Rising Above

摘要

PICKENS, SC ustin Durham, 31, is anew dog with old tricks. HP He founded his company, Dustin Durham Logging, LLC, in 2014, when he was just 24. This good ole' boy is staying true to his roots; his father, Steve Durham, logged for 20 years and instilled in his son a hard to come by work ethic at a young age."When I was little, my brother and I would go to work with him almost every day, sit in the loader cab with him and do anything we could as kids, which wasn't a whole lot," Durham remembers. "I always took an interest in it; never did anything but fool with trees."Steve started logging in the '70s, and the younger Durham says that in those days his dad could go door-to-door and find someone willing to run a chain saw. Reliable help doesn't come as easy these days. "People don't want to work like they did back then," he laments. "If I'm going to have any help 10-15 years from now I'm going to have to let someone get on a machine and learn."