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Vol. 44, No. 5
(Founded in 1972—Our 512th Consecutive Issue)
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out front: Father/son team Mike (right) and Justin Justice (left) describe their partnership as a balanced one that prioritizes the well-being of equipment and employees above attaining high production numbers. Story begins on PAGE 10. (Jessica Johnson photo)
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SOUTHERN STUMPIN’ By David Abbott • Managing Editor • Ph. 334-834-1170 • Fax: 334-834-4525 • E-mail: david@hattonbrown.com
Keegan’s Wish ’ve told my kids that they are the winter. In 25 years with Makespoiled—spoiled by all the A-Wish Vermont, Judy says, superhero movies they get to they’ve never had a kid who wantsee. Every superhero has a big ed to be a logger for a day. budget live action movie franIt was by pure chance that, chise now, with actors who can while camping at Island Pond, actually act and special effects Judy saw a man wearing a t-shirt that make it all look real. And with the Moulton Logging logo. they get several of these movies The man was Alex Glover, an every year. They just don’t know employee of local logger Britt how good they’ve got it. Moulton (no relation to Judy). Back in my day (I guess this is Judy and her husband knew of the my version of my grandparents’ other Moulton, but it was Alex having to walk uphill barefoot in who helped get them in touch, the snow to school), movies like after Judy explained what she had that looked cheap and only came in mind. out every three or four years. We Britt Moulton—his friends call had the Hulk, but only on TV, and him Tim—is the owner of Moulthen it was just a guy in green ton Logging, Inc., based in West paint flexing body builder poses Charleston, Vt. Moulton, 57, was (I still loved it, though). Until I one of the regional finalists for was almost 11, there was only one the 2015 FRA National Outstandreal live-action superhero movie ing Logger Award. As soon as series: Superman. Glover approached him with the The Superman of my childidea, Moulton readily agreed to Chris Fife, left, from Plum Creek; logger Tim Moulton, behind; Keegan and Keegan's dad Nick, hood…and still the best Superopen his job to Keegan, and startright; photos courtesy of Julie Richards Photography man in my estimation…was the ed helping make arrangements late great Christopher Reeve. Before a horse ridmost, but in this case there was no debate. Keegan with Plum Creek Timber Co., since most of his ing injury left the movie’s Man of Steel tragicalwanted nothing but to become a logger. jobs are on Plum Creek land. ly paralyzed here in the real world, Mr. Reeve Unfortunately, the original wish granter The logger and the landowner were only too didn’t only play Superman on the big screen. The assigned to Keegan lived in the city and didn’t eager to help make Keegan’s wish come true. At actor also used to put on his blue tights and red have any idea how to make that happen; people Glover’s suggestion, Judy contacted Chris Fife, a cape to visit terminally ill children. As I underwho aren’t a part of the logging community typiPlum Creek forester. “I told him we have a little stand it, Reeve…much like Clayton Moore, the cally don’t know much about it. “This was a very boy who wants to be a logger,” Judy recalls. Lone Ranger of the 1950s…saw playing Superunique wish,” according to Shawna Wakeham“They took it from there and did so much more man not just as a job but as a kind of responsibil- Smith, the director of wish granting for the Verthan we could possibly think.” ity. So when the Make-A-Wish Foundation told mont chapter. She asked another volunteer, Judy Fife adds, “We were all on board and wanted him that some sick kids’ wish was to meet Super- Moulton, to take over the case. She knew that to make it happen.” He gives all the credit to man, he happily obliged. Judy had some connections with the logging busi- Moulton and his crew. “Without the loggers, you You’ve probably heard of Make-A-Wish help- ness, as her husband and son do some logging in can’t let Keegan be a logger for a day.” ing to grant the wishes of such kids, whether it It took about three months to get Keegan’s wish be to go to Disneyland or meet their favorite athset up. Plum Creek, Moulton and Make-A-Wish lete or singer, maybe the President. Some kids worked closely together to find a suitable tract and wish for a chance to spend a day doing the job plan the day’s activities. It started with Keegan’s they dreamed of growing up to do—maybe ride family and the wish granters on the case—Judy along with a cop or a fireman, maybe get to be a Moulton, Cathy Hagadorn and Becky Umbach— cowboy for a day. We know that a lot of kids in meeting at a restaurant in Island Pond for some our industry dream of growing up to be like dad pizza. Marcel Isabelle of Isabelle Trucking, an and work in the woods, and a lot of today’s logindependent contractor who hauls for Moulton, gers were once those kids who loved being outcame back through that way on a return trip from doors and playing with big machines. dropping off a load. He gave Keegan a ride into Six-year-old Keegan Brooks of Bennington, the woods in his log truck, while the boy’s parents Vt., is one of those kids. He knows what he wants and younger siblings followed, along with the to be when he grows up: a logger. Sadly, Keegan Make-A-Wish people. suffers from a form of muscular dystrophy. Last The Moulton crew was waiting for Keegan at year, the Vermont chapter of the Make-A-Wish the landing when he arrived at the job site, where Foundation got hold of Keegan’s case. Normally, they had all the equipment lined up for him to see. a volunteer wish granter will work with the child Owner and operators spent some time getting to Keegan Brooks; photo courtesy Julie Richards Photography to determine what special wish would mean the know the youngster before firing the engines up.
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The original plan was to have Keegan take a ride in each machine and follow the process from cutter to loader, but the noise frightened him. “He loves watching ‘Ax Men’ religiously so he was familiar with it, but when he saw the equipment upclose and personal, he was shocked,” Judy says. Instead, Moulton and Keegan’s father took him up to the loader cab, high enough where he could see the cutter and skidder working. “He got quite a kick out of it,” Moulton says. Plum Creek presented Keegan
with his own hardhat, work gloves and boots, as well as an honorary certificate designating him as a professional logger. They also gave him some logging toys. Moulton put together some footage of the crew working and gave it to him on a DVD so he could watch it at home. Next on the agenda was entertainment from local celebrity Rusty DeWees, a one-time logger-turnedactor/musician whose one-man play, called “The Logger: A Comedy In Two Ax,” has made him famous in New England. “My hus-
band said he was too busy and we’d never get him, but I dare to take a risk, so I called him and left a message,” Judy says. “The next day I was visiting a friend when my cell rang and it was him. He said he’d be honored to do it.” The next day, Keegan got to see what happens to logs after leaving the woods when he spent the day touring Goodridge Lumber sawmill in Albany. Judy’s husband had sent logs here for years, so when she made the call, the family replied that they’d be honored to be a part
of it. “He was wide-eyed,” recalls Colleen Goodridge, adding that Keegan bonded with her son Brian. “These kids lose so much of their life to chemotherapy and doctors and appointments,” Judy notes. “We try to bring that magic and excitement into their lives again.” Shawna Wakeham-Smith called it a testament to how it takes the whole community and a lot of people to make the wish happen. “It was a magical and muddy day.” Each of the people who contributed to Keegan’s wish stressed to me how fulfilling it was for them. “It was an experience that we’ll never forget,” Goodridge is sure. “Any of us involved in granting that wish probably got more out of it than the kid did. We were all tearyeyed.” Moulton agrees. “It was quite an eye-opening experience,” he says. “It gave us all a good feeling to do this for the little guy. He had a big smile on his face.” DeWees, who has worked with Make-A-Wish before, adds, “It really puts things in perspective.” The mission of the Make-AWish Foundation is to grant the wishes of children with life-threatening—though not necessarily terminal—medical conditions. Thanks to modern medicine, many wish kids do survive their conditions. In fact, a wish sometimes has a positive impact on a child’s battle, and many medical professionals believe a wish-come-true can not only help kids feel better, but in some cases, actually get better. We all certainly hope and pray that Keegan will fall into that category. “If anybody has a chance to do a Make-A-Wish thing, they should,” Moulton advises. “I’d do it again in a heartbeat. It was worth a million dollars to see the look on that little guy’s face.” For more information and to learn how to get involved, please visit the web site, wish.org. I need to thank our editor Jay Donnell for bringing this story to my attention, and Jamie Sandys at Make-A-Wish and Barb Ross at Vermont Forest Products Assn. for helping to get me in touch with all SLT the right people.
Correction
On page 18 of our April issue, I misidentified this photo as John Deere marketing manager Cliff Caudill. It is actually Jim O’Halloran, engineering specialist. Sorry, Jim.
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Tried And True ■ South Georgia’s Mike Justice is diversified and mindful of his employees.
By Jessica Johnson WEST GREEN, Ga. ourth generation logger Mike Justice, 61, is a kind ★ man who is extremely mindful about his logging operation, Justice Enterprises, and its employees. Justice formed the company in 2001, after shifting away from a family operation with roots dating back to the 1950s. Alongside his son Justin, 38, Justice buys his own wood and runs three crews: a large roundwood crew, a chipping crew and a smaller crew that focuses on special projects for landowners in the area. Justin explains that the private landowners in the area are farmers, and they have 10 or 15-acre tracts that they want to cut into a field. It would take a lot of moving for the bigger crew to handle those jobs. These farmers also own 2,000 and 3,000 acres of timber, typically, so Justice wants to make sure to stay in their good graces. Justice says that it might not be the most cost effective thing to run
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A Tigercat loader feeds a Petersen debarker and a Precision chipper to make clean in-woods chips.
