Two knuckle-boom loaders and a loader/ delimber combination graced the landing of Anthony Nutt Co., Inc. when SLT visited the operation in early December. A fourth loader is available for peak summer production or as a backup. Some might say that's abit of overkill, but the fourth generation owner says it's necessary with his setup that typically makes eight or more product sorts. For the last five years, Nutt has contracted with Plum Creek, a REIT company known as an expert in timber utilization. The logger and his dad before him had been Georgia-Pacific (GP) contractors since that company bought out Fordyce Lumber Co. several decades back. In the late 1990s GP reorganized its timber holdings as The Timber Co., which later sold to Plum Creek. In 2003, Nutt decided to go with the landowner who controls the timber tracts that are available to harvest.
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