Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Managing Editor David Abbott, along with Executive Director of the Virginia Loggers Association Ron Jenkins, has the opportunity to visit Dunivan Logging in Columbia, Virginia. Dunivan Logging has been harvesting timber in central Virginia for more than half a century. Clan patriarch Howard Dunivan, Sr., was just 22 when he started making sawdust. His father had started the family’s first sawmill in Cumberland, feeding it with logs skidded by mules, and Howard recalls he often saw his dad carry logs on his shoulders practically as big as those handled by the mules. Ever since then, it seems, wood has run through the Dunivan family blood. Now 80, Howard Sr. still loves going to the woods, but he has relinquished the burden of decision-making to his only son, Howard, Jr., 51. That doesn’t mean the elder statesman isn’t still involved—far from it.

Featured Story: “Still Going Strong”

Written By: Ron Jenkins and David Abbott
Company: Dunivan Logging
Location: Columbia, Virginia
SLT Issue: May 2016

Check out other featured articles in the May 2016 issue of Southern Loggin’ Times magazine.
Southern Loggin’ Times magazine’s May 2016 issue features Inez, North Carolina’s Inez Forest Industries, Inc. and IFI Trucking, LLC, Preston, Georgia’s Church Hill Logging, and Columbia, Virginia’s Dunivan Logging. A special section highlights exhibitors at the 2016 East Coast Sawmill & Logging Equipment Expo (EXPO Richmond), held in Richmond, Virginia May 13-14, and takes a look back at the first EXPO Richmond 40 years ago. An article reports on the special ‘Chip Chip Hooray!’ event held recently as part of the 2016 Wood Bioenergy Conference & Expo in Atlanta, Georgia. Other articles cover the latest industry news, logging business tips, and new machinery, equipment and products.