November 2020
COVER STORY – SLT Salutes Veteran Kirk Sanders –
PINSON, Alabama – When he was young, not so very many years ago, Kirk Sanders didn’t foresee his future being in logging. He and his big brother Bill had spent some summer working for forester Ken Smith, who was employed at Buchanan Lumber in Montgomery at the time. But a summer job wasn’t necessarily something he envisioned turning into a long-term career.
When he was still a freshman studying mathematics at Montgomery’s Huntingdon College in 1981, Sanders enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves as an infantry rifleman attached to the 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marine Hotel Company based in Montgomery. READ MORE
Article by Patrick Dunning, Associate Editor, Southern Loggin’ Times
Southern Stumpin’: Storm Season
Editors Jessica Johnson and Dan Shell contributed hurricane damage reports, versions of which previously ran in other Hatton-Brown digital and print publications, including Timber Harvesting magazine, the Logger News Online e-newsletter and the Southern Loggin’ Times website.
Hands On
TOONE, Tennessee – The Hooper family and kin are renowned in the Tennessee Valley region for being a friend in each step of the wood harvesting and sawmilling process. Their portable sawmill tradition began almost a century ago with Malcolm Hooper, father of Tony Hooper, 64, owner of Tony Hooper Sawmills, Inc., hauling logs in an old pickup truck to his all-manual goundhog diesel sawmill. Article by Patrick Dunning, Associate Editor, Southern Loggin’ Times
Spotlight On: Transportation
The following manufacturers/dealers of forestry transportation products/services submitted information about their offerings: American Truck Parts; Big John Trailers; Carter Enterprises; FMI Trailers; Kaufman Trailers; Magnolia Trailers; Maxi-Load Platform Scales; Pitts Trailers
Bulletin Board
What Does Love Mean?; You May Be From Louisiana If…
From The Backwoods Pew: Blowouts
My job causes me to drive a lot, and not all of it is on pavement. Actually, a fair amount of it is not even on dirt or gravel. Many days it seems to be on wood. Back in the day, when they needed to go into the swamp to log, they did not have the high-tech logging equipment of today. Instead, they had mules. Problem in the swamp was that the water level in places could exceed one’s vertical integrity, and mules can’t swim. Article by Brad Antill, forester and ordained minister, onatreeforestry.com
Industry News Roundup
ALC Virtually Holds Annual Meeting; As We See It: Serious Hints; John Porter Price Dies At Age 80; Timberland Firm Plans Sawmill In Corinth; Dadeville Pole Announces Facility; Enviva Reports On New Projects; CORE Carbon May Benefit Landowners; Tragic Accident Claimed Sisk
Safety Focus
Minimizing Vandalism And Responding To Protests
