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Vol. 44, No. 9

(Founded in 1972—Our 516th Consecutive Issue)

F E AT U R E S

September 2015 A Hatton-Brown Publication

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out front: There are more than just three people with “J” names associated with the three crews of Triple J Logging. Jason Dawson (right) started the company with his dad James (left) and brother Josh; another brother, Jamye, and business partner, Josh Pilcher, are also involved. Story begins on PAGE 8. (May Donnell 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

Across State Lines he Forest Equipment Operator Training School, Inc. (FOROP) isn’t just in North Carolina anymore. Though it’s been operating in North Carolina since its inception four years ago, the logger training class has considered expanding across the state line for some time. The current class is working near Lynchburg. The goal is to spend about six months in this area, moving east toward Appamatox, and then back towards Danville and the North Carolina state line. The push to move the mobile classroom into Virginia timber stands started last year, according to FOROP CEO and executive director Doug Duncan. Duncan had given a presentation that was attended by Kirby Funderburk and Roger Timbrooke (both of MeadWestvaco at that time, now with WestRock). Timbrooke also serves on the advisory group for Dabney Lancaster Community College in Clifton Forge, Va. Through the connection with Timbrooke, the college sent its forest technician students to eastern North Carolina for a week-long training session in the fall of 2014 (the college will do the same this fall, while FOROP is in the Lynchburg area). Since then, WestRock has been a champion of getting FOROP established in Virginia, Duncan

says, including providing pine stands for the hands-on training. He lists Funderburk and Timbrooke, along with Jim Demoss and Easton Loving, also of WestRock, as instrumental to the program’s northern migration. FOROP has been achieving better than 50% job placement for its graduates, Duncan reports. “Since we started screening better, we are on an upward trend.” Duncan says that with each incoming class, the FOROP staff gets better at picking out quality students to join the program. “It’s been tough, trying to screen for the right caliber of people,” he adds. There are several qualities the program looks for in selecting eligible candidates. First, it’s important that they have a background with some heavy equipment skills—construction, landscaping, farm6

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ing. They look for people with experience working outdoors. “We get a lot of folks who have the ability to work long hours and eat lunch in the saddle, so to speak,” Duncan says. Another factor is a desire, not just for a job, but for a career as a logging operator. There’s no sense making this investment of time, effort and money in an individual who might move on to a different field in a year or two. “We see a lot of people who have had jobs, but haven’t really focused on a career before.” Loggers have widely embraced FOROP with open arms, Duncan says, and that has opened up another avenue for finding qualified candidates. Loggers who might want to hire them after completing the course have recommended and even sponsored students. Bob Fauteux, owner of MidAtlantic Tree Harvestors in Aylett, Va., recruited two students to the program, and Cliff Sexton, owner of Cliff Sexton Logging in Winton, NC, has sent three. This development is a signal to Duncan that something things is working. It shows promise, he says, because FOROP’s logging customers are getting involved on the front end of the process. Fauteux and Sexton, Duncan says, look for people in their local communities they think could have potential, people they already know to have a good work ethic. “They get it,” Duncan says. “They understand we are taking the burden of training off of the logger. They don’t have time for that.” Although he has been involved with FOROP since helping to start it in 2011, Duncan did not resign from his former position as executive director of what was then called the North Carolina Assn. of Professional Loggers until June last year. Since then he’s been full time with FOROP. Along with Duncan as chief executive officer of the wholly owned nonprofit entity, David Meiggs serves as chief operating office (COO), forest equipment specialist and lead instructor. Forest equipment instructor Aaron Barbolish and student

recruitment coordinator Terri Wallace round out the FOROP staff. Wallace takes the burden for screening candidates, Duncan says, freeing the other three up to focus on training classes. Since it started, FOROP has enjoyed the support of Catperpillar, which has provided equipment for the classes. Initially Gregory Poole (Pioneer) was the only Cat dealer involved, but recently Carter Machinery and Carolina Cat have also joined the party, thus broadening the environment. That was another part of the impetus for the Virginia move, Duncan says. The involvement of the additional dealers, with locations in Virginia, created an obligation for FOROP to show up in their territory. There is no tuition for trainees, and in fact students are paid a small stipend to offset the cost of providing their own transportation to and from the training sites. Classes go from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, and are designed to last from six to eight weeks, though some candidates find jobs sooner, depending on competence. FOROP classes concentrate on three elements. The first, of course, is equipment operation. Second is teamwork. Third, the instructors attempt to inject some basic real-world life skills into the program—things like taking responsibility for doing things that need to be done, without having to be told. “We are changing some people’s lives by giving them this opportunity,” Duncan believes. The mobile class takes place in the context of a real logging job, and students are integrated into the job as quickly as possible. WestRock provides markets as part of its sponsorship of the program, and has lined up hauling capacity through Country Line, Inc., a trucking outfit based in Amherst. “Seat time” is very important, Duncan says, so students have to rotate since machines really only have room for one at a time. Students usually start on skidder training first, Duncan says, because it is the most basic unit of the logging job and relatively simple to operate. Then the students move on to either feller-bunchers or loaders, depending on their competency. “Cutter operators and loader men seem to be more in demand than skidder drivers, so we want to expose them to as high a level operation as we can,” Duncan explains. Getting the word out is critical to any venture, so the school is a member of North Carolina Forestry Assn., the Virginia Forestry Assn. and Virginia Loggers Assn. They have a web site and social media presence. In addition, all four members of the FOROP staff—Duncan, Meiggs, Barbolish and Wallace—will be at the Mid-Atlantic Expo in Selma-Smithfield, NC on September 18-19 under the Caterpillar tent. Anyone who wants to contact FOROP—to hire a graduate, send a student or become a student— should check out the web site—www.forop.org— or contact Terri Wallace: 910-814-7181 by phone SLT or terri.wallace@forop.org by email.

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Wide Open ■ Chattooga County’s Triple J Logging can knock ’em down.

New Tigercat 250D loader maintains the pace on Crew #1.

By May Lamar GORE, Ga. ★ here are 159 counties in Georgia—second only to Texas among the 50 states—so they tend to run small, which is a good thing if you are Jason Dawson of Triple J Logging in Gore. On a hot, clear August morning with soybeans about ready in the fields of hilly Chattooga County, 37year-old Dawson is overseeing three company crews, each in a different county. Two additional contract crews also are at work in this rural northwestern section of the state dominated by the ChattahoocheeOconee National Forest and not far from the Chickamauga Battlefield (we won that one). It’s not mandatory to have your first name start with the letter “J” around here, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. Jason started the business with his father, James Dawson Jr., and Jason’s brother, Josh, back in 2001. Jamye “Big Jim” Dawson III, another brother, came on board in 2003 to run the shop. Josh Pilcher, Jason’s old partner in the trucking business, runs the third crew. For good measure, Jason’s 8-year-old son, Jake, is already sizing up the skidders. Six-year-old daughter Jenna hasn’t declared yet but apparently is eligible. Jason comes by logging naturally.

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He started helping his father haul trailers back to the road from the job site when he was nine. “I never wanted to do anything else,” he says. He worked for his dad’s operation for years—when they weren’t competing in rodeo competitions throughout the Southeast—but had wanted to go into the trucking business for himself. He saved his money and in 1997 he bought a truck and started a small hauling operation. Owning his own logging venture was always on his mind, too. (His grandfather, James Sr., “had a work ethic surpassed by no other,” and passed it down the line.)

The new office building at Triple J sits near a complex of old chicken coops and laying houses that Jason’s grandfather built back in the 1950s. Triple J at first actually did its maintenance in one of the old coops but didn’t stay too long because the rain came in, and also because growth came on Triple J like a summer afternoon shower. The operation consisted of one logging crew—Jason, his brother and their dad—and three truck drivers. A single cab pickup hauling fuel in a 55 gallon drum, a few tools and a chain saw complemented their conventional loader-cutter-

Each of the three sides runs a Bandit chipper.

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skidder arrangement. They cut mostly small tracts and soon Temple-Inland and Bowater became their primary markets. “When we were getting going and doing a little contract work, I got some real good advice from a forester I know from Tennessee,” Jason recalls. “He told me the big timber companies are selling off all their land around here and that I should concentrate on private tracts. So I followed that advice and today 99% of the land we deal with is privately owned. We don’t have to do contract work for a mill so we are free to negotiate our own rates and

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that model helped us get a leg up early on.”

Growth Mode Triple J definitely got a leg up. Today it operates three crews, subcontracts with two others, and produces about 200 loads per week— one third of that hardwood and the rest pine. The most valuable timber here is white oak, used for making staves for whiskey barrels. That’s in addition to up to 20-40 loads of fuel chips per week, and sometimes it can reach 100 loads weekly. Asked about the growth of the business, Jason doesn’t get too particular on the details, but says, “We started with one crew then added another and then a third one as business picked up. Two years ago we added two more. We have learned a great deal in the past 14 years. We have experienced our share of losses and gains. However by the grace of God, lots of hard work, and a strong family bond, we have been fortunate. It’s pretty much all good right now.” The new contract crews are part of Smith Logging, made up of Keith and Travis Smith, father and uncle of Triple J’s timber buyer Levi Smith. While his first name may not begin with the letter “J”, Levi has made a positive impact on the volume of timber coming through the pipeline. In fact when SLT visited, he was cruising a stand of timber so remote, he couldn’t make it back in time to have his picture taken for this article. In 2009 the company got into chipping, which has helped add to the bottom line and to the company’s reputation for leaving a nice piece of land behind them. “If you leave a clean site, you get a good reputation just by word of mouth,” Jason says. “We are usually running two chippers at all times and a third some of the time and there is definitely a market for biofuel.” Chips go mostly to WestRock in Stevenson, Ala. and to Resolute Forest Products in Calhoun, Tenn. Sawlogs go to the GP mill in Coosa (Rome), Ga. and to the Hogan & Storey Wood Products in Armuchee, Ga. Hardwood sawlogs go to J.P. Smith Lumber in Menlo. Pine pulpwood is hauled to the IP mill in Rome, Ga. Triple J tries to confine its territory to within about a 50-mile radius of the shop. “We’ve gone as far as 90 miles,” Jason says, “but that’s kind of tough to do.” Asked to name his biggest challenge, Jason shrugs and says, “We have a tough time keeping enough good truck drivers,” then immediately corrects himself. “We have some real good ones, like Terry Cook who’s been with us from the start, but it seems like some only last a couple of years and then

Crew #1, left to right: Chuck Rollins, Earp Powell, Johnny Rollins, James Dawson, Jason Dawson, Russell Stager and B.J. White

“Big Jim” Dawson manages all woods equipment and truck maintenance.

