Fuller Creek Enterprises LLC

03/01/2023

Last week when the sun came out. The men are doing a fine job.

02/09/2023

I had the opportunity to take this young man out for part of a day with me to see what running a feller buncher is about. Landon is looking forward to getting his last year of high school behind him and getting out into the work force. He may end up down at a school in Northern California to participate in their program that teaches students the basics of forestry equipment. I try to make time to do this when a student reaches out to me. This industry needs a younger workforce coming into it with the average age of loggers industry wide being about 55 years old.

02/09/2023

Had my supervisor out for a visit a few weeks ago when I was right behind the house.

02/09/2023

739 Skagit rigged up behind the house on the unit I cut a few weeks ago.

01/26/2023

Finished up a unit right behind Fuller Hill the other day. was pretty nice to work about 6 minutes from the driveway for a couple weeks.

11/16/2021

New work truck turned out nice. Good for another 6 years or more again.

07/29/2021

Working close to home.

05/03/2021

At 34 years old and owner of Fuller Creek Enterprises LLC, Adam Zepp is one of the younger members in the logging industry, but he’s no newcomer; he is the third generation of Zepps to find employment in the woods. In the ‘50s, his grandpa Boyd started a logging company that became a family affair. Adam’s grandma Wilma drove the log truck while Boyd drove the team of horses. In the subsequent decades, their company rode out many ups and downs in the timber industry.

Following Mount Saint Helens’ eruption in 1980, Boyd was contracted to clean up the debris in the streams and rivers. He then transitioned to buying state timber sales and began logging for the Jorgensen family in Lewis county. According to grandma, says Adam, when grandpa passed away in 1993, he employed about 150 people, which included contractor trucks and hand fallers. Among the employees were Adam’s five uncles and father, nearly all of whom leveraged their experience into starting their own companies. Over the course of his career in the timber industry, Boyd’s equipment portfolio reflected the technological change that was occurring: he started with horses and purchased one of the first roto-saws, which was a predecessor of the hot saw used today.

Witnessing a hot saw in action decided Adam’s future career choice. “I saw my first hot saw in action at the age of 12 being ran by Tony White, who at the time was working for Terry Akins, and I was hooked,” Adam says. “I told myself that I was going to own one someday.”

Read all about Fuller Creek Enterprises in the article The Next Generation Logging in Southwest Washington in TimberWest Magazine: https://forestnet.com/TWissues/2021-march-april/generation.php

12/16/2020

Took the youngest to work with me the other day to move the buncher into a new unit.

10/13/2020