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Great Surgical Debate

Five surgeons were taking a coffee break and discussing their work.

The first said, “I think accountants are the easiest to operate on; you open them up and everything inside is numbered.”

The second said, “I think librarians are the easiest to operate on; you open them up and everything inside is in alphabetical order.”

The third said, “I like to operate on electricians; you open them up and everything inside is color-coded.”

The fourth surgeon said, “I like engineers because they understand when you have a few parts left over at the end.”

The fifth one said, “I like to operate on lawyers; they’re heartless, spineless, gutless, and their heads and their butts are interchangeable.”

Phyllis Dillerisms

—Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. —Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance? —Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing. —The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public. —Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: eat out. —A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once. —I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them. —Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. —Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. —We spend the first 12 months of our childrens’ lives teaching them to walk and talk, and the next 12 years telling them to sit down and shut up. —Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room. —What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. —The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally poured gin in the steam iron. —His finest hour lasted a minute and a half. —Old age is when liver spots show through your gloves. —My photographs don’t do me justice. They just look like me. —Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle—“keep away from children.” —I asked the waiter, “Is this milk fresh?” He said, “Lady, five hours ago it was grass.” —The reason the golf pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing. —You know you’re old if they have discontinued your blood type. Sermons In Miniature

These messages were spotted on the signs of churches:

Can’t Sleep? Try Counting Your Blessings.

Honk If You Love Jesus. Text While Driving If You Want To Meet Him.

What Is Missing From CH—CH? UR.

Aspire To Inspire Before You Expire. Political Flow Chart You May Party In Hell But You Will Be The Barbeque! There Are Some Questions That Can’t Be Answered By Google. Every Day Above Ground Is A Good One. The Best Vitamin For A Christian Is B1. Adam Blamed Eve, Eve Blamed The Snake, And The Snake Didn’t Have A Leg To Stand On. Thou Shalt Not Steal The Copper From The AC Unit. Try Our Sundays. They’re Better Than Baskin-Robbins. To Be Almost Saved Is To Be Totally Lost. Try Jesus. If You Don’t Like Him The Devil Will Always Take You Back. Church Parking. Trespassers Will Be Baptized. Read The Bible. It’s User Friendly. Plus We Offer Tech Support Here On Sundays At 10:30. You Are Not Too Bad To Come In Or Too Good To Stay Out. Right or left doesn’t matter. It’s really God Cared Enough To Send The Very Best. up or down. Walmart Isn’t The Only Saving Place In Town. ATM Inside—Atonement, Truth & Mercy. Free Coffee, Everlasting Life. Yes, Membership Has Its Privileges. Forgive Your Enemies. It Messes With Their Minds. Don’t Be So Open-Minded That Your Brains Fall Out. God So Loved The World That He Did Not Send A Committee. Tomorrow’s Forecast: God Reigns & The Son Shines! If God Had A Refrigerator Your Picture Would Be On It. Can’t Sleep? Counting Sheep? Talk To The Good Shepherd. Read The Bible. It Will Scare The Hell Out Of You. Don’t Wait For Six Strong Men To Bring You To Church. Download Your Worries—Get On Line With God. God Help Me To Be The Person My Pet Thinks I Am. Prayer: Free Wireless Access. When God solves our Why Pay For GPS? Jesus Gives Free Directions. problems, we have faith Do Not Criticize Your Wife’s Judgment; Consider Who She Married. in His abilities. Don’t Give Up. Moses Was Once A Basket Case. When God doesn’t solve them, He has faith in Select Epitaphs our abilities. If you can read this, you’re standing on my boobs! I told you I was sick. I was hoping for a pyramid. Raised four beautiful daughters with only one bathroom, and still there was love. Now I know something you don’t. Here lies an atheist: all dressed up and no place to go. That’s all folks. (On the tombstone of Mel Blanc, man of 1,000 voices, including Bugs Bunny.) Here lies John Yeast. Pardon me for not rising. It’s dark down here. Go away! I’m asleep. I came here without being consulted and I leave without my consent. Kitten Knockout! She always said her feet were killing her, but no one believed her. Jesus called and she answered. The shell remains but the nut is gone. Here lies Clyde. His life was full…until he tried to milk a bull. Here lies Lester Moore. Four slugs from a .44. No Les, No More. Here lies the body of Deanna…Done to death by a banana. It wasn’t the fruit that laid her low, but the skin of the thing that made her go! I made some good deals and some bad ones. I really went in the hole with this one.

Three friends decided to go deer hunting together. One was a lawyer, one a doctor, and the other a preacher.

