A FOREST PRODUCTS COMPANY , established in 1955 by marketing guru , C.E. (Gene) Parnell Jr., manufacturing / producing piling and poles from our southern forests here in southwest Alabama- the heart of the Southern Yellow Pine growing region. By the early 1970’s, Parnell , with peeling operations in a tri-state area had grown the company into a major supplier of untreated SYP poles serving domestic wood treating plants as well as Canadian based wood preserving operations.
Today, at the helm of the company is Rick Crow, pictured elsewhere on this webpage, began with the company in 1973 as a timber cruiser and marker but was forced in from the woods in 1979 at the untimely death of Parnell, to assume managing operations of the company. Rick was born into the timber business as the son of an Alabama timberman / pulpwood dealer. Therefore he has an inherent love for the woods, the outdoors and for running this business. With B.S. degrees in Business and Forestry from Auburn U
Being a supplier of wood to treating plants allows Southern Piling inroads to treating services in relationships of reciprocity which enables it the flexibility of offering products of most any of the modern day treatments including CCA, Penta, MCA, and even the old standby- Creosote.