New John Deere 643L feller-buncher

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Crew #2, left to right: Chance Bates, Josh Dawson, Jason Dawson, Mike Corbin, Bubba Gill and Brad Eads. Not Pictured: Ronnie King.

Crew #3, left to right: Josh Bullard, Charlie Godfrey, Josh Pilcher, Jason Dawson and James Abernathy

they’re gone.” Otherwise, according to Jason, Triple J has very little turnover of its 40 employees and therefore maintains veteran crews that know the importance of safety as well as production. Six Triple J employees are certified through SWPA as master timber harvesters.

which sends out a sales rep once a week to check Triple J’s inventory at the shop, from case oil to pails. A bulk oil tank is used for service inside the shop. They keep a 10,000 gallon tank filled with bio fuel and have another 12,000 gallon tank on order. Tires are generally purchased at Westmoreland Tire in Fort Payne and parts at Hammonds Auto Parts in Summerville or Evans Store and Parts in Coosa.

Fleet Management The Triple J parking lot bustles with the movement of rigs and pickups. The company owns 24 trucks, with Peterbilt leading the way accounting for 14 of them, along with some Mack, Western Star and Freightliner. Thirty or so log trailers are a range of brands as are 17 chip vans. Driving the big rigs of Triple J Logging are Roger Brison, Erik Powell, Greg Shaw and Terry Cook with Crew #1; Bradley Eads, Jamie Kendrick, James McCarty and Steven McClough for Crew #2; and Chuck Bias, Clayton Lewis and Thomas Morgan for Crew #3. Attached to the neat office is a large, two-bay shop where Jamye and two full time mechanics, Patrick Strawn and Joni Chambergo, and one part-timer do all the maintenance. “We don’t contract out very much,” Jason says. “We like to do everything and own everything we can.” In addition to managing equipment and truck fleet service and repair, Jamye oversees the company safety program. Working off a maintenance schedule, there is a truck in the shop daily for a periodic check where it’s gone over from top to bottom with records checked to see what is due for changing. Engine oil and filters are changed at 15,000 mile intervals and transmission at 100,000 miles. “With the number of trucks we run it’s usually about every third week a truck returns to the shop unless there’s an immediate problem,” Jamye says. Although they don’t have a Kenworth in the fleet, Triple J relies on MHC Kenworth of Chattanooga as their primary outlet for truck parts, 10

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In The Woods

Triple J Logging feeds several sawmills.

Triple J’s maintenance program is finely tuned effort.

which are delivered to the Triple J shop daily. Triple J prefers to run some later model trucks which are pre-emissions and don’t require the DEF fluids and particulate filters. They buy used older trucks in good condition to add to the fleet when necessary. Logging equipment is greased at least twice a week and oil changed between 250 and 300 hours depending on conditions such as weather and the terrain of the job site. The operator of the machine conducts this service when obtaining the filters from the supply room prior to that day of work. Triple J has been

updating some equipment in the past few years with no set terms. The company has been running bio fuel for the past seven or eight years, mostly purchased from Soymet in Rome. Triple J had some issues with fuel filters clogging in the beginning but now very few issues arise from any fuel problems. They run Chevron products across the board. In their trucks the engine oil is Delo 400 LE and they use a lower grade 15W-40 Ursa oil as hydraulic which seems to run cooler and seems to have less problems with line breakage from heat. Oil supplier is Parman Energy of Chattanooga,

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The three crews have similar setups, each with Bandit chipper, a couple of John Deere skidders, a JD feller-buncher, and a Tigercat loader. When equipment is needed, there’s Flint Equipment in Adairsville and Warrior Tractor & Equipment in Oxford, Ala. Triple J has been very much a John Deere outfit, but now runs some new Tigercat loaders from Forestry 21 in Piedmont, Ala. Jason’s father, James Jr., runs Crew #1 and operates a new Tigercat 250D loader (instead of the Prentice he’d been using for a number of years). Johnny and Chuck Rollins and Russell Stager also work Crew #1. On a recent day, the men were halfway through a first thinning job deep in the heart of a 300-acre tract of Bartow County land owned by Timberland Investment Resources. They had another month to go to finish the job. Josh Dawson’s Crew #2 was some 30 miles off finishing up a 60-acre clear-cut in Floyd County. Josh, Michael Corbin, Chance Bates, Ronnie King, Richard Gill, Brad Eads and John Rollins Jr. have left 50 or so of the tallest, straightest pines standing. Once the job site is cleared of debris, these pole trees will be harvested and hauled to Cox Wood in Vance, Ala. for preservative treatment. Josh Pilcher, who began as a truck driver and has been with Triple J for 13 years, runs Crew #3. Josh, Charlie Godfrey, Josh Bullard and James Abernathy were over in Polk County working a dusty 60-acre second thinning just off the highway. Jason meanwhile runs a feller-

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buncher from time to time when added production is needed, but mostly he’s buying timber and overseeing all of the operations. “I think one reason Triple J has been successful is that our crews consist of good men who have a genuine interest in getting the work done right and done safe,” Jason says. “Logging isn’t what it used to be. We’re more like landscapers now. Our company is fortunate to have family and a long-time employee to run each of the crews from a safety and produc-

tion perspective in addition to merchandizing of timber.” Quarterly safety meetings cover various topics and company issues and policy changes as needed with assistance from insurance agent Scott Copeland with Guffin and Eleam Insurance in Summerville, Ga.

Recognition Triple J office manager Robin Scoggins keeps everything moving in the right direction. “I couldn’t run

this company or spend much time with my family without Robin,” Jason says. Robin takes care of payroll and insurance, scheduling, load reconciling and just about every other detail of running the busy office. “I told her that if she ever retires she needs to give me about a year’s notice,” Jason says. After one year employees receive a Christmas bonus at the end of the year as well as the approved company holidays off with pay again after one year of employment.

Education and community involvement are very important to the company. They participate in the county’s agriculture awareness day as well as career day at Trion City School where they carry equipment and have someone talk to the grade school students about the industry and about safety around logging zones. “We stay active in the community, especially in the schools, to promote logging and let folks know who we are,” Jason says. This year Southeastern Wood Producers Assn. named Triple J Logging its Logger of the Year. “You’ve gotta keep moving forward,” Jason says. “You don’t want to be backing up.” But it’s not all about logging for the Dawsons. As busy as work is, Jason’s home life can be just as hectic. His wife, Shanna, works with special needs children in the Trion City schools and while daughter Jenna isn’t ready yet for competitive sports, son Jake plays baseball, basketball and football. “Every weekend this spring and summer we’ve been at the ballpark and football’s coming up,” says Jason, whose hobbies used to include calf roping. There’s no longer time for rodeos, he admits. “Sometimes we wonder what we did before we had children.” SLT Email triplejlogging@yahoo.com

Triple J Logging Lineup Tigercat 250D, 250C, 234 knuckleboom loaders Cat 579 knuckleboom loader Two Prentice 410 loaders Seven John Deere 648H, 648 G-III, and 748H skidders Four John Deere 843K and H feller-bunchers John Deere 643L feller-buncher Two John Deere 750 dozers John Deere 700 dozer Timberjack 840 feller-buncher Two Bandit 3590 chippers Bandit 2590 chipper John Deere 759G track fellerbuncher Bobcat T-300 John Deere 6430 tractor Kubota M5040 tractor 14 Peterbilt trucks (1994 to 2007) Six Mack trucks (1993 to 2004) Mack dump truck Two Western Star trucks (1996, 2001) Two Freightliners (2003, 2004) Three Ford work trucks Two Dodge trucks Five Chevy trucks 31 log trailers, 17 chip vans, three lowboy trailers (various makes) 12

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Great Fit ■ David and Sam Griffis are taking advantage of a new opportunity. By Jay Donnell LIVE OAK, Fla. hen ★ David Griffis of D&S Griffis Timber was looking for a new opportunity in the logging business a year and a half ago, he didn’t have to look too far. At the same time, M.A. Rigoni, Inc. of Perry, Fla. was in need of a good contract logger. That’s when they discovered Griffis, a longtime logger in Florida and Georgia. It was a case of good timing and today David and M.A. Rigoni have developed a strong relationship. Richard Schwab, co-owner of M.A. Rigoni, believes David and his company has been a great fit for M.A. Rigoni. “David is probably one

Sam and David Griffis have a great working relationship.

A brand new John Deere 437D loader has been a nice addition to D&S Griffis Timber, Inc.

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of the best loggers that has worked for us,” Schwab says. “We’re very pleased with his production. We can put him in a clear-cut behind a chipping crew or we can put him in a first time thinning and he always exceeds our expectations.” David, 53, started logging when he was 19 years old and spent many years working for different crews. He eventually began running crews for different loggers and in 1995 decided to start D&C Griffis Logging. “I kind of grew up around it and I just had a feel for it,” David says. “I just felt like I could do it myself and I think I’ve done pretty good with it so far.” In 2003, David’s son Sam joined his father’s logging business and they decided to change the name to D&S Griffis Timber, Inc. Sam, 31,

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shares his father’s passion for logging and now owns half of the company. “There’s nothing like being out here,” he says. “You don’t have to deal with too many people and you’re pretty much your own boss.” Schwab believes M.A. Rigoni and D&S Griffis Timber have been a great match for each other. “When David put the feelers out that he needed somewhere to go we knew it was a good fit,” Schwab explains. “David is in the Live Oak area and we had a void in our production force. We heard he was looking for a job and we were looking for a logger.”

