This issue of TimberLine features a cover story on Air Burners of Palm City, Florida. Founder and president Brian O’Connor has been selling above-ground FireBoxes for close to 30 years. Globally used and adopted by the federal government, O’Connor’s products provide an environmentally friendly way to dispose of wood waste. In Wisconsin, Custom Caretaking & Landscaping brought a caravan of trucks to Asheville, North Carolina, to perform storm cleanup after Hurricane Helene. After arriving, owner Brad Schillinger purchased a Komatsu XF855-3 forwarder to aid in cleaning up debris in creeks and rivers. Mark Galicic of Imperial, Pennsylvania, relies on a laser guide system on his Cook’s edger and Edmiston sawmill. The Lumberline Laser saves Mark from miscuts, making it a valuable and wise investment. Finally, in Antigo, Wisconsin, Arndt Forest Products relies on two Multitek firewood processors to produce high-volume, kiln-dried, packaged firewood. Owner Jesse Arndt also invested in a dry kiln from SII Dry Kilns due to the large amount of firewood he produces.  

This issue of TimberLine features a cover story on Air Burners of Palm City, Florida. Founder and president Brian O’Connor has been selling above-ground FireBoxes for close to 30 years. Globally used and adopted by the federal government, O’Connor’s products provide an environmentally friendly way to dispose of wood waste. In Wisconsin, Custom Caretaking & Landscaping brought a caravan of trucks to Asheville, North Carolina, to perform storm cleanup after Hurricane Helene. After arriving, owner Brad Schillinger purchased a Komatsu XF855-3 forwarder to aid in cleaning up debris in creeks and rivers. Mark Galicic of Imperial, Pennsylvania, relies on a laser guide system on his Cook’s edger and Edmiston sawmill. The Lumberline Laser saves Mark from miscuts, making it a valuable and wise investment. Finally, in Antigo, Wisconsin, Arndt Forest Products relies on two Multitek firewood processors to produce high-volume, kiln-dried, packaged firewood. Owner Jesse Arndt also invested in a dry kiln from SII Dry Kilns due to the large amount of firewood he produces.  

This issue of TimberLine features a cover story on Air Burners of Palm City, Florida. Founder and president Brian O’Connor has been selling above-ground FireBoxes for close to 30 years. Globally used and adopted by the federal government, O’Connor’s products provide an environmentally friendly way to dispose of wood waste. In Wisconsin, Custom Caretaking & Landscaping brought a caravan of trucks to Asheville, North Carolina, to perform storm cleanup after Hurricane Helene. After arriving, owner Brad Schillinger purchased a Komatsu XF855-3 forwarder to aid in cleaning up debris in creeks and rivers. Mark Galicic of Imperial, Pennsylvania, relies on a laser guide system on his Cook’s edger and Edmiston sawmill. The Lumberline Laser saves Mark from miscuts, making it a valuable and wise investment. Finally, in Antigo, Wisconsin, Arndt Forest Products relies on two Multitek firewood processors to produce high-volume, kiln-dried, packaged firewood. Owner Jesse Arndt also invested in a dry kiln from SII Dry Kilns due to the large amount of firewood he produces.  

In the Timberline Issue 6, 2024, we feature a story on Gourmet Wood Products of Fort Worth, Texas. Owner Greg Helfenbein has been producing restaurant-quality firewood since 1982 and has recently added firewood equipment from European manufacturer Pezzolato to boost operations. In Bowmansville, Pennsylvania, Brubacher Excavating relies on Astec Peterson horizontal grinders to reduce wood debris while clearing land. Finally, Beech Island Timber & Construction in Jackson, South Carolina, went from contract hauling to buying and selling stands of timber from landowners using John Deere logging equipment and Bandit chippers.

