May 2024 RIPLEY, Mississippi – Several months of prayer and careful consideration weighed into Brian Hickox’s decision to make the switch from conventional logging to Ponsse CTL machinery in October 2023. After 30 years as owner of HX2 Logging Inc., Hickox,...
April 2024 RAMER, Tennessee – Coming from a family that has worked in the woods for generations, Scottie Robertson, 50, has been around the logging business all his life. His grandfather mixed sawmilling with farming nearly 100 years ago. Scottie’s dad, James...
January 2024 GRAY, Georgia – Like many family-owned logging companies, J.D. Gordon Logging, LLC bears the name of its founder, family patriarch John Dawson (J.D.) Gordon. Before becoming a logger, J.D. spent 17 years as a crane operator at the Armstrong mill in...
December 2023 DOUBLE SPRINGS, Alabama – The Tidwell family has marked its signature throughout this private ground on the edge of Bankhead National Forest for four generations, and 24-year-old Grant Tidwell is proud to follow suit as the new kid on the block....
November 2023 PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi – Even before Drew Massey, 36, started his companies, Massey Timber LLC and Massey Timber Transportation, LLC, it seemed he was destined for a life connected to the forest products business one way or another. Read...
October 2023 UNION, South Carolina – Some of us work to make a living. Chad Barfield, 52, has worked to make a life—a good life, not just for himself, but for his employees and especially for his son, Conner, as well. Having started working in the woods when he...