Operations The company runs one crew and cuts pine 90% of the time on mostly flat terrain. They have the ability to complete any thinning or clear-cut job, but they mostly thin. When Southern Loggin Times’ visited they were cutting on an 800-acre tract in Statenville, Ga. Half of the time they’re working in Georgia and the other half in Florida. They had been on the tract for two months and expected to be on it for another three weeks. Rayonier owns this particular tract. D&S has found its niche working with M.A. Rigoni and has seen an improvement in production since they started working with them. “They’ve been keeping me really busy,” David explains. “I wish I would have been working for them a long time ago.” M.A. Rigoni has three company whole tree chipping crews and they now have seven contract loggers. The logging complements their whole tree chipping operations. Often, M.A. Rigoni will go into a tract and chip it before David and his crew go in. “This makes it easy for him,” Schwab says. “He’s able to produce a little more wood easier and he’s still getting paid the same to do it.” Sometimes David and his crew will go into a tract and then M.A. Rigoni will come in afterwards. “He’s basically working the hardwood pulpwood out of it and all the biomass is left there in bundles to where we can bring our chipping crew in and chip behind his operations,” Schwab explains. Biomass is a key to M.A. Rigoni’s business plan. “A logger like David doesn’t really want to invest the capital in a small chipper,” Schwab explains. “We typically complement our biomass side with David’s operation.” When D&S Griffis Timber arrives on a new tract they build roads if they need to, but when they’re cutting for M.A. Rigoni everything is usually already in place. “The roads are usually already built and we haven’t had to

The company can produce up to 60 loads a week.

The crew’s shop on wheels has been extremely valuable for on-site maintenance.

The 643L wheeled feller-buncher features a Final Tier 4 emission-certified engine.

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put in landings in a long time,” David says. When leaving a site the company makes sure to leave the land as clean as possible and they have to get the thumbs up from M.A. Rigoni before they can move onto the next tract. Generally working about an hour away from their home in Live Oak, D&S Griffis sends its pulpwood to the Langboard OSB mill in Quitman, Ga. and the RockTenn corrugated box plant in St. George, Ga. Chip-n-saw goes to the new Klausner sawmill in Live Oak. They work on private land most of the time, but they work on many different sized tracts and they’re often on each tract for long periods of time. Employees usually arrive on site at 7 a.m. and leave at 5 p.m. Each employee gets a $100 bonus if they reach 60 loads in a week, which helps increase productivity. They get a week paid vacation each year, but some employees choose to work during their “week off” and get double the pay that week. Employees are also granted personal time for sickness and family emergencies. The company only has four employees including David and Sam, but they’re extremely productive for their size. David runs the

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Richard Schwab and Rhett Sumner of M.A. Rigoni

feller-buncher, Sam runs the loader and Ray Windham runs the skidder. Marvin Townsend is the truck driver, but has only been with the company for a few months. David’s wife, Chessy, is the bookkeeper and plays a vital role in the business. D&S Griffis Timber has had no major safety issues during its time as a company. Employees are subject to random drug tests, a policy that was put in place about six

Left to right, Sam Griffis, Ray Windham and David Griffis

months ago. “It doesn’t cost us very much,” David explains. “It’s worked out pretty well so far and I think it’s worth it in the long run.”

Equipment For many years the company ran Tigercat equipment, but that all changed when David’s friend, Stuart Smith, a salesman for John Deere, convinced him to make the

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switch a year and a half ago. They now run a 2015 437D loader, 2015 643L feller-buncher and a 2012 748H skidder. The 2015 units were bought just a few months ago and are still under warranty. “This is our first go around with John Deere and I love it so far,” Sam says. “The comfort in the new ones is a big plus for our guys and it’s a big relief off your shoulders and your back.” The new loaders provide a new

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back and seat cushion design for additional comfort as well as padded adjustable armrests that improve ergonomics and help beat fatigue. The 437D is known for its swing torque, horsepower, hydraulic pump flow and lift capacity. For greater uptime and durability, there’s a new, larger swing system. It also has an “auto idle” feature that saves fuel and the 437D has load-sensing hydraulics. The 643L wheeled feller-buncher features a Final Tier 4 emission-certified engine. The machine has a sim-

plified electrical system, turbo cool down to extend idle time, and is built with tougher pins, bushings, and hydraulic cylinders for longer life. They purchased the machines from Beard Equipment in Lake City, Fla. “Beard is on top of their game,” Sam explains. “They listen to what we have to say.” The company owns one truck, a 2002 Freightliner with a Chancey trailer, and the rest of their trucking is contracted. All of the equipment maintenance

is done on site and David’s “shop on wheels” makes it to every tract. They used to have their own shop, but since they’re often working an hour away from home, the shop on wheels allows for easy access to all of the tools needed for repairs. Employees grease the machines three times a week and then most heavy maintenance is done on Friday. Oil is changed every five or six weeks and they use Delo 15W-40. Tires are a mix of Goodyear and Primex. Since two of their machines

are under warranty, they have John Deere mechanics come on site to fix any problems that arise, but everyone on the crew has plenty of experience fixing equipment themselves. “We’re all pretty good mechanics out here and if something goes wrong we pitch in and get it going again,” Sam says. “We used to run older equipment so we’ve had a lot of experience with that.” The company hasn’t experienced any significant problems with vandalism, but David has seen it happen before and hopes nothing like that would happen in the areas they usually work.

Issues/Ahead Weather is always an issue for loggers, but it can become a major issue when you’re working in south Georgia and north Florida where the weather can be quite fickle. However, David and his crew try not to let a little water slow them down. “This year has been really rough for us as far as rain,” David says. “The past two months it’s been raining almost every day and that’s unusual for the area. When I was a kid I had an uncle in the logging business and he always told me that it’s never raining in the woods so I just kind of take it like that.” Richard Schwab is seeing fewer loggers in the area and believes that it is having an effect on the mills. “We’re seeing more and more mills take wood on Saturdays on a consistent basis in this area,” Schwab says. “I think there’s a production shortage in the woods and some of the weaker loggers have weeded themselves out.” Sam likes the position the company is in right now. “Lately everything has been pretty good,” Sam explains. “This is actually the best we’ve done in years and we haven’t been on quota for a while in this area.” Sam likes what he is seeing from the markets and believes the company can continue to build on the momentum they’ve gained in the past year. “We’d definitely like to grow to two crews,” he says. “We’re confident enough to do it now so maybe in the next year or two we can expand. The markets are strong in this area right now.” There wasn’t always as much optimism from the Griffis family as there is today, especially during the recession when they had to downsize and scrape by. Today, they feel like they’re almost back to full strength and David gives a lot of the credit to M.A. Rigoni for keeping them busy and treating the company fairly. D&S Griffis Timber, Inc. is a member of the Southeastern Wood SLT Producers Assn. 18

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All Heart ■ Brown family has been stumping more than 50 years. By Jessica Nelson FRUITDALE, Ala. ussell Brown, owner of Big B Stumping based here, says there are only 32 stump ★ harvesting crews still in operation in the United States, all operating in the Southeast. For stumpers, it’s all about heart— the rosin-filled heart of longleaf pine stumps, called lighter wood. The key to being a good stump man, Brown says, is knowing how to get the wood. “Every stump you come up on digs different,” he says. The terrain, kind of soil, and weather conditions all dictate how to finesse the stump out, and a good stumper needs a database of knowledge about the terrain and soil. “The ground is different in every county,” Brown continues. “And knowing the situation you’re in makes the difference between getting the load of wood and not getting the load of wood.” While stumpers face a lot of the same challenges and rewards as loggers, Brown says one of the biggest differences is the availability of the product. After a tree is cut, the stump needs to sit in the ground, ideally five or more years, as the unusable bark and sap rot away from the rich heart. In earlier days, forests were full of lighter stumps left behind from logging the virgin longleaf stands that carpeted the region. These stumps are more than

Komatsu excavator with CBI attachment is the workhorse for the Browns—left to right, Russell, Matthew and Edgar.

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kindling—the rosin is used in a variety of products from chewing gum to an ingredient in citrus flavored soft drinks. Those number one stumps are few and far between now, and the stumps that are available are from trees cut younger and left in the ground for a shorter time. This is made possible, Brown says, by the stump shear head on their excavator. The shear head is equipped with a feature called the active thumb, a heavy blade that shears off the bottom of the taproot. There have been a lot of changes in the industry since family patriarch Edgar Brown first started hauling stumps with his own father. In those days, Edgar recalls, they used dynamite to blow the stump into manageable bits and loaded the trucks by hand. “It wasn’t like it is now,” Edgar says with a chuckle, “sitting up there in an air conditioned cab. It was hard work, hard work.” From dynamite and muscle, stump harvesting equipment evolved to bulldozers equipped with a stump yoke to push the stump out of the ground, taproot and all. Though the best heartwood is in the above-ground stump, the taproot was good enough in the older stumps to take in. If they haven’t had the time in the ground, taking the whole taproot isn’t economically viable. In the late 1980s, bulldozers began to be phased out in favor of excavators with traditional buckets, and the shear heads showed up a few years later in the early 2000s.

It beats the old practice of dynamiting.

Background Edgar Brown got his first contract from Hercules, Inc. in 1962. He’d been helping his dad haul paperwood and occasionally stumps after he left the Air Force in 1960, but they hadn’t been getting ahead as far as he could tell. When John Henderson, an area supervisor with Hercules (now Pinova, Inc.), asked if the Browns would go into business harvesting stumps for Hercules, Edgar pushed his dad to accept. “John said if you’ll move over to Repton, Ala., work where I ask you to work, and take care of business like you ought to, he said I believe this job is going to last 10 years. That was in 1962, and we’ve been stumping ever since.” Edgar is 76 now, with 50 plus years of experience and a retirement under his belt. He officially retired at age 69, but Edgar still doesn’t miss a day. He primarily runs the track hoe, which he says is about all he can do these days. But he’ll keep coming out to help as long as he can. Edgar says stumping was just a job to him, and he kept at it because he never could find anything else that suited him and made as good a

These stumps traveled 500 miles to Brunswick, Ga.

living. But it always meant something more to Russell. Edgar’s oldest two sons went off to college like he wanted them to, but Russell, he says, “was bound and determined he was going to stump wood, and

would hear nothing else.” Edgar recalls leaving for work before daylight some mornings and looking back to see Russell peeking out a window to watch him go. For his part, Russell loved stump-

Narrow shear head reduces soil disturbance.

ing from childhood. He loved being outdoors, the machines, the satisfaction of getting the load of wood. But it was even more than that. “It sounds a little crazy, but for me, it was about being somebody,” Russell says. “You’re one of a few people, and when you go places, everybody’s like ‘Oh, you’re the stump man.’ I love that everybody doesn’t do this.” Three generations of Browns worked together this summer, including Russell’s son, Matthew. Matthew loves it too, and is campaigning to follow in his dad’s footsteps. His main job is to run the prehauler, and do small maintenance and repairs, and he helps move the other equipment around as needed. Russell declares Matthew won’t follow him into stumping, but Matthew declares that he will. It’s a familiar tune. Edger once said the same thing about Russell and Russell said otherwise. Russell has followed in his father’s footsteps in another way, as pastor of the same church in Beau-

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mont, Miss. that Edgar pastored for 32 years. And Matthew looks poised to follow them on that path as well, Russell says with pride.

