The 'Want To': Young swamp logger Dale Wood carries on proud family tradition

摘要

Dale Wood, 21, owner of Dale Wood Logging, specializes in shovel logging in swamps along the eastern border of the Carolinas, not far from Myrtle Beach. His company is an expansion of the family company, Wood Logging, owned by his father Henry, His brother Steven also owns a family operation that grew from Henry's company. Wood is a fourth-generation logger who grew op in the woods around his dad's business. Henry, a life-long logger, started working in the swamps about 15 years ago with Randy Thompson, owner of Cape Fear Land and Timber of Tabor City, the timber procurement company with which both Dale and Henry Wood contract.