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Hosted by Chelsea Zuccato & Natalie Heacock · business · EN
Lumber Slingers is the podcast for everyone in the wood products world, from the trading floor to the mill floor. We bring the industry intel you usually only get behind closed doors, and we make it a good time.
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Signup to Generate a PitchLumber Slingers is the podcast for everyone in the wood products world, from the trading floor to the mill floor. We bring the industry intel you usually only get behind closed doors, and we make it a good time.
Lumber Slingers is hosted by Chelsea Zuccato & Natalie Heacock. The show has published 153 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "156. Bots and Boards: The AIs Are Coming" (26 October 2026, 34 minutes), "155. Two Pods, One Booth: The Lumber Word Crashes Lumber Slingers" (23 October 2026, 26 minutes), and "154. Bark to Basics: Valon Kone on Why Debarking Matters" (21 October 2026, 31 minutes).
Lumber Slingers publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 25 minutes across 153 episodes.
Booking probability for Lumber Slingers is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Lumber Slingers requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Lumber Slingers's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Lumber Slingers are Sawmills and Wood Products. Lumber Slingers has a business audience.
Chelsea Zuccato & Natalie Heacock hosts Lumber Slingers, a business podcast with 153 episodes published.
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Bots and Boards kicks off with the man who was warning everyone about AI back when nobody wanted to hear it. Charles Jennings, author of Artificial Intelligence: Rise of the Light Speed Learners and former CEO of...
Two lumber podcasts walk into a newswire. Ashley Boeckholt of The Lumber Word joins Natalie, Chelsea, and Trent to announce something big for the 30th NAWLA Traders Market in Anaheim. Ashley was at the very first...
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This episode is sponsored by Valon Kone. Natalie and Chelsea go international with Sebastien, Teemu and Shanna of Valon Kone, the Finnish family company that went from hand-peeling logs after World War II to running...
Trent’s adding life coach to the résumé, starting with some hard-won advice about puppy yoga and black pants. Natalie and Chelsea report from a team build that had more “blessings” than yoga. The crew also takes on...
Roseburg native Rick Sohn grew up in the family sawmill his German-baker father built from scratch, one of the first computerized sawmills anywhere, and later ran Lone Rock Timber. He joins Natalie and Chelsea to talk...
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Lumber Slingers is back after an unplanned two weeks off, and Trent has a score to settle with FedEx. Before we get to the news, we cover a haircut gone very wrong, Natalie’s diesel habit, and a tour of Trent’s china...
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Lumber Slingers is back after a long summer break, and Natalie, Chelsea, and Trent waste no time getting the band back together, sound effects and all. Between Italian ER visits, Scottish forestry trips, and a fight...
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This week's Newswire hits different. The crew opens with a heartfelt tribute to Robbins Lumber and the community rallying around them after a devastating fire — a reminder of what really matters in this industry. Then...
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This week Natalie and Trent are back with your Friday fix — and honestly, the market is giving them very little to work with. Lumber prices? Barely moved. Mortgage rates? Blinked down a hair. Applications? A polite...
The crew is back from back-to-back trips and running on fumes and good intel. Chelsea just got home from the NAWLA Regional in Vancouver, BC, where 210 industry insiders gathered to talk about the very real pressure...
The Newswire crew is back and they've got a lot of ground to cover — lumber prices on the move, mortgage rates hitting their lowest point in three spring seasons, and Brad Jacobs casually dropping a $17 billion...
Ken Timmins, commodity trader at American International Forest Products and host of the Component Connection podcast, stops by to explain what actually happens on a 55-person lumber trading floor -and how he got hired...
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Lumber prices are holding at $5.23 but don't get too comfortable — 2x4 #2 is getting scarce and construction input costs are up nearly 5% year over year, with crude petroleum doing the most damage (Natalie's paying $148...
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AR7 preliminary results are in — and we've got thoughts. Or at least, we have the numbers and a strong commitment to neutrality. From there, consolidation nation delivers: UFP Industries' Decorators brand scoops up...
Year two at the Mass Timber Conference for their 10 year anniversary and we're practically locals. We're recording live from the Union Ironworkers booth — on the second floor of a structure they built inside the Oregon...
It's Good Friday, lumber prices are up, and Claude personally removed Trent from the podcast for being a non-believer. (He's fine. Probably.) This week: WS Building Materials makes its debut, Mead Lumber keeps stacking...
Natalie has laryngitis. Chelsea has opinions about the Brawny Man. Trent has mortgage rate news that nobody asked for but everybody needed. This week's episode is equal parts industry intel and chaos — the good kind...
33.33% of us are back from the NAWLA T-100 conference in Dana Point. This week's episode covers what made T-100 different from Traders Market, why smaller and more intimate sometimes means bigger picture, and what...
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This week Trent Johnson and Chelsea Zuccato cover: Windy city weather and atmospheric river in Oregon. Flatbed spot rates hit their highest point since October 2022, If you're buying or selling lumber on delivered...
The International Mass Timber Conference is three weeks out and this year it's doing something we've never seen before. We sat down with Shelby Cherry, Show Director for the International Mass Timber Conference, to get...
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