Justice prefers John Deere skidders over all other brands.
a smaller crew that gets about 20 loads a week, but it pays off, when landowners remember the special projects and call when they have bigger tracts. “We do things a little more personal than most,” Justin believes. He says the smaller crew isn’t just about staying in the good graces of the landowners. “It keeps those three guys a job, because if not, they’d be looking for work and jobs in this area aren’t plentiful. It would be a lot easier sometimes, with one crew, getting 60 loads a week. Ultimately, it’s not just about us,” he explains. Justice looks at the crew like an extended family, and nearly 70% of the crew has been together since the beginning.
Justin and Mike Justice
Clean Chipping For the father-son team, the old phrase, “Don’t keep all your eggs in one basket,” isn’t just a saying, it’s a business model. “We were a little skeptical to jump into in-woods chipping,” Justice says, but so far it has worked out very well. They started out with an old debarker and
The crew runs both sawheads and shearheads, but Justice much prefers the shearhead.
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From left, roundwood crew foreman Roy Hollis, mechanic Gatlin Griffis and head mechanic Tim Wooten
an old chipper, quite different from the treelength logging the family had done for generations. Justice says that at the time they started entertaining the idea of chipping, the roundwood market was slow and quota got so tight, it was either shut down one of the crews or take another avenue. They chose option number two. In the very beginning, they logged for a man who had a chipper, but didn’t have a logging crew. “That’s how we got our feet wet. He paid us the logging rate, and we cut and skid to his chipper,” Justin explains. From there, Gwinnett Aldridge with Southland Forest Products was looking to add another in-woods chipping operation to the Langdale Co.’s Willacoochee mill, and they needed someone who could do 50 loads a week, a number Justice felt comfortable with. Southland pretty much guarantees 40 loads a week, Justin says. “When they need more product, we can haul all we can, but there’s only been a couple of times in the last nine years (when) we didn’t have 40 loads. They’ve been very gracious to us,” he adds.
Typical Tracts Justin estimates that the larger crews’ average tract size is between 50 to 100 acres, but they have been on as big as a 400-acre tract and as little as 30 acres. The crews mainly thin, which is time consuming, Justin says, so they don’t always get as many loads as they possibly could. He says, “We get what we need to make a good living. We focus on doing a good job and keeping our equipment up like we feel we need to. We don’t get quite as many loads.” The clean chipping crew gets 40 to 45 loads a week, though the crew can do more but wood quality sometimes won’t allow it. Roundwood crew hauls 50 loads a week. The smaller crew that works on only special tracts gets about 25 loads. Justice buys his own wood, which can be frustrating, but the crews do good work and have a good reputation in the area. He reports that they actually have people waiting on their crews to become available. “We’ve been blessed to work within 30 miles of the house,” he says, adding that it
The roundwood crew, from left, Kimble Wilkerson, Greg Vickers and Brad Carter
feels good to know that there are landowners who will call only them to cut wood. When the market is strong for pulpwood, Justin will have all the crews on thinning, but with how wet it has been lately, the larger logging crew has been on clear-cuts. With the chipping crew, 80% of the time they are thinning. Sometimes it’s hard to buy wood for our other crews, Justice says, because the chipping is so much cleaner. “There’s not much waste, when landowners see that…they want it chipped unless they can get a significantly larger amount of money,” he says. The smaller crew will process dirty chips for Georgia Biomass in Brunswick, Ga., to help landowners get as much as possible. Thankfully good, honest, trustworthy people who have helped them have surrounded the company, Justin says. Specifically, he points to Charles Strickland with G-P as a big help in keeping the business successful, giving them their first contract when the company started. Main markets are G-P, Gilman in Fitzgerald, Interfor in Baxley, Langdale in Willacoochee, Beasley Timber in Hazlehurst, Moore Lumber Co.
The roundwood crew uses a John Deere loader with a CSI delimber
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in Alapaha, Gulf South Pole and Timber in Sycamore and Rayonier in Offerman and Jesup.
IronWorks Justice Enterprises’ equipment is a mixed bag of Tigercat and John Deere, with a Prentice in the mix. The guys prefer John Deere skidders, using 748Hs mainly, but have two old 648s as spares. Loaders are a mix of Tigercat 234, John Deere 437D and a Prentice 2384B, as well as a very old Hood loader that is used to make mats when needed. Clean chipping crew runs a Petersen debarker with a Precision chipper. Smaller crew has a rebuilt Precision chipper, and one Precision chipper sits at the shop as a spare. Justice Enterprises runs both sawhead feller-bunchers and shearhead feller-bunchers, a mix of Tigercat and John Deere tractors, with Tigercat shearheads. In south Georgia, Justice says, most of the wood they thin is planted on beds, so it’s sandy—the sawteeth don’t last very long, making the shear blades cheaper to operate. He says that it keeps a lot of trash out of the wood, so when it gets to the loader, you don’t have to fight
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with it. With a sawhead, it’s hard to not get down in the dirt. Shears are easier to maneuver during thinnings, he believes. The Tigercat shearheads are mounted on John Deere and Tigercat machines, with blades lasting three or four months. For dealer support, Justice uses Tidewater in Hazelhurst for Tigercat, Flint Equipment in Albany for John Deere and Yancey Bros. in Waycross for Prentice. The chippers are purchased straight from the Precision factory in Leeds, Ala. The crew ran Prentice loaders for a very long time, but in 2003 purchased a like-new 2002 Tigercat loader, and really liked the ability to keep everything similar, since the crew was, at that time, excusively running Tigercat cut down machines. So when it came time to buy a brand new loader in 2010, Justice purchased his second Tigercat. Using both John Deere and Tigercat loaders, the Justices are thrilled with each for different reasons. The Tigercat 234 gets great fuel efficiency, while the John Deere fits well with their fleet, as they have always been fans of the brand. Justin says that for them, the service and reliability of John Deere skidders are unmatched. “We have tried other skidders, but at the end of the day John Deere is the most trouble free and fuel efficient, besides the fact that their service after the sale has been really good. They’ve always made sure we were back going. They have taken care of us,” he adds. Justice says that they’ve even been a part of some testing for John Deere, including the new L & M series machines, running one for two months at the end of last year. The company’s roundwood crew runs all John Deere equipment. Head mechanic Tim Wooten does what he can in the woods and stays pretty busy keeping all three crews going. He is currently training a second mechanic, Gatlin Griffis, who does a lot of the smaller mechanic work. The crew does as much as they can themselves to save on service call charges, but of course, with the few newer pieces, the warranty covers repairs. Engine oil on in-woods equipment is changed every 250 hours, while hydraulic filters are changed every 500 hours. Operators grease machines’ center sections and grapples daily; the entire machine is greased every other day. Debarker chains are changed, depending on wood, every 30 loads. Chipper knives are changed every 20 loads.
Trucking The crews make use of both company and contract trucks, as well as set out/army trucks. “We like to have a nice clean place for the guys to turn
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Part of the clean chipping crew, from left, Ricky Hollis and John Pritchard
Shearhead operator Danny Durrance
Justice's special project focused crew, from left, Richard Lee and Shane Hughes
their trucks around, and using set out trucks allows for that,” Justin explains. The crews keep five contract trucks and two company trucks busy, and Justin says that they could probably run additional trucks when quotas are good but they have made the decision not to. “We want our guys to make a good check. They can get extra loads when we are really busy, and we may miss a few loads a week because we have trailers sitting that aren’t delivered to the mill at the end of the day,” Justin believes. “For the contract truckers, it’s better to have the loads waiting than for them to be sitting waiting on a load.” The company trucks are mostly Mack, with one Peterbilt and one Freightliner. Justin believes that Macks seem to be the best for the logging woods, saying the suspension holds up well. The Justice family has always been partial to Mack since the old B model days, he says. Chip vans are all Peerless and two ITIs; log trailers are Big John, Evans, Country Boy and a few shop
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built. They don’t have a preference on trailers: “Whatever we can find a good deal on,” Justice says, is what they run. The trucks and trailers used to run all Firestone tires, but when the price went up, they started shopping for others. Currently they are running Kellys and Toyos. Since the trailers run recaps, having a good tire on the trucks is important. Justin says, unfortunately, you can tell once you’ve recapped them once, you get what you pay for. Right now, he doesn’t see where they will be better than Firestone, but is optimistic. Oil in the trucks is changed depending on how much dirt road driving the truck does. The more dirt roads, Wooten will change the oil at 10,000 hours; if it’s more highways, he might go to 15,000 but it’s generally 1012,000 miles.
do it right. It’s safer and easier on the equipment. If you are paying by the load, I don’t think they are going to grease like they should, whereas if they know they are getting a comfortable paycheck, you don’t have to stay on them all the time. As long as they get what we need to make ends meet, that’s all we are after,” he says. The crew does have a bonus structure that they can hit after a certain amount. Fifty loads is a set amount and after 55 loads it’s that bonus plus $10 a load, which Justin
believes helps keep the equipment in better shape and the crew doing a better job. In addition to the production bonus, the crew receives a paid vacation as well as Christmas, New Years Day and the Fourth of July, a birthday bonus, and from the time their employment starts, a year from that date, they get a safety bonus if they have not had any accidents. The monetary value of the bonuses helps keep the crew mindful about being safe, Justin thinks. “We aren’t always pushing them to get
100 loads a week, always calling and telling them they aren’t doing enough. I want them to want to come to work everyday,” he says. Justice says that while it’s his name on the business, it all belongs to the Lord. Justin echoes his dad, saying, “It’s got to be more than just me and dad, there’s a higher power. We know what it costs per ton to produce wood, and if we can’t make that, we just aren’t going to come SLT out here everyday.” Contact Mike Justice by e-mail: loggerjmj@yahoo.com
People Power Linda, Justice's wife, does all the bookkeeping for the company, including all the tedious paperwork regarding timber sales and keeping track of payroll, load tickets and everything that comes with running three successful crews. "We'd be lost without her," Justice says. Suzan, Justin's wife, helps out in the office one day a week. Justin says that he and his dad have a different relationship than most father-son teams. “We’re a pretty good blend. It takes him to keep me calm but it takes me getting upset to get things done. It’s a balance. I definitely wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for him,” he believes. The crew respects both men, and Justice says it is nice to be able to put more of his efforts into cruising and buying timber while Justin travels to each of the crews each day, looking after the logging operation, acting as the operations manager. The crew has never had an accident caused by another employee, though they did have one guy hurt his knee from jumping off a loader. “He learned real quick not to ever do that,” Justin says with a laugh. The company holds monthly safety meetings, and Justin tries to watch daily for anything the crew might need reminding about. Additionally, he says that the crews usually know where everyone is at all of the time, which helps keep the job safe. Justice Enterprises pays men by the day and not by the load, which helps them not have a production-oriented mindset, according to Justin. “We tell them if we are going to do it, we are going to Southern Loggin’ Times
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Rollin’ On ■ High quality work keeps family business going strong.
