Independent Loggers

The state's own register is broader than this listing has been. NC Forest Service records CBR Logging as buying all hardwood and all softwood species in Washington County, and as dealing in standing timber, sawlogs and pulpwood rather than mixed hardwood alone. A Carolina Loggers Association member directory carries a matching name, though that directory publishes no city or state, so the match is on name alone. No website, Facebook page, BBB file or published review was found, and a federal SAFER keyword search returned no motor-carrier registration under this name.

Twelve power units and nine drivers put this among the larger logging outfits working out of Plymouth. The federal SAFER database lists H & L Logging as a private interstate carrier under USDOT #1796742, hauling logs, poles, beams and lumber, with its MCS-150 registration last updated in December 2025. By fleet size that is several times the one- and two-truck operations that make up most of the DOT-registered loggers in this corner of the state. A Carolina Loggers Association directory entry matches the name, but the directory lists no location, so the match is unconfirmed. No website, rating or review was found.

In business since October 2001 according to its Better Business Bureau file, Mark & Sons runs a small operation by federal numbers: the FMCSA lists a single power unit and two drivers under USDOT #3909887, registered for intrastate work only. The BBB has had a file open on the company since 2010 but has never issued a rating, saying it lacks sufficient information to do so, and the company is not accredited. The DOT registration also carries a mailing address in Sanford, a different part of the state from the Plymouth yard. No website, Facebook page or published review was found.

A timber management firm and a real estate brokerage in one: the company's own site says it buys land as well as standing timber and is 'always looking for mutually profitable transactions that benefit our customers, employees, and the larger environment.' In business since December 1986, it has been a BBB-accredited business since November 2021 and carries an A+ rating. The BBB file describes the work as procuring, merchandising and harvesting timber tracts, buying standing timber and facilitating replanting through the Sustainable Forestry Initiative. On harvesting, the company says its methods 'minimize disturbance of the land and leave it ready for a new crop of timber.'

Almost nothing about this company is verifiable from public sources. It appears in this directory's source data as an independent logging contractor working across twelve eastern North Carolina counties, but it does not appear on the NC Forest Service timber-buyer tables for Washington or Beaufort counties, has no Carolina Loggers Association directory entry, no federal motor-carrier registration, and no website, Facebook page, BBB file or published review that could be found.

One truck, one driver. The federal SAFER database lists McEntire Services under USDOT #3032423 as a private, intrastate-only carrier hauling logs, poles, beams and lumber out of Rutherfordton, which squares with the single-county service area shown on this listing. That registration, last filed in March 2022, is effectively the entire public record for the business: no website, no Facebook page, no BBB file, no Carolina Loggers Association entry and no published reviews could be found.

Working western North Carolina and the upstate of South Carolina since 1998, this Rutherfordton buyer takes standing timber on tracts of five acres and up. Its Manta business listing says the company is fully insured, employs Certified Pro Loggers, offers free timber value estimates, and provides logging services as well as buying — all of it the company's own account of itself rather than an independent verification. The March 2024 statewide timber buyers list published by the South Carolina Forestry Commission carries the same Rutherfordton address and phone, so tracts on either side of the state line are in range.

A six-person, single-location crew whose working address is on Stony Branch Rd in New Bern rather than the PO Box that appears on the state register. The business-data aggregator Buzzfile puts the founding at 2017, which would make it one of the newer harvesting outfits in Craven County — most of the local operators date back decades further. Those figures are aggregator data rather than the company's own statement, and no website, Facebook page or reviews exist to check them against.

Unlike most stumpage buyers in Halifax County, Kerr runs its own log trucks. Federal motor carrier records under USDOT 337205 list eight power units and three drivers as of the August 2025 MCS-150 filing, and the cargo classification covers "Logs, Poles, Beams, Lumber" alongside "Machinery, Large Objects" — meaning the company hauls its own harvesting equipment onto a tract as well as the wood off it. An industrial directory describes the business as wholesaling rough, dressed and finished lumber and offering logging and forest management services, so it does more than buy stumpage. The NC Forest Service register records it as buying all hardwood and all softwood species, broader than the mixed-hardwood entry the listing was built from. No website, Facebook page or published reviews were found.

Two trucks and two drivers is what the federal motor carrier register shows for this outfit as of its October 2024 MCS-150 filing under USDOT 3349173 — a small crew that hauls its own wood rather than subcontracting it out. It buys standing timber, sawlogs and pulpwood in all hardwood and softwood species, and appears on the Stokes County buyer register as well as Rockingham's. Worth knowing if you are calling around: its yard on Anglin Mill Road sits roughly a mile from Shelton Logging & Chipping at 2861 Anglin Mill Road, two separately incorporated Shelton logging businesses on the same road. FMCSA also carries a second number for the business, (336) 573-9551. No website, Facebook page or published reviews were found.

