Southern Loggin’ Times magazine Contributing Editor Jordan Anderson spends some time with Tim O’Bryant, known as cotontop3 on YouTube, and TDK Logging based in Columbus, Mississippi. Tim O’Bryant, 46, has worked for his father’s company, TDK Logging, for almost 30 years. The business got its start in 1975 when Edwin (Sam) O’Bryant, now 72, started logging on the side because of his love of the outdoors. If the O’Bryant name and TDK Logging sound familiar to you, it’s because the company was featured on the cover of Southern Loggin’ Times in August 2012. While that story provided a great profile of the company’s history, operations and style of logging, this one is going to be a little different. When SLT went looking for an out-of-the-ordinary story, our search led us to the popular video sharing website YouTube, where we found the channel of cotontop3. O’Bryant, known by the handle cotontop3 on YouTube, is what’s known as a “vlogger.”

Featured Story: “Gone Viral”

Written By: Jordan Anderson
Tim O’Bryant AKA cotontop3
Company: TDK Logging
Location: Columbus, Mississippi
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.