Monday, January 30, 2017What’s happening at the mill?
Despite the rain, snow, and mud our trucks are rolling and bringing logs to the mill. We have been steadily producing lumber all winter long. We recently finished sawing ash. Cherry has followed ash into the saw mill. Our retail area is stocked and ready for you.
Thursday, December 22, 2016Happy Holidays
Can you believe we are nearing the close of 2016? On December
16, 2016 we held our 4th annual pig roast. We shut down the mill last
Friday afternoon and all sat down together to enjoy a holiday meal. Following
the meal we reflected on the importance of team efforts to service our
customers.
Wightman Specialty Woods is grateful to all who helped to make this a successful year. We are proud to be a family owned business providing individual attention to your needs and look forward to serving you with quality service and superior products in the coming year.Friday, November 11, 2016Tuesday, October 11, 2016
On
September 17, 2016 Wightman Lumber hosted our combined annual open house with
our first ever Lumberfest. An all day lumberjack competition put on by the New
York State Lumberjack Association (NYSLA) along with our yearly family
activities and events were provided for the enjoyment of the community no
charge.
  The timber sport competitions were the
main event with springboard chop, standing block chop, two man and Jack & Jill crosscut, single buck, underhand chop, and modified hot saws. A lively competition pursued with 34 men and 16 women registered for the competition.  The weather was absolutely perfect for the entire day with the younger generation enjoying the "bean bag axe throwing", face painting, a wood building project for all ages assembling pre cut bird feeders, exploring an actual locomotive, and taking rides down the railroad tracks on track speeder cars.  We would like to offer a special "thanks" to the Milford volunteer Fire
Department and emergency squad for providing the on-site ambulance, as well as
serving refreshments and a delicious chicken BBQ cooked on site. Osterhoudt Commercial Refrigeration provided a
mobile refrigerated trailer to assist the fire dept. in fund raising. Our
sponsors included; Catskill Mountain Embroidery & Screen Printing in Delhi,
who made the fantastic "Lumberfest 2016" T-shirts, and debuted our
new logo on our shirts for sale. Nice job !! Chobani Also made a delicious and generous
donation of Greek yogurt to our event, and other sponsors included the Conservation
Alliance of NY, The Bieritz Insurance Agency, Dutchman Stoves & Timber who
showed us just how fast and easy splitting firewood can be, Kanescapes Landscaping,
Smith Ford of Cooperstown with some sweet vehicles to peruse, Springfield Truck
& Tractor with their display of yard maintenance equipment, as well as some
"fun stuff" to look over. Also Jon from Vantage Equipment with a
rather large display of a Volvo L70 loader and HUGE Terex material handler,
very cool to all attending.  Our
Partners for the event included Bassett Health Center of Agricultural Medicine
and Health doing free blood pressure screening and providing wellness advise,
and historical cooper Bob Allers of the
provided the
locomotive tours and speeder rides. A
special "Thank You" goes out to Lisa Marie Vance Photography for the
awesome photos she took.
We
also extend out thanks everyone who attended our Lumberfest event. We hope you
enjoyed the day and we are looking forward to seeing you again next year.
  Tuesday, October 4, 2016Lumberfest 2016 We would like to thank everyone who help to make Lumberfest 2016 a possible. Details of the event to follow soon.Thursday, December 10, 2015Friday, Dec. 11, 2015 Retail close at 1:30 pmIt’s almost time to celebrate the holidays.
We will hold our 3rd annual pig roast for our
employees on Friday, December 11th. Our retail area will close at 1:30 pm on this day so we can celebrate the accomplishments of 2015.
Photo: Bob Tomazin
and Matt Wightman roasting the 2013 pig.
 Monday, October 19, 201522nd Annual Open House Thursday, August 20, 2015Friday, July 10, 2015Art Spranger
Remembering Arty – where do I begin?
What do you say about someone who has been a family friend
for three generations of Wightmans, a loyal and trusted employee for over three
decades and one of those “salt of the earth” men who are defined by three
simple words – a good man.
It seems that I knew Arty all my life, from my childhood,
through school, college, and adult years until he left us all to be in a better
place. I knew him when we pitched hay
bales on the farm, when he came to our high school football games, when we all
went out and got drunk the night before I got married, when my wife and I moved
from our house in Oneonta to a new home, during our early years at Wightman
Lumber when times were really tough, when my children were going to college,
and on to his retirement years.
We covered a lot of time together and through all that time
I always could count on Arty to be there to hold up his end of whatever we were
doing. I could rely on him to be honest
and forthright which is something of a rarity in any day and age. He wasn’t afraid to speak up and say what was
on his mind. While we didn’t always see
eye to eye I always listened to what he said because he thought about what he was
going to say before he said it, just like what a man is supposed to do.
One of the attributes of Arty that I remember the most was
his ability to face any situation he met in life straight on. He approached his obligations to his family,
his responsibilities at work, his patriotic duties as a citizen, and the final
test of his own mortality, like a man.
He knew what was expected of him from his own code of honor and there
was no backing down from his guiding principles. On my last visit to him in the hospital a few
days before he died, he knew what was most likely going to be his destiny and
we talked about it at length. There was
no fear, no weakness of character, no emotional distress in him but rather a
certainty that he was going to face this episode of life head on just like all
the previous ones he had experienced – just like a good man should. - Dan Wightman
A modified version of a stanza from the English writer and
statesman Thomas Babington Macaulay’s (1800 – 1859) epic poem “Horatius at the
Bridge”:
Then
out spake brave Horatius,
The
Captain of the Gate:
To
every man upon this earth
Death
cometh soon or late.
And
how can a man better die
Living
a long life of good acts
With
his head held high
And
his principles intact.
Thursday, July 9, 2015Transform your outdoor living space into something extraordinary.Western Red Cedar is popular most of all for its appearance. Its fine, straight grain, outstanding strength/weight ratio and low rate of expansion and contraction make it a much sought-after species. It is highly resistant to warping and checking. Red cedar contains natural oils that make it resistant to moisture, insects and decay. It is light, easy to work with and easily accepts a range of finishes. Western Red Cedar – The perfect building material for Gazebos and Pergolas.Friday, June 19, 2015Western Red Cedar Western Red CedarThe perfect choice for your outdoor projectWightman now stocks western red cedar. Highly revered for its fine, straight grain, red cedar contains oils that make it naturally resistant to moisture, insects, and decay. When finished and maintained appropriately, western red cedar will provide decades of performance.Environmentally friendly and easy to work with, western red cedar is the perfect choice for your decking:
Wightman offers expertise and quality that will add beauty — and value — to your home renovation, commercial remodel, new home construction, or historic building restoration. Wednesday, June 10, 20152015 Stihl Timbersports EventWightman Lumber and Building Supplies, Inc. sponsored the 2nd annual Stihl Timbersports competitions last weekend at Damaschke Field in Oneonta, NY. 
On Saturday the Professional Northeast Qualifier events were held and on Sunday the Men’s and Women’s Lumberjack Competitions.
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