Timber Harvesting magazine Senior Associate Editor David Abbott travels to Covington, Virginia to visit Fitzgerald Excavating and Construction, Inc. It’s not a sight one sees often on a logging job: suburbanites jogging on a residential cul-de-sac sidewalk as a loader fills a tractor-trailer. But it’s not uncommon in the world of Davey Fitzgerald, Jr. of Fitzgerald Excavating and Construction, Inc. The company specializes in clearing timber, often for residential development, in the metro areas around Washington, DC, far to the east from its home base in Covington, Va. “They call me the urban logger,” Fitzgerald, 35, says of his peers in the southern portions of the state, who are accustomed to more rural settings. “When they come up here, the amount of traffic is what blows them away. The biggest question they ask me is how our trucks manage to haul in all this.”

Featured Story: “They Call Me The Urban Logger”

Written By: David Abbott
Company: Fitzgerald Excavating and Construction, Inc.
Location: Covington, Virginia
TH Issue: January/February 2017

Check out other featured articles in the January/February 2017 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine.
The January/February 2017 issue of Timber Harvesting magazine features Covington, Virginia’s Fitzgerald Excavating and Construction, Inc., Brunswick, Georgia’s Tidewater Equipment Company, and Cataldo, Idaho’s Paul Sverdsten Logging. The issue also features the annual 2017 Equipment Directory, highlighting products, manufacturers and trade shows. Other articles cover the latest in logging business management software, trucking safety and the latest industry news and new machinery and products.