Locked and loaded, they were about to head for their designated stands when a big buck unexpectedly emerged from the brush, well within range. The three of them shot simultaneously. The buck dropped to the ground and all three rushed up to see how big it actually was.

Upon examining the deer they found only one bullet hole. Thus a debate followed concerning whose buck it was.

A few minutes later a game officer came by and asked what the problem was. The doctor told him their reason for the debate. The officer told them he would take a look and offer his opinion. Within a few seconds he said with much confidence, “The preacher shot the buck!”

They all wondered how he knew that so quickly, and the officer explained: “Easy. The bullet went in one ear and out the other.”

Snotty Receptionist Rebuked

Baptist Preacher Spin

A Baptist preacher in a small Southern town went to visit a member of the community and invited him to come to the church that he led.

It seemed that this man was a producer of fine peach brandy. He told the preacher that he would attend his church if the pastor would drink some of his brandy, and admit doing so in front of his congregation. The preacher agreed and drank up.

On Sunday morning, the man visited the church. The preach er recognized the man from the pulpit and said, “I see Mr. Johnson is here with us this morning. I want to thank him publicly for his hospitality this week and especially for the peaches he gave me and the spirit in which they were given.” The older man had an appointment to see a urologist for a prostate exam. He was a bit on edge because all his friends had either gone under the knife or had pellets implanted. The waiting room was filled with patients.

He approached the receptionist’s desk and gave her his name, noticing that she had a sour look on her less than attractive face.

In a very loud voice, she said, “Yes, I have your name right here. You want to see the doctor about impotence, right?” All the patients in the waiting room snapped their heads around to gaze at the now very embarrassed man. But he recovered quickly and boomed back at the receptionist: “No, I’ve come to inquire about a sex change operation, but I don’t want the same doctor who did yours.” The room erupted in applause!

Catchy Business Slogans

Heavenly Truths

—God doesn’t propose to judge a person until after death. So why should you? —We’re called to be witnesses, not lawyers or judges. —Be ye fishers of men. You catch ’em, He’ll clean ’em. —Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous. —Don’t put a question mark where God puts a period. —Forbidden fruits create many jams. —God doesn’t call the qualified; He qualifies the called. —God grades on the cross, not the curve. —Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers. —It’s easier to preach 10 sermons than it is to live only one. —When you get to your wit’s end, you’ll find God lives there. —God loves everyone, but probably prefers ‘fruits of the spirit’ over ‘religious nuts!’ —God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. —If God is your co-pilot, swap seats! —Don’t give God instructions, just report for duty!

—The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us. —The will of God never takes you to where the grace of God will not protect you. —We don’t change the message; the message changes us. —Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil: it has no point. —The best mathematical equation ever: 1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given Acme Plumbing: We Repair What Your Husband Fixed Morrow Mechanical: A Call To Morrow Is All It Takes Specialty Painting: Sure, We’re Expensive…But We’re Slow! Total Plumbing: Our Business Is Going Down The Drain Sensational Sprinklers: When We’re Finished, You’ll Be All Wet Tri-State Excavation: We Dig What You’re Sayin’… This is what happens when you give Red Bull to an overzealous woodpecker. Waste Disposal Services: Our Business Stinks…But It’s Picking Up Cosmic Construction Co.: We’re Proud Of Our Erection Bill’s Septic Service: Satisfaction Guaranteed Or 100% Of Your Product Back Martial Arts 2: Building Kids One Punch At A Time Quad Cities Dental Clinic: We Do Our Business In Your Mouth Dad’s Dog Food: We’ve Gone To The Dogs For 30 years Lawn service: Mow For Your Money Nail salon: If You Break It We Can Fake It Beauty salon: If You Don’t Look Good, We Don’t Either Spa: It’s Great To Be Kneaded! Electric service: We Are Shockingly Good At Watt We Do! Country of Israel: Size Doesn’t Matter Country of Egypt: Where It All Begins Answering Machine Message “I’m not available right now, but thank you for caring enough to call. I am making some changes in my life. Please leave a message after the beep. If I do not return your call, you are one of the changes.”

Three Men On A Hike

Three men were hiking through a forest when they came upon a large raging river. Needing to get to the other side, the first man prayed, “God, please give me the strength to cross the river.” Poof! God gave him big arms and strong legs and he was able to swim across in about two hours, but he was almost pulled under twice.

After witnessing that, the second man prayed, “God, please give me the strength and tools to cross the river.” Poof! God gave him a rowboat and strong arms and strong legs and he was able to row across in about an hour after almost capsizing.

Seeing what happened to the first two men, the third man prayed, “God, please give me the strength, tools, and the intelligence to cross the river.” Poof! He was turned into a woman. She checked the map, hiked a mile upstream, and walked across the bridge.

