Firewood Startup Off and Running With Focus on Wholesale Bundles
HORSE CAVE, Kentucky – Dan Pearman is a newcomer to the firewood industry, but his business experience provided a firm foundation for starting a firewood business based on a model of selling packaged firewood to wholesale customers. He turned to three key industry...
Maine Man Does It All with Wood: Logging, Sawmilling, and Firewood
WHITING, Maine – Scuba diving for scallops drew Gary Gilpatrick to Maine a long time ago, but these days he makes a living from forest products – logging, lumber, and firewood. He does it with the help of three well-known suppliers to the forest products industry –...
TurboSawmill Portable Swing Blade Mills Make Inroads into U.S.A. with Smith Sawmill Service
DUDLEY, Georgia – Why not? David Shores got that question a lot from customers who purchased his custom wood products and other people. Why not buy a portable sawmill and cut some of his own lumber? David often considered the possibility, but it was not until 2019 –...
Safety Alert: Worker Killed by Rotating Disc Cutter on Excavator
Background On a winter day in the Pacific Northwest, an equipment operator trimming brush alongside a logging road was killed after he was apparently pulled into a rotating disc used to cut brush. He was using an excavator with a disc cutting attachment on the boom....