Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Associate Editor Jessica Johnson has the opportunity to travel to Nacogdoches, Texas to visit Rodrigues Sons Logging. There is a place in Texas called the King Ranch—often called the birthplace of Texas ranching—that spans 825,000 acres. This single spot in the Lone Star State is bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island. A quick Google search will yield all kinds of factoids like this. Everything truly is bigger in Texas. (Like, the estimated 109 million pounds of catfish caught per year.) While the massive King Ranch is about 378 miles from Nacogdoches, the east Texas town that is home turf for Tim Rodrigues, 61, the native Texan logger certainly embodies the “everything’s bigger” reputation. His set-up for Rodrigues and Sons Logging is both simple and complex: two crews, with enough equipment to call it three crews, work as one, with three loaders working stair stepped on a given tract of timber.

Featured Story:  “Bigger In Texas”

Written By: Jessica Johnson
Company: Rodrigues Sons Logging
Location: Nacogdoches, Texas
SLT Issue: December 2018

Check out other featured articles in the December 2018 issue of Southern Loggin’ Times magazine.
Southern Loggin’ Times magazine’s December 2018 issue features Starkville, Mississippi’s David Breazeale Logging LLC, Glenwood, Arkansas’ R&B Logging, Inc. and Vines Pulpwood, Inc. and Nacogdoches, Texas’ Rodrigues Sons Logging. A full report details the recent annual meeting of the American Loggers Council, held October 11-13 in Seaside, Oregon. Other articles cover the latest industry news, new products and upcoming events.