Operations Big B Stumping relies on three main pieces of equipment. Edgar runs a 2013 Komatsu PC-LC track hoe with a CBI stump shear head. It’s narrower than the smallest excavator bucket for a track hoe that size, and half the weight of the earlier shear

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heads, which were so heavy they wore out the machines too quickly to be practical. The narrow width means a great deal less soil disturbance and resulting erosion. The agility of the active thumb increases yield and lets the operator knock off more dirt, which is a huge problem in processing and cost. Another helpful feature of the shear head is the flat lip on the back side that is used to efficiently push dirt back over the hole. Stump harvesting crews can remove stumps from a managed longleaf pine forest

without damage to surrounding trees or the land. Less disruption of the land makes for happier landowners, too. Russell says one of the earliest lessons he learned from his father was to get along with the people whose land you’re working—if not, you’ll never get the next load of wood, because your bad reputation will get there first. The Browns are working year round, though winter months pose the same difficulties for stumpers as

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for loggers. For the Browns, being a small operation and their own boss ensures flexibility. They can work six-day weeks, and do at times, or take a week off when needed. Matthew runs a 1994 Timberjack 230A prehauler. He loads up a flatbed trailer that has extra standards to hold in the smaller stump wood, though DOT mandates will require all stump trailers to use enclosed walls soon. It also has a solid steel bed to stand up to the unloading equipment at the mill, which would poke holes in a regular bed. This trailer gets hauled to the Pinova, Inc. plant in Brunswick, Ga., about 500 miles away. Though they’ve used contract haulers for the past few years, they used to haul the wood themselves. The long distance to the Brunswick plant amplified the hit they took when fuel prices started skyrocketing in 2007. They’ve also had to buy their own wood during times when Pinova, which was previously Hercules, Inc., didn’t have a wood buyer available for their area. This meant the Browns had to find the stumps, get the land leased, and try to keep the next place lined up in between getting the load and hauling it to Brunswick. Now Big B Stumping works with Pinova procurement forester Ed Nelson, who does the leg work of locating good tracts, negotiating with landowners, and keeping up with lease numbers and stumpage paid. He lines everything up so the Browns just have to find out where to go next. “Finding and hunting and contracting, that’s a full time job,” Russell says. Having someone to take care of that part makes a big difference for them. Nelson says the key to having work lined up for the Browns and other crews he works with is knowing the area. With his 40 years of experience buying stumps first for Hercules, and now Pinova, he knows what kind of land is likely to have stumps and where to look for that kind of terrain. Extensive networking with loggers, foresters and land managers is also part of the picture, but sometimes he gets a lead by looking out for signs of recent logging during his daily traveling. “I try to find new routes to get places when I can,” he says. Stumps are most commonly harvested from land that has been clear-cut, though not exclusively. With the track hoe and shear head, crews can also harvest stumps from well-managed longleaf stands, but those jobs are not as common. There are typically four to six stumps per ton, but there can be a lot of variability, Nelson says. ➤ 24

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One clear-cut tract might have stumps of varying maturity and size from past thinnings. The size of tracts that Pinova leases also varies widely, depending on how heavily timbered it was. They might find one ton per acre or up to 10, he says. So although they like to work with more than 20 acres, if the tract has enough stumps for a load, they’ll try to get it regardless of size. Likewise, the size of the log isn’t always the whole story. There are lower quality big stumps and high quality small stumps—it’s all about the heart. Russell says that he’s heard of other pine species in the region, mainly slash, occasionally leaving stumps that can be harvested for rosin. “But these slash and loblolly, they’re made to grow fast, so they don’t have any heart. It takes the long, slow growth on the longleaf. That’s what makes them so good, so rich.” The limitations on stump availability and the trouble it takes to get one out of the ground means that a day’s work is one load of stump wood, compared to the eight or 10 loads a logger can expect. Russell says stumps earn more per ton than logs, but it all evens out, especially with the mill so far away. Their

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Stumps need to remain entrenched at least five years.

1994 Timberjack prehauler has withstood a beating.

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monthly production ranges between 450-650 tons, depending on availability and conditions. Russell says his mother, Elizabeth, has kept the books for the company since it began, which was about the same time his parents married. The most hectic part for her is trucking, he says. Because they live in Mississippi, work out of Alabama, and haul to Georgia, they are required to track their mileage in each state and be IFTA (International Fuel Tax Agreement) compliant, something loggers who don’t cross state lines don’t have to worry about. Contract hauling eases that burden, but she still takes care of everything else on old-fashioned paper. “Mama’s not a computer person,” Russell says. “Mama will send a check in the mail, and you get it when it gets there.” When Elizabeth gets ready to retire, Russell’s wife, Michelle, will move into that role, and she’ll ring in the computer age. Both Edgar and Russell are hesitant to speculate about the future of stumping. “How can I know?” Edgar asks. He tells the story again of the Hercules wood buyer who gave his dad an estimate of 10 years of work for a career that has now SLT spanned more than 50.

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In His Element ■ Talented Casey Carter is growing his central Alabama service company. By DK Knight STANTON, Ala. n ambitious selfstarter, Casey ★ Carter goes about his work these days with lots of enthusiasm, confidence, and satisfaction—enthusiasm because he’s making his own way upstream, confidence because he’s very good at what he does, and satisfaction because he’s providing quality service while helping mold the young lives of those who work for him. Carter, 41, took a leap of faith just over a year ago when he put his full weight behind Carter Enterprises, LLC, a welding-repair-installation company he established as a sideline in 2003. He could have taken a perhaps less risky route by shouldering the established logging business being wound down by his retiring daddy, Gene (Rainbow Logging, Inc., 1964-2014). Carter had worked in that business for 17 years, operating various machines. But he decided to follow his real passion, welding, and try and make it on his own, believing he could further develop Carter Enterprises, which had become a dealer for both SI (now VPG) and Vulcan electronic on-board scales in 2011. His first several months turned out to be busy, challenging, tiring, humbling, gratifying and, well, busy. “I’ve been very fortunate, very blessed, thank the good Lord,” he states. “I prayed about taking on the logging business but felt led to stick with welding. I liked it more than logging and also thought I could have a positive influence on some of the

Casey Carter credits God with blessing his service business during its first official year.

young people around here.” As a kid Carter was always drawn to welding. “I was curious about the hood and clothing; wondered why I could not look directly at the bright light,” he recalls. “My uncle (Larry Carter) taught me a lot about it; I liked to tinker around with it, and liked mechanical things as well. Daddy was always coming up with ways to customize his logging machines and attachments by making changes or adding this and that, and otherwise it seemed like something always needed welding. I had plenty of stuff to practice on.” By observing and listening to good welders in the area, and through hours of practice at increasingly more challenging tasks, Carter

honed his skills over time, eventually taking on and mastering aluminum welding. Working after hours out of Rainbow Logging’s shop, he began accepting a wide array of projects, ranging from residential to industrial. He also outfitted a trailer so he could take on distant jobs. Word got out that he did good work and stood behind it. “I was fortunate that I had a primary job and could pour all welding profit I made into the secondary one,” he says.

Development Carter got additional early support from his daddy, who provided an old Ford F350 and a welder. His

Spacious area adjacent to shop is convenient for trailer drop-offs. Shop-built trailer is key to distant work.

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uncle Larry, who worked for Taylor-Made Transportation in nearby Maplesville, was his connection to that organization, which became a regular customer in that it owns numerous aluminum chip vans. Meanwhile, his on-board scale business was growing, in part because he was willing to travel and install them for both individuals and commercial accounts. He estimates installing more than 150 sets, primarily in Alabama but also in parts of Georgia and Tennessee. A wellequipped trailer he designed and built himself is key. Gulf Coast Mack is Carter’s largest commercial customer. Carter notes that VPG’s Dave Butler has been particularly helpful and supportive. Another reason scale sales have ballooned is because shrewd loggers and log truckers realize they are safer and eliminate guesswork regarding weight, according to Carter, who observes: “They try to consistently get the maximum legal weight. Scales today are more accurate and reliable; they’ll last at least 10 years, probably longer on the trailer. That’s a small investment for a lot of benefit. I’ve yet to have anybody not tell me they wish they’d gone with scales 10 years ago.” (Rainbow Logging used scales in the

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last third of its 50-year life.) The newest and fastest growing component of the business is the installation of mechanical or electronic tarp systems for trailers, primarily chip vans. These systems eliminate the need for truck drivers to climb aboard the van or stand on a ladder, thus all but eliminating accidents and injuries, and also speeding up tarp time. They are installed at the shop with the aid of two scissor lifts and a 2-ton overhead crane. Carter Enterprises is a dealer for Mountain Tarp, Shurco, Roll-Rite, and Ox Body trailer parts, and buys all tarps from Dothan Tarpaulin, Dothan, Ala. Regular customers for trailer tarp system installation and repair include Taylor-Made Transportation, Billy Barnes Enterprises, Wade Transport, Evergreen Forest Products, Mobile Forest Products, Scotch Lumber Co., and KyKenKee. While scales and tarp systems are important to the company’s growth and financial health, the core remains welding and repair work, which includes trailers and vans of most all types—even suspensions and walking floors. As a favor, and perhaps as a test of his skills, Carter is building a custom pole trailer for logger Mike Gates of Whatley, Ala., who “has been a great help by introducing me

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Employees, from left, include Trey Mixon, Chris Jones, Garrett Carter, Ryan Smitherman, Keith Dubose, Drew Brasher.

