TRG News

Sawmills - Log/Treelength Unloading Hours

Stratton Lumber               Monday's 5:30 am (straight thru 24 hours) until Friday's at noon; Self-unloaders can still unload during closed hours

Moose River Lumber      Monday - Thursday 5am - 4 pm; Fridays 5am - noon; Self-unloaders can still unload during closed hours       

 Fontaine Inc.                   Monday - Thursday 6am - 11 pm; Fridays 6am - 3 pm     

Foster Tech Students visit Stratton Lumber in April

A group of students from Foster Career & Technical Center in Farmington, Maine visited Stratton Lumber to tour the sawmill, planer mill, dry kilns and log yard.

Thay had 3 groups of students: Forestry, Mechanical and Electrical. 

Here are a few pictures of the Forestry group getting a lesson on species identification and log scaling led by Taylor Reed, TRG Log Buyer and Jesslyn Sillanpaa, Stratton Lumber Log Scaler.

                                                                                                        

Upgrades & Other News

• Moose River Lumber sawmill has increased production as of August 2026 and now sawing two shifts.

The spruce/fir dimensional lumber market continues to be a challenge and we are hoping for an uptick later on in the year 2026

New Log Yards - buying spruce and fir

• Danby, VT - 319 Route 7; buying spruce/fir sawlogs by log scale - operated by Pitts Logging - Contact John Rounds
• Royalton, VT - right off Exit #3 of I-89; buying spruce & fir sawlogs by log scale - operated by Rodney Rainville - 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.