Step By Step: No one thought he could make it,Tbtit Ray Cobb has been proving the haters wrong for almost 20 years.

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BRUNDIDGE, Ala.The first job undertaken by L&R Enterprises, LLC, when it came into existence some 19 years ago this June, turnedout to be something of a family adventure. "They put me on a tract by a river bank at Tallapoosa, in Tallassee," recalls owner Lonnie Ray Cobb, 46 (now). The tract was nearly 100 miles from his home in Brundidge, near Troy, so commuting would have meantseveral hoursa day lost to driving, time that could have been better spent, or at least more productively spent, working. So the fledgling logger, his wife Valerie, their son Brian (who was 6 at the time) and Ray's brother Jeremy Cobb set up tents on the river bank and spent the summer basically living on that riverbank, camping during the week and only going home on weekends.