Congratulations Southern Loggin’ Times!

Today, we celebrate 50 years of excellence and industry leadership. Congratulations to Hatton-Brown Publishing Company and Southern Loggin’ Times for 50 years of integrity, editorial excellence, and unwavering dedication to the forest industry.

Your editorial staff do so much more than report on industry news, events, and product innovations. Your writers write about the lives of hardworking loggers, shaping the narrative of the men and women that drive our industry. We want to thank you for allowing us to honor this moment and join in the celebration of your hard work, commitment, and the dedication you share for the forest industry!

Creating Value Together

For more than a century, Komatsu has been creating value for its customers through manufacturing and technology innovation, partnering with others to empower a sustainable future where people, businesses and the planet can thrive together.

We value our customers, distributors, and shareholders for their partnership in serving the forest industry to make careers more fulfilling, our communities stronger, and to help our industry prosper.

As a leading manufacturer, we support our customers with world-class products including wheeled harvesters and forwarders, harvesting, processing and felling heads, track feller bunchers and harvesters, log loaders, forestry excavators, and dozers for virtually every application. Through our comprehensive distributor network our customers have trusted Komatsu to deliver proven forestry solutions and a range of heavy equipment backed with parts inventory and expert service from dedicated forestry professionals.

Our distributors are also proud to represent an outstanding lineup of forestry brands including Komatsu, TimberPro, Log Max, Quadco, Southstar, and more.

About Komatsu

Komatsu develops and supplies technologies, equipment and services for the construction, mining, forklift, industrial and forestry markets. For a century, the company has been creating value for its customers through manufacturing and technology innovation, partnering with others to empower a sustainable future where people, business and the planet thrive together. Front-line industries worldwide use Komatsu solutions to develop modern infrastructure, extract fundamental minerals, maintain forests, and create consumer products. The company’s global service and distributor networks support customer operations to enhance safety and productivity while optimizing performance. Komatsu.com

Maxi-Load

MAXI-LOAD PLATFORM SCALES

welcomes the opportunity to say Congratulations and Thank You to Southern Loggin’ Times. Fifty successful years speaks for itself regarding the leadership and the hard work of the entire staff. Thank You for developing the “Southern Logger’s Best Friend.” It is also the forestry equipment manufacturer’s best friend. Loggers like to read about loggers and no other publication covers this subject so well.

Maxi-Load was started in 1996 by a South Georgia swamp logger. It was the result of a search to control truck weights and to work in the wet and muddy conditions associated with swamp logging. At the beginning there was never a thought of selling scales. It was all about finding a solution that would work where we worked, be trouble free, and accurately control our truck weights. After the first unit was successful, word spread, and units 2 through 6 sold in the local area. In 1997 Maxi-Load ran its first advertisement in Southern Loggin’ Times. Southern Loggin’ Times put Maxi-Load in the scale business. The difference between being “Almost Loaded and Fully Loaded” is a whole lot of money. It is the conditions under which Maxi-Load started that support our statement “If You Can Load There – We Can Weigh There.” The initial requirement to work on a swamp logging job was also the foundation of a very durable and trouble-free product. That first scale built in 1996 still weighs trucks today. All day, every day. We have never tried to build the cheapest scale. Our objective has always been to build the best scale. Logging is a profession that requires a quality product. Several upgrades have been added over the years. We work constantly to improve the scale we build and to service the customers we have.

Each scale sold has brought new friends. Over the last 26 years we have dealt with some of the finest people on earth; 99% of them have been loggers. The help we have received from customers, other equipment manufacturers, dealers, and their sales representatives has been unbelievable. Vulcan On-board scales has partnered with us since the beginning.

Southern Loggin’ Times opens new doors each month. Thanks to all for all you do!

In 1804, a man named John Deere was born in Rutland, Vermont. Just 33 years later, Deere would start a company with a revolutionary plow fashioned from a broken sawmill blade. This humble start would go on to help America—and the rest of the world—grow for nearly two centuries.

John Deere’s journey, from boyhood to founder and president of John Deere, closely parallels the settlement and development of the midwestern United States, an area that the homesteaders of the 19th century considered the golden land of promise.

Early 1900s

The wild success of John Deere throughout the early stages of its growth as a business can be largely attributed to Deere’s ability to solve a crucial business problem in the Midwest—the inadequacy of their plows to handle the rich, heavy prairie soil.

After studying the problem John Deere fashioned such a plow in 1837, using the steel from a broken saw blade. Ten years after he developed this first plow, John Deere was producing 1,000 plows a year and he vowed: “I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me.”

