Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Associate Editor Jessica Johnson spends some time with RS Bottoms Logging based in Brodnax, Virignia. Scotty Bottoms’ father told him soon after he graduated from high school: “There’s the whole world, go out and get it.” Not from a traditional logging family, the young Bottoms wasn’t sure back then what piece of the world he was going to get. Then his cousin, a foreman with large Virginia logging company M.M. Wright asked if he wanted to start driving a skidder. After six months, Bottoms moved to the cutter. Now, fast forward 28 years and Bottoms, 46, still runs a tree cutter—the first five years for M.M. Wright, then for Ronnie Wright, another Virginia logger, before finally going out on his own and starting RS Bottoms Logging. Bottoms started his business in August of 1997.

Featured Story: “Slow, Steady”

Written By: Jessica Johnson
Company: RS Bottoms Logging
Location: Brodnax, Virginia
SLT Issue: September 2018

Check out other featured articles in the September 2018 issue of Southern Loggin’ Times magazine.
Southern Loggin’ Times magazine’s September 2018 issue features Philadelphia, Mississippi’s Todd Gray Logging, Star City, Arkansas’ Southern Style Logging, LLC and Bayou Country Trucking, LLC, Coushatta, Louisiana’s Almond Brothers Lumber Company, and Brodnax, Virginia’s RS Bottoms Logging. A special section highlights the latest in Chippers & Grinders. An article previews the upcoming 2018 Mid-South Forestry Equipment Show, to be held September 21-22 in Starkville, Mississippi. Other articles cover the latest industry news, new products and upcoming events.