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AERIAL SPECIALISTS, INC
Providing forestry, aquatic and right-of-way aerial and ground applications for over 30 years.
420 Hallman Road Ward, SC 29166 803-275-2300
President- Billy Rutland 803-480-1724
From tract evaluation to application, we handle all of your forestry needs.
Visit our website at asicopters.com
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BEACH TIMBER COMPANY, Inc.
We are pole, piling, and mulch manufacturers, focusing on procuring wood and buying timber.
Gary Strickland, Owner
(912) 632-2800
www.beachtimber.com
P.O. Box 763 • Alma, GA 31510
Tommy Peagler’s students from Coastal Pines Technical College and the Timber Harvesting program gather for class in the woods.
many loggers are experiencing loss of production due to trucking limitations, mills are experiencing lower than normal inventories/some downtime,” the company said in an email response to questions. “This situation will worsen with the wet season approaching, and will also be of greater concern if/when new mills/mill expansions come online.”
UGA’s Conrad said smaller carriers are hauling a majority of the wood in a segmented industry. The typical Georgia logger just has one logging crew, so they are going to need four or five trucks to haul their wood in a given week, he said.
Bernie Henderson, who owns H&H Trucking in Washington, said the short- age of qualified drivers has already impacted his business.
“I kind of lost my momentum of getting wood out of the woods,”
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