Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Managing Editor David Abbott travels to Dolphin, Virginia to spend some time with Virginia Custom Thinning, LLC. There’s a saying people in Texas sometimes like to use: “I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could.” That must be how C.K. Greene feels about the logging business. He wasn’t born into it, like many or maybe most of his peers, but as soon as he discovered it, he’s spent the rest of his life learning it and loving it. He might be the biggest fan logging has. Now 46 and owner of Virginia Custom Thinning, LLC, Greene—he says the final “e” in his name stands for “extra effort”—grew up around Elizabethtown, NC, in a logging community but not in a logging family. His mom was a 7th grade science teacher and his dad owned a wholesale warehouse in the days before Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club. He first became interested in logging because of reading Southern Loggin’ Times when he was about 14. He was introduced to the magazine in the home of a neighbor who worked for Canal Wood and had a subscription.

Featured Story: “Stylin’ And Profilin’”

Written By: David Abbott
Company: Virginia Custom Thinning, LLC
Location: Dolphin, Virginia
SLT Issue: November 2013

Check out other featured articles in the November 2013 issue of Southern Loggin’ Times magazine.
Southern Loggin’ Times November issue features C.K. Greene of Custom Thinning, LLC, who is a proactive and enthusiastic man, never underestimating the value of a good public image. Cagle Brothers Logging has a tradition of hard work. Tennessee Forestry Association’s 2013 Logger of the Year, Joey Grissom, stays busy in and out of the woods. Also, crowds came to the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Logging & Biomass Expo.