Mashell River Timberworks

Specialties

We specialize in the kind of jobs other tree services refuse to do because they are too technical, too dangerous or where much of the money to do the job has to be taken from the timber value of the trees themselves. These are the kinds of jobs that pose the greatest risk to people and property and where our skills, judgement and experience matter most. We also specialize in crane work, both in removing hazard trees in tight quarters and in «residential logging», which means removing trees in residential environments in such a way that the logs can be sold for lumber and help to defray the cost of the removals themselves. Another specialty is small jobs like the fine pruning of relatively small trees.

History

Established in 2002.

Mashell River Timberworks was started in 2002 as Mashell River Productions. We started out by harvesting and selling firewood recovered from logging sites at the Vail Tree Farm owned by the Weyerhauser company on contract. From there we expanded into salvage logging for Weyerhauser. This consisted of salvaging shorter or smaller logs left behind from large clearcuts. We also salvaged logs for specialty markets such as cedar split rail, shake block and bolt, and veneer alder and figured maple for the music industry. From there we moved into land clearing and residential logging and then the type of high-​risk tight quarters work we do today for residental, commercial, state and federal government projects. The company was named after the South Fork of the Little Mashell River near Eatonville, wa. The river was the eastern property boundary of the owner’s property at that time. In 2008, we relocated to Lake Stevens, but still serve returning and new customers in Pierce County.

Meet the Business Owner

Brian H.

Business Owner

Brian was born and raised in Seattle Wa. and attended Chief Sealth High School. In 1985, he Joined the Washington Army National Guard and spent the next 9 years serving on active duty assignments for the Guard and Active Army all over the United Sates and Korea. In 1994, he left active duty and using skills self taught while in the service became a software consultant working on contract for companies like AT&T Wireless, The Boeing Company, and King County Superior Court. In between assignments he traveled the US as a Rodeo Cowboy competing in the Bull Riding event. After being laid off from Boeing following 9/​11, he produced some bull-​riding events in Idaho before being presented with a business opportunity to contract with Weyerhaeuser. Living in rural east Pierce County gave him the opportunity to learn about logging and tree climbing from 3^rd generation loggers and world champion competitors in timber sports. He cites that opportunity as his competive advantage in business.