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Eastern Membership Spotlight (Part 3 of 3)
Robert Holcomb, ProLogger
NCFA discusses logging in eastern North Carolina with ProLogger Robert Holcomb of Plymouth.
Robert Holcomb is a third-generation logger from Plymouth, NC; he has been logging for more than 44 years. “My whole life has been in this business,” Holcomb said.
He went into business for himself 27 years ago; today, he is the owner-operator of M.M. & D. Harvesting, Inc. based out of Plymouth.
“My father and my grandfather had a logging job when I was a kid. When I graduated high school, I went to work for them full time,” Holcomb
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said. “Over the 44 years that I have been in the industry, I have seen many
changes; but logging is in my blood. I can’t imagine doing any other type of work,” Holcomb said. “Nowadays everything is mechanized, whereas when
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