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A dietician was addressing a large audience:
“The material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed most of us sitting here, years ago. Red meat is awful; soft drinks erode your stomach lining; Chinese food is loaded with MSG; vegetables can be disastrous; and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water.

“But there is one thing that is the most dangerous of all, and we all have eaten it, or will eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating?”

Expo Richmond 2010

Participating in his third loader contest, B.J. (Billy) Coleman took the top prize in the Prentice Loader Championship during Expo Richmond 2010. Coleman’s Trophy Run time was 2 minutes, 27.10 seconds. Ben Hardwick, Francestown, NH, took second place with a time of 2 minutes, 27.93 seconds. Two weeks prior, Hardwick had won first place at the Prentice loader contest at the Northeast Forest Products Equipment Expo in Vermont. Brian Osborn, Waldorf, Md., finished third with a time of 2 minutes, 29.40 seconds. First, second and third place winners received cash prizes, trophies and Prentice Loader Championship jackets. The fourth and fifth place winners also received jackets. Carter Machinery Co., Inc., Salem, Va., provided a Prentice 2384 B-Series knuckleboom loader for the contest. Coleman works for his father’s company, Coleman Logging, Inc., in Concord, Va. He runs a crew and operates a Cat 559B knuckleboom loader. Left to right, flanked by Rich Planisek and Chip Burroughs with Caterp

Home Grown by David Abbott

A few years ago, David Wil­­bourne was offered an opportunity to take on one of those extended, long-distance logging jobs, in Panama. The money was good and the timber was cheap, but he says he just couldn’t do it. “I’m just an old home boy,” he insists.

Wilbourne, 55, and his wife, Sandra, own Triple W Logging, which includes their two sons, Adam, 32, and Dan, 30—father and sons making up the three Ws in the company name. David and Sandra also have a daughter, Sarah, 27. The family has indeed stuck close to its roots.

Nameless Texas Towns

As the lunch hour moved on toward the back-to-work whistle at 1 p.m. this day in 1922, workers began to walk slowly back to the mill from their homes or to polish off the last items in their lunch buckets. On an occasion some years before, a Diboll sawyer named Fogg had finished his lunch near his station at the band saws, then decided to investigate an unusual sound his trained car had detected in the operation of the carriage at the end of the morning run. As the carriage and saws powered up for the startup, Fogg “got in to see what was the matter, and the carriage got loose, the lockbar turned and run him right into the saw and cut him all to pieces.” According to Diboll tradition, workers were said to have rushed the remains of sawyer Fogg in a no. 3 washtub to the mill doctor, who said, “Why bring that to me?” In any case, as Clyde Thompson told, “Fogg wasn’t shown at the funeral.”

One To Remember by Rich Donnell

Two things seemed to be on everybody’s mind: the heat, and woody biomass. The Childs logging family from Georgetown, Tenn. was somewhat typical of the crowd, as brothers Tim and David, their father, mother and other family members departed their home at 3 a.m. and drove straight to the show site. Currently running two crews and producing pulpwood and logs, the Childs were scoping out the abundance of chipping machinery, thinking in terms of cleaning up the hardwood tops following their jobs.

DeWayne Oakley of Florence, Ala., who started up a chipping crew last year, to go along with several logging crews, was thinking about buying a grinder for his Oakley Biomass operation. Oakley said the momentum of the wood bioenergy industry in the past two years is “one of the best things that’s happened in the timber industry,” providing possible new markets for loggers and because “the landowner is happier because he’s getting a better, cleaner job that we can give him.”

Self-Starter by Jennifer McCary

From the age of five, Jeffery Stevens has known what he wanted to do when he grew up. His boyish attraction to big trucks and big machines, nurtured by a truck driving dad who sometimes let him ride shotgun on weekends or summer vacations, soon blossomed into a passion that continues to motivate the 31-year-old owner of Jeffery L. Stevens Logging & Trucking Co. His dad, Jerry Stevens, spent the largest part of his career driving log trucks—first as an employee and then as an owner/operator. That is, until he became his son’s first employee and his business advisor in 2005.

Young Jeffery started saving his money as a teen so that at age 19 he was able to purchase his first log truck. So intense was his drive, the budding entrepreneur quit school his senior year to launch a trucking career. After a year, he took an over-the-road trucking job and started saving money again, this time to establish his own logging business. Initially, Stevens drove the carrier company’s truck and l

Current Industry News

Two important events in the lives of Mississippi loggers—the biennial banquet of the Mississippi Loggers Assn. (MLA) and continuing education/information opportunities for loggers, foresters and forest landowner information—will help boost attendance at the Mid-South Forestry Equipment Show September 17-18 near Starkville, Miss.

At its show site Friday night banquet September 17, MLA will recognize its 2010 Logger of the Year before members and guests hear from keynoter Nate Clark, Public Affairs Director for John Deere Construction & Forestry Div. and John Deere Power Systems. Clark is expected to touch on the green energy movement, the potential for woody biomass market development and the increasingly stringent governmental regulatory environment. In addition, tougher off-road diesel engine emission standards that will impact loggers and others will be highlighted by Joe Mastanduno, John Deere Construction and Forestry Div.’s Product Marketing Manager, Engine/Drivetrain.

Safety Walk-Around by Garrett Ginglen

Machine upkeep isn’t just about ensuring that your forestry equipment is performing at peak efficiency. Even more important is keeping your machines in top condition so your operators will be safe. A machine walk-around at the beginning of every shift, followed by any repairs or cleaning, is an important safety, as well as maintenance, step.

Think of a safety walk-around inspection in three levels: ground level, machine level and finally the operator cab. You are looking for anything on the machine that might be damaged, loose, missing or faulty in some way. A good habit to get into is to always start the walk-around at the same place.

New Product Information

Peterson’s 5900 disc chipper has been enhanced with key features that high-volume chipping operations demand. The new 5900EL (Extended Length) features an 11' (3.3 m) feed deck, PT Tech hydraulic clutch, direct drive for the internal feed rolls, totally enclosed CAT C18 engine, and is Tier 4 ready. The model 5900EL disc chipper is built to produce high quality paper chips when paired with a Peterson model 4800 debarker or fuel chips as a stand alone fuel wood chipper.

The 5900EL has a large feed throat capable of accepting up to a 23" (563 mm) diameter tree or multiple smaller diameter stems. The 5900EL is provided with a standard three knife disc, and is also available with an optional four knife disc. Peterson’s heavy-duty 66" (1676 mm) diameter 4.75" (121 mm) thick chipper disc has a replaceable 0.5" (13 mm) thick wear plate. Chipping production rates from 60–100 tons can be achieved depending on chip size. Call 541-607-7911; visit petersoncorp.com. 5086

Putting Timber Expo To Bed by DK Knight

There are times when something you attempt turns out to be, in the words of the late Joe Wood, the one-of-a-kind Barko icon, “about as difficult as putting a raw oyster into a parking meter.” So it was with Timber & Biomass Expo Southeast, sponsored by Hatton-Brown Publishers, the parent company of this and other magazines, and finally staged June 11-12 near Valdosta, Ga. Thankfully, the “most advertised and highly promoted forestry event in modern history” turned out quite well, all things considered. Check out the account found on pages 16-18.

Approximately 3,000 people braved the heat, dust and bugs across two days. Attendance was about what we expected, but the number of states (21) represented by attendees was a surprise. They came from as far away as Michigan, Wisconsin and New York. A group of 10 came all the way from Argentina. The largest number came from Georgia, of course, followed by Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, Illinois and Tennessee