Dana Smith keeps paperwork in order.

to lots of loggers in his area.” Carter Enterprises operates in 3300 sq. ft. of space in buildings erected by the owner only a few steps from his residential back door in rural Chilton County. Full time/part time employees include Chris Jones, Trey Mixon, Garrett and Dalton Carter, Ryan Smitherman, Keith Dubose and Drew Brasher. Gene Carter is the part-time utility guy. Bookkeeper is Dana Smith, Casey’s sister-in-law, who he describes as vital in staying on top of

Sincerely grateful to all who helped him get started and continue to support the business, Carter particularly credits his parents, Gene and Janet, and his wife, DeNe. “Their support has been tremendous,” he says. “Without it, I wouldn’t be here.” Casey Carter obviously is in his element as he scans the horizon for other promising opportunities. SLT

accounts receivable and payable. The entrepreneur, who works at least 60 hours a week, is a stickler about quality work, constantly checking behind employees, believing “if you keep customers happy, they’ll keep you busy.” Equipment includes a ’97 International single axle spot truck, ’98 Chevy Kodiak service truck, Ford F-350, two service trailers, Miller and Lincoln welding gear, ASV skid-steer loader, and two JLG scissor lifts.

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M-A Expo Draws Near ■ Event includes full machine lineup, children’s activities, CLA reception.

he third version of the MidAtlantic Logging & Biomass Expo (MALBE) gets underway September 18 for a two-day run some 14 miles north of the twin eastern North Carolina cities of Selma-Smithfield. Thousands are expected to turn out to see perhaps the most impressive array of products ever demonstrated or displayed at any such live venue on the East Coast. “It should be another good one, maybe the best to date in the series, which began in 2011,” says Jack Swanner, Expo Coordinator and Executive Director of the Carolina Logger’s Assn. (CLA), one of three co-sponsors of the event. “One thing is certain; the site is compact and easy to access, and we’ve tried to lay it out for the benefit of exhibitors and convenience of visitors. Like the previous sites, this one should hold up well to any rainfall.” Officially, the site is located at 1153 Lynch Rd., Selma, NC. It can be easily accessed from either U.S. 301 or U.S. 70. (See accompanying site map.) Along with the latest high-tech, fuel-efficient skidders, loaders and feller-bunchers offered by Caterpillar, Barko, John Deere and Tigercat, seven chipper companies will demonstrate their products: Bandit, Barko, Morbark, Peterson, Terex, Trelan and Vermeer. There could be another brand in the mix in CBI, which Terex purchased a few months ago. Peterson will share space with Cat dealer Gregory Poole; Morbark with John Deere dealer James River Equipment and Barko with dealer John Woodie Enterprises. Live demo sites have been secured by Gregory Poole, James River, Bullock Brothers Equipment and John Woodie Enterprises. Fecon, Bandit and Vermeer will display mulchers; CSI will show its slashers and pull-through delimbers, including its new wide-mouth model 496 Thinning Pro; Pemberton will display its new loader grapple; Logger Shop will tout the Ryan’s Equipment DS28 sawhead and other products; Quadco will feature its wide array of felling and processing attachments; Eco-Tracks will be showcased by Olofsfors; and both Stihl and Husqvarna will roll out their products.

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Tires, trucks and trailers will also be in the mix, as will insurance providers and various other attachments. New to this year’s expo will be some activities for children. The National Wild Turkey Federation will sponsor an inflatable BB gun range so that kids can shoot targets and become familiar with guns, and the NC Forest Service will provide both a large mechanical version and an animated likeness of Smokey The Bear. In an educational gesture, a forester representing the NC Forestry Assn. (NCFA) will host a group of Johnston County FFA members on Friday morning, leading them around the site and explaining the various types of equipment. In addition, the NCFA Education Committee will have a booth set up to provide kids and parents information about forestry and its importance to North Carolina and the nation. According to Swanner, attendance is expected to approach at least 3,000, given the forest products industry’s current brisk pace in the Mid-Atlantic region. Two-day admission (age 17 and up) is $20 per person. Pre-registration closed September 1 so that badges could be mailed ahead of the show. MALBE is jointly sponsored by CLA, NCFA and Hatton-Brown Publishers. Contact Swanner at 828-421SLT 8444 or visit malbexpo.com.

Welcome Reception By Carolina Logger’s Assn. A welcome reception/gathering for expo visitors and vendors will be sponsored by the Carolina Logger’s Assn. on Friday, September 18, from 68 p.m. at the local Chamber of Commerce/Visitor Center, located in front of the Carolina Premium Outlets in Smithfield. The building is located at 1115 Outlet Center Dr. “We invite everyone to join us for some down home hospitality, which will include barbecue, beer and live bluegrass music,” says CLA’s Swanner.

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Whiteside Logging is loyal to Caterpillar after years of good service from their local dealer, Carolina Cat in Asheville.

Small But Mighty ■ North Carolina’s Scott Whiteside has his priorities in line.

By Jessica Johnson RUTHERFORDTON, NC cott Whiteside, 45, is very ★ self-aware. During his meeting with Southern Loggin’ Times he mentions often that his crew is small; but he’s got strong ties to the mills in his area and pushes out a good amount of wood, with mostly newer equipment. He might be small, but he is mighty. Mighty is the perfect word to describe the Whiteside job site, as it’s nestled in the mountains of North Carolina, with a Timberking track cutter and two skidders going at all times. The steep ground doesn’t present Whiteside with a debilitating challenge; instead he looks at it

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like a challenge to conquer. Except when it rains. When it rains in these mountains, especially in the winter, the crew takes a few days to recover. Whiteside says the key to being productive with steep ground is making sure to build good roads, use chainsaws some and use track machines. “Anytime you’re dealing with hills, it’s got different kinds of problems,” he explains. Most of the time, the crew is on rolling hills to mountains, though sometimes they cut flatter ground, especially in the winter. To keep the logs cut, Whiteside uses a tracked feller-buncher that he runs himself. “I do all the cutting,” he says, “I just try to stay ahead.” In fact, he is the only one on the crew that can run the track feller-

buncher well. His brother Randy Whiteside can run it some, but his main responsibility is operating the loader. For the Whiteside crew, everyone wears multiple hats. For example, Chad Fish drives a skidder, but also helps with the mechanic work and drives the work truck into the woods every day. Randy Whiteside operates the loader primarily, but also will drive a log truck in the afternoons and evenings, as well as fill in on the cutting when he needs to. The “all hands on deck,” teamfocused approach keeps the crew producing between 25 and 30 loads a week, while keeping the iron in good condition. “There’s only a total of five of us out here, and we try to get five loads a day,” Whiteside explains.

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He adds that he has trouble finding quality help that wants to work hard. “No one wants to work. I’d rather be small, do it ourselves, take better care of the equipment, and even if it means cutting less wood, at least our stuff isn’t getting tore up.”

Iron Lineup Whiteside is a Caterpillar man. He cites a good relationship with his dealer, Carolina Cat in Asheville, NC, and especially his salesman, Woody Jones, as the driving force behind his continued loyalty to the brand. He explains: “They’ve always stood behind what they sell. If we break down, they get us back going. It’s good equipment; we’ve had good luck out of it. The oldest skidder we have is a 2002 and we

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Road trucks are never taken into the woods. Whiteside doesn't want to tear them up; a well-maintained truck fleet is important to him.

still run it. We’ve kept it up though. It’s easier for us to buy late model stuff and make payments than it is to be broke down. We’re small, we can’t be broke down much.” Last October Whiteside purchased a brand new Caterpillar 559C loader with a CTR delimber and CSI ground saw. He says that it was time, and prefers to rotate his loaders every five to six years. Before the bottom fell out, Whiteside kept every piece rotated on a five-year schedule. Now, he really only sticks to that schedule with his loaders, he says: “We always trade loaders five to six years. We’ve got to have a dependable loader. When the loader is down, we’re down.” During the downturn, the crew came due for a new skidder, and Whiteside made the choice to hold on to it, instead of upgrading. “Our newest skidder is a 2010, and we are probably going to be looking at a new one late this year, early next year. I like to keep our payments at a certain area, so we don’t get overloaded. We are kind of small, we only try to haul five to six trailer loads a day. But we need good equipment to do that, so we aren’t broken down,” he explains. Whiteside also has two Caterpillar 525B skidders and a 525C skidder, as well as two John Deere dozers, a 750J and a 700J. For felling, Whiteside mostly uses the Timberking tracked feller-buncher, however, when the terrain will allow, he has a rubber tire Caterpillar 563C cutter. If neither of the feller-bunchers can reach certain trees, Whiteside hand fells with a 385 Husqvarna saw. Equipment is kept in very good condition, Whiteside believes, which is the key to not breaking down. “We keep them greased and keep them serviced,” Whiteside says simply of his maintenance plan. Oil is changed

Two Cat skidders run at all times to keep the landing well-stocked.

The Whiteside Logging crew, from left, Michael Perry, Scott Whiteside, Randy Whiteside and Chad Fish

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every 250-300 hours; greased twice or three times a week, depending on weather and ground conditions. The crew in the woods does all maintenance, though Whiteside does have a 60x75 shop at his home in Rutherfordton available for bigger projects that they can fix themselves and for truck maintenance. If Whiteside and his crew cannot fix the problem, he leans on Carolina Cat in Ashville. Tires are purchased from both Thomas Tires in Ashburn, NC and Interstate Tire in Greenville, SC. Interstate Tire is a good distance from the shop, but Whiteside has stuck with them based on price and the ability to have his tires delivered directly to him. Luke’s Petroleum in Rutherfordton provides off-road diesel, and oil and grease is mainly purchased from Marion Oil Co. in Marion, NC.

