Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Associate Editor Jay Donnell has the opportunity to visit Stott Wood Company in Olla, Louisiana. Brothers Randy and Ricky Stott took over Stott Wood Co. in 2000 and they haven’t looked back since. The two men took over the business after their father, B.R., retired and have since grown the company into a large operation with 30 employees. Stott Wood Co. began in the 1930s with B.R.’s father, N.E. Stott, using horses and crosscut saws to log for Urania Lumber Co. in Urania, La., which later became Georgia-Pacific and then Louisiana-Pacific. Stott Wood even cleared the plant site and hauled in the first logs when GP built a plywood mill there in 1969 (shortly before LP took it over), and Stott brought in the last load when the mill closed many years later. When the Stott brothers took over the business they were running one crew and owned three log trucks, but it’s grown to three crews and 10 log trucks.

Featured Story: “Building Blocks”

Written By: Jay Donnell
Company: Stott Wood Company
Location: Olla, Louisiana
SLT Issue: August 2018

Check out other featured articles in the August 2018 issue of Southern Loggin’ Times magazine.
Southern Loggin’ Times magazine’s August 2018 issue features Freeport, Florida’s Clay Blizzard Trucking, LLC, Olla, Louisiana’s Stott Wood Company, Demopolis, Alabama’s Two Rivers Lumber Company, and Columbus, Mississippi’s Tim O’Bryant, AKA cotontop3, and TDK Logging. Also a special article by Tigercat engineer Jean-Marc Labelle offers insight into turbochargers. Another article by Teresa Hannah with Caribou Software provides a case study of their Loggers Edge software featuring Washington, Georgia’s Plains Logging. Other articles cover the latest industry news, new products and upcoming events.