BUTLER, Ala. t may be a long haul from Montgomery, but Wade Rolison ★ says he operates in what he calls the “logging capital” of Alabama. “There are probably more loggers in this community than in much of the rest of the state,” he says. With operations based about a dozen miles east of the Alabama/Mississippi line, Rolison, 37, says his three harvesting crews spend a lot of time in both states—about 60% of it on the Mississippi side. In the 10 years since moving from truck driver to logger, the young businessman has grown his family’s operations into a group of thriving and successful entities. At the center of it, Rolison is president and owner of Bar Forest Products, the company he started to buy timber for what was then his father’s outfit: Rolison Trucking LLC.
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Although strictly a haullogging crews use Stihl ing company in its pole saws purchased early years, Rolison here for trimming Trucking now hanloads. dles both trucking Rolison’s and logging as a father—Gail contractor for Wade Rolison, Bar Forest Sr.—started the Products. trucking comRight across pany in 1982. the road from He was on his his shop, Roliown until 1999, son also owns when Rolison Rolison Saw Co., joined the busiLLC. The small ness full-time as a engine repair comsecond driver. It pany works on chain expanded gradually saws and sells zero turn from there. When Rolimowers and other lawn son’s mother passed away care products, including in 2002, he became half Wade Rolison brands like Cub Cadet, Stihl owner with his dad. and Hustler subsidiary Big Dog. The trucking company expanded “Last year we were the second into logging on January 1, 2005, largest Big Dog dealer in the territo- largely in response to Hurricane ry, and the year before last we were Ivan, which had rampaged through the biggest,” Rolison notes. The much of the Gulf Coast areas a few
Rolison has a fleet of five Cat skidders—545, 535 and 525 sizes—using three full-time and the other two for backup.
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months before. Cleaning up storm damaged timber had limited hauling, so he knew they had to make a move. In June 2008, Rolison started Bar Forest Products as his own company separate from Rolison Trucking. His father has since officially retired, leaving both companies in his son’s able hands.
Timber! Bar Forest employs three fulltime timber buyers with forestry degrees from Auburn University and Mississippi State, purchasing tracts from private individual landowners and large corporate firms alike. “Our mission is to help landowners in any way we can to secure the greatest value for their timber,” Rolison says. A large portion of the company’s logging work is repeat business based on an earned reputation for quality work and the relationships they
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develop with their customers, Rolison believes. Although the timber buyers also search websites for jobs and receive bid invitations, many of the owners they work for ask them to return and do more cutting for them. Rolison Trucking features two thinning crews and one dedicated to clear-cuts; three other independent crews also contract under Bar Forest. The Rolison crews work in virtually any type of timber from hardwood and pine stands to timber blocks in swamps and across all types of terrain within a 100-mile radius of Butler. Crews perform first-thins, second-thins and some clear-cuts, hauling everything treelength. Tracts range from 40 acres to 300 acres. The three crews combined process about 40 acres a week, working 10-hour days and averaging 75 truckloads each per week. Distance to mills averages about 75 miles each way from the widely scattered job sites.
Originally just a trucking outfit before it expanded into logging, Rolison Trucking has 20 trucks in service.
Assets To handle logging chores, Rolison relies primarily on Caterpillar equipment, including five skidders (a 525C, 535C and three 545Cs) and three 559C loaders, all with CTR 426 delimbers. Operators have really taken to the 559C loaders, the owner reports, noting especially the model’s quiet and smooth performance. “Its fuel efficiency has been real good,” Rolison says. “It burns less fuel per hour than other loaders we’ve used.” Two Cat cutters (553C and 573C) share felling duties with a pair of Tigercat 720E units. Each crew is a three-piece team—cutter, skidder, loader—with the extras kept in reserve as spares. Rolison also has a wood yard, where he uses a Prentice 2384 knuckleboom and a Cat 320D FM tracked loader. Rolison uses both Primex and Firestone tires. Although he does get into some wet terrain at times, he hasn’t found it cost effective to use chains or dual tires. He is, however, very curious about applications for tracked machines. Trucking side includes five Peterbilts and 15 Kenworths, including a couple of spares and a dump truck. Half the trailers are Magnolia and half are Pitts. That includes a few Load Payin’ series trailers, but Rolison says longevity is a bigger priority for him than a trailer being light weight. Some of the trucks are equipped with Vulcan onboard scales. With some exceptions, trucks typically stick with the same logging crews each day. For road building and maintenance, Rolison keeps several Cat dozers (D5M, D5N, two D6K2, D6N XL and a 5MXL), a 315C Cat hydraulic excavator, Bobcat 236 lift
Rolison prefers Cat for machine durability, convenient financing and the relative proximity of dealer Thompson Tractor.
Two Tigercat feller-bunchers help the three crews average 75 loads each per week.
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truck and John Deere 570B motor grader. Total equipment investment is well over $2 million. Fuel cost is about $20,000 a week. To keep everything in good repair, Rolison recently added a 100x60 shop, including 1,600 sq. ft. of office space. Two full-time mechanics perform routine maintenance and basic repairs in the woods as needed, and typically bring most every machine into the shop once a quarter for a thorough inspection. Trucks also get the full service treatment in-shop every 20,000 miles. Chevron Delo products are his preferred choice for oil. Average annual expense for parts, repairs and maintenance is $150,000. For any major repairs, equipment always returns to the dealer, because Rolison is a firm believer in keeping everything under warranty. His practice is to trade in woods equipment on a 30-36 month rotation, or somewhere around the 5,500-hour mark. “In our business you can’t have a repair bull and a payment,” he asserts. “So when they are out of warranty I trade them.” Equipment dealers are Thompson Tractor for Caterpillar and Tidewater Equipment for Tigercat, both in Thomasville, Ala. That’s a mere 30 miles from Butler, whereas John Deere dealer Warrior Tractor’s nearest branch is in
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Rolison's saw shop also sells zero-turn mowers.
The shop and office space is a recent addition.
Tuscaloosa, 85 miles away. The logger reports a great relationship with his equipment dealers. “They’ve provided excellent service,” Rolison says. “If there’s a problem, they’re right there to help. They
respond promptly even when we’re working in remote locations.” Thompson Tractor provides training by sending their experts to the Bar Forest Products’ shop to review the expanding capabilities of the
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machines and keep operators and maintenance personnel up to date on all the latest features and benefits of Cat forestry equipment. One of the big perks of running so many Cat machines, according to
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Rolison: durability. “On a typical work week, Cat is more dependable, in my experience,” Rolison shares. With the machines still in good shape, a good resale value come trade-in time is nothing to scoff at, either. He cites it as one of the biggest factors in his choice of equipment. Another factor, of course, has to be Caterpillar’s captive financing; most of Rolison’s machine purchases have come directly through Cat Financial. “They get things done in a timely manner, and if we have any questions, they’re readily available
for consultation,” he says. “They’re just real down-to-earth folks to work with.”
Manpower Finding qualified employees has been something of a challenge, Rolison admits. “With the technology and electronic advances, I can sit at my desk and monitor all of our machines and see what each one is doing, but we still need skilled and experienced people on our logging sites.” He feels he’s been successful in filling that
need. “I hand-pick my employees, and I have a good group.” Turnover is low, he reports— around 5%. One of the benefits he offers is Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance; the company pays half of single coverage, and employees have the option of adding family members at their own expense. With all his businesses combined, Rolison employs close to 40. Of those, 16 are dedicated to the woods (including two mechanics), and 15 drive trucks. He also
The family lost oldest son Landon in 2012.
has one man building and maintaining roads full-time. Rolison also employs a full-time safety director. He visits all the logging sites and conducts weekly safety meetings with each crew and with truck drivers. “He reviews all the safety basics and goes over all the specific safety concerns that might be encountered on new tracts of land we are working on,” Rolison explains. The safety director also handles DOT paperwork for drivers, including checking drivers’ licenses and medical cards, and he sees that drug testing takes place properly. If he sees any safety hazards he corrects it, and ensures all employees use required PPG (personal protective gear)—earplugs, hardhats, safety vests. The crews also keep safety kits, spill kits and first aid kits on company pickups in the woods. Hawkins and Rawlinson in Auburn handles all insurance needs for the company.
