Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Managing Editor David Abbott visits Dykes Logging Company, Inc. located in Richton, Mississippi. Happy days are here again? Well, maybe so, according to the head honchos at Burnie Dykes Logging Co., Inc. That would be dad Burnie, 59, and his son Eric, 42. Calendar year 2015, they agree, was a pretty good one for them. “It’s the best we’ve done in the last 10 years, or at least the last seven,” Eric says. That specific number, a seven-year minimum, isn’t just an educated guess. It was seven years ago, in 2008, when things got so bad, Burnie decided to park everything. Logging is always tough but the thing that really started the downward spiral in his case, he says, was the cost of fuel. “Fuel just got so high, to the point that there was no money in it,” the elder Dykes recollects. “It’s never enough, but still, you have to turn some kind of a profit.”

Featured Story: “Best Year Yet”

Written By: David Abbott
Company: Burnie Dykes Logging Company, Inc.
Location: Richton, Mississippi
SLT Issue: March 2016

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Southern Loggin’ Times magazine’s March 2016 issue features Jonesboro, Louisiana’s DG&E Logging, Inc., Richton, Mississippi’s Burnie Dykes Logging Company, Inc., New Bern, North Carolina’s Gladson Logging, and Sparkman, Arkansas’ Ray White Lumber Company. Special articles highlight Union Grove, North Carolina’s CTR Manufacturing Co. and their sister company Cutting Systems, Inc. (CSI), Caterpillar’s recent tests with remote controlled forestry machines, and the recent South Carolina Timber Producers Association annual meeting and their focus on trucking. Other articles cover the latest industry news, new products, and logging business tips.