Alderfer Lumber began in 1993 in response to the increasing demands of local landowners for an alternative method of harvesting trees. Owner and founder Randall Alderfer hitched up his team of horses, Harry, Larry, and Jedd, and went to work. Logging with horses proved to be a very marketable idea. In 1996 Randall’s brother John joined in the business and together they began manufacturing their logs into lumber. Soon they were getting requests for kiln-dried lumber and invested in their first dryer. Since then, Alderfer Lumber in Mt. Pleasant Mills, Pennsylvania, has become one of the premier specialty lumber mills in the US.