Trucking Fleet Whiteside only makes use of two trucks on a regular basis to keep his wood hauled, but has five total trucks—all KenSince Whiteside finds himself on rolling hills to mountains more often than not, he uses a tracked worths. “We bought them, we feller-buncher.

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had them, so we’ve kept them,” he says with a laugh. Having the spare trucks allows him to rotate which truck hauls, keeping mileage down. Log trailers are Pitts. Trailers are trimmed with a Husqvarna pole saw. “We do not take our trucks in and out of the woods,” Whiteside says firmly. Instead, the crew uses two International 6x6 set out trucks to pull trailers in and out of the woods. He believes taking road trucks in and out of the woods is just too expensive, plus it tears up the truck faster. The set out trucks are actually old concrete trucks that Whiteside refabbed himself to fit his needs. It has worked out so well that he’s actually made a few for other loggers and sold them. “What the public sees of Whiteside Logging is the trucks and trailers, and I try to keep them looking good. Bringing them in tears them up. I don’t believe in pushing and pulling on road tractors with skidders and dozers,” he says. One dedicated truck driver, Steve Blanton, alongside

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Whiteside and his brother Randy, keep the wood hauled. If the crew is hauling close, Blanton and Whiteside can keep it hauled without Randy’s help in the evenings. If they are farther away, it obviously takes more drivers, but Whiteside is very particular about who he lets drive his on road trucks. As is the problem with many loggers, he has trouble finding quality drivers. Whiteside does not use contract drivers because of the cost associated with them, but mainly because of

their lack of dependability. He finds it easier to operate his own trucks, with just one driver and himself than trying to take on someone else with a contract. His main markets are Parton Lumber Co. in Rutherfordton for hardwood logs and some pine pulpwood; Broad River Forest Products in Union Mills, NC for hardwood pulpwood and Weyerhaeuser in Elkin, NC for pine pulpwood. Whiteside has been on a Weyerhaeuser contract since 1999. It’s

about 100 miles outside his typical radius, but he hauls at least three to five loads there each week. Hauling that handful of loads keeps his foot in the door, he says. “We don’t want to lose that outlet.” For his other two markets, he tries to stay within a 40 mile radius of them. “The closer we can stay to the wood yards, the sawmill and home, the better we are,” he believes. “We’ve been as far as 100 miles away, but I don’t like doing that. Sometimes you’ve got to.

Whatever it takes to buy groceries,” he says with a shrug.

Typical Tracts For the most part, Whiteside cuts a mix of pine and hardwood. They will do it all, he says: clear-cut, select cut or thin. He has a contract with Parton Lumber Co. in Rutherfordton, NC that is his main source for wood, though he does buy a fair amount of tracts on his own. He estimates that half of what the crew cuts he has purchased himself— though he does lean on Parton’s foresters if he needs help cruising a tract or marking property lines. Whiteside says that his average tract size is between 20 to 40 acres. In his area, he watched a lot of the bigger tracts get sold off for development before the recession, so he doesn’t see many 100-plus acre tracts anymore. The smaller tracts don’t bother Whiteside, he says, “I like being versatile. Some of your best timber is in smaller tracts.”

Family Roots Like many, Whiteside started logging with his father after high school, and worked alongside him for 21 years. In 2008, his father passed away, and Whiteside, with his two brothers, Randy and Mike, have kept the business going. Randy is still an active part of the operation, and so is Mike, though right now Mike is sidelined as he had a heart transplant a few months ago following a massive heart attack four years ago. Mike was on the job and started to feel the warning signs, and was rushed to the hospital. Luckily, he was able to get the hospital in time and was back at work before running into some additional trouble. Earlier this summer he received a heart transplant and so far, Whiteside reports he has been doing great. “After the heart attack, he couldn’t really work like he used to, but he would run parts and help where and when he could,” Whiteside explains of Mike.“His goal is now to be able to come back to the job. He said once he got everything straightened out he wants to come back to work. He’s part of it—we won’t leave him out.” Whiteside is the first to say he couldn’t run his job without the people around him, especially his brothers. To show his appreciation, he pays most on the crew a salary, but if they have a very good week he will give them a bonus. “We have to depend on each other. The guys I have right now, SLT we’ve got a good crew.” Email whiteside.logging@ gmail.com

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Tale Of The Bass Boat

Doggie Time

A good ole boy in west Texas won a bass boat in a raffle and proudly took it home. His wife looked at the boat, then at him, and asked, “What you gonna do with that? There ain’t no water deep enough to float a boat within 100 miles of here.” Unperturbed, he replied: “I won it and I’m gonna keep it.” Several days later his brother came over for a visit, spoke to the woman of the house and asked where his brother was. “He’s out there in the pasture, sitting in his bass boat with a fishing rod in his hand.” The visitor calls out, “What are you doing?” “I’m fishing, you idiot. That should be obvious. It’s people like you who give people from west Texas a bad name, causing folks elsewhere to think we’re stupid.” The brother turned red, flailed his arms, kicked the dusty dirt, and replied, “If I could swim, I’d come out there and whip your butt.”

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NFL Name Change The owner of the NFL Washington Redskins has announced that the team is dropping the word Washington from the team name and will henceforth be simply known as “The Redskins.” He reportedly finds that the word Washington imparts a negative image of corruption, cheating, and lying, and is not a suitable role model for young fans of football.

The Husband Store A revolutionary new store, one that specializes in selling husbands, recently opened in Memphis. The new store is traditional in that it appeals to women only. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates: You may visit this store only once. There are six floors and the value of the products increases with each floor. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but cannot go back down except to exit the building. So, a woman goes to the Husband Store. On the first floor the sign on the door informs: Floor 1. These Men Have Jobs. She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor and is greeted by this sign: Floor 2. These Men Have Jobs and Love Kids. “That’s nice,” she thinks, “but I want more.” She continues to the third floor and encounters this sign: Floor 3. These Men Have Jobs, Love Kids and are Good Looking. She is impressed, but feels compelled to keep going. The fourth floor sign proclaims: Floor 4. These Men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-

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moved, indicating that she never told a lie.” “Incredible,” said the man. “And whose clock is that one?” St. Peter responded, “That’s Abraham Lincoln’s. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire life.” “Where’s Hillary Clinton’s clock?” asked the man. St. Peter replied, “Hillary’s clock is in Jesus’ office. He’s using it as a ceiling fan.”

Dead Good Looking and Help With Housework. “Oh, mercy me!” she exclaims, “I can hardly stand it!” Still, she goes to the fifth floor and finds this: Floor 5: These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-Dead Gorgeous, Help with Housework, and Have a Strong Romantic Streak. She is very tempted to stay, but goes to the sixth floor, only to see this sign: Floor 6: You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store. Note: To avoid gender bias charges, the store’s owner opened a Wife Store just across the street. The first floor has women who love sex. The second floor has women who love sex, have money and like beer. The third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors have never been visited.

Heaven’s Wall Of Clocks A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the pearly gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, “What are all those clocks? St. Peter answered, “Those are lie-clocks. Everyone on Earth has one. Every time a person lies the hands on the clock will move.” “Oh,” said the man. “Whose clock is that?” “That’s Mother Teresa’s. The hands have never

The car keys weren’t in my pockets or purse. I realized I must have left them in the car. Frantically, I headed for the parking lot. My husband has scolded me many times for leaving keys in the ignition. He’s afraid that the car could be stolen. As I looked around the parking lot, I realized he was right. The parking lot was empty. I immediately called the police. I gave them my location, confessed that I had left my keys in the car, and that it had been stolen. Then I made the most difficult call of all to my husband: “I left my keys in the car and it’s been stolen.” There was a moment of silence. I thought the call had been disconnected, but then I heard his voice. “Are you kidding me?” he barked, “I dropped you off!” Now it was my turn to be silent. Embarrassed, I said, “Well, come and get me.” He retorted, “I will, as soon as I convince this cop that I didn’t steal your car!”

A Matter Of Identity Wearing his old USMC flight jacket, an aging and somewhat shaky Marine pilot shuffled into the coffee shop and ordered a cup of his favorite brew. As he sipped, a young woman sat down next to him. She turned to him and asked, “Are you a real pilot?” He replied, “Well, I’ve spent my whole life flying planes—Stearmans, Grummans, Banshees, Cougars and Corsairs. Saw action at the end of World War II and in Korea. I’ve taught more than 260 pilots and given rides to hundreds more, so I guess I am a pilot. What are you?” Without hesitation, she said, “I’m a lesbian. I spend my whole day thinking about naked women—when I get up in the morning, when I shower, when I watch TV. It seems everything makes me think of naked women.” The two then sat in silence, each reflecting on their brief conversation. Minutes later a young man sat down on the other wide of the old vet and asked, “Are you a real pilot.” The old vet replied, “Well, I always thought I was…but I just found out I’m a lesbian!”

