Four
generations
of loggers.
Started near Martinsville, Indiana — Willis Collier's great-grandfather first ran timber on horses. His grandfather built a sawmill in 1964 that ran until it burned in 1992. Willis founded Willis Contract Cutting seven years later to carry the work forward.
Willis founded Willis Contract Cutting in 1999. Over 25 years he specialized in the work that pays the linear foot, not the lawn — right-of-way clearing for utility and pipeline GCs, large industrial timber harvests, and the difficult-terrain corridors flatland crews can't bid.
The Indiana shop runs a production-felling fleet — a TimberPro TL755D feller buncher, a Tigercat skidder, a knuckleboom loader, track mulchers, and the largest barsaw in the country, used on veneer-grade white oak that feeds the bourbon-barrel stave-mill supply chain.
As demand grew across PA, WV, OH, AL, and GA, we built the bench instead of overstretching one crew. The Indiana fleet mobilizes; a vetted bench of regional partners scales to the job. East of the Colorado River, we travel.
End markets: midstream pipeline operators, investor-owned utilities, rural electric co-ops, energy infrastructure GCs, veneer mills, and stave operators.
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