Family Rolison attributes his successful growth to his faith and his wife, Tonia, whom he calls the backbone of the operation. They’ve had three children: Landon, 11, Zain, 5, and Zeb, just 11 months old. Tragically, the family’s lives were changed forever in 2012 when oldest child Landon was killed in an ATV accident. “He was a living testimony,” the father says. “After all we’ve been through, my whole business is based upon my faith and belief in God,” the logger states. “He is the cornerstone of our business plan.” Rolison serves as a deacon at the First Baptist Church in Butler. He also serves as Brotherhood Director and on several church committees. Outside the woods, the family’s schedule revolves around church activities, he says. Rolison believes there are no limits to the company’s growth plans. “We just take one day at a time. With the ever-improving machine technology, we’re achieving higher production. Assuming the industry remains strong, our SLT future looks very bright.” Contact Wade Rolison by e-mail: wade@barforestproducts.com
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Doosan Kicks Up Some Dust In Desert By Jay Donnell TUCSON, Ariz. oosan Equipment held its 2015 media event on March 25-26. The event attracted editors from construction, scrap and of course logging magazines. The opening dinner ★ at the JW Marriott Tucson Starr Pass Resort featured Doosan representatives addressing the company’s extensive lineup of equipment, including several new models of crawler excavators, wheel excavators, wheel loaders, log loaders, material handlers and articulated dump trucks. Doosan product specialist, Mike Stark, announced the company’s newest logging machine—the Tier 4-compliant Doosan DX300LL-5 track log loader. The “dash-5” model replaces the interim Tier 4 (iT4) DX300LL-3 log loader. The DX300LL-5 is powered by a 270 net HP Scania DC9 diesel engine, providing 27% more horsepower than the “dash-3” model. “We took the voice of the customer back to Korea when they started designing the 300LL-5 and we think we’ve made a bunch of improvements,” Stark says. To help save valuable diesel fuel, Doosan added an autoshutdown system for use during non-working conditions. Log loader operators can configure the idle time before auto-shutdown from three to 60 minutes. When enabled, the feature will shut down the log loader’s engine when the preset idle time is met. In addition to auto shutdown, the Doosan DX300LL-5 log loader has several new updates including improved heel design that works in tandem with a log grapple, a more robust front guard, boom cylinder guard, cab guard, standard rock guards and pattern change valve. The unit has a loading reach of 38 ft. and loading height of just more than 43 ft. Its swing speed is 9.8 rpm. “One new feature on the DX300LL-5 is the LED lights,” Stark explains. “In the logging industry lights can be extremely important when you’re starting your day at five in the morning and it’s still dark outside.” Doosan also emphasized its versatile DX225LL log loader with loading reach of more than 36 ft. Media members had the opportunity to visit Doosan’s Real Operation Center (ROC) in the heart of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. At the ROC, representatives from Doosan explained new features on all of their different machines and media members were given the opportunity to operate each machine. Nearly 30 machines were spread out across the desert making it the ideal place for Doosan to show what its machines are all about. Doosan is one of Korea’s oldest companies, with roots dating back to 1896. It made a major leap internationally in 2007 when it acquired several business divisions of Ingersoll Rand US, including utility equipment and attachments manufacturSLT er, Bobcat.
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Mike Stark demonstrates the versatility of the DX225LL log loader.
From left, Ryan Johnson stands with Doosan products specialists Mike Stark and Lee Smith.
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Tidewater Demo Day Is Huge Success JESUP, Ga. idewater Demo Day on April 11 drew more than 1,000 including cur★ rent and potential customers for a day of fun that included logging equipment demonstrations, chain saw wood carving, a loader competition, numerous children’s activities, food, giveaways and door prizes. No rain, but a little wind kept the gnats away from the event, which ran from 9 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Representatives from Big John, CSI, Maxi-Load Scale Systems, Morbark, Pitts Trailers, R Squared Solutions, Rotobec and Tigercat were on hand to answer questions. Tigercat had more than 40 staff members on site, including its CEO, president, product managers and engineers from the factory in Canada. Tigercat President Tony Iarocci commented afterward, “We truly appreciate the effort that Tidewater put into this demo event. It was a
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huge success. Tigercat and Tidewater have a strong long-standing partnership and always enjoy working together for the benefit of our customers. We were happy to help out with this event in any way we could.” Tidewater President Jamie Young added, “Our inaugural Demo Day was a huge success and the most successful logging show we have ever attended. Our customers were very well served by all of our vendors and I am very proud of everyone that contributed to make this a memorable event. We had loggers drive eight hours to attend this event and we are very humbled to
serve such a strong industry.” Russell Giddens, owner of Nicholls Logging in West Green, Ga., was in attendance with his wife. “This has been a great event, a lot of people.” Giddens bought his first Tigercat 234 loader in 2003. “My 234 has lasted a very long time and we are still running it with over 10,500 hours on it.” William Simpson, owner of WHS Logging, and his wife drove from Perry, Fla. Simpson, a fourth generation logger, currently operates seven Tigercat machines and just bought a 620E skidder. He has built the business from one crew to three crews. “I am almost a 100% Tiger-
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cat now and I just bought this 620E last week,” he said. Timmy Dopson, owner of Dopson Timber LLC in Jacksonville, Ga., commented on his experience as an operator: “I have run them all, even a Franklin back when I was little and nothing runs like a Tigercat.” There was a wealth of Tigercat machinery everywhere you turned. Machines demoing in the woods included the 845D track feller-buncher, 620E skidder with EHS (efficient high speed) transmission, 724G feller-buncher with Tigercat FPT Tier 4 final engine, 234 loader feeding a new CSI delimber, 630E skidder and T250D loader. Numerous other Tigercat machines were on static display. Jonathan Stinson from Betterton Pulpwood in Alabama won the loader competition with a time of 2.08 minutes. Neal Snider from R & N Logging in Alabama came in second place and Michael Manning from Carter Logging in Middleburg, SLT Fla. came in third place.
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Historic Logging/Lumbering Series...
Mountain Boom ■ Early forest exploitation impacted the economic and social structure of the Southern Appalachians.
Third Of Four Parts From U.S. Forest Service Archives he indiscriminate but profitable logging exploitation of the mountain forests was soon challenged by a conservative approach. In 1892, amidst the timber boom, America’s first experiment in practical forestry began in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. Practical forestry was a vital part of the general conservation movement that arose in the U.S. in the last quarter of the 19th century and reached its peak during the presidency of the progressive, Theodore Roosevelt. An intellectual and political phenomenon, the conservation movement was largely a response to the rapid industrialization and urbanization after the Civil War. Settlements had extended across the continent, the landscape had been altered, and American culture appeared increasingly materialistic. A countermovement developed to preserve pristine areas and to try to conserve the nation’s natural resources for present and future generations. The focus of conservation attention was primarily in the West, where vast extents of land remained in the public domain and where large tracts of forest remained in virgin timber. The movement embodied two distinct groups: preservationist and utilitarian. The preservationists, inspired by Henry Thoreau and exemplified by the influential founder of the Sierra Club, John Muir, believed in saving as much as possible of the nation’s scenic wilderness and forest expanses just as they were—never to be exploited by humans. They believed the beauty of the natural landscape should be valued in and of itself. The creation of Yellowstone, the first National Park, in 1872, was one of the earliest outgrowths of such concerns. In the last four decades of the 19th century a second conservationist faction developed: those who believed that renewable resources should be protected and managed through wise and economical use. The principal focus of this philosophy was the nation’s forests where
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One large and severely blighted area a century ago was at Ducktown, Polk County, Tenn., and McCaysville, Fannin County, Ga. Acid fumes from the smelting and refining of copper and iron destroyed thousands of acres of entire vegetative cover. Erosion was severe from the bare slopes, and heavy silting occurred in the main channel of the Tennessee River, 45 miles to the west.
the mechanics of economical conservation were to be demonstrated. A leading spokesman for this philosophy was Gifford Pinchot, early forester, who became Chief of the USDA Division of Forestry in 1898 and of its successor, the Forest Service, in 1905.