This is one of the larger owner-operated crews in the Stoneville cluster: seven power units and seven drivers on its December 2024 federal motor carrier filing under USDOT 2351429, meaning it can move a tract without waiting on subcontracted hauling. The Anglin Mill Road address is a mailing address — FMCSA records the physical operating base as 200 Price Farm Road in Stokesdale, about 25 miles south in Guilford County, so its working range covers both counties. It also appears on the NC Forest Service Rockingham County buyer register as buying standing timber, sawlogs and pulpwood in all hardwood and softwood species, so it will buy the wood as well as cut it. FMCSA lists a second phone number, (336) 548-3860, alongside the one on the register.

Two records, two different jobs. The NC Forest Service register lists Deberry Land & Timber as a timber buyer working twelve counties, while the IndustryNet business directory classifies the company under logging — by both SIC and NAICS code — and describes what it does as hardwood timber logging. IndustryNet also records a street address in Troy alongside the PO Box in the state register, and notes the company is not set up to receive email, so contact is by phone only. No website, no published reviews and no founding date were found.

A Sanford timber harvesting company that entered this directory from the NC Forest Service Timber Buyers Guide, recorded there as buying standing timber, sawlogs and pulpwood across five counties in the central Piedmont. It does not appear on the Forest Service's current county buyer lists for Lee, Chatham or Harnett, and no website, Facebook page, BBB file, directory entry or review of any kind could be found for it. The species and services shown here come from the original source record and are unverified.

The only confirmation found for this Burnsville outfit is the N.C. Forest Service's Yancey County buyer list, which records it purchasing all hardwood and softwood species as standing timber, sawlogs and pulpwood — a wider brief than the "mixed hardwoods" this listing previously showed. Searches on the company name, the phone number and the Blue Rock Road address returned no website, no Facebook page, no BBB file and no Carolina Loggers Association membership. What the register says is all that can be verified about it.

Unlike most crews on the Forest Service register, this Burnsville company hauls its own wood: it holds USDOT number 1009797 as a private interstate carrier of logs, poles, beams and lumber, with six power units and six drivers on the MCS-150 filed in July 2025. It is listed as a member of the Carolina Loggers Association, and the Yancey County buyer list records a broader species range than this listing previously carried, adding basswood, cherry and eastern white pine to the oaks, maples, hickory, walnut, ash and southern yellow pine. The BBB file, opened in September 2018, shows five employees and no rating. No website or published reviews were found.

The NC Forest Service register records stumpage, sawlog and pulpwood purchase plus timber cruising for this Haywood County operation, which both logs and buys - the two halves are in the business name. Mixed hardwood is the only species group recorded. Research found no website, no directory entry, no ratings and no reviews; the single web presence is a Facebook page whose name matches the business exactly.

A third-generation family firm working out of the Inez community outside Warrenton, with more than thirty years in the business by its own account. What separates it from a straight stumpage buyer is what it offers after the cut: reforestation assistance and land management consultation, so a harvest can be handled as one stage of a longer plan for the tract rather than a one-off sale. Buying and harvesting are both done in house. The company names Glenn Coleman III as president and Will Coleman as vice president, with Taylor Gartrell buying timber, and says the team trained at NC State University and Wake Technical Community College. Office hours run 8:30 to 4.

In business since 1980, this Warren County operation is both a harvesting crew and a timber buyer: the NC Forest Service register lists it as purchasing standing timber, sawlogs and pulpwood and as offering a timber cruise. It holds interstate for-hire motor carrier authority under USDOT #3518186, running two power units and two drivers with cargo recorded as logs, poles, beams and lumber, so the same company that cuts the timber also hauls it. No website, Facebook page, reviews or ratings were found. The Better Business Bureau maintains a profile but lists the company as not rated for lack of information, and it is not BBB accredited.

Federal motor carrier records list D and J Logging Inc with three power units and two drivers, registered as a private property carrier hauling construction cargo rather than a for-hire freight operation. Beyond that filing there is very little on the public record — no website, no reviews, no ratings, no certifications. The NC Forest Service register is the only account of what it buys: standing timber, sawlogs and pulpwood, with a timber cruise offered. Its Raleigh yard shares a street address with American Woodyards, LLC, though no source found confirms a relationship between the two businesses.