NHBR--Men at Work: The Rumney Sawmill

Logging Employees Are a Special Breed

Left to Right: Forester Eric Parent,log scaler Nate Taylor and Jim Brown, manager of Cersosimo's Rumney Sawmill.

NH Business Review story and photos by Cynthia Tokos

“I never planned to do this kind of work. My father used to log, and I remember when I was a teenager, we’d go snowmobiling. And he’d say, ‘Ok Jim, what kind of tree is that, and how about that one over there?’ And I thought, ‘I don’t know and I don’t care, since I’m never going to have anything to do with this!’”

At these words, Jim Brown gives a big grin.

Jim Brown manages the Rumney Sawmill in Rumney, N.H., for Cersosimo Lumber Company, a family-run business headquartered in Brattleboro, Vt. 

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