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An improving market place in 2011 was the catalyst enabling Chris Secrist to put the Timbertec, Inc. cut-to-length thinning operations back to work after an 18-month layoff that began with vanishing markets in 2009. Thus in the summer of 2011 Secrist asked, Gordon Iverson, who had done business with The Oeser Company and Secrist from back in the late 70s, to work with him and manage those sides. “That crew didn’t need to be told how to log,” Iverson explained of the veteran staff, “they just needed adequate work ahead, and if they needed questions answered, I could answer for them.”