Forge Hill Logging

About Forge Hill Logging

Hawley is high, wooded country on the eastern edge of the Berkshires, where the Chickley River tumbles north toward Charlemont and an old stone charcoal kiln still stands in the state forest. Winter climbs into this hill town early and leaves late, and roads that wind up through hemlock and birch can fill in faster than any shovel can keep up. Forge Hill Logging turns its woods-country know-how to snow removal, pushing the plow up driveways and opening the long lanes that run back from the road to homes on the ridges. The reward is a passage cut wide through the trees, banks shoved back so a truck can pass and the cold morning has a way out. Up here, where neighbors are few and the drifts run deep, a cleared drive makes the whole day possible.