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INDUSTRY NEWS ROUNDUP decide they want to be a As We See It: Why Are We Loggers? anyone logger? After doing it for a while, By Myles Anderson s my presidency of the American Loggers Council comes to a close, I want to sum up the many issues I have addressed over the past year. While

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loggers may relate to this specifically, all facets of the wood products industry should be cognizant of what is happening around them. I often ask myself, “why am I a logger?” Maybe a better question is why does

why do we continue and not go down another career path? Many people we went to school with and many of our associates believe a five day, 40- hour week job is grueling. In our business, we’re lucky if we get away with an occasional 12-hour day. When you do get home before dark, in the back of our

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minds we wonder what we forgot to do that resulted in such a luxury. We all remember times when the yarder or loader broke down and we worked late into the evening to get it ready for the next day. We came home later than normal, dirty and tired, only to meet our wife at the back door with that look on her face and the comment, “you could have called me.” If it isn’t concern for our safety, it is the amazement that we would choose to fix a piece of equipment over going to a child’s sporting event or recital. Logging is a hard business; most wives would agree being married to a logger is nearly impossible. For those of us who don’t mind working long hours and are lucky enough to have a wife who is understanding, we still face a few more challenges. While most of our neighbors live in wood houses, they have a serious problem with cutting down trees. It seems we are forever explaining the resilience of the forest and the need to manage it. I like to say that if we don’t manage the land, Mother Nature will and the current fires in the Pacific Northwest are a good example of that type of management. When our neighbors don’t approve of cutting down trees, the regulators jump on the bandwagon with good intentions, but the cumulative impact of these regulations is never really considered. This is another challenge for loggers, and in the state of California, the system has all but ground to a stop by regulation. A discussion of the challenges faced by loggers is not complete without talking about the people we log for. We all have worked for some of the finest people who are fair, respectful and honest. We as the logging industry must remember to thank them every chance we have and do all we can to help them survive in a tough industry. We have also all worked for other landowners who seem to stay awake at night trying to come up with ways to make our lives miserable. When a landowner acts unethically it is not done in a vacuum; the environmental community, regulators and all their neighbors know it and any hard-earned trust that may have been achieved is out the window. As we all know in our industry, trust is important, hard to achieve, and easy to lose. So back to my original question, why are we loggers? I believe it is because we enjoy the challenge, because we do something that many can criticize but few can actually do. We enjoy actually accomplishing something every

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day and associating with people who have a strong work ethic. In a world where so many people sit in offices answering a phone or some other equally boring job, our job is never boring. It may be hard, dirty

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and dangerous, but not boring. Another question that must be asked is why we see so few people coming into this industry. While there are many simple reasons, I believe it also has to do with the attitude and

expectations of the new breed of large forest landowners. Timberland historically was owned by people who respected it and had a long-term vision of forest management. More often than not, today timberland is

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considered a commodity and managed by accountants. In some instances the owning entity has little or no connection with the ground, shows no respect for the people who do the work on it and doesn’t seem to understand or chooses to ignore how its management decisions impact the land and the communities that depend on it. Issues like these help keep a logging business owner from staying optimistic about the future, and this in turn trickles down to employees. The trend of loggers being considered as nothing more than a line item on the profit and loss ledger will exacerbate this shortage of logging infrastructure going forward. Loggers daily face various issues, which range from safety, productivity, transportation, and finding work, to name a few, but in the end those who call themselves loggers always find a way to get the job done. This can-do spirit is not found in every occupation and in most cases cannot be taught. I feel very fortunate to have grown up with and to continue to work side-byside with loggers, both in my home state and across the nation. While some may call me crazy, I believe that managing a renewable resource

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regardless of its challenges is the right thing to do and it is just another reason why I am proud that I chose to be a logger. Anderson is the current president of the American Loggers Council and he and his father Mike own and operate Anderson Logging, Inc. based in Fort Bragg, Calif. The American Loggers Council is a nonprofit 501(c) (6) corporation representing professional timber harvesters in 30 states. Visit americanloggers.org or phone 409-625-0206.

Barko Hosted ALC, Legislation Introduced Barko Hydraulics hosted the summer board meeting of the American Loggers Council (ALC) July 24-25 in Duluth, Minn. Barko President Scot Jenkins, sales manager Bruce Enstrom, marketing manager John Major and other Barko representatives welcomed ALC members and treated them to a first class experience. On Friday morning ALC members were transported to the Barko assembly plant in nearby Superior, Wisc. to meet with key personnel, tour the plant and see demonstrations of the CH6025 biomass chip-

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per and 495ML loader. After lunch the group headed to the woods to watch forwarders and harvesters operate. The ALC board members met on Saturday to discuss business and issues and recent activities in Washington, DC. The latter included the reintroduction of the Future Careers in Logging Act, and the Resilient Federal Forest Act of 2015. ALC has been instrumental in getting both of these bills introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives. Along with Barko officials, the board welcomed representatives from the Associated Contract Loggers and Truckers (ACLT) of Minnesota to the meeting. Barko’s Scot Jenkins announced the company was increasing

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its level of commitment to the ALC by increasing its funding. “Having our sponsors on board and participating in our meetings allows us to get a different perspective on the issues that we are facing, including the direction that the American Loggers Council should be headed in the future,” said ALC President Myles Anderson. ALC board members toured Barko facilities. “Barko was an excellent host and provided a great venue for our cerns about survivorship. meeting.” The “Securing America’s Next A week later Rep. Bruce Poliquin Generation of Safe Loggers and (R-ME) introduced legislation to Truckers Act” would amend the Fair assist the logging industry at a time Labor Standards Act of 1938 to allow when family-owned logging busi16 and 17-year-old children of businesses are struggling to attract ness owners to legally perform ceremployees and are faced with contain tasks on mechanized logging

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operations, as well as lower the age requirement for the operation of commercial motor vehicles across state and international borders. “Timber harvesting and log hauling have a long and storied history in the state of Maine,” said Dana Doran, Executive Director of the Professional Logging Contractors of Maine. “Both are family-based businesses that have been passed down from generation to generation to create an $8 billion forest products industry. This act will ensure that family-based businesses can sustain themselves for the long-term.” The ALC supports this proposed legislation.

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The only thing holding the company back was its inability to produce more machines. The demand was there last year and we could have produced more, and now we can.”

Tigercat Completes $12 Million Expansion Tigercat Industries opened the doors of its new $12 million production facility to the public on July 23. Hundreds, including employees and their families, toured the 127,000 sq. ft. building in Paris, Ontario. The plant houses production of swing machines and cut-to-length attachments, including the 200 series loaders and the 800 series track-type feller-bunchers, harvesters and loggers. To conserve energy, the building features light sensor skylights, bay door windows, and motion detector lights. The building’s roof incorpo-

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Former GP Sawmill Sold To Canada Firm New Tigercat plant opens in Paris, Ontario.

rates a white rubber membrane that reflects UV rays and helps reduce heating and cooling costs. There are six overhead cranes in each bay, with room for more. Specialized concrete was used for the floors to support the heavy machines manu-

factured there. “Tigercat is a growing global company and this investment to expand our production capabilities is a great testament to the commitment we have to our customers and to serving them better,” stated President Tony Iarocci, who was Tigercat’s first employee when the company started in 1992. The company now has nine southern Ontario locations, a large parts distribution and training center in Georgia, a sales and distribution facility in Sweden, and a dealer network that spans the globe. Iarocci noted, “We export 75% of what we produce. Tigercat has produced over 16,000 machines, and in a time of economic turmoil has managed to gain market share.

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Conifex Timber Inc. of Vancouver, Canada reports it has purchased the former Georgia-Pacific sawmill and 186 acres at El Dorado, Ark. for $21 million. GP closed the mill in 2008. Ken Shields, chief executive officer of Conifex, comments, “It’s important to Conifex to secure this ideal site and high quality infrastructure in one of the most advantaged softwood supply regions in North America. The uncertainties flowing from the expiry and renegotiation of the Softwood Lumber Agreement could potentially impact the timing of the modernization and upgrade of our Canadian sawmills, while we expect the SLA will have less impact on capital expenditure decision for mills located in the U.S.” The company states it is currently completing an evaluation of an upgrade of the El Dorado mill, following which it expects to determine

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whether it will rebuild its idled Mackenzie (BC) sawmill or proceed with the El Dorado project, though over the longer term the company expects to undertake both upgrades.

Proposed Pellet Mill Now Has Plant Site PHI Group reports it has completed the acquisition of 10 acres from Klausner Holding for the Cornerstone

Biomass Corp. 200,000 metric ton wood pellet project in Live Oak, Suwannee County, Fla. The land is adjacent Klausner Lumber One sawmill, which is expected to be a primary source of feedstock for the pellet mill. PHI Group is in the process of raising $60 million and plans to use a portion of the proceeds for the Cornerstone Biomass project. Cornerstone Biomass appears to be a joint venture between PHI

Group and AG Materials, LLC. Earlier in the year they reported they had been able to secure 400,000 short tonnes of southern yellow pine feedstock per year.

Rotobec Opens Second U.S. Service Center Rotobec opened a second U.S. service center in June and more recently broke ground for an expan-

sion of its manufacturing facility in Littleton, NH. Located in Dallas, Rotobec USA South opened June 1 to serve California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Address is 1225 E. Crosby Rd., Suite B17, Carrolton, TX 75006. Ph. 972-242-9514. The plant, which opened in 1986, will be expanded by 23,000 sq. ft. Completion is expected by next March.

UK Power Plant Will Look To U.S. For Fuel A huge electricity plant to be built in the United Kingdom plans to procure wood pellets and chips from the U.S. The Tees Renewable Energy Plant will be owned by MGT Teesside, a subsidiary of MGT Power, a British company committed to developing utility scale biomass CHP projects. The plant will be located in the Port of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK. This will be the world’s newly built largest power and steam from biomass plant, and will have a capacity of 299 MW of electricity and steam. Abengoa, an international company that provides technology solutions for sustainable development in the energy and environmental sectors, and Toshiba Corp., have been selected as preferred bidders to build the plant. The project will supply renewable energy for the equivalent of at least 600,000 households in the UK.

