March 2022
LISMAN, Alabama – Maybe slow and steady doesn’t always win the race. Greg Adams, 31, only started his company, Greg Adams Logging LLC, in May 2018. That hasn’t stopped him from implementing tremendous expansion of the operation in the few short years since starting up the logging side.
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COVER: Alabama’s Greg Adams: In It To Win It
LISMAN, Alabama – Maybe slow and steady doesn’t always win the race. Greg Adams, 31, only started his company, Greg Adams Logging LLC, in May 2018. That hasn’t stopped him from implementing tremendous expansion of the operation in the few short years since starting up the logging side.
Article by David Abbott, Managing Editor, Southern Loggin’ Times
SOUTHERN STUMPIN': Meet Pat Weiler
The first time I saw Pat Weiler was at the Mid-South Show in Starkville, Mississippi in September 2018. The President and CEO of Weiler, Inc., along with his Vice President, Bill Hood, were there to introduce their company to the logging industry, their future customers. They’d announced a month earlier that Weiler would be purchasing Caterpillar’s purpose-built forestry division, though the transaction would not be finalized for almost another year. I’ve hoped to get an interview with Pat Weiler ever since, but it never worked out.
Article by David Abbott, Managing Editor, Southern Loggin’ Times
Pass It Down
COMMERCE, Georgia – More often than not, logging is a profession passed down from one generation to the next, and usually when the next generation is still young. That only happens because men like David McClure, 83, serve as mentors to those who come after them. The veteran logger says the lifelong relationships he’s cultivated with equipment dealers and sawmill personnel over the decades of his career are second only to watching his adopted son, Shane Cape, 49, owner of D&S Logging, Inc. develop a love for logging at an early age and follow in his footsteps.
Article by Patrick Dunning, Associate Editor, Southern Loggin’ Times
SPOTLIGHT ON: Chippers, Grinders, Etc.
Note: Southern Loggin’ Times invited manufacturers of in-woods chipping and grinding machines, as well as related components and supplies, to submit material for this section.
- Bandit
- Morbark
- Wallingford’s
BULLETIN BOARD: Out Best Leisure Selections From Our Not-So-Sharp Minds
FROM THE BACKWOODS PEW: Forestry Olympics
I guess maybe the Olympics weren’t high on the worry list for most loggers or foresters. But, if they did have an Olympics for those of us who wander through the woods each day, then maybe we could sign up for some of the events.
Excerpted from Pines, Prayers, and Pelts by author Bradley Antill.
INDUSTRY NEWS ROUNDUP
- As We See It: Inflation Threatens Industry
- Chunk Of Timberland Sold In U.S. South
- It’s Pellets Galore For Enviva Inc.
- Texas Log Suspects Indicted
- Alabama Pursues New Truck Weight Limits
- LOTS Group Acquires SC’s Bellwether Forest Products
- GP Plans Output Hike At OSB Mill
TRUCKING SAFETY
Distracted Log Truck Driver Dies After Treelength Load Crushes Cab During Rollover
SAFETY FOCUS
MACHINES-SUPPLIES-TECHNOLOGY
- Hearing Protector
- Magnum Saw
- Rubber Compound
- Harvester Head
Article by David Abbott, Managing Editor, Southern Loggin’ Times
Alabama’s Greg Adams: In It To Win It
LISMAN, Alabama – Maybe slow and steady doesn’t always win the race. Greg Adams, 31, only started his company, Greg Adams Logging LLC, in May 2018. That hasn’t stopped him from implementing tremendous expansion of the operation in the few short years since starting up the logging side. As of early 2022, not quite four years into the venture, Adams already has six crews in total — five operating full-time and another in reserve, ready to jump on extra jobs as they come up.
“People asked me if I was scared to get into logging,” Adams reveals. “I say a scared man can’t play poker. Logging is a gamble.” The business, he says, is not unlike a lot of other games: you can be ahead the whole time but you haven’t won till it’s over. “I have made it so far, but to me, I haven’t been successful in logging until I get ready to retire. There’s a chance you can go broke any day. You haven’t made it until you get out.”
The town of Lisman is right on the Alabama-Mississippi line, and Adams cuts and hauls in both states. He grew up just under 30 miles west, in Quitman, Mississippi. He moved across the line when he got married six years ago, because his wife Heather had a hair shop here. “It was easier for me to move my business than it was for her to move hers.”
While Greg was growing up, his dad Bill logged part-time, hauling loads around his day job as a shop foreman working on busses for Quitman schools, and full-time from 2007 to 2009. When Greg told his dad he wanted to log, Bill was against it, but once he saw his son was going through with it, he quit his job to come help. He now oversees one of the crews.
In some conditions, trucks need a little help getting under the loader or back out of the woods.
Adams uses a wide range of equipment across his six crews, including Barko loaders.
Left to right. Greg Adams, Bill Adams, Don Gordon, Thomas Moss
From left: Corey McLaughlin, Cory Moffett, Michael Coody, Blake Fleming, Joey Sawyer
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