A logger, a sawmill, and a disagreement over price.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mr. Keller — then a working logger — grew dissatisfied with the log prices he was getting from Mead Hardwoods, the only sawmill in town at the time. After a series of conversations with Mead's leadership about fair pricing, he made a decision: he bought the land our mill now stands on and started running his own monthly log sales.
From there, the operation grew steadily — from a log yard, to a small circle mill, to the mill we run today, shipping several trailer loads of wood product every day.