Forest Reserves Between 1890 and 1910, practical-conservationist concerns were translated into political action. In 1891 by an amendment to the General Land Law Revision Act, often called the Creative Act, Congress gave the President almost unlimited power to withdraw huge expanses of forested lands from the public domain. In 1897 an amendment to the Civil Appropriations Act established the management objectives of these reserves: “. . . securing favorable conditions of water flow and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States.” Timber in forest reserves was to be harvested and sold; waters could be used for
mining, milling, or irrigation. Before the passage of the Weeks Act in 1911, numerous large forest reserves were set aside in the West from lands in the public domain. It was in the East, however, where practical forestry was inaugurated. At Biltmore, between 1890 and 1910, the foundations were laid for scientific forestry as the nation was later to practice it; here too some experiences and problems with the local population and commercial interests foreshadowed those of the first federal foresters. In 1889, the wealthy George W. Vanderbilt of New York, who had previously visited the area as a tourist, purchased about 300 acres of small farms and cutover woodlands near the French Broad River southwest of Asheville, NC. The tract was composed of “some 50 decrepit farms and some 10 country places heretofore owned by impoverished southern landed aristocracy.” The lands were in poor condition, having been abused by cutting, fires, erosion, and neglect. There Vanderbilt began construction of the palatial
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Biltmore House, and acquisition of what was to become a 100,000-acre estate. Over the next two decades Vanderbilt established an Englishstyle village, an arboretum, parks, a wildlife preserve stocked with deer and pheasant, ponds and lagoons, a dairy farm, and miles of roads and trails as part of a vast experiment in landscape alteration. Vanderbilt’s land management philosophy was ahead of its time. His goal was to re-cultivate the fields and rebuild the forests with the most scientifically advanced methods of the day. Biltmore was to be a model of dairying, horticulture, landscaping esthetics, wildlife management, and productive forestry. In 1892, upon the recommendation of the famous landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmstead, creator of Central Park, New York City, who was in charge of landscaping the Biltmore grounds, Vanderbilt hired Gifford Pinchot to supervise Biltmore’s forest lands. Pinchot was at Biltmore for three years. During that time he conducted a survey and inventory of the more than 7,000 acres that ➤ 30
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26 ➤ had been acquired; continued management of the Biltmore Arboretum (an experimental garden with over 100 species of trees); continued the reforestation of badly cutover and eroded areas on the estate; and supervised the purchase of mountain lands to the west, which came to be known as Pisgah Forest. There, in the fall of 1895, Pinchot directed the first logging of yellow poplar. To disprove the local notion that once such a forest was felled, it would never grow back, Pinchot cut selectively in the Big Creek valley below Mt. Pisgah only those large trees he had chosen and marked, felling, bucking, and hauling the logs out carefully so as to avoid damaging young trees. Although he claimed to know “little more about the conditions necessary for reproducing yellow poplar than a frog knows about football,” he understood that it needs strong light to Gifford Pinchot grow well and that creating openings in the forest by felling mature trees would encourage a new crop. Although the immediate goal was profit, the longrange objective was to preserve the remaining stand and insure a steady annual yield. Pinchot claimed his logging to be profitable, rather unconvincingly, since Vanderbilt himself consumed most of the timber. Pinchot left Biltmore in 1895, having gradually become disappointed and disillusioned with Vanderbilt’s motivations, and was ambitious for
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new experiences. Replacing Pinchot was Carl Alwin Schenck, a young highly recommended German forester, who for 14 years carried on and intensified Pinchot’s efforts. He continued the practice of selective logging, and intensified reforestation efforts throughout the Vanderbilt estate. Schenck initially experimented with hardwood plantings, but eventually concentrated on reforestation of culled and eroded areas with eastern white, pitch, and shortleaf pines.
Early Forestry School Schenck carried out one of Pinchot’s recommendations by establishing in 1898 the Biltmore School of Forestry in Pisgah Forest, now the site of the Forest Service’s Cradle of Forestry historical exhibit. There, Schenck personally trained young men in all aspects of practical and textbook forestry, from seedlings to sawmilling. Although most went into industrial forestry, many became state and federal foresters. Among his graduates were several leaders of the early Forest Service, including Overton W. Price, Inman F. Eldredge, and Verne Rhoades. Although both Schenck and Pinchot believed in the wise utilization of resources as opposed to strict preservation, Schenck ran his school under a philosophy slightly different from Pinchot’s. Schenck alternated book learning with practical experience in the woods, and was more interested than Pinchot in the hard economics of forestry. Both possessed very strong viewpoints and personalities and over the years bickered continuously, sometimes bitterly. In essence, Pinchot separated forestry from sawmilling; Schenck did not. His frequently quoted dic-
tum, “That forestry is best which pays best” indicates Schenck’s orientation to industry. He felt Pinchot’s silvicultural practice of selective cutting to be a Carl Alwin Schenck luxury that market prices or financial pressures often did not allow. This remains a debated issue today. Schenck wrote that Pinchot was furious “when he learned that in the school examinations at Biltmore a knowledge of logging and lumbering was weighed higher than that of silviculture or of any other branch of ‘scientific’ forestry.” Although Schenck was more commercially oriented than Pinchot, he too was frequently frustrated with the local inhabitants of the French Broad area. The Vanderbilt estate, including Pisgah Forest, was dotted with many small inholdings, as it still was when the federal government purchased it in 1914. In spite of Vanderbilt ownership, the indwellers continued to use the land as if it were theirs; they cut wood, farmed, grazed cattle, and hunted freely on Vanderbilt land. Schenck considered this trespassing a serious block to his forestry efforts. Throughout his service with Vanderbilt, Schenck continued to urge acquisition and consolidation of the inholdings, with some success. In addition to trespassing, Schenck was frustrated with the mountaineers’ penchant for burning to “green up” the pastures and clear the brush, and remained incredulous
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that no local regulations existed to prevent or control fire. These sentiments were echoed a decade later by some of the first federal foresters in the region. And the two major concerns of Schenck— trespass and fire—continue as issues in the Southern Appalachians today. Although the local population remained a problem for Schenck, he was to have a positive and notable impact on industrial forestry throughout the region. Schenck was well known and respected by several local industrialists, who sought his advice on reforestation and marketing. The St. Bernard Mining Co. of Earlington, Ky., for example, experimented extensively before 1909 with hardwood plantings on lands no longer valuable for farming, and communicated with Schenck for guidance and expertise. His influence on industrial forestry was most noteworthy, however, in his association with the Champion Fibre Co. In 1906 Champion’s president, Peter G. Thompson, came to North Carolina from Hamilton, Ohio, to buy spruce acreage in the Great Smoky and Balsam Mountains for making pulp. In 1907, Reuben B. Robertson, Thompson’s son-in-law, opened the Champion Paper and Fibre Co. at Canton, NC. Both men became well acquainted with Schenck. Although Schenck was never able to convince Thompson of the value of second-growth planting, he had more success with Robertson. Through Schenck, Robertson became convinced of the advantages of sustained-yield forestry, and earned Champion a reputation for intelligent, conservative lumbering. In 1920, Champion employed Walter Darntoft as corporate forester—the first such industrial forester in the South. SLT
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The Lowly Jerrycan’s Value In WWll uring World War II the U.S. exported more
Dtons of petroleum products than all other war materials combined. The mainstay of the enormous oil and gasoline transportation network that fed the war was the oceangoing tanker, supplemented on land by pipelines, railroad tank cars, and trucks. But for combat vehicles on the move, another link was crucial—smaller containers that could be carried and poured by hand and moved around a battle zone by trucks. Adolph Hitler knew this. He perceived early on that the weakest link in his plans for blitzkrieg, using his panzer divisions, was fuel supply. He ordered his staff to design a fuel container that would minimize gasoline losses under combat conditions. As a result the German army had thousands of jerrycans, as they came to be called, stored and ready when hostilities began in 1939. The jerrycan had been developed under the strictest secrecy, and its unique features were many. It was flat-sided and rectangular in shape, consisting of two halves welded together as in a typical automobile gasoline tank. It had three handles, enabling one man to carry two cans and pass one to another man in bucket-brigade fashion. Its capacity was approximately five U.S. gallons; its weight filled, 45 lb. Thanks to an air chamber at the top, it would float if dropped overboard or from a plane. Its short spout was secured with a snap closure that could be propped open for pouring, making unnecessary any funnel or opener. A gasket made the mouth leak-proof. An air-breathing tube from the spout to the air space kept the pouring smooth. And most important, the can’s inside was lined with an impervious plastic material developed for the insides of steel beer barrels. This enabled the jerrycan to be used alternately for gasoline and water.
Roundabout Odyssey Early in the summer of 1939, this “secret weapon” began a roundabout odyssey into American hands. An American engineer named Paul Pleiss, finishing up a manufacturing job in Berlin, persuaded a German colleague to join him on a vacation trip overland to India. The two bought an automobile chassis and built a body for it. As they prepared to leave on their journey, they realized that they had no provision for emergency water. The German engineer had access to thousands of jerrycans. He took three and mounted them on the underside of the car. They were halfway across India when Field Marshal Goering called the German engineer back home. Before departing, the engineer compounded his treason by giving Pleiss complete specifications for the jerrycan’s manufacture. 32
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Back in the U.S., Pleiss told military officials about the container, but without a sample can he could stir no interest, even though the war was now well underway. He eventually had the complete vehicle shipped to New York, where it arrived in the summer of 1940 with the jerrycans intact. Pleiss immediately sent a can to Washington. The War Dept. looked at it but decided that an updated version of the World War I container would be good enough. That was a cylindrical 10-gallon can with two screw closures. It required a wrench and a funnel for pouring. That one jerrycan in the Army’s possession was later sent to Camp Holabird, in Maryland. There it was poorly redesigned, the only features retained were the size, shape, and handles. The welded circumferential joint was replaced with rolled seams around the bottom and one side. Both a wrench and a funnel were required for its use. And it now had no lining. As any petroleum engineer knows, it is unsafe to store gasoline in a container with rolled seams. This ersatz can did not win wide acceptance.
Brits Sign On The British first encountered the jerrycan during the German invasion of Norway in 1940 and gave it its English name. Later that year Pleiss was in London and was asked by British officers if he knew anything about the can’s design and manufacture. He ordered the second of his three jerrycans flown to London. Steps were taken to manufacture exact duplicates of it. Two years later the U.S. was still oblivious of the can. Then, in September 1942, two qualitycontrol officers posted to American refineries in the Mideast ran smack into the problems being created by ignoring the jerrycan. I was one of those two. Passing through Cairo two weeks before the start of the Battle of El Alamein, we learned that the British wanted no part of a planned U.S. Navy gasoline can. As far as they were concerned, the only container worth having was the jerrycan, even though the only ones
Soldier fuels truck with jerrycan.
they had were those captured in battle. By 1942 there was still no evidence that the British government had done anything about the jerrycan.
