Billy Ray Camp, 73, has seen it all working in the logging industry for almost a half-century. “It’s been good to us, but it hasn’t always been easy,” Camp said.
Camp said the family logging business is now run by his 38-year-old son, Ray. But the elder Camp can load a logging truck about as well as anyone else, and he certainly hasn’t retired from the logging business.
Camp leaves home when it’s still dark and returns way after the sun goes down. He said you have to work long days, if you’re going to make it in the logging business.
It’s all about volume. “The price they pay us now is not much greater than it was 30 years ago,” Camp said. “If you can’t move volume, you can’t make it.”
Camp’s family operation is considered a large logging operation. The Camps have some of the best, most advanced equipment to cut timber, and cut it fast.
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