder for you, and we hear good things about it,’” Smith recollects.

Power Screen came out to demo a CBI unit for them. Nellis’ son Thomas, who has been running grinders since he was 20 years old, said, “I like this, this is what we need.” That was four years ago, and they haven’t turned back since.

Sun State Tree still has Diamond Z and Morbark tub grinders that Thomas says are all useful in other ways, but the CBI horizontal grinders have proved the most effective for Sun State Tree’s purposes. The company now has three SLT CBI machines in operation.

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Never Judge People By Their Relatives.

Remember, that greener grass across the fence may be due to a septic tank issue.

IT’S NOT THAT YOU’RE GETTING OLD; IT’S JUST THAT YOU’RE OUTLIVING THE WARRANTY.

You Never Appreciate What You Have Until It’s Gone. Toilet Paper Is A Good Example.

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promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.

Finally! I bought a new pair of shoes with memory foam insoles— no more forgetting why I walked into the kitchen.

DON’T LET YESTERDAY TAKE UP TOO MUCH OF TODAY.

AND Most people are about as happy as they make JUST LIKE up their minds to be.

THAT, 1969 WAS 50 YEARS Coincidence is when AGO If you’re paying $3 a bottle for smart water, it isn’t working.

God chooses to remain anonymous.

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INDUSTRY NEWS ROUNDUP As We See It: The State of the American Loggers Council

By Danny Dructor This year the American Loggers Council celebrates its 25th Anniversary. Over the past quarter century, we have overcome significant

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challenges and today we have become recognized as the premier organization representing independent logging contractors. We have gained respect not only from our peers in the

industry, but the policy makers who make the decisions in Washington that will have an impact on all of our logging businesses.

Since 2011, the ALC has embarked on a comprehensive strategic planning process that has continually helped us define who we are as an organization, where we are, and where we should be headed. The following is a review of our recent accomplishments as a result of this effort: The state of the American Loggers Council is strong, but we’re always working to do better. l The ALC has met or exceeded yearly targets for new memberships and sponsorships, and we continue to work on recruiting new voting memberships. l The ALC continues to develop programs that benefit not only our membership, but those sponsors who have supported us over the years. Examples include the rebate programs being offered from Peterbilt and Western Star and the ongoing development of a survey that all of our sponsors should find of value. l We have established a new ALC advisory subcommittee to encourage more participation and engagement among our sponsors,

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which gives our sponsors more opportunities to better understand their markets and logging business trends. l The ALC has sponsored programs and established new partnerships to serve the logging profession, such as TEAM Safe Trucking and ALC Master Logger Certification to improve log truck safety and professional logging standards, respectively. l Thanks to our members and sponsors, the ALC’s finances have grown and become stable to allow the association to remain responsive to timely issues and actions. In recent years, the ALC has maintained reserves, though new funding sources will be required to ensure we can continue to support all our programs.

Advocacy: The ALC has increased its advocacy efforts on issues important to loggers, becoming an active participant on Capitol Hill, and working with both Republicans and Democrats. l Attendance for the ALC’s annual Washington DC Fly-in continues to increase, with 81 attendees in 2019. l We recognize the importance of working across the aisle, and secured bipartisan, bicameral sponsors for key legislative priorities including the Safe Routes Act and the Future Careers in Logging Act. l ALC members actively engage with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Department of the Interior. l The ALC is an active member of the Federal Timber Purchasers Committee and is partnering with the U.S. Forest Service on its forest products modernization efforts to better meet the needs of loggers. l To support our advocacy efforts, the ALC has partnered with Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities to enable loggers to contact their congressional representatives with a couple clicks.

Communications and outreach: The ALC is reaching more people to promote our organization, get more loggers engaged on the issues, and to support our sponsors. l Our Facebook page now has over 90,000 followers, reaching 300,000 Facebook users per month on average. l We have launched an Instagram page to reach more people on the fastest-growing social media platform. l The ALC distributes a monthly electronic newsletter, featuring our regular “As We See It” col-

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umn that is published in major industry publications. l We have increased our presence in the news media through the distribution of press releases that have been picked up by the Associated Press and hundreds of newspapers across the nation. l The ALC has increased its grassroots outreach by appearing in logging shows and conferences throughout the nation, including the Oregon Logging Conference, Loggers Expo in Bangor, Me., Loggers Plus Expo in Bloomsberg, Pa., Sierra Cascade Logging Conference in Anderson, Calif. and others 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.

