Truck scales are vitally important in the forest and wood products industry. Not only does it allow us to verify our outbound truck weights for safety and legal reasons. Which saves us and our drives money in fines! It allows us to purchase pulpwood and other forest products by weight.

Pulpwood is small trees and large limbs not suitable for use in higher value items like lumber. Pulpwood is bought and consumed by large paper mills who use wood fiber to make paper, cardboard, diapers, and countless other paper-based products. The round wood is debarked, chipped and cooked in digestors to break the wood down into usable fiber for products being made. The bark can be used to fire boilers at power plants or turned into mulch for landscaping.

The forest products industry in this country is truly a green industry. Every usable part of the tree is utilized. High end butt logs are sliced for veneer, grade logs are sawn into lumber and pallet stock, lower grade logs can be sawn into industrial lumber and timbers. Dust from the sawing process can be used as boiler fuel to heat kilns to dry lumber or pressed into wood pellets. Chips from sawmills waste can be sold to papermills for the pulping process or ground for mulch. Logs not large enough or too low of a quality to be sawn into lumber are sent to the papermill for pulpwood.

Cutting trees must be done to make these products, but the remarkable thing about hardwood forest is their ability to regenerate. Large numbers of saplings with the ability to grow 4-6ft per season will pull more carbon from the atmosphere than one large over mature tree.

We buy pulpwood from local timber harvesters and resale the wood to papermills. This allows our vendors to sell ALL their harvested materials in one place. We can buy veneer logs, grade logs, mat and timber logs, peelers, and pulpwood. We feel this strengthens our local logging community.