In the Timberline Issue 5, 2024, we feature Radies Corporation of Marion, Wisconsin. This family-run business harvests timber on private land using Ponsse logging equipment. Brothers Ron and Bill Radies also own a mill, a building for resaw, and a drying shed. In Braggs, Oklahoma, Juston Hutchinson of Mule Mountain Sawmill use Cook’s Saw Manufacturing equipment to cut custom lumber and timber. He serves everything from hobby woodworkers to bridge and construction companies. Finally, in Avon, Maine, Aaron Adams of GCA Logging has relied on Anderson Equipment and their staff for more than two decades while operating eight logging crews.

On the cover of Timberline‘s Issue 4, 2024, is Nyle Dry Kilns of Brewer, Maine. The Nyle Systems Heat Recovery Vent dynamic heat exchanger has helped save energy, reduce costs and improve lumber quality. This issue includes an extensive Lumber Drying Showcase with various articles and case studies. The Showcase covers Nyle, Wagner Meters, Kiln-Direct dry kilns, BolDesign, Lignomat, iDRY AIR system, and E+E Elektronik digital humidity sensors. This Timberline also has an article on Laser Tech’s Tru-Pulse i-Series laser rangefinders and how they can be useful tools for foresters. Finally, in Greenacres, Washington, Larry Schmedding Sr. operates Agri-Tool & Supply. He has developed a line of welding supplies, wear component parts for agricultural equipment, as well as component parts for logging and sawmill equipment. 

TimberLine Issue 3, 2024 leads off with Reaves Timber, a Virginia-based company that produces a diversity of wood products including logs, chips, biomass and firewood; and also represents several equipment manufacturers. From there we focus on Deep Woods Lumber Co, a family owned business in Piketon Ohio that utilizes a Wood-Mizer WM4500 industrial sawmill in its milling operations.  We move up to the northeast and feature Hawkes Tree Care based in Phippsburg, Maine; a tree service business that offers a wide range of services including land-clearing and logging operations, and is benefitting from a Komatsu PC230F-11 paired with a Log Max 10000XT head. We then move to Southwest Kentucky where Ponsse has expanded its equipment service and parts business by adding JJ’s Repair and Hydraulics to service customers in the region.  We conclude coverage in Mansfield, Missouri as we feature Ozarks Fine Lumber, a custom slab manufacturer that also produces dimension lumber.

Issue 2, 2024, of TimberLine covers St. Lewis Composting of St. Louis, Missouri that recently added a HogZilla tub grinder to its fleet. Owner Patrick Geraty has ten locations in Missouri, and mulch is the company’s top seller. Hansen’s Tree Service in Reed Spring, Missouri, attributes its growth to investing in Rotochopper grinding equipment. The owner, Mike Walker, is impressed with the grinder’s power and efficiency. Finally, Virgil Caudill of Caudill Chipping in Hamden, Ohio, uses Bevel Buddy supplies to keep the knives on its chippers in top condition for processing quality hardwood chips.

TimberLine Issue 7, 2023 is the 2024 Annual Buyers’ Guide issue of the publication. Check out this issue for a directory of industry suppliers that provide products and services to help your business meet goals for the upcoming year. Editorially this issue features Kevin Coviello of Dagsboro, Delaware. Kevin launched his wood business, Luxury Logs, in January 2023, doing custom milling work and producing firewood with the use of a Woodland Mills portable band sawmill and the Timberwolf Alpha 6 Commercial Fire Splitter and Conveyor. This issue also has an article on IWT-MOLDRUP of Denmark. This supplier recently installed its first CCA wood treatment system in the United States for LeMoyen Mill & Timber in Bunkie, Louisiana. As well, read about Patrick Lumber adding a new hardwood mill at its facility in Philomath, Oregon.

TimberLine Issue 6, 2023, of TimberLine magazine features a Workforce Development Program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, which trains students on Ponsse simulators. These simulators educate and train people on how to operate Ponsse harvesters and forwarders. In Mckenzie, Tennessee, we feature Batton Enterprises, which has made a transition to cut-to-length equipment using a Keto 873 harvester attachment on their TimberPro 735 track harvester. Finally, in Conway, New Hampshire, Fadden Chipping and Logging utilizes two TimberPro track feller bunchers, one of which was delivered in February and is the 1,000th track machine manufactured by TimberPro.