Alamo Group Acquires Morbark From Stellex Stellex Capital Management, a middle market private equity firm, has entered into an agreement to sell Morbark, LLC, a leading manufacturer of high-performance equipment and after-market parts for the forestry, recycling, tree care, sawmill, land clearing and biomass markets, to Alamo Group for $352 million. The sale includes all assets and operations of Morbark and its affiliate brands.

Founded in 1957 and based in

Weiler Forestry Comes Of Age

There’s a new brand of logging equipment in the woods.

Weiler Forestry, Inc. announced the launch of Weiler purpose-built forestry products following its acquisition of Caterpillar’s purpose-built forestry business.

The product line consists of wheel skidders, track feller-bunchers, wheel feller-bunchers, and knuckleboom loaders.

Weiler Forestry facilities now include the former Caterpillar manufacturing plant and warehouse in LaGrange, Ga., a demonstration and training center in Auburn, Ala., the Prentice engineering and product development center in Prentice, Wis., and the legacy Prentice parts distribution center in Smithfield, NC. Founded in 2000, Weiler produces an extensive portfolio of paving products and has a long history of successfully manufacturing purpose-built equipment distributed through the Cat dealer network.

“Over the past several months we have been listening to forestry customers and dealer personnel. We are excited to implement product expansion plans quickly to better serve the forestry market,” comments Pat Weiler, owner and founder of Weiler, Inc. “I am looking forward to continuing to listen to our customers so we can offer them the products that best serve their needs through the best dealer network in the world.,” adds Bill Hood, VP of Weiler, Inc. Weiler Forestry will design and manufacture purpose-built forestry products, which will continue to be available through the Cat dealer network.

Weiler entered into a preliminary agreement with Caterpillar, Inc. in August 2018. Weiler stated it anticipates retaining the approximate 270 employees supporting the forestry business, adding to the nearly 500 employees currently employed at the Knoxville, Ia.-based manufacturer’s corporate office and manufacturing facility.

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Winn, Mich., Morbark and its affiliate brands, Rayco, DENIS CIMAF, and Boxer Equipment, produce a full line of brush chippers, stump cutters, mini skid steers, forestry mulchers, aerial trimmers, whole

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tree and biomass chippers, flails, horizontal and tub grinders, sawmill equipment, material handling systems, and mulcher head attachments for excavators, backhoes and skid steers.

“Together with Stellex, Morbark has achieved our strategic vision by greatly enhancing operations and implementing lean initiatives and best-in-class manufacturing practices that have resulted in new and

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improved redesigns, significant reductions in lead times, and improved delivery performance,” comments Dave Herr, CEO of Morbark. “We are grateful for our time with Stellex and look forward to the

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next chapter as part of Alamo, an ideal suitor given its operating philosophy that will allow us to maintain our brands, operations, and successful momentum while further enhancing various operational synergies and accelerating international growth.”

Since Stellex’s acquisition of Morbark in 2016, the company has successfully completed two acquisitions to expand its product offerings and geographic presence. In Octo-

ber 2017, Morbark acquired Rayco Manufacturing, a Wooster, Oh.based manufacturer of stump cutters, crawler trucks, forestry mulchers, multi-tool carriers, and aerial trimmers. In December 2018, Morbark acquired DENIS CIMAF, a Roxton Falls, Quebec, based manufacturer of industrial brushcutters and mulcher heads. With these acquisitions and other strategic improvements, Morbark has increased its head count by more than

200 employees and revenue has nearly doubled.

The acquisition, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2019, is subject to a number of conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals and other preclosing requirements.

Upon closing of the transaction, which is expected in the fourth quarter, Morbark will become part of Alamo’s Industrial Division. Herr will continue in his role as Morbark

CEO, and Morbark’s day-to-day operations will remain unchanged.

Alamo Group is a leader in the design, manufacture, distribution and service of high-quality equipment for infrastructure maintenance, agriculture and other applications. Its products include truckand tractor-mounted mowing and other vegetation maintenance equipment, street sweepers, snow removal equipment, excavators, vacuum trucks, other industrial equipment, agricultural implements, and related after-market parts and services. The company, founded in 1969, has approximately 3,650 employees and operates 29 plants in North America, Europe, Australia and Brazil. The corporate offices of Alamo Group Inc. are located in Seguin, Tex. and the headquarters for the Company’s European operations are located in Salford Priors, England.