Holding true to this commitment, John Deere spent the rest of the century developing cutting-edge machinery that transformed the brand from a one-trick pony into a well-known manufacturer of a full line of farming equipment.

Widening the Range

It was in 1935 that the John Deere Model DI tractors made their debut, John Deere’s first tractor purpose-built for industrial use. Hard rubber wheels, extra low road gear, and options such as a winch, made it a practical machine for a wide variety of non-agricultural jobs.

In 1949, John Deere released the machine that would take the logging world by storm: the “MC” crawler. The “MC” earned high marks from loggers due to its prowess in tough terrains such as steep slopes and soft soil.

Just under a decade later, John Deere introduced the 440 crawler, a precursor to the changeover to all yellow machines the following year. The 440 also featured an easy-to-operate, inside-mounted hydraulic blade.

At this point, an important development to note requires us to look back on the founding of Timberland machines in Woodstock, Ontario in 1947. They started as an independent company producing products for the logging industry. We say this because in 1961, shortly after the release of the 440 crawler, Timberland Machines released the Timberjack 200 series skidder. Available with a 61-horsepower Ford gasoline engine, the first articulated skidder to bear the Timberjack name had a suggested list price of $8,925.

Competing with this, John Deere changed the game in 1965 with the release of the 440 skidder. Before its arrival, wheeled skidders were little more than an engine in a frame. The 440 brought operator comfort into the equation to increase safety and productivity.

Then, in 1977, John Deere unveiled the 743 Tree Harvester, which combined the speed of rubber tires with the reach of a boom, allowing operators to harvest two trees a minute as it paved the way for today’s modern harvesters.

Growing Forward

At this point in time, the farming, and forestry equipment industry as a whole, was growing by leaps and bounds. Other companies, some of which bear names that are now household, began to populate the field. For John Deere, the development of these companies would soon become integral to their own business operations and partnerships. In 1986, Rauma-Repola Forest Machine Group was negotiating with Caterpillar and acquired 60% of the French manufacturer Cemet-Agrip and entered into a co-operation with Timberjack. Timberjack, which was born of the Timberland Machines that we learned of in the late 40s, was purchased by John Deere just three years later in 1989.

Feeling the heat, Rauma-Repola promptly re-purchased 100% of Timberjack back and renamed the group FMG Timberjack in 1990. In the following year, Rauma-Repola merged with Finnish company United Paper Mills and FMG Timberjack was attached to Rauma-group. FMG Timberjack soon regained its original branding as simply “Timberjack” in 1994.

Jumping ahead, John Deere later purchased Timberjack and Waratah in 2000. This addition brought new technology and R&D assets to the brand as well as solidified John Deere as the worldwide leader in forestry,

The 21st Century Approach

As the brink of the twenty-first century approached, John Deere began to emphasize a user-centric design approach to keep up with the changing times. In 1997, customer and dealer feedback was brought into the design process through the formation of dealer and customer advocacy groups, known as DAGs and CAGs. This user-centric approach to design was another John Deere first.

John Deere Today

To this day John Deere lives up to the legend by forging industrychanging innovation while fulfilling requirements and driving continuous improvement. Through growing challenges comes the company’s dedication to innovating while remaining committed to producing highquality machinery. This has made John Deere the leader in the forestry and logging industry, delivering customer-driven solutions for over 50 years.

Equipment like the John Deere 768L-II bogie skidder boasts the ruggedness and reliability needed in the woods with innovative technology to optimize productivity. Loggers gave their feedback and John Deere listened. The launch of Precision Forestry simplified the John Deere technology portfolio, making it easier for customers to select and adopt customized solutions based on their unique jobsite needs. And with the introduction of Intelligent Boom Control, John Deere redefined boom operations for enhanced precision and efficiency. This technology makes it easier to control all boom movements giving operators a new level of control over their logging operation and bottom line.

Since 1983, Bandit has manufactured equipment for a multitude of wood waste processing markets. The vision since the beginning is to build quality, highly productive, easy to maintain equipment providing years of dependable service. The commitment for quality, innovation, and dedication is instilled in every employee and is one of the main reasons why Bandit became an Employee-Owned Company (ESOP) in 2018.

A wide variety of products are available, including hand-fed and whole tree chippers, track forestry mulchers, horizontal grinders and slow speed shredders.

Bandit’s line of whole tree chippers includes drum-style chippers with capacities ranging from 20” to 36.” Each drumstyle chipper excels at pulling and compressing trees into the chipper with Bandit’s patented slide box feed system. This system makes the chipper easier to feed by reducing the need to re-position or remove material from the feed system. Additionally, Bandit drum-style chippers are designed to throw material at a greater velocity to fully load chip vans, ultimately reducing the number of trips to the dump site. Most of these drum-style chippers can be ordered as track and select models are available with loader and cab / loader options.

