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Low impact loggers earn national recognition
By Matt Reese The long arm of the harvester has a
There are not too many professions sharp blade and two spinning wheels
where workers strive to do a job in a that allow the operator to quickly and
manner that makes it hard to tell that the efficiently grab and cut a tree, strip the
job was done at all, but that is exactly branches off, and size the log appropri-
what the Redoutey family strives for on ately in a matter of seconds.
many of their job sites. August Redoutey, “In the big clear cut plantations
his sons Ryan and Reg Redoutey, and his this is about like cutting corn, you
nephew Aaron Daniel, make up the team just move through it,” Reg said. “I’ll
that runs Redoutey Logging based in cut four or five trees a minute. I can
Scioto County. do a couple of acres of clear-cut in a
“Hopefully our footprint will be light day and I probably cut 200,000 trees in
enough that you will have to look pretty a year.”
hard in 15 years to know that we were The clear-cut situations for commer-
here,” said Reg, who has been a part of cial companies like Glatfelter average
the business since 1997. “I know that anywhere from 40 to 100 acres of most-
what we’re doing is improving stands for ly white pine and make up the vast
the future and I get a lot of satisfaction majority of the business for Redoutey
out of that.” Logging. The clear cut jobs are more
This is particularly true for the jobs profitable and require less planning
Redoutey Logging does for the woodlots and clean up, but do not offer the same
of private landowners in a five-county challenges and rewards as working in
area in south central Ohio. At a job site in the rolling woodlots on the back 40 of
a Scioto County woodlot near the com- southern Ohio farms.
August Redoutey started Redoutey Logging in 1982 with an emphasis on environmental stewardship and safety,
pany’s home base in McDermott, Reg With the private landowners they
two areas that have helped him succeed through the years.
carefully navigates the steep terrain in work with, Redoutey Logging tries to “Normally the reason people want to keep a nice mix of trees and keep the
his timber harvester. The impressive manage the job in a manner that pro- cut timber is the money. We will go stand and canopy to where it doesn’t let
piece of equipment allows him to pick vides a nice paycheck for the landown- through and cut the biggest, most valu- too much sunlight in. By doing that, the
and choose trees to cut in a 40-foot swath er while maximizing the future value of able trees for lumber and the least valu- trees we leave do not get too limby and
from the comfort and safety of a cab. the woodlot. Lumber goes up and able trees for pulp, but we save the ruin their value. I’ve worked with a lot of
“It is about like playing a video down in value like anything else, but younger trees that will be more valuable foresters through the years and learned
game with a couple of joysticks in white oak, walnut and cherry tend to in 10 or 15 years,” said August Redoutey, that we always need to be thinking about
here,” he said. be the most valuable. the founder of the business. “We try to the future and learning from the past.”
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