A&W Logging has spent the last several months testing a small prototype single-function track loader on its wet weather logging job. Designed by affiliate enterprise River Ridge Equip­ment, also based in Rison, it is essentially a John Deere 160D excavator modified with a customized loader package replacing the unit’s standard digging thumb.

Featured Story: “Another Opening”

Written By: Jennifer McCary
Company: A&W Logging
Location: Rison, Arkansas
SLT Issue: June 2012

Check out other featured articles in the June 2012 issue of Southern Loggin’ Times magazine.
Southern Loggin’ Times’s June issue discusses Cantrell Forest Product’s addition of job opportunities under its owner, Lamar Cantrell. An Arkansas company is featured for modifying a machine and taking it to market after several months of testing a proto-type.  The East Coast Sawmill and Logging Equipment Exposition is also highlighted, as well as Antoine Hardwood’s application of mulch to find a new road of revenue.