Cause For Alarm My colleague and I learned quickly about the jerrycan’s advantages and the Allied can’s costly disadvantages, and we sent a cable to naval officials in Washington stating that 40% of all the gasoline sent to Egypt was being lost through spillage and evaporation. The 40% figure was actually a guess intended to provoke alarm, and it worked. A cable came back immediately requesting confirmation. We then arranged a visit to several fuel-handling depots at the rear of Montgomery’s army and found that conditions there were indeed appalling. Fuel arrived by rail from the sea in 55-gallon steel drums with rolled seams and friction-sealed metallic mouths. The drums were handled violently by local laborers. Many leaked. The next link in the chain was the infamous five-gallon “petrol tin.” This was a square can of tin plate that had been used for decades to supply lamp kerosene. It was hardly useful for gasoline. In the hot desert sun, it tended to swell, burst at the seams, and leak. Allied soldiers in Africa knew that the only gasoline container worth having was German. Similar tins were carried on Liberator bombers in flight. They leaked perhaps a third of the fuel they carried. Because of this, Gen. Wavell’s defeat of the Italians in North Africa in 1940 had come to naught. Likewise in 1941, Gen. Auchinleck’s victory over Rommel had withered away. In 1942 Montgomery saw to it that he had enough supplies, including gasoline, to whip Rommel in spite of terrific wastage. And he was helped by jerrycans they had rounded up in battle. After my colleague and I made our report, a new five-gallon container under consideration in Washington was canceled. Meanwhile, the British were finally gearing up for mass production. Two million British jerrycans were sent to North Africa in early 1943, and by early 1944 they were being manufactured in the Mideast. Since the British had such a head start, the Allies agreed to let them produce all the cans needed for the invasion of Europe. President Roosevelt observed in November 1944, “Without these cans it would have been impossible for our armies to cut their way across France at a lightning pace that exceeded the German Blitz of 1940.” This piece is credited to Richard M. Daniel, a retired commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve and a chemical engineer.
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As We See It—Our Work Deserves Better Pay By Mark Turner have some breaking news! The much anticipated logger shortage is here…at least during times of peak production. It is hitting our industry in a couple of different ways. Turner Across the country, the
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“surge capacity” in our industry has all but disappeared. That part of our industry used to be made up of many small operators who often only logged part of the year but could always be called upon to help out during times of
peak production. Since the “Great Recession,” most of these companies have gone out of business, moved on to more profitable ventures, or become full-time loggers. With that surge capacity gone, we are all feeling tremendous pressure to meet our customers’ demands. As employers, we are in the
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midst of a crisis in trying to attract and retain qualified employees. This fact was driven home recently by a logger friend whose son had been working for his company. Last year, his son took a job with a construction company, making considerably more money than he had been making working as a logger. His son felt badly about leaving but, as my friend told me, “He’s now making the kind of money that he could never make in logging.” This is truly a sad statement about logging. If we can’t even afford to pay our own children enough to stay in logging, how can we expect to keep any qualified employees? When I was young, someone could buy a house and raise a family on a logger’s wage. Now, even with a working spouse, most employees struggle just to get by. It is not at all unusual for the spouse of a logger to be the bigger breadwinner (better benefits and retirement package). It is demoralizing, considering the high level of skill required to perform most logging jobs. We have a serious problem: fewer loggers in the business and fewer individuals becoming loggers. In order to stay in business, loggers have had to become better, more professional businessmen. We have learned how to succeed in an increasingly regulated and volatile industry. During the same time, virtually every cost has skyrocketed (equipment and financing, commercial and health insurance, workman’s comp, fuel, regulatory fees and taxes) and we have had to absorb those astronomical cost increases. The only items that haven’t risen at the same pace are the prices we are paid by our customers, what we logging operators earn in profit at the end of the year, and what our employees take home on their paychecks. Yes, we have managed to stay in business but it has been at great cost to our people. Ultimately, if we cannot increase our profits, we cannot increase pay to a level that more realistically reflects the value and skills of our people to our logging operations, a level that is competitive with other industries that require workers with similar skills. A retired forester recently told me that “loggers would soon be in the driver’s seat” with regards to setting logging prices. The question is, just how accurate will that statement turn out to be? I do know that this is definitely not a place loggers are accustomed to being. Typically when there is a shortage of something (loggers), its price will go up. Unfortunately, the pressure to
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increase logging that we’ve felt from our customers hasn’t resulted in increased prices for our services. While we would love to be able to charge whatever prices we want, the reality is that wood products are commodities. Producers of wood products are not only competing against one another, they compete against other materials. If wood products become too expensive, they will be replaced by other materials and will ultimately lose market share. So where does this leave us?
If we don’t quickly improve logger compensation, the logger shortage will certainly continue getting worse. As the shortage gets worse, even fewer operators will be available to meet the increasing demands of the market. Less product availability translates into higher market prices. Higher market prices will result in lower market share. This death spiral has a simple solution—pay loggers more money for the work they do. Without strong and more profitable loggers,
the future of the entire wood products industry is in serious trouble. We loggers are the backbone of this industry. We owe it to ourselves, our employees and the entire timber industry to make reasonable profits. To do anything less will jeopardize us all and result in what timber owners probably fear the most: out of control logging costs. Turner is the current president of Associated Oregon Loggers and serves as an officer for the American Loggers Council. He and his brother Greg
operate Turner Logging, Inc., Banks, Ore. For more information, please contact the American Loggers Council at 409-625-0206.
Foley Timber Puts Up Timberlands Foley Timber and Land Co., which owns and manages 560,000 acres of timberlands in north central Florida, is exploring the sale of substantially all of its business assets and operations. The company’s 876 square miles of timberlands are centrally located between Tallahassee and Gainesville along Florida’s Gulf Coast. The sale offers the opportunity to acquire timberland operations and related assets that generate significant cash flow through the superior management of highly productive timberlands on contiguous land in an attractive market, according to the company. Foley is majority-owned by company chairman, Robert Day, and its president, Howard Leach. “This is an unprecedented opportunity to acquire a premier tract of timberland and related operations in a growing market, supported by a track record of sustainable harvesting, deep customer relationships and long-standing customer supply agreements,” Leach says. In 1994, a limited partnership was formed to acquire select Florida lands from Procter & Gamble. With the land’s proximity to the community of Foley and former ties to P&G’s Land and Timber division, as well as emphasizing the sustainable timber operations that would continue under the new ownership, the partnership called the business Foley Timber and Land Co. Over the past 20 years Foley reports it has harvested nearly 23 million tons of wood and has planted more than 224 million trees on 280,000 acres. On average, Foley reforests about 14,000 acres per year, which includes the planting of 10 million trees per year.
Bandit Continues Expansion Push Bandit Industries recently completed its fourth plant expansion in nine months at Remus, Mich. to keep up with increasing demand for its equipment. All the plant expansions have added space for additional employees and increasing production. Bandit moved into a new rebuild facility in October 2014, increasing its capacity for rebuild36
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ing used machines. The move also freed up construction space in the forestry mower and Beast chipper buildings, allowing the forestry mower area to double its production and allowing the Beast recycler line to increase production by 25%. A new electronics facility was finished in November 2014, allowing for increased production of electronic control panels harnesses used on all Bandit equipment. The new facility is now building all of the new control panels and proportional drives that are now featured on all of Bandit’s Tier 4 engine options. “In February of this year, we moved into a new facility to build drum chipper heads for our hand-
fed chippers, whole tree chippers and Beast recyclers, along with the rotors for our forestry mower lines,” says Jerry Morey, president of Bandit Industries. “The new facility freed up production areas in our hand-fed drum chipper area, which is allowing us to increase production in that area by 50%.” On April 1, Bandit Industries moved into an expansion of its whole tree manufacturing facility, increasing production of its whole tree chippers by 50%, Morey adds. “These four expansions have allowed us to add 80 full-time employees and add much-needed production,” Morey says. “Surging demand for our products over the past two years has increased lead
times longer than I like, and at times has cost us orders. The additional production capacity will reduce lead times by the end of the second quarter.”
Pro South Plans For New Sawmill Pro South is expanding its operations by adding a sawmill at its location in Prentiss County, near Booneville, Miss. The project represents a $2.75 million company investment and will create 57 jobs. Pro South is involved in several sectors of the timber industry, including logging, trucking, timber purchasing and wood yard services.
Pro South’s new sawmill will produce lumber and timbers. “We are excited about the future of our company and for the new job creation in our own hometown as a result of this latest sawmill project,” says Pro South President Russell Stites. “By diversifying our business, we are seeking to provide enhanced job security and longevity for all of our employees, new additions and long-termers alike, that make this growth opportunity possible.” Mississippi Development Authority provided assistance in support of the project to transport and reassemble refurbished equipment, as well as for workforce training.
IP At Riegelwood Goes To Softwood International Paper plans to invest $135 million to expand fluff pulp production at its Riegelwood NC mill and convert the mill to 100% fluff and softwood pulp production. The new fluff pulp capacity is expected to ramp up midyear 2016. IP will reduce its coated paperboard capacity by 350,000 tons and sell the Carolina brand to MeadWestvaco.
FRA Picks Moore For SE Award Eddie Moore, owner of Forest Friendly Logging, Inc., Willards, Md., has been officially recognized in March as the Forest Resources Assn.’s 2015 Southeastern Region Outstanding Logger. Willards, located on the eastern shore of Maryland, is an area where much of the land formerly owned by the forest industry is now owned by the state and where harvesting aesthetics, wildlife management, and high conservation value forests are focal points. Also, the closure of several sawmills in the region about eight years ago necessitated that Moore transition from large sawtimber and regeneration harvests to thinning. He has made the move in outstanding form. Moore incorporates the latest technology. He communicates with foresters, mill owners, truck drivers, and employees via text and e-mail. He scans mill tickets and sends them to the forester keeping track of individual loads per job site. He utilizes GPS units in cutting machines to maintain straight cutting corridors and proper spacing, and pre-programs GPS units with special sites (i.e., vernal pools, Carolina bays, stream buffers, etc.) so that operators can maintain proper distances from sensitive sites. Digital aerial 38
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images are also used in planning landings and skid trails, thereby ensuring the best possible job for the landowner. As the practice of forestry has become more complex due to new landowners and additional regulations or requirements, Moore has willingly and successfully incorporated additional safety practices, employed new technology, and adapted his approach to harvesting. Moore has twice been selected as
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Maryland’s Logger of the Year. He also serves on Maryland’s Master Logger Steering Committee and has been featured in a Delaware logging aesthetics video.
