JULY / AUGUST 2022
2022 Logger Survey: Inflation, Fuel Costs Hit Hard
Taken during a time of unprecedented fuel price increases and overall inflationary trends, the Timber Harvesting 2022 Logging Business Survey reflects a logging corps that’s increasingly unable to cover the costs of doing business.
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- 2022 Logger Survey: Inflation, Fuel Costs Hit Hard
MY TAKE: How’s Your Log Supply Chain?
In between looking for extra employees to fill another shift or solidify the one or two already in place, or perhaps looking for larger vaults to hold cash they’ve been putting away thanks to record lumber prices, lumber suppliers would be smart to take a look at the health of the supply chain feeding their mills. Ensuring all those nice equipment investments meet projections and ROI numbers requires a consistent flow of quality timber.
Article by Dan Shell, Managing Editor, Timber Harvesting
NEWSLINES
- Deere Names Forestry President
- Forest Service Reveals Immediate Plans
- PotlatchDeltic Announces Sawmill Upgrade At Waldo
- Ruling Goes Against Oregon Counties
- Agency Percolates 4FRI Once Again
- Claw Forestry Plans New Sawmill In Gloster
- Timber Growth Holding Steady
- Weyerhaeuser Partners In Carbon Project
FUEL COST ANALYSIS
EDITOR’S NOTE: Earlier this year, as fuel prices took off, the Virginia Loggers Association commissioned Dr. Joseph Conrad, Assistant Professor of Forest Operations, Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, University of Georgia, to conduct a fuel cost analysis that includes impact on production and transportation costs, and a fuel adjustment formula.
LOG HANDLING
- Deere 437E Knuckleboom Loader
- Ponsse Mammoth: Big Productivity
- Tigercat 865 Logger
INNOVATION WAY
- TCi Forestry Dozer
- Ponsse Products
- Durable Truck Scale
- Deere Harvester IBC
- Swing Boom Skidder
EQUIPMENT WORLD
- Tidewater Is Opening Store In Marianna
- Caterpillar Expands Engine Service
- TEC Is Named Sennebogen’s Best
- Elmia Wood Back On Track
SELECT CUTS
- As We (ALC) See It: Canary In The Woods
2022 Logger Survey: Inflation, Fuel Costs Hit Hard
Articles by Dan Shell, Managing Editor, Timber Harvesting
Taken during a time of unprecedented fuel price increases and overall inflationary trends, the Timber Harvesting 2022 Logging Business Survey reflects a logging corps that’s increasingly unable to cover the costs of doing business.
More than 300 loggers answered the survey, and tracking logger data from other reports, two-thirds of those who responded to the survey are age 50 or older—including 40% older than age 60. Most who answered run one or two crews (82%) and 5% run five crews or more. More than half (57%) have at least $1 million invested in equipment including trucks and shop-service equipment, and that includes 10% with $5 million or more invested in their logging business.
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