To further enhance Bandit’s line of whole tree chippers, in December of 2021 the announcement was made that Bandit would be purchasing the Trelan company. Trelan disc chippers have been manufactured since the late 1970s and are known to produce a high-quality paper chip. This product line addition has increased the diversity of the whole tree chipper line now offered by Bandit.

Depending on the area, Bandit’s whole tree product line is either directly supported by Bandit or a dedicated dealer. Bandit dealers invest substantial resources to support the Bandit products they represent. This involves dedicating parts, sales, and service personnel, in addition to investing resources into tools, trucks, machine inventory / parts, and more. This commitment ensures each Bandit customer will receive top notch aftermarket support.

To learn more about Bandit whole tree chippers or other products offered please visit www.banditchippers.com.

J.M. Wood Auction

Russ Wood of J.M. Wood Auction Co., Inc., looks back:

“Southern Loggin’ Times was founded in Montgomery in 1972, just three miles down the road as the crow flies from our corporate headquarters in Montgomery. My father, Malcolm Wood, was one of DK Knight’s first subscribers and he immediately realized the impact that a publication like that would have on the timber industry and in his own auction business. So when he inked a deal to do his first major logging equipment auction for “Dunham’s Log Hog” manufacturing in Bossier City, Louisiana, he reached out to Mr. Knight to help promote it. That auction was a great success and my father knew that the exposure through Southern Loggin’ Times played a major role in making it so. And as our business grew, we ‘danced with the one that brought us,’ relying upon Knight and his publication for exposure and marketing expertise as we conducted logging machinery auctions for equipment industry titans such as Garr Scott, Gene Taylor, Chris Cannon, Johnny Ward, Donald Knight, Ricky Callaway and more throughout the 1980s and on.

“My father passed away in 1990, and my mother, Brenda, was determined to not only defend his legacy but to grow it. One of her first hires was Garlon Gore, co-founder of KingPower Equipment, one of the first Timberjack forestry dealers in the Southeast. Mother recognized Garlon’s innovative spirit and character as a leader and she recruited him from ‘retirement’ when he sold his business in the 1990s. This hire eventually led to an even closer relationship between our company and Southern Loggin’ Times.

“Garlon was a relationship man. Plain and simple. And one of his closest relationships was with DK Knight and the SLT team. Garlon and DK worked well together, recognized opportunities as they presented themselves, and relied upon one another to see those opportunities manifest into results. One of our favorite memories of working with the DK and SLT team was the 1998 Southeastern Logging Expo in Baxley, Georgia. DK called us and wanted us to do an onsite auction at the expo and we agreed it was a great idea for both of us. We had a couple of local loggers and dealers that were excited to participate as well. It was going to be a drive-through auction that brought the equipment by the tent for the customers to bid. A few days before the auction it started raining and did not stop. We had to winch the machinery across the auction ramp because the skidders were sinking to the frame on the expo site!

“And mother’s dedication to growth, not only overall, but specifically in logging and forestry equipment, was reflected in two more hires in the late ’90s and 2000s. JD Gray, Vice President, and Trey Murphy, Forestry Division Manager, have been integral to our growth in this sector. JD had been with Mack Trucks for 20 years prior to joining our team. Trey had been a dedicated forestry representative with Pioneer Machinery and Yancey Caterpillar. JD and Trey have been responsible for winning many one-owner forestry and logging auctions across the Southeastern United States.

“Later, in 2006, Paul Leas called us on a Friday afternoon in August and asked us to come to Columbia, South Carolina the next week to discuss putting on an auction for Pioneer Machinery and Cat Financial. Our next phone call was to SLT to get the ad deadlines and mail dates to determine how much time we needed to market this properly. We sat down with the SLT team and layed out a marketing plan. The auction was huge success for all six of the Caterpillar dealers involved and Hatton-Brown helped us get it across the finish line.

“Advertising is a funny thing. It’s often hard to quantify its success. I remember one of my marketing professors at Alabama telling a story about William Wrigley, founder of the Wrigley Company in Chicago. He said something to the tune of, ‘I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted…I just can’t figure out which half!’ That stuck with me and I’ve remembered it often since I graduated and came back to work in the family business. But one thing is for certain: I know that our relationship with Southern Loggin’ Times works. Over the years, it’s been repeatedly obvious that we can set our clocks by the SLT mail date. When it hits its subscribers’ mail boxes, our phones start blowing up.

