November / December 2025
Lynn Logging Tackles Steep Tennessee Hills
Tennessee’s Jimmy Lynn makes mechanization investment that transforms his company, making it more efficient and productive—and more attractive to potential employees.
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Lynn Logging Tackles Steep Tennessee Hills
My Take: 2025: Writing It Off?
Looking at the year drawing to a close, the ongoing long term realignment of pulp and paper raw material sourcing in North America that features significantly less roundwood usage going forward remains the logging industry’s biggest story. The pain can be mixed: The same IP that closed its Savannah mill also recently invested more than $25million in its Selma, Ala. facility. For those loggers who are working within 50-100 miles of one of the closed facilities the impact is real and immediate: Local producers are quickly caught up by a system that has informally relied on relatively low logging rates that contractors can work with by turning up the volume. While it barely worked even in good times, such a formula is now completely irrelevant for the many loggers who are affected by the closures.
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Fall Logger Events
Steep Slope
Innovation Way
- Tigercat X877 F-B
- Komatsu 951XC-1
- Vermeer Tracked Grinder
- John Deere L-III Skidder
Select Cuts
- EUDR—One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
- New Book Brings The ‘Chainsaw Love’
- USDA Focuses On Wildlife Risk
Big Investment
Jimmy Lynn mechanizes felling/processing to boost production and attract employees.
Story by: Patrick Dunning
CELINA, Tenn. —Third-generation owner-operator Jimmy Lynn, 40, was Bluegrass-born and raised across the state line in Monroe County, smack dab in the middle of Kentucky’s hardwood hill country. “My family has always been in the hardwood industry,” he says. “We grow some beautiful trees in this area.”
Lynn’s grandfathers were lifelong loggers who worked in the region’s diverse timber base and hand felled trees exclusively. He grew up watching his father hand fell the Cumberland Plateau’s densely forested foothills to put food on the table. Naturally, he fell in love with the trade, becoming more involved as he got old enough.
Once he was of age, he worked with his dad’s outfit for several years; they ran a 518 Cat cable skidder and felled by chain saw. He also worked for other local operators and had a stint in construction for four years. He launched Lynn Logging LLC as a one-man operation in 2014. “I branched out on my own eleven years ago and haven’t looked back,” he says.
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