December 2008
Southern Loggin’ Times’ December issue spotlights Mississippi’s 2008 Logger of the Year and owner of Robin Jones Logging Co., Robin Jones, who finds payments easier to deal with than downtime. Also featured is Greg Hooper, who holds high standards for his west Tennessee operation Greg Hooper Logging, LLC. The issue highlights Steve Moran, who has earned a reputation for his attention to fine details as he works with his two crews doing business as Steve’s Logging and S&D Logging.
Greg Hooper Logging
Greg Hooper, 41, was born on September 10, making him a Virgo. Virgos, he says, tend to be extremely clean-conscious. It’s certainly true of him. “I’m known as a perfectionist,” he says. As his family can attest, one of his favorite phrases, in anything he’s doing, is “to perfection.”
Steve's Logging
It was indeed summertime in South Carolina. Temps were in the 90s, relative humidity was up as always this time of the year, but the woods remained dry, courtesy of a drought that’s plagued parts of the Southeast for almost two years.
Southern Stumpin'
The final days are being counted down to the end of 2008, a leap year that started on a Tuesday. It was an interesting year, good in some ways, bad in others, but MMVIII is about to wrap up another chapter in the history books—what a year it was.
Bulletin Board
D.W. Hood, 2 years old, takes a moment to peruse SLT. He’s the son of Ricky Hood, a logger from Moultrie, Ga.
Industry News Roundup
With Georgia leading the way in active, announced and prospective wood-to-energy plants, prompting Gov. Sonny Perdue to declare the state as the region’s “Bioenergy Corridor,” management and sponsors of Timber Expo Southeast have fittingly designated part of the live demo area as the “Bioenergy Equipment Corridor.”
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