Lockhart Custom Sawing – Virginia Man Chooses Cook’s Saw Mfg. Mill for Business COVINGTON, Virginia – Ray Lockhart, 45, and his wife, Liesl, had long dreamed of building a log home for their family of five daughters. “We attended many seminars on how to do this with...
Growing Seasons – Kiln-Direct Heat-Treater Makes Firewood Conform to Federal Regulations for Insect BRIDGEVILLE, Pennsylvania – Jim O’Connor, 49, has owned and operated a commercial printing company for 25 years. But he had an entrepreneurial interest in the firewood...
Williams Logging – Stripper Pull-Through Delimber Boosts Production for Vermont Logger WELLS RIVER, Vermont – When Terry Williams Jr. was 20 years old, he took a proverbial leap of faith and landed squarely on his feet. He had been working in construction immediately...
Zoladz – New York Company Benefits from CBI Grinders ALDEN, NEW YORK – It didn’t take cousins John Zoladz and Tom Dougherty long to recognize an opportunity to start their own business just a few years after they graduated from high school. The business is Zoladz...
Salem Log Yard Completes Transition to Link-Belt Carriers with Log Max Harvesters SALEM, KENTUCKY – As a 17-year-old high-school graduate in 1992, Joey Rittenberry knew he did not want to go to college. “Being so young, I didn’t have a lot of job options, so I began...