Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Managing Editor David Abbott visits B&M Wood Products, Inc. located in Manor, Georgia. James Stovall’s B&M Wood Products, Inc., is an operation built around a pole mill, with a logging crew to support it. Stovall, 66, didn’t start his career as a logger, though. He was working as a procurement forester for another company in 1974 when he stopped for a visit with the original owners of B&M. He was actually on his way to a different plant that he was interested in buying, but he’d done some business with the B&M people before, and while he was passing through he wanted to say hello. “They said, you don’t have to go any further, you can buy this place. So I did.” Stovall borrowed some money against a piece of land that he owned, and found himself the owner of a pole mill. Why the change? “ I wanted to go into business for myself,” he explains.

Featured Story: “Step By Step”

Written By: David Abbott
Company: B&M Wood Products, Inc.
Location: Manor, Georgia
SLT Issue: November 2014

Check out other featured articles in the November 2014 issue of Southern Loggin’ Times magazine.
Southern Loggin’ Times magazine’s November 2014 issue features Zwolle, Louisiana’s R&R Fuel Suppliers, Inc., Zwolle, Louisiana’s TZ, Inc., Manor, Georgia’s B&M Wood Products, Inc., and Augusta, West Virginia’s Mark W. Smith Logging. Other articles highlight the latest industry news and new machines, equipment and technology.