I recently celebrated 26 years working for my family’s business. In that time, we have seen a lot of changes with technology within the timber industry from chain saws to highly mechanized, computerized equipment that run like a PlayStation game.

Log a Load for Kids started in South Carolina in 1988, when two land owners donated the value of a load of their timber to the local children’s hospital. Our first event in Arkansas was in 1993. We raised $6,000 at our local chapter’s event.