TRG News
Sawmill Christmas & New Years Weeks 2025/2026 - Log/Treelength Unloading Hours
Stratton Lumber – Christmas week Open Mon & Tue, Dec 22 & 23 5:30 am Monday thru 5 pm Tue
Closed Wed & Thu, Dec 24 & 25 Christmas Eve & Christmas Day
Open Friday, Dec 26 5:30 am - Noon
Self-loaders & Center mounts can still unload during closed hours
Stratton Lumber – New Years week Open Mon & Tue, Dec 29 & 30 5:30 am Monday thru 5 pm Tuesday
Closed Wed & Thu, Dec 31 & Jan 1 Closed New Year’s Eve & Day
Open Friday, Jan 2nd 5:30 am - Noon
Self-loaders & Center mounts can still unload during closed hours
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Moose River Lumber – Christmas week Open Mon & Tue, Dec 22 & 23 5 am – 4 pm
Closed Wed & Thu, Dec 24 & 25 Christmas Eve & Christmas Day
Open Friday, Dec 26 5:30 am - Noon
Self-loaders & Center mounts can still unload during closed hours
Moose River Lumber – New Years week Open Mon, Tue, Wed, Dec 29, 30, 31 5 am – 4 pm
Closed Thu, Jan 1 Closed New Year’s Day
Open Friday, January 2nd 5 am – Noon
Self-loaders & Center mounts can still unload during closed hours
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Fontaine Inc. – Christmas week Open Mon & Tue Dec 22 & 23 6 am – 11 pm
Closed Wed, Thu & Fri Dec 24, 25 & 26
Fontaine Inc. – New Years week Open Mon, Dec 29 6am – 4 pm
Closed Tue, Dec 30, 2025, through Sunday, January 4, 2026
Open for regular hours on Monday, January 5th
Sawmill Upgrades & News
- Moose River Lumber sawmill has completed a couple major upgrade this summer/fall 2025 - including a new in-feed which separates and orientates the logs for both our saw lines: small log side - Hew Saw and also our large log side. Also completed in September is our brand new truck weight scales.
- Stratton Lumber has increased production and is now on 2 shifts at the sawmill. We hosted the Maine Tree Foundation Teachers Tour at Stratton this summer, where Teachers from all over Maine visited the sawmill, planer mill & dry kilns and learned how to identify spruce & fir and log scale to determine the board feet in each log.
The spruce/fir dimensional lumber market continues to be a challenge and we are hoping for an uptick in 2026.
TRG Personnel
- We are pleased to welcome Joel Reed back to the Company as a Log Buyer in Maine and Mill Residual Sales. Joel worked for us from 1996-2002. He is buying spruce & fir into the 3 sawmills and Maine Log yards and handling mill residual sales (chips, sawdust, shavings, bark) out of Stratton Lumber Inc. & Moose River Lumber. Joel started his new position with TRG in November 2025.
- We are pleased to announce Taylor Reed was hired as a Log Buyer covering Maine in June 2025. Taylor is buying spruce & fir directly into our Stratton Lumber & Moose River Lumber sawmills as well as into our Maine Log Yards
New Log Yards - buying spruce and fir
- Danby, VT - 319 Route 7; buying spruce/fir sawlogs by log scale - Contact John Rounds
- Royalton, VT - right off Exit #3 of I-89; buying spruce & fir sawlogs by log scale - Contact John Rounds
We buy mixed loads of spruce/fir and hardwood sawlogs, veneer logs and pallet logs in our Hardwick and East Burke Vermont Log Yards.
All other Log Yards in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont & New York we buy spruce & fir only.