SWPA Annual Meeting June 5-6, St. Augustine Members, associates and friends of the Southeastern Wood Producers Assn. will gather June 5-6 in St.
Augustine, Fla. for the group’s annual meeting, which returns to the Renaissance World Golf Village/St. Johns Convention Center. The event incorporates continuing education for loggers, a golf tournament, president’s reception, sponsor appreciation breakfast, family fishing, recognition of Florida and Georgia loggers of the year, and other activities. Trucks and other heavy equipment will be on display as well.
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Equipment, product and service suppliers are encouraged to participate. Visit swpa.ag or phone 904845-7133.
KFIA Gathering Celebrates 50th Kentucky Forest Industries Assn. (KFIA) completed a successful 50th Annual Meeting in Lexington, Kentucky March 25-27 as 350 members attended. The following people were also recognized for their contributions to forestry in Kentucky: l Flying Rooster Farm, Inc, Williamsburg, Ky., 2014 Tree Farmer of the Year l Sizemore Logging, London, Ky., 2014 Logger of the Year l Michael Froelich, Southeast Region KY Div. of Forestry, Hazard, Ky., 2014 Inspector of the Year l Jim Spangler, Stihl/Bryan Equipment Sales, Loveland, Oh., 2014 Communicator of the Year KFIA Executive Director Bob Bauer was recognized for his 20 years of dedicated service. One of the afternoon meetings discussed the future of a Forest Health Center at the University of Kentucky and Sustainable Forestry Implementation in Kentucky. Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner and gubernatorial candidate James Comer discussed his support for the wood industry. Other speakers were Terrell (Red) Baker, University of Kentucky Dept. of Forestry, discussing the longtime relationship with KFIA; and Lee Andrews, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, providing an update on the North-
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ern Long-eared bat and its potential impact on the wood industry. The 2016 Annual Meeting will be in Louisville, Ky. at The Brown Hotel on April 5-7.
Dorsey Announces Plant Expansion Dorsey Trailer, a division of Pitts Enterprises, Inc., held a ribbon cutting for a plant expansion at its Elba, Ala. facility. The expansion will add 50 jobs and usher in more production for the flatbed manufacturer. “Dorsey has an illustrious history of a 104-year-old company, and very few can claim a birthday like that,” says Jeff Pitts, CEO of Dorsey Trailer. “It’s just a testament to the people in the area and the products that we produce. We’re very excited to have the dignitaries here to celebrate our expansion and
announcement of new jobs to the Wiregrass area. We couldn’t be more thrilled.” Dorsey utilizes decades of experience, computer aided design, skilled craftsmen, and 850,000 sq. ft. of facilitites. Dorsey offers a variety of truck trailers including steel and composite flatbeds, drop decks, extendable flatbeds and drop decks, open top and closed top chip vans, and specialty trailers.
VLA Meets August 27-29 At Wintergreen Resort The Virginia Loggers Assn. will hold its annual meeting August 2729 at the Wintergreen Resort in Wintergreen, Va. Details on lodging arrangements and the program will soon be available, according to Ron Jenkins, VLA Executive Director, who can be reached at jenkinsgzj@aol.com.
MACHINES-SUPPLIES-TECHNOLOGY
Mobile Application John Deere Forestry has created the GoFell mobile application for MSeries tracked feller-buncher customers. The app is designed to assist operators in understanding machine controls, settings and diagnostics. The free-of-charge GoFell mobile application is available for iPhone and Android devices and acts as an operator’s quick reference guide, providing loggers with instant access to information about their M-Series tracked f-b. The application boasts a number of features, including a guide to better understanding unique John Deere M-Series equipment features and tips to customize the operating experience to maximize productivity during regular operations or extreme conditions. GoFell is available for free download in the iTunes Store and Google Play. Visit johndeere.com.
Operator Safety Shield
Dorsey Trailer celebrates expansion of Elba facility.
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Morbark, Inc., has expanded the availability of its ChipSafe operator safety shield as an option to the Beever M6R and M8D model brush chippers. The ChipSafe device had previously been available on all new Morbark 12” to 18” capacity chippers. Field kits to retrofit current model Morbark 6 to 18” capacity chippers with the ChipSafe shield also are available through Morbark’s dealer network. Consisting of plates mounted directly to the sides of the brush chipper’s infeed chute and used in conjunction with special work gloves and ankle straps (or straps on both the ankles and wrists), the ChipSafe stops
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the chipper’s feeding mechanism if the operator’s hands or feet enter the defined ChipSafe sensing zone in the infeed chute, protecting the operator from possible injury. The chipper’s feeding mechanism is restarted with a simple swipe of the operator’s ChipSafe glove or wrist strap across a reset box located on the outer side of the infeed chute, so high productivity is maintained. Visit morbark.com.
Recycler Discharge
The new discharge conveyor option for Bandit Beast recyclers provides a 30’ discharge conveyor and a thrower, so operators can load both open top and end-loading trailers. It acts like a standard discharge, providing a tall platform to pile mulch, chips, or other products or load them in open-top trucks. But with the thrower, operators can easily broadcast the end product across a jobsite or load open-end trailers quickly and efficiently. The switch from discharge conveyor to the thrower is quick, taking less than a minute. The 30’ discharge conveyor is a two-section discharge. When the thrower is operated, the end section of the discharge folds up over the top of the first conveyor and out of the way. The thrower is then hydraulically tilted into position. When the thrower is in place, material is top-loaded into the thrower and discharged at tremendous velocity.
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AT THE MARGINS ‘THEO’ Reaches Out To Young People By Tom Trone, John Deere Forestry This month, across the country, an annual rite of passage begins as students walk the halls of their high schools for the last time and begin their lives as adults. Among them are about 18 young people in northwest Louisiana who will take the first steps toward an exciting, lucrative career as loggers. These young people will spend the summer learning the basics of logging in the Timber Harvesting Equipment Operator course (THEO). Most of them will have job offers waiting for them when they complete the course. Entering its third year, THEO was developed to address the labor shortage problem in Louisiana’s logging industry. As I’ve noted in previous columns, young people simply are not considering logging as a career anymore, and this problem is compounded in Louisiana where the oil industry is so prevalent. But THEO is more than a way to attract young people. It’s an exam-
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ple of how multiple stakeholders in the timber industry can work together to solve a problem. One of the people who was the driving force behind the creation of THEO is Holly Morgan of the Loisiana Society of American Foresters. When she and area logger Travis Taylor noticed that the loggers she works with were struggling to find crews, she decided to take action. “We lost a lot of logging contractors over the years (due to retirement). Nobody was coming up to replace them,” she said. “So Travis and I dreamed up this idea of a training program to get young people into the business.” The goal was to expose young people to the fact that logging is a good career choice. “These are good-paying jobs; you’re home every night; and you’re working outdoors,” she continued. “We need to get to kids who aren’t sure what they want to do and show them this is an option.”
Some members of the current THEO class in Many, La.
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The three-month course is designed to give students a wellrounded view of logging. The first month is in the classroom, where students learn harvesting machine basics, including diesel engines, electrical and hydraulics. They also learn about the business of logging, OSHA regulations, CPR, and general safety. The second and third month is spent in the field, operating equipment. Creating the course was the result of a true collaborative effort. Morgan had the help of several loggers, including Jack McFarland of McFarland Timber. “We started by creating a curriculum based on what anyone seeking a career in forestry should know,” said McFarland. “I wrote the curriculum for fellerbunchers, other loggers wrote it for skidders, delimbers and other machines.” Morgan, McFarland and the rest of the development team worked with the Louisiana state vocational school system to round out the curriculum and to get classrooms to hold the course. They also had the support of local mills, the insurance industry, the Louisiana Logging Council, the Louisiana Loggers Assn., and the Louisiana Forestry Assn. Several retired loggers volunteered to teach the classroom portion of the course, while local loggers and landowners provided timber, machines and work sites for the field portion. In 2015, John Deere and its dealer, Doggett Machinery, are providing a feller-buncher, skidder and knuckleboom loader. In its first two years, the course has graduated 15 students, which has benefitted loggers in the area. “The demand has been tremendous. Everyone who graduates is offered a job,” said Morgan. “Hopefully we’re changing how people look at logging. We want them to see it as a profession.” For the last six years, McFarland and other loggers have been working with local schools to expose them to logging as a career at a young age. They’ve been working with local guidance counselors to teach high school kids about logging. They’ve even looked at younger kids. “We started going to elementary schools for career days,” he said. “We have to get to these kids early to show them it’s a fun, exciting career. We can’t wait until they get out of school.” McFarland believes that in the next few years, THEO enrollment will increase because of this effort. In addition, THEO is now an accredited course, and students can earn 15 credits through tech-
nical schools. The course is being moved to different locations around the state to attract young people from different areas. This year, the course will be held at Sabine Valley Technical College, in Many, La. It hasn’t been easy, but Morgan believes the success they’ve had in Louisiana can be replicated in other areas. “We did it as volunteers, and it was hard,” she said. “It takes a local group of loggers who are willing to donate their time and help with moving equipment and hauling timber.” But the alternative is not acceptable, according to Morgan. “If you don’t do something (about the labor shortage) you can be marginalized out of the industry,” she concluded, adding that she knows how loggers value their independence. “If you want to stay independent you have to think about the future. This is one way to do it.” If you are interested in learning more about the THEO curriculum or hiring a graduate, you can contact the coordinator at 318-6091230 or louisianaloggingschool @gmail.com. Follow THEO students on Facebook at LA2013 THEO or visit the webpage: theo SLT la.homestead.com.
