by Forestnet | Jun 13, 2025 | 2025, May/June 2025, TimberWest Magazine
TimberWest magazine is celebrating 50 years serving the forestry industry in 2025. In a series of articles this year, we are introducing members of the dedicated team behind the magazine. Anthony Robinson acquired TimberWest Publications in 2019; at the time he was...
by Mary Bullwinkel | Jun 13, 2025 | 2025, Harvesting, May/June 2025, The Next Generation, TimberWest Magazine
SAPELLO, New Mexico – The success of the Lovato Group, which is comprised of a logging company and two other family-owned and operated businesses, is based on a simple premise: Don’t just work hard. Work smart and work efficiently. Lovato Group’s newest business unit,...
by Dawn Killough | Jun 13, 2025 | 2025, Harvesting, May/June 2025, Steep Slope, TimberWest Magazine, Trucking
COTTONWOOD, California – When Delbert Gannon struggled to find good workers for his logging business in 2020, he did something about it. “Trying to get people to come to work was almost impossible,” he said, “and we were training a lot of people who didn’t work out,...
by Tim Cox | Jun 13, 2025 | 2025, May/June 2025, Sawmill, TimberWest Magazine
EUGENE, Oregon – When NWH moved to optimize the trim saw at its mill in Eugene, Oregon, last year, the decision reflected several company values, and safety was one of them. The project, carried out by Automation & Electronics (A&E) and relying on JoeScan...
by Forestnet | Jun 13, 2025 | 2025, May/June 2025, New Technology, Supplier Newsline, TimberWest Magazine
Bailey’s has delivered a customized Ponsse forwarder with a BRUKS chipper that will be used to help supply a pellet plant with raw material. The Ponsse Buffalo King forwarder has an extended chassis with a BRUKS 806.3 mobile chipper mounted on it. The project to...
by David Grim | Jun 13, 2025 | 2025, Guest Columns, May/June 2025, Steep Slope, TimberWest Magazine
With the 2025 Associated Oregon Loggers Convention concluding recently, and being the moderator for the seminar on ‘Rigging Gains and Innovation,’ I thought I would take a deeper dive into steep slope logging. Steep slope logging — also referred to as ‘cable-assisted’...
