Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Associate Editor Jay Donnell travels to Iuka, Mississippi to spend some time with D.L. Cutshall & Sons Logging. When Doug Cutshall left Mississippi for Florida in the 1950s after an ice storm destroyed the timber around his family’s sawmill in Iuka, he was unsure of what the future held for himself and his family. The family continued sawmilling in Florida for several years, with Cutshall staying mostly in the logging end. He also spent 11 years as a welder at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. (the last three years as leaderman or supervisor of tank testing) before returning to northern Mississippi for good in 1968. That’s when he, his father and an uncle started the family’s old sawmill in Iuka and he continued to handle the logging end of the business for the family mill. Three years later, in 1971, Cutshall went out on his own. He signed his first contract with Tennessee River Pulp & Paper and began logging for the company using a horse named Ted and a truck equipped with a side-loader.

Featured Story: “Bouncing Back”

Written By: Jay Donnell
Company: D.L. Cutshall & Sons Logging
Location: Iuka, Mississippi
SLT Issue: June 2014

Check out other featured articles in the June 2014 issue of Southern Loggin’ Times magazine.
Southern Loggin’ Times magazine’s June 2014 issue features Iuka, Mississippi’s D.L. Cutshall & Sons Logging, Hermitage, Arkansas’ ARK-LA Timber Harvesting, Inc., and Summerville, South Carolina’s Cone & Sons Logging, Inc. Also highlighted is the 2014 East Coast Sawmill Logging & Equipment Exposition (the Richmond Show) held last month in Virginia. Other articles discuss logging business financial solutions and the latest industry news and events.