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EAGLE LUMBER COMPANY Continued At Eagle Lumber, Jay Scantland inspects 8/4 White Oak. joys working with data about his business. “I love information, and I spend a lot of time in my office looking at last week’s production runs, what they cut, what we sawed per hour, and our yields that we are getting on the logs we buy,” Peachey said. “My philosophy is: if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. That’s a very, very important statement in our sawmill industry. You’ve got to know where your log costs are. You have to know what your costs are per hour, or you will simply not know where you are at the end of the day on your profit / loss statement. That is something that I really enjoy, and it’s interesting to watch all the numbers add up at the end of the month.” The firm’s mission statement is “to make a good product, price it fairly, and do what you say,” Peachey stated. He added, “My greatest mission here is to take care of my employees.” He said he enjoys hiring young men, or boys, having an older employee groom them in the industry, and then “seeing a young boy blossom into manhood while he has worked here. I have a lot of boys who have started here when they were younger and now are married men, bought places of their own, and have a beautiful young family. That blesses me about more that anything does.” Another core value of Eagle Lumber Company is found in the Bible, in Malachi 3:10: “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now here- PLM is WITH YOU when you need us most – to help navigate the difficult time following a covered loss. We take claims calls in the middle of the night. We have people on-site within days of a major loss with a check payment. We are WITH YOU from the moment you file the claim to the day it’s business as usual. WITH 126 years of insuring the wood industry, our claims team is well versed in the specialized operations, machinery, and loss factors unique to the wood niche. WITH that knowledge, we provide highly personalized claims service to help put our customers back in business as quickly as possible. WITH YOU When You Have a Loss Request a quote directly or through your broker - WWW.PLMINS.COM/QUOTE. Put PLM’s Claims Experience to Work WITH your Wood Business. WITH YOU Since 1895 800.752.1895 | www.plmins.com 42 APRIL 2021 n NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE
Eagle lumber has a McDonough Manufacturing 62-inch resaw and tipple separating system. with, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” Peachey, whose family are Mennonites, stated, “I just firmly believe in giving back after we have received so much. We are an indebted people for how blessed we are, living in a free country, free enterprise and being able to operate, and in return, let’s reach out and help each other.” Every Monday before work begins, the 23 employees at this mill meet in order to talk about how work is going, have a safety talk, and to “have a word of prayer together,” Peachey noted. Every Tuesday he provides lunch for the office staff. Besides Paul Peachey, the hierarchy of the company includes his sons, Josh and Jeremy. “This is a family business.” Peachey says. Josh is the main mill manager at Eagle Lumber Company. Jeremy owns 20 percent of the companies and works at the mill when he is not teaching grades five through eight at the local church school. Paul Peachey’s initiation into sawmilling occurred when he was growing up. His maternal grandfather, the late Emery Weaver, was a sawmiller. His grandfather “was a great man of great character,” Paul recalls. “He was very well liked in the business world. He treated his men very well. The surrounding tracts of timber were readily available to him, because of the name that he held in his local community. He was a very well-respected man, a fine Christian man, and I am indebted to him.” “I also attribute a lot of my success in the Please turn the page bdahn@hhp-inc.com Buxton Industrial Drive, PO Box 489, Henniker NH 03242 Phone: 603-428-3298 Fax: 603-428-3448 http://www.hhp-inc.com/tour HHP, INC. Specializing in 4/4 & 5/4 Production of: Northern Red Oak • Ash • Hard & Soft Maple Premium Quality Northern Hardwoods Sawmill • Kilns • Export Prep • Container Loading 13 Million Board Feet Annual Production APRIL 2021 n NATIONAL HARDWOOD MAGAZINE 43
