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Vermont Heavy Timber says $50,000 Working Lands grant eased winter bottleneck and supports hiring plans
Summary
Miles Furness, owner of Vermont Heavy Timber in Huntington, told the Working Lands Board the company used a $50,000 Working Lands grant to build a drying shed, easing a winter storage bottleneck, enabling growth and plans to hire 3–4 staff while continuing restoration work to federal preservation standards.
Miles Furness, owner of Vermont Heavy Timber in Huntington, told the Vermont Working Lands Board that a $50,000 Working Lands grant helped his company build a drying shed that resolved a critical winter storage bottleneck and allowed the firm to expand.
Furness said his timber-framing shop, founded about 12 years ago, employs six people and did about $1.3 million in business last year. The company focuses on restoration projects — notably covered bridges, meeting houses and churches — and said it works to the Secretary of the Interior's preservation standards when projects are funded with state or federal grants.
"We were given $50,000 to build a drying shed," Furness said.…
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