“The world is changing, and with it is changing the auction business and the publishing business. Both our company and Southern Loggin’ Times have evolved with the times, directing more and more focus to the internet. But our phones still start ringing when the latest issue of Southern Loggin’ Times drops, and we are proud to share a history of mutual success.”

Congratulations, Southern Loggin’ Times, on achieving 50 years of continuous publishing; it is truly a monumental achievement. Like your month ly subscribers, we, too, have enjoyed learning about the men and women who contribute daily to the growth and success of the southern logging market. Morbark celebrates its 65th anniversary this year, and we thought your readers might enjoy reading about what we were up to in 1972.

Several circumstances in the late 1960s led to the creation of Morbark’s signature product – the whole tree chipper. First, Dutch elm disease spread rapidly in major cities in the upper Midwest and southern Ontario. The disease had killed millions of elm trees worldwide by 1970. As a result, dozens of municipalities found themselves dealing with a challenging problem in the disposal of dead trees.

At the same time, a growing number of local and state governments, under pressure from environmental groups, were passing laws banning the open burning of debris generated in land clearing operations and construction projects. As a result, municipalities, tree care companies, and land clearing contractors were forced to turn to landfills to dispose of dead and downed tree trunks, branches, and stumps.

Urban tree companies were routinely using brush chippers to get rid of small trees and branches, but what was needed was a machine that could chip an entire tree to help them deal more effectively with dead elm trees. At this time, our founder, Norval Morey, began to think of the potential market for such a machine – not only those requesting it now but also for the production of in-woods chips that went into the making of building products like particleboard and flakeboard, and perhaps even pulp and paper products.

What they came up with was an apparatus that was well suited for handling bark-laden trees with broken and bent branches, trees with crooked trunks, and trees with leafy foliage. Moreover, this apparatus could crush

Morbark founder Norval Morey, with original Metro Chiparvestor whole tree chipper in 1972

and fold branches to the tree trunk without the branches springing back as they entered the chipper. The machine was issued a U.S. patent in May 1972 and would be come known as the Metro Chiparvestor. Eager to prove the machine’s metal, numerous demonstrations were arranged throughout the country for woodland owners and paper mill operations, and disbelievers soon became believers. The biggest mill customers were Westvaco, Weyerhaeuser, Georgia-Pacific, and Masonite. Private landowners welcomed whole tree chipping as well, as the value of their timber resource was increased, and the leftover condition of the land made it easier and more economical for landowners to reforest or convert the land to another use. This invention, now known as the Morbark Chiparvestor, has led to many logging and chipping practices still used today, an emphasis on whole tree utilization, and new markets for byproducts derived from wood waste processing.

Yancey Bros.

Yancey Bros. Co. History

Founded in 1914 by brothers Goodloe and Earle Yancey, Yancey Bros. Co. began as the Yancey Hardware Company, selling hardware, picks and shovels to government agencies for road construction. From their Peachtree Street location in downtown Atlanta, the brothers became the first dealer in the United States for the Adams Mule Grader, a predecessor of today’s motor grader which was pulled by eight mules.

The Nation’s First Cat® Dealer

In 1918, the Holt Manufacturing Company of Peoria, IL boasted that its Model 45 tractor could do the work of “40 mules . . . or 40 horses and countless humans.” Goodloe and Earle traveled to Peoria to ask Holt if they could represent the product in the southeastern United States. Unable to secure a demonstration tractor, Goodloe and Earle left Peoria with only a photograph of the Holt Model 45 and a price quote of $4,750 per machine.

Yancey’s first Model 45 delivery came later that year to Troup County, Georgia. Within 12 months Yancey had sold all of the Model 45s in Holt’s inventory, using only a photograph. When Goodloe and Earle returned to the Holt factory in Peoria the following year, they were given Holt’s first jobber’s contract.

In 1925 Holt merged with Best Tractor Co. to become the Caterpillar Tractor Company. Caterpillar’s records indicate that, based on the original 1918 agreement, “Yancey is the dealer with whom Caterpillar and its predecessor companies have had the longest business association.” Thus, Yancey Bros. Co. is proud to own the title of “The Nation’s Oldest Caterpillar Dealer.”

THE NATION’S OLDEST CAT® DEALER www.YanceyBros.com

Trax Plus

TraxPlus has been serving its customers since 2013. As one of the South’s largest new and used forestry equipment dealers and featuring equipment from the leading manufacturers in the nation in construction, forestry, mulching, and ag equipment, we strive to make your business more efficient and successful.

We offer a variety of equipment brands like Barko, Bandit, Sany, Denis-Cimaf, ASV, Lamtrac, Shearex, Rayco, FAE, Massey Ferguson and more. We also offer a full range of financing options, warranty, parts and service to support your equipment. Keeping your business running is what we do!

