About Us

 

A Montana family-owned business, Roundwood West Corporation (RWC), is known for competitively priced, quality doweled roundwood.  In 1974, David and Jan Guelff bought a Morbark peeler and started Nine Mile Posts and Rails west of Missoula, Montana.

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In 1989, the postyard was relocated to Seeley Lake, Montana and became Roundwood West.  Ten years later, daughter Karen and husband Kalvin Kovatch joined the business.

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RWC now runs an unprecedented multi-diameter rounding machine with a power infeed system which was developed and built in-house.  This machine is supported by an auto-stacking robot solidifying RWC as a leader in postyard manufacturing.  Furniture-quality roundwood, preserved fence posts and rails, and some unpeeled wood make up the majority of RWC's markets.  Many of the doweled rails are split to produce a high-end symmetrical half rail.

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In conjunction with our roundwood manufacturing RWC also operates an Air Curtain Burner under a conditional burn permit and provides a retrieval bin service for slash.

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