Cherokee Timber Company
About Cherokee Timber Company
Cherokee Timber Company is a timber buying and logging business in Piedmont, Alabama, at 1315 AL Highway 9 S. It buys timber, logs it, and does forestry work such as thinning. Gathan and his wife, Lavonda, started the company in 2003 when they expanded their logging business. It works in Calhoun County and supplies forest products to markets in North Alabama, Georgia and South Tennessee. If you want to sell, the first step is to call. "The first step is to talk to one of our timber buyers." The buyer walks the stand and measures the timber to estimate the volume, and that estimate becomes your price. The estimate is free for landowners interested in selling. You can be paid by the ton as it is cut, or take a lump sum before cutting starts. Once you agree on the cut and the payment, everyone signs a timber contract. The typical time allowed to harvest is 12 months. They work with pine plantations and hardwood forest. A pine plantation is thinned around 15 to 20 years of age, removing smaller trees so the rest can grow into saw timber. In hardwood stands they sometimes use a selective harvest, cutting certain species and sizes to preserve the forest. The timber buyers have over 50 years combined experience in timber marketing, and the team includes a licensed forester and certified professional logging managers. Cherokee Timber Company suits a landowner with pine plantation or hardwood who wants a buyer to measure the trees and put a price on them before any cutting begins. From cherokeetimber.com, read 17 October 2026.
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