(FOROP). Originally an offshoot of the North Carolina loggers’ organization, FOROP now is a separate entity administered and applied by Doug Duncan and David Meiggs. With a small staff, it has graduated dozens of students, placing many with loggers in
North Carolina and Virginia. To date FOROP has trained students on sites in North Carolina only but has plans to take the program to Virginia later this year. For more information, visit forop. org or contact Doug Duncan at 919-271-9050.
Trone is Director of John Deere’s North American forestry business and is responsible for all sales and marketing activities as well as product development. Over his career, he has owned and operated several businesses. He is also a lecturer at the University of Illinois where he has taught the subjects of entrepreneurship, business strategy, organizational development and leadership. SLT Note: Another equipment operator training effort, the roots of which go back to 2012, is the Forest Equipment Operator Training School, Inc.
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PRENTICE 2470 (PB19355), 2007, 11275 Cat 525C (052501357), 2011, 5113 Hrs, Cab, Hrs, Cab, AC, SH50 Saw...................$110,000 AC, 30.5-32, Dual Arch Grapple, Blade .......................................................$175,000 TIGERCAT 726 (7260852), 1997, 10000 Hrs, Cat 559B (00PR65341), 2012, 5986 Hrs, Cab, Cab, AC, 30.5-32, 22’’ Sawhead ........$39,000 Cat 535C (053500517), 2011, 7737 Hrs, Cab, AC, 30.5-32, Double Arch Grapple, Blade AC, Pitts Trailer, CTR Delimber, Grapple...CALL Cat 573C (0RJT00256), 2012, 2888 Hrs, Cab, .......................................................$150,000 Cat 579B DSHYD (00PR65175), 2011, 3459 AC, 30.5L-32, SH56B Saw FRANKLIN LOGGER 170 (16544), 1995, 2500 Hrs, Cab, AC, Kodiak Trailer, Grapple, Delimber .......................................................$208,500 CAT 517 (05WW00419), 2004, 7877 Hrs, Hrs, Cpy, Single Arch Grapple.............$15,000 .......................................................$215,000 Cab, AC, Esco Grapple ...............MAKE OFFER JOHN DEERE 848G (001179), 2006, 10158 PRENTICE 384 (P57969), 2003, 13052 Hrs, HYDRO-AX HYD 321 (7121), ID#CON532020, Cab, AC, Evans Trailer, Delimber, Double V Heel 1998, 10000 Hours, Cab, AC, 24.5-32 Tires Cat 525C (052501516), 2012, 3718 Hrs, Cab, Hrs, Cab, AC, 30.5-32, Double Arch Grapple, ..............................................................CALL W/Chains, 20’’Sawhead .....................$33,500 AC, 30.5-32, Double Arch Grapple ..........CALL Blade.................................................$60,000 PRENTICE CRX625 (P52786), 1995, 22000 Hrs, Cab, Prentice Grapple......................CALL
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FELLER BUNCHERS 2009 Deere 643J .................................$85,000 2011 Deere 643K...............................$168,300 2003 Deere 843H.................................$36,000
2007 Prentice 2384 .............................$75,000 2007 Prentice 2470 .............................$54,000 2008 Prentice 2470 .............................$81,250 2008 Prentice 2570 .............................$95,000 2002 Tigercat 718 ...............................$36,900 2006 Tigercat 718 ...............................$65,000 1998 Tigercat 720B .............................$22,500 2009 Tigercat 718E .............................$90,000 2010 Tigercat 720E ...........................$145,690 2005 Tigercat 724D.............................$85,200 2007 Tigercat 724E .............................$93,000 1995 Tigercat 726 ...............................$25,000 2004 Timberking TK360......................$58,000
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2006 Prentice 280 ...............................$45,000 2002 Tigercat 230B .............................$50,000 2008 Tigercat 234 ...............................$87,500 2010 Tigercat 234 .............................$109,500 2011 Tigercat 234 .............................$132,500 2010 Tigercat 234CS ........................$125,000 2003 Tigercat 240B .............................$35,000 2006 Tigercat 240B .............................$52,500 2005 Tigercat 250 ...............................$60,000
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2012 John Deere 748H Dual Arch Skidder – 4,400 hours, good 44 x 32 flotation tires, Cab with air, Winch, Ready to work!.........................$169,500
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2013 Cat 563C – 3,900 hours, SC-57 Center post saw head, Cab with air, 30.5 x 32 tires, C7.1 Cat engine, Ready to work!....................................$175,000
2012 Cat 573C – 5,200 hours, SC-57 Center post saw head, Cab with air, 28L tires, C7.1 Cat engine, Ready to work! .................................................$155,000
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2012 Cat 535C Dual Arch Skidder – 5,500 hours, 2 New , 2 very good - 35.5 x 32 tires, Cab with air, Winch, Ready to work! ........................................$159,500
Watch videos of some of our machines on YouTube 2008 Barko 930 Mulcher - 3,900 hours, FAE 300U Smooth Drum Mulching Head, 305 hp cummins engine, 28L tires, Cab with air. Ready to work! Rent to own with approved credit....$169,500 2011 Tigercat 720E Feller Buncher— New disc, Cummins Tier III engine - Rebuilt June 2014, New Hyd pump Dec. 2014, New Pump drive gear box Jan 2014, 28L tires, IN SHOP NOW ..........................Call for price
2013 Tigercat 234 Knuckleboom Loader—CSI 264 Delimber, Mounted on Kodiak trailer with hyd stands, 3172 hours ......................$169,000
2011 John Deere 748H Log Skidder—SWEDA axles, Dual arch, Grapple, Winch, Cab with air, 35.5L32 Tires, 4632 hours ...............................$POR
2012 Cat 535C Dual Arch Skidder – 5,800 hours, 3 New, 1 very good - 35.5 x 32 tires, Cab with air, Winch. Ready to work! ........................................$159,500 2011 Prentice 2470 Mulcher – “NEW” FAE smooth drum mulching head, “NEW” high pressure pump / hoses, Cab with air, 28L tires. Rent to own W.A.C.....$195,000
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2006 John Deere 648G Log Skidder— 2009 Prentice 2384 Log Loader— 2005 John Deere 648GIII Log SkidRecent engine in 2014, Recent hydraulic CSI Delimber, Just IN: Ready Soon der—Recent engine, Very good 30.5 pump in 2014, New center pins, 30.5 ......................................$89,500 tires, Woods ready ..............$59,500 tires, Direct Drive....................$75,000
2009 Cat 525C - 7,000 hours, 30.5 x 32 tires, Cab with air, Winch. Ready to work! ..........................................$89,500
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2005 Hydro-Ax 670 Feller Bunch- 2004 Tigercat 230B Log Loader— er—Just in. ................Call for price CSI delimber, Just in 2005 Hydro-Ax 670—New engine, New .......................................$49,500
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2013 TIGERCAT 630D—Warranty good until July 2016, Turn Around Seat, 30.5x32 tires, Winch available, 2768 hrs, s/n: 6303807........................................$219,500
2013 TIGERCAT 620D—Warranty good until July 2016, Dual arch, 30.5x32 tires, Turn Around Seat, 3065 hrs., s/n: 6206016 ......................................................$219,500
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2013 PRENTICE 2670—SH-56B Sawhead, New 28Lx26 tires, 4364 hrs, s/n: CKB3E00171 ...........................$154,900
2012 DEERE 843K—22" Deere Felling Saw, 30.5x32 tires, New Saw Teeth, 5107 hrs., s/n: 1DW843KXJBC641114 ..........$154,900
TRUCKS
2001 PETERBILT 379—C12 Caterpillar engine 430 hp, 3.90 ratio, 206 in wheelbase, Fuller 10 speed trans., 924,109 miles, Air ride suspension ............$39,500
2007 KENWORTH W900—Cummins engine 565 hp, 4.3 ratio, 24.5 tires, aluminum wheels, 46K Hendrickson suspension, 684,872 miles, 13 spd transmission.$59,500
1997 Ford F750—Grapple truck, 33000 GVW, Twin cyl dump with knuckleboom loader, Clamshell grapple, 128,309 miles ......................................................$49,500
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2010 DEERE 437D—CSI 264 Delimber; Pitts Trailer; New Turn Table—Dealer Installed; 7860 hours ..................$115,000
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2005 Tigercat 822 FB 110 degrees 2010 Bandit 2590 Drum chipper w/ 1995 Tigercat 720 FB, Koehring 20" 5702 sawhead, engine, undercarriage CAT C13 w/ 440hp; 2590 hours, sawhead, Cummins engine, 30's tires replaced...............................$185,000 warranty ..............................$139,500 ..............................................$26,500
2003 John Deere 435 Log Loader w/ 1995 Morbark 22RXL whole tree chip- SkyTrak 6000 lbs. all-wheel drive, rough per w/ loader & 75" chipper, Cummins terrain forklift, Cummins engine, 2847 CSI 264 delimber, Rotobec grapple ..............................................$25,000 engine..................................$139,500 hours...........................................$29,500 3723
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