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Recipe For Success ■ Terex mixes in recently purchased CBI. NEWTON, NH hen Terex Materials Processing (MP) pur★ chased the assets of Continental Biomass Industries (CBI) in April, many around the

industry wondered what kind of direction was in store for CBI, a company that had thrived in the wood, biomass and recycling markets since 1988. Now several months since the acquisition, the dust has settled and

it’s becoming clear how well CBI fits into the plans of Terex MP, a business segment of Terex Corp. For years, Terex MP was active in the wood processing industry by selling trommels and screens but it

Left to right, Anders Ragnarsson, managing director of CBI; Tony Devlin, TEE global business line director; Kieran Hegarty, president, Terex Materials Processing

was not until 2011 when it finally entered the wood chipper market. Terex MP purchased Woodsman that year, thus launching what is now called Terex Environmental Equipment (TEE). Acquiring the Michigan-based wood chipper manufacturer was a significant step in TEE’s development but it would take a company of CBI’s caliber to give TEE a mobile product line that could compete worldwide. Otherwise, it would take years to design and manufacture the machines in-house. CBI defined the biomass processing industry with world-class machinery and equipment designed around customer preferences. CBI’s equipment is designed and purposebuilt to handle the demanding materials and various applications within the markets of forestry, construction and demolition debris, municipal solid waste, biofuel, pulp and paper, sawmill, mulch and green waste. “Over the last few years, Terex has looked at a lot of potential acquisitions and one of the main attractions of CBI was its product and brand reputation,” says TEE business line director Tony Devlin. “The throughput and reliability of CBI products is legendary and we really wanted to buy a company that has the best products. The team at CBI is a passionate bunch and that really impressed us. They are very tightly engaged with customers and understanding of their requirements.” “Terex is the perfect partner to take the CBI brand to the next level,” adds CBI managing director Anders Ragnarsson. “When you put together Terex’s global talent and established distribution channels with CBI’s strong product development, service and custom design capabilities, I can see very good results for the near future.” Founded by Ragnarsson in 1988, CBI has spearheaded the advancements of grinding, chipping and shredding to make material recovery and recycling profitable for machine owners. For past and current customers accustomed to CBI’s bright yellow machines, Ragnarsson reassures that the colors may change on a few machines but that the compa58

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ny’s commitment to quality will never be compromised. “The level of quality we put into our machines will never change,” Ragnarsson says. “Whether it’s the design phase, structuring the frame or applying the last coat of paint, we will never compromise quality. That’s the way we’ve always done it and that’s the way we’ll continue.” Under the TEE division, CBI is joined by the Ecotec Range and the Tree Care Range. A wide selection of CBI machines will be available to the North American market under the Ecotec Range, which includes industrial grinders such as the CBI Magnum Force 5400B (Terex Biomass Grinder TBG 635), 5800B (TBG 650), 6400B (TBG 660) and 6800B

(TBG 680). The TBG 635, TBG 635T and TBG 650 are each powered by the Caterpillar C18, 765 HP diesel engine, while the TBG 660 and TBG 680 are powered by the Caterpillar C27, 1,050 HP diesel engine. As for the chipper line, the CBI Magnum Force 484B (TBC 435) will also be available. The machine models come standard with a Caterpillar C18, 765 HP diesel engine. Each of the grinders and chippers mentioned will be painted in Terex gray and white and manufactured out of CBI’s Newton, NH headquarters. “One of the main reasons that TEE has been formed is that the biomass and recycling market is large and growing,” Devlin says. “As the world wants to move away from its depend-

ency for fossil fuels and natural resources become more precious, this will mean that developed and developing countries will exploit the potential of biomass energy.” “We’re in the process of establishing a Terex Ecotec dealer network in North America and the addition of CBI machines to the product offering has generated a significant amount of interest,” says Art Murphy, the North American sales director for Terex Ecotec. “At the time CBI was acquired by Terex, we had three machines just coming off the production line and all those machines have been sold into the dealer network.” Emerald Equipment of New York and Powerscreen of Texas each pur-

chased a TBG 680 grinder, and a TBC 435 chipper was sold through the factory dealership servicing New England. “We’re ramping up production to meet additional dealer inventory demands and we’re well on our way to having dealer coverage throughout North America,” Murphy adds. As for the CBI division, grinders such as the Magnum Force 8800 and the Regrind Pro XL 406 will be continued as well as the grinder/chipper combinations of the 5400 Multiflex and 8400. New models such as the CBI 7544 Flail & Disc chipper and the AirMax material separator will be available as well. CBI will meet the high-capacity, full-feature needs of recycling, wood processing and biomass customers, including customengineered solutions, where appropriate. CBI products will be represented by a direct sales force, which will work in collaboration with TEE and other Terex distribution to maximize market potential. Major changes are expected for CBI’s facility in Newton as well. As it stands now, the facility operates at 64,000 sq. ft. with 32,000 sq. ft. designated for machine production. CBI shop foreman Paul Crinklaw, a 23-year CBI employee, is actively involved in discussions focused on upgrading the facility. There are hopes to begin the construction later this year. “I’ve seen this company steadily develop since I first came on board,” Crinklaw says. “There’s been talks about building a new weld shop that would also be conjoined by a new paint shop. Together, those shops would make for a 32,000 sq. ft. facility. Also, we’d be converting space within the existing production shop into two new manufacturing bays for increased productivity. Our labor force would increase because of that,” he continues. “It’s funny because I remember when this place wasn’t much more than a few pickup trucks. I never thought I’d get to see CBI get to where it is today.” Terex, which has invested approximately $4 billion in more than 40 strategic acquisitions since 1994, carries more than 18,000 employees across the globe. The lifting and material handling solutions company operates in five separate business segments including aerial work platforms, construction, cranes, material handling and port solutions and materials processing. Industries that Terex’s business segments cater to are construction, infrastructure, manufacturing, shipping, transportation, refining, energy, utility, quarrySLT ing and mining. This article, which was submitted by Terex, originally appeared in the August issue of affiliate magazine, Wood Bioenergy.

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AT THE MARGINS It’s Who You Know—Networking Is Crucial To Successful Logging By Tom Trone, John Deere Forestry few years ago, an old acquaintance of Eddie Moore’s, who happened to be a Maryland state senator, was negotiating with a sawmill for a tract of timber he was selling. He wanted assurances that Moore would be the logger to harvest the tract. When the mill couldn’t make any guarantees, he pulled the contract off the table. Networking is an important part of any business. Some would argue that maintaining a strong professional network is one of the most important things you can do in your career. For Moore, it has been what has allowed his business to survive some daunting challenges. Over the course of your working life, you will meet many people. Whether you work with them directly, indirectly, or even if they are casual or social acquaintances, every person you meet is a potential contact that could impact your business. Logging may seem like a solitary profession, not subject to the hustle of other pursuits. Indeed, one of the benefits of working in the timber business is being outside, in the woods, far from the rat race. But networking is just as important in logging as it is in any business— perhaps even more so than some. Moore works on the eastern shore of Maryland, an area isolated by the Chesapeake Bay and dotted with state forests and parks. For almost 35 years, Moore worked the forests on private lands, clear-cutting and sell-

ing his timber to local mills. About 10 years ago, the mills started closing, one by one. At first, Moore thought that spelled the end for his business as well. “I was left standing out on the street,” recalls Moore. “I thought we were done.” The only work that was left was thinning operations, mostly on public land, and there was intense competition to get that work. “There was a glut in the market of loggers who wanted to get into thinning,” Eddie Moore Moore remembers. To keep his business alive, Moore career, Moore developed relationrelied on the network of contacts he ships with foresters and farmers in his area, and over time that led to had built over the years. He made a few phone calls to friends and busi- job opportunities. Today, Moore works primarily on ness acquaintances. “I’ve come in state land, and therefore comes into contact with a lot of people,” he contact with a lot of different peosays, adding that maintaining those relationships was what allowed him ple, from Forest Stewardship Counto stay in business. “Within a day or cil inspectors, to college students, to people hiking through the forest. two my phone was ringing and I While it can disrupt his production, had six months worth of work.” Moore’s commitment to network- he makes sure to maintain his proing provided a distinct advantage in fessionalism and thoroughly explain his work to people. obtaining contracts over other loggers. His approach to networking holds some important lessons for all It Works Both Ways loggers. One of the most important things Everyone A Potential Contact to realize in networking is that the best way to help yourself is to help Everyone you meet in business others. This is an approach Moore and even social situations could be takes, particularly with foresters. a contact that will help you later on, “Foresters are not logging oriented,” so it’s important to treat every inter- he notes. “We’ve worked with new action accordingly. Early in his foresters to educate them on good

harvesting procedures, and what can and can’t be done.” By taking the time to share his knowledge, Moore has been able to build relationships that not only lead to more work, but also raise his profile in the industry. He’s been asked to serve on the Maryland Forest Assn.’s Master Logger steering committee, helping to provide educational seminars for loggers. That opportunity has given him even more access to foresters, landowners and other individuals to add to his network. Doing business as Forest Friendly Logging, Inc. (FFL) and based in Willards, Moore employs five, moving about 10 loads a day. He is a third generation logger with 42 years on the job. Citing his work quality, safety and concern for the environment, the Forest Resources Assn. this year recognized FFL as its 2015 Southeastern Outstanding Logger. Last year the company was singled out as the Maryland Logger of the Year by the Maryland Forests Assn.

Quality Matters You can meet all the people you want, but if you leave a bad impression you might have been better off not making the contact. That’s why doing good work is important to Moore. “Quality of work is mandatory,” he said. “When you can do good work and show that you’re a true professional, people remember that.” Moore has always strived to do things right and do things well, and that has bolstered his reputation in the area. When people hire him, they know things will get done right. Working in the woods has some definite perks. Not only does it provide a great opportunity to earn a living, but it also doesn’t have the drawbacks of office politics, stressful commutes, and monotonous tasks. But that doesn’t mean you’re exempt from networking. The more you can build your contacts, and maintain them over time, the more likely you will get opportunities SLT you never knew possible. 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.

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COMING EVENTS September 13-15—Alabama Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Perdido Beach Resort, Orange Beach, Ala. Call 334-265-8733; visit alaforestry.org. 18-19—Kentucky Wood Expo, Masterson Station Park, Lexington, Ky. Call 502-695-3979; visit kfia.org. 18-19—Mid-Atlantic Logging & Biomass Expo, Selma/Smithfield, NC. Call 919-271-9050; visit midatlantic-logging-biomassexpo.com. 24-26—American Loggers Council annual meeting, Red Lion Hotel, Eureka, Calif. Call 409-625-0206; visit americanloggers.org.

October 6-8—Arkansas Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Arlington Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark. Call 501-3742441; visit arkforests.org. 7-9—North Carolina Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Marriot Resort Spa at Grande Dunes, Myrtle Beach, SC. Call 800-231-7723; visit ncforestry.org. 7-9—National Hardwood Lumber Assn. Annual Conv. & Exhibit Showcase, Omni Hotel, Nashville, Tenn. Call 901-377-1818; visit nhla.com. 20-22—Mississippi Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Starkville, Miss.

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November 6-7—Sawdust and Splinters, Shirard Gray Estates, Magnolia, Miss. Call 601-876-9635; email contact@sdsfest.com; visit sdsfest.com. 11-13—South Carolina Forestry Assn. annual meeting, Marriot Resort at Grande Dunes, Myrtle Beach, SC. Call 803-798-4170; visit scforestry.org. Listings are submitted months in advance. Always verify dates and locations with contacts prior to making plans to attend.

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