You can also find us at our now five locations: Hickory, Summit, Columbus, MS, Alexandria, LA, and Bessemer, AL.

“IT MEANS MORE” is a motto that both our customers and employees live by! Do not miss your opportunity to be a part of the TraxPlus family and always feel at HOME!

Quadco

A future based on quality

The Quadco Group is made up of three well-known industry leaders: Quadco, Southstar, and Log Max USA. The company that has brought you innovation since 1989 began manufacturing saw teeth and discs 33 years ago. We have a strong presence in the Southeast since the beginning with a parts warehouse and manufacturing/service facility in Lexington, SC. Our success would not have been possible without the help of loggers throughout this great region. Quadco designs its equipment taking into account the types of forests, size of the trees, soil conditions, maintenance, types of base-machines, etc. Forest conditions vary greatly from region to region and the uniqueness of the Southeast has helped us become better. Carbide teeth and bunching saw heads for the plantations, intermittent saw heads and 360-Rotates for the hills and the swamps, are all products that were designed with input from our valued Southern loggers. You keep our attachments ahead of the game and we thank you for that.

From modest beginnings in 1989, over time, Quadco has expanded both through new product development as well as through business acquisitions. Southstar, for example, with its range of heavy-duty processors from BC and New Zealand, was acquired in 2016. Log Max USA, distributor of Swedishmade Log Max heads, acquired in 2018, gave access to a whole new family of harvesting/processing heads. These novelties have enabled Quadco to expand its product line into each territory where forestry plays an important role.

With over 165 team members worldwide, we are poised and ready to help you. Our headquarters are in St. Eustache, Quebec (near Montreal). We have locations in Rotorua, New Zealand; Kamloops, BC; Lexington, SC; and Kalama, WA. All locations provide service, parts, and sales support for all brands. Heads are produced in St. Eustache and Kamloops and Cutting Tools in Quebec and South Carolina.

As our President and CEO Dan Webb so aptly puts it, the key to Quadco's success is our people, and the great products we sell and service. Everyone is proud to be part of this team made up of individuals dedicated to the forest industry.

As Keith Hicks, VP Cutting Tools Division, Lexington SC, puts it, “Quadco is a brand that we can be proud of. They really are an industry leader. The company is committed to the industry. It makes products the industry really needs - and they’re priced right. Quadco has been at it for over 30 years. They live and breathe it every day.”

Quadco is excited about recent steps forward, such as the new line of QPS teeth (Quadco Performance Series), the result of over 30 years of experience, and the most significant development in cutting tools in recent years, available in both steel and carbide. Quality, durable products perform longer and work harder, meaning lower operating costs for you the logger.

We look forward to being of service to you. Thanks to y’all. And thanks to Southern Loggin’ Times for 50 great years.

An early day Quadco disc saw (circa 1990) VS a recent model

Built To Work For The Bold

For nearly 50 years, loggers have relied on Wara tah Forestry Equipment for versatile heads that are proven workhorses in the woods. Whether it’s harvesting; processing; fell ing; delimbing; working in softwood, hardwood or mixed stands; Waratah’s lineup of 200, 400 and 600 Series heads are up to the challenge.

“Waratah continues to be a key player in the Southern logging market, especially with providing loggers with reliable and productive heads as they’ve transitioned to processing applications,” said Brent Fisher, product marketing manager for Waratah. “We understand the importance of getting everything you can out of every piece of wood. We’re proud to manufacture innovative products for our customers that do that and more.”

With factories in New Zealand and Finland, Waratah pioneered mechanized harvesting and manufactured the original red head. With a long history in the forestry industry, Waratah continues to build on its past to innovate for the future – manufacturing more productive heads, engineering products with parts that don’t quit and earning each customer’s trust every day.

It’s not surprising that bold loggers across the globe continue to choose Waratah for their operations. Because while the industry has changed over the years, Waratah has always been Built To Work® – supporting its customers so they can outsmart and outperform the others.

“Thanks to our loyal customers, we’re looking forward to celebrating our 50th anniversary next year,” Fisher said. “It’s exciting because we’re in a unique position to offer customers experience, expertise and innovation.”

For more information, visit Waratah.com.

Going the Distance Pitts Trailers Celebrates SLT

Southern Loggin’ Times first went to press in 1972, and just four years later, Andrew Pitts, Jr. built his first trailer. Pitts Trailers is proud to contribute to this special commemorative issue, sharing our story in celebration of SLT’s golden anniversary.

