Meiser Family
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“I told him, if you could find
lumber, you’d have a business,”
said Terry, who was in the
lumber business for 20 years as
part owner and operator of
Meiser Lumber Company.
“I knew how difficult it was
getting timber. I spent a lot of
If full-scale timbering is not an option, thinning the trees
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Meisers explore at this woodlot. “If you get too many
stems per acre they won’t grow to the maximum amount,”
said Terry.
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when I was in the business, and
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“We spent three months put
ting together the business, the
system, and how we were going
to work it,” said Nathan. “The
first few months were spent fig
uring it out, deciding if it was
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The company, Timberleads,
began by the beginning of
March.
The Meiser family divides up
the workload. Nathan takes care
of the leads and contacts from
the farmers, Terry handles the
timber subscribers, and Terry’s
daughter Kathy oversees “ev
erything else,” said Terry, which
includes administrative, book
Nathan Meiser checks out the size of a tree to help determine the value of the timber
in a woodlot. Timber Leads will follow up with a packet of information for the producer.
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Terry’s wife, Jennie, is “our big
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The family operates with help
from outlying “referral sources”
such as retired county agent
Tony Dobrosky, who makes
contacts with producers in the
York County area for Tim-
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