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Ohio Valley Timber extends services from Beverly, Belpre

(Photo provided) Ohio Valley Timber, with locations in Belpre and Beverly, sells mulch, firewood and sawdust as well as drainage products, straw, topsoil, sand, river rock, limestone, pea gravel and screenings.

BEVERLY — Ohio Valley Timber works to provide customers with a variety of needs from building and landscaping materials and more from locations in both Beverly and Belpre.

Ohio Valley Timber originally started in 2006 as a timber company working in West Virginia where it bought timber and cut it at its Adkins Timber Sawmill in Beverly.

“We sawed it into boards to sell to different companies,” Office Manager Stephanie Adkins said.

In March 2018, the business bought the property at 825 St. Rt. 339 in Belpre.

“We started a retail store selling mulch, firewood and sawdust,” Adkins said. “Eventually we added drainage products, straw, topsoil, sand, river rock, limestone, pea gravel and screenings.”

(Photo provided) Ohio Valley Timber, with locations in Beverly and Belpre, sells a variety of mulch. As wood is debarked certain pieces are ground up to create a natural mulch. They color certain piles as red, brown and black mulch which are sold to landscapers and people who need mulch. The natural mulch is $25 a yard and the colored mulch is $45 a yard.

The business also sells firewood, mulch and culverts at the Beverly location on St. Rt. 60 North of Beverly.

They consider both locations to be part of the same business and they will send their customers to either locations, depending on what they might need, Adkins said.

With two employees at the Belpre location and two at the Beverly location, the company is always working to meet customers’ needs.

“We strive to be there to get what the customer needs,” Adkins said of loading materials for transport that customers purchase. They are able to deliver firewood by dump truck or semi from the Beverly location.

People are able to come in, to either location, and get firewood and mulch.

(Photo provided) Ohio Valley Timber, with locations in Beverly and Belpre, sells firewood locally for $28 a bucket (a Bobcat skid-steer loader bucket).

“It is split and we are able to scoop it out of the pile and load it into whatever people need, whether it is a pickup truck, dump trailer or whatever they bring to put it in,” Adkins said.

As wood is debarked certain pieces are ground up to create a natural mulch. They color certain piles as red, brown and black mulch which are sold to landscapers and people who need mulch.

The natural mulch is $25 a yard and the colored mulch is $45 a yard. The firewood is $28 a bucket (a Bobcat skid-steer loader bucket).

The other products such as drainage products, straw, topsoil, sand, river rock and so on are for customers who need those products, Adkins said. Straw could be used for bedding for livestock or reseeding a piece of ground. The drainage products could be used by people building a house who need to put in drains around it or replace a culvert that has been damaged.

“There are a lot of people who come and get those types of items,” Adkins said of both individuals and contractors looking at doing these kinds of projects.

The business does offer special rates for contractors and landscaping businesses.

Everything they sell is taxable, but tax exempt organizations can fill out a form and have the sales tax taken off, Adkins said.

They work to keep their prices competitive with many of the big box stores.

Ohio Valley Timber does a lot of work with local townships and churches, selling products they need in bulk for various jobs.

“We have sold mulch to different church organizations for their properties,” Adkins said. “The townships have bought culverts and stone to use on jobs they are doing for repairs and building new culverts and other jobs they are doing.”

Schools have used their mulch for landscaping work to make their facilities to look nice.

They do a lot of business throughout Washington and Morgan counties in Ohio and around the area.

In giving back to their communities, they have donated mulch and sawdust to a number of local fairs for livestock shows.

They have many local 4-H participants who come on and buy it for their animals so Adkins said they wanted to be able to help out during the fairs when the kids show their animals.

They are a business that serves the needs of their customers.

“We have a product that we sell and it is a pretty good business,” Adkins said. “It is in a good location.

“People come in from Parkersburg and can pick up items they can’t find anywhere else.”

The location at 825 St. Rt. 339, Belpre, is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.. The Belpre location can be reached at 740-315-0122.

The Beverly location is on St. Rt. 60 North of Beverly. It is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. It can be reached at 740-566-2133 or 740-984-2768.

Starting at $2.99/week.

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