Quality

Currently Pitts Trailers is the largest forestry trailer manufacturer in the U.S., offering a full line of truck trailers, including log, loader and lowboy trailers. The family company built its reputation on decades of manufacturing durable, dependable forestry trailers, designed to perform in one of the toughest, most demanding industries. And it all started with that first trailer, built by hand in the woods of rural Pittsview, Alabama.

“The first customer was the Gas and Lumber Company of Eufalua, Alabama,” Andrew Pitts remembered in a 2016 interview. “I was in the trucking business then, hauling a lot of bark and sawdust to Georgia Craft down in Cottonton, Alabama. He asked me to get him a log trailer and I couldn’t find him one so we built him the first trailer in 1976.”

Pitts ordered the I-beams and the tubing, built the trailer, and took it down to Garrison. “He used it for 20 years and never did wear it out,” Pitts said. “We built about 12 in 1976, and then by 1983 or ‘84 we were in the full-time trailer business.”

Since its inception, Pitts Trailers has rooted the business in its founder’s ideal of building the highest quality products available. “I think we built a good product and we treated people right,” Pitts explained. “And if anything went wrong with anything we built, we made it right.” Innovation

Over the years, Pitts Trailers has also maintained a reputation for innovation, pulling the industry forward again and again. “I think the development of the Load Payin’ series was in strumental in the growth of the company,” recalled Jeff Pitts, Andrew’s son and current President, CEO and owner of Pitts Enterprises.

In 1994, the pioneering Loadpayin’ Series introduced a fully fabricated frame made of high yield materials with a continuous submerged arc welding process, making it possible to haul more wood and less steel, while maintaining the highest performance standards available in the industry.

“We borrowed that technology from the flat beds. Proving that it would hold up under a log trailer application was challenging, but now it accounts for about 85% of our production,” Jeff Pitts reported. Now the number one selling logging trailer in North America, the Loadpayin’ Series is available in multiple configurations to meet customers’ needs.

Pitts innovation struck again in 2003 with the Ultra Loadpayin’ Series, the lightest logging trailer in the U.S. for the largest hauling capacity to date. The lightweight fabricated mainframe is made of high yield steel with Domex ultra-light bolster. Like the original series, it is available in multiple configurations.

The most recent Pitts innovation, Lock ’N Go landing gear, was introduced in 2018 to significantly enhance operator safety and convenience. The four-pin auto-lock system allows a driver to easily ensure that both sides of the landing gear are securely engaged without circling or crawling under the trailer. It also helps secure the load and protect the trailer from unnecessary wear and tear.

Shortly after its inception, Pitts began producing lowboy trailers as well. Pitts’ Heavy Haul division delivers tier one quality at tier two pricing. Built with high yield materials and beam fabrication, Pitts’ Heavy Haul lowboys are de signed with both fixed neck and removable gooseneck (RGN) options.

Pitts Trailers is also the largest manufacturer of knuckleboom loader carrier trailers, making integral contributions to this paradigm shift in the industry. Pitts revolutionized loader carrier manufacturing with the development of the Crawler Suspension, providing the smoothest, most stable transport available.

The military-derived, patent pending design delivers rollover protection and improved on- and off-road safety with double the ground clear-

Founder Andrew Pitts (at far left and far right) and son Jeff Pitts through the years

ance of traditional spring single-point suspension. And the rocking beam construction eliminates spring bounce effect, protecting the loader from unnecessary impact and vibration. Value Andrew Pitts possessed the vision to launch a business founded on high quality, and Jeff Pitts expanded that vision through groundbreaking innovation. Together father and son leveraged their individual strengths to grow Pitts Trailers into the 9th largest trailer manufacturing company, all while maintaining a mutual focus on providing value to the customer. Affordability matters, and Pitts has a long history of getting the job done without breaking the bank. Rugged and dependable, Pitts Trailers are built to withstand the toughest heavy-duty hauling but at a reasonable price point, due in large part to an extensive network of trusted dealers. Often family-owned businesses, these dealer partners have helped Pitts Trailers expand across the U.S., offering customers local support they can trust.“It’s certainly our dealer network that has been responsible for our tremendous growth,” Jeff Pitts emphasized. “Equally so with our team members that we have on board— incredible people. And people are what separate us from our competitors.” “Well, your company’s not any better than your employees,” Andrew Pitts agreed. In appreciation, Pitts introduced a new employee stock option program, in 2014, offering dedicated team members personal investment in the company. “You’ve got to have good people to last.” Southern Loggin’ Times certainly has lasted, with five decades of insightful reporting — three of those decades with Pitts Trailers on the back cover, incidentally. The entire Pitts Enterprises team congratulates Southern Loggin’ Times on their golden anniversary, and as the old slogan aptly says — “You’re ahead with a Pitts behind.”

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