Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Associate Editor Jessica Johnson travels to Nicholls, Georgia to spend some time with RSB Forestry, Inc. Casey Streat, 43, wasn’t born with logging in his blood. In fact, until May 2009 he wasn’t logging at all. He worked in the housing market, then the bottom fell out and he had to figure out what to do with himself. “In South Georgia, what else are you going to try?” Streat asks. “If it hadn’t been for my father-in-law I would not have done it. Glad I did it? Absolutely. Would I do it again? I don’t know,” he finishes with a laugh. Streat comes at logging from a business background, not an emotional one. “It’s a numbers game. Change them so they work, or else they will work you,” he advises. By constantly adjusting his business, this start up logger has survived. “I’m most proud we survived. You don’t see a lot of start up loggers staying in business,” he says with a smile.

Featured Story: “Numbers Game”

Written By: Jessica Johnson
Company: RSB Forestry, Inc.
Location: Nicholls, Georgia
SLT Issue: December 2013

Check out other featured articles in the December 2013 issue of Southern Loggin’ Times magazine.
Southern Loggin’ Times‘ December 2013 issue features Georgia’s Casey Streat, owner of the start up logging operation RSB Forestry, Inc., North Carolina’s Clay Harmon, owner of Harmon Timber Harvesting, LLC and a young up-and-coming logger, and Texas veteran Eddie Jordan, owner of Jordan Logging, Inc. The issue also concludes the serialization of the book ‘Sawmilling With Paw’.