Enviva Gears Up For Lucedale Plant Enviva reports that in July the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Permit Board unanimously approved the air permit for the proposed wood pellet plant in Lucedale, Miss., which is the principal permit required to begin construction.

In addition, Enviva continues to evaluate a potential wood pellet production plant in Epes, Ala., along with other sites in Alabama and Mississippi, which would export wood pellets through the Pascagoula terminal.

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MACHINES-SUPPLIES-TECHNOLOGY John Deere TimberMatic

Building upon the positive momentum of the original launch of TimberMatic Maps and TimberManager, John Deere announces the expansion of the technology offerings to full-tree equipment, including feller-bunchers and skidders.

TimberMatic Maps and TimberManager provide loggers with the ability to plan work that needs to get done in a day. The map provides the precise location, estimated volume or mass, and up to two species of timber. As timber is moved, operators can update the map for improved team visibility. Loggers can also add items of interest to the digital maps such as points, areas and lines. These features are shared in real time with all crew members for a better understanding and opportunity to optimize job site awareness and production as a system of machines.

One of the biggest improvements over the former TimberNavi system is the accommodation of all map formats, ranging from a simple map drawn in by hand to an elaborate shape file or PDF file. The design

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of TimberMatic Maps also allows for standard satellite imagery or topography to be loaded directly through the JDLink cellular connection. With TimberManager, the online, cloud-based solution optimized for mobile devices, owners can create or alter map features and share updates to all machines in real time without the need to visit each machine and operator.

From the office, managers can access the data from the machines using a PC, tablet or mobile phone and follow the progress of the work site. Visit johndeere.com.

Tigercat E-Series 845 F-B

The new Tigercat 845E and L845E track feller-bunchers have been upgraded with several features to promote increased productivity and improved operator comfort. Enhancements include a new operator’s cab, a larger main hydraulic pump and a longer reach ER boom system.

The cab has been redesigned to optimize ergonomics and reduce incab noise levels. The new IQAN MD4 electronic control system interface includes an easy-to-use large color touch screen for machine monitoring and function adjustment. The new skyVIEW and rearVIEW camera systems eliminate the need for a skylight while improving operator visibility.

The 845E boom offers a longer 8.5 m (28’) reach and a tighter tuck for better performance in thinning applications.

The 845E model can be equipped with a range of Tigercat felling heads including a bunching saw or shear for smaller diameter timber, or the single post 5702 felling saw for larger trees and mixed diameter stands. Visit tigercat.com.

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2015 Deere 643L • $162,000 STK# LT668473 • 5,457 hrs

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COMING EVENTS October

February 2020

1-3—Mississippi Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Hilton, Jackson, Miss. Call 601-354-4936; visit msforestry.net.

19-23—Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers annual meeting, Naples Grand Beach Resort, Naples, Fla. Call 336-885-8315; visit appalachianhardwood.org.

2-4—North Carolina Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Hotel Ballast, Wilmington, NC. Call 800-2317723; visit ncforestry.org.

2-4—National Hardwood Lumber Assn. Convention & Exhibit Showcase, Sheraton New Orleans, La. Call 901-377-1818; visit nhla.com.

8-10—Arkansas Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Embassy Suites, Little Rock, Ark. Call 501-3742441; visit arkforests.org.

16-18—Tennessee Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Knoxville, Tenn. Call 615883-3832; visit tnforestry.com.

16-18—Texas Forestry Assn. annual meeting, The Fredonia Hotel, Nacogdoches, Tex. Call 936-6328733; visit texasforestry.org.

21-25—2019 SFI Annual Conference, Marriott, Richmond, Va. Visit sficonference.org.

November 6-8—Forestry Assn. of South Carolina annual meeting, Wild Dunes, Isle of Palms, SC. Call 803-7984170; visit scforestry.org.

March 2020 5-7—Southeastern Wood Producers Assn. annual meeting, Okefenokee Fairgrounds and Exchange Club, Waycross, Ga. Call 904-845-7133; visit swpa.ag.

6-8—Carolina Loggers Assn. annual meeting, Hotel Ballast, Wilmington, NC. Call 828-421-8444; visit ncloggers.com.

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.

September 2020 24-26—American Loggers Council annual meeting, Hilton Branson Convention Center, Branson, Mo. Call 409-625-0206; visit amloggers.com.

Listings are submitted months in advance.

Always verify dates and locations with contacts prior to making plans to attend.

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