Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Associate Editor Jay Donnell has the opportunity to visit Cagle Brothers Logging in Pamplico, South Carolina. It’s been nine years since Cagle Brothers Logging added a chipping crew to their operation to complement two conventional crews, and Brian Cagle continues to see positive results. Last year the chipping crew switched from a Treelan 23 inch chipper to a 2012 Woodsman 440 with 23 inch capacity. This is more of a high consumption biomass chipper and Cagle hopes biomass markets will come on strong. Currently all of Cagle’s fuel chips are taken to the RockTenn paper mill at Florence, SC. The Woodsman unit will chip up to 150 tons an hour, running a C18 Cat 765 HP engine. Brian Cagle is impressed with major improvements made on the chipper drum and chain driven feed system. “We’ve been able to get rid of a lot of waste,” Cagle says. “We used to have a big pile of waste we couldn’t feed into it.”

Featured Story: “Blood, Sweat & Tears”

Written By: Jay Donnell
Company: Cagle Brothers Logging
Location: Pamplico, South Carolina
SLT Issue: November 2013

Check out other featured articles in the November 2013 issue of Southern Loggin’ Times magazine.
Southern Loggin’ Times November issue features C.K. Greene of Custom Thinning, LLC, who is a proactive and enthusiastic man, never underestimating the value of a good public image. Cagle Brothers Logging has a tradition of hard work. Tennessee Forestry Association’s 2013 Logger of the Year, Joey Grissom, stays busy in and out of the woods. Also, crowds came to the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Logging & Biomass Expo.