January 2022
FOREST, Mississippi – Just over a year ago, Eddie Harrison, 49, and his family celebrated the 30th anniversary of the business. Harrison and his brother Jimmy were partners when they started operations on January 1, 1991. The anniversary party on December 31, 2020, marked the completion of exactly 30 years of logging.
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COVER: Mississippi’s Eddie Harrison Tells It Like It Is
FOREST, Mississippi – Just over a year ago, Eddie Harrison, 49, and his family celebrated the 30th anniversary of the business. Harrison and his brother Jimmy were partners when they started operations on January 1, 1991. The anniversary party on December 31, 2020, marked the completion of exactly 30 years of logging.
Article by David Abbott, Managing Editor, Southern Loggin’ Times
SOUTHERN STUMPIN': Riding High
Our first cover story of the new year focuses on Mississippi logger Eddie Harrison. Harrison will most assuredly be among those watching the college football playoffs this New Years Eve, and, if things go well for his preferred team, the National Championship game a week or so later as well. Once again, for the seventh time in the eight years the current system has existed, Alabama’s Crimson Tide will be in the playoffs, and Harrison is a dyed-in-the-wool Bama man.
Article by David Abbott, Managing Editor, Southern Loggin’ Times
Built To Last
SUMMERVILLE, Georgia – Bearden Logging marked its 51st anniversary in December with Frank Bearden, 74, retiring at the end of 2021. His son, Greg Bearden, 54, has taken a leadership role in the company’s wood operation since overcoming leukemia and a heart attack shortly after while in remission. But the Bearden family, like their vintage woods equipment, is built to last.
Article by Patrick Dunning, Associate Editor, Southern Loggin’ Times
BULLETIN BOARD: Our Best Leisure Selections From Our Not-So-Sharp Minds
A preacher was reaching the end of his sermon when he said, “Now for next week, I need everyone to read Leviticus chapter 28. It ties into my next sermon.” The next Sunday the preacher asked, “How many of you read Leviticus chapter 28?” Scores of hands went up. He smiled and said, “Folks, there is no 28th chapter to Leviticus. Now let me start my sermon on lying.”
SPOTLIGHT ON: TIRES, TRACKS, ETC.
- Forest Chain Multi-Ring
- Olofsfors
- Wallingford’s
- BKT
FROM THE BACKWOODS PEW: How Deep Is Your…
If you grew up as I did in the ‘60s and ‘70s, you probably filled in the missing word from the title based on the popular song by the Bee Gees. It was no doubt a question to be asked, one of great importance. It was the question that needed to be answered.
Excerpted from Side Roads, Snares, and Souls by author Bradley Antill.
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Article by David Abbott, Managing Editor, Southern Loggin’ Times
Mississippi’s Eddie Harrison Tells It Like It Is
FOREST, Mississippi – Just over a year ago, Eddie Harrison, 49, and his family celebrated the 30th anniversary of the business. Harrison and his brother Jimmy were partners when they started operations on January 1, 1991. The anniversary party on December 31, 2020, marked the completion of exactly 30 years of logging.
Eddie’s company is, simply, Eddie Inc. “It started as a joke when my brother and I were partners,” Eddie recalls. “We had Ringgold Timber, and when we incorporated, we had to have a name to put the trucks under. I always said I was going to incorporate myself, so as a joke he incorporated the trucking under my name.”
The original company the brothers started in ’91 was called L&L Logging, because both their middle initials are L. They incorporated as Ringgold Timber (named for the community in which they lived) in 1994. When the brothers (amicably) parted ways in 2012, Jimmy took Ringgold Timber and Eddie, naturally, took Eddie Inc. Though they are in separate companies now, the brothers still work closely together because Eddie buys wood for Ringgold Timber.
Their dad Lamar had logged in the ‘80s but quit at the end of 1990, just before his sons were getting started for themselves. He still hauled for Eddie and Jimmy, though, and their mom Jennie did the books for them until Eddie got married about 10 years ago.
Eddie, far right, with his brother Jimmy Harrison, far left, and their parents Lamar Harrison and Jennie Harrison, center
Eddie Harrison’s nephew Stephen Varner in Weiler skidder; Harrison has been a Cat/Puckett customer for years and now has two Weiler pieces.
Stribling Equipment supplied Harrison with two Deere H series skidders, a 648 and a 748.
Harrison recently added five new Macks.
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