ABOUT
TIMBERLARK
Born from the woods.
Built on the truth.
My name is Jeanine Bradbury.
For over twelve years, I've been a Florida logger — one of only two women I've ever known to do this work in this state's history.
I didn't build Timberlark from a boardroom.
I built it from the woods.
I built it from a recovery room.
I built it through two rounds of rehab and a surgery I wasn't sure I'd come back from.
I built it from the wreckage of a company I loved.
I built it because someone had to.
THE WORK I LOVED
I started my first logging company in 2007. By 2013, my crew had completed the Crystal River State Preserve contract — months of honest work, hundreds of acres of Florida timber moved by people who knew the land and respected it.
If you've never logged, it's hard to explain what this work does to you.
You wake up before the sun. You read the weather in the trees. You learn the voice of every machine in your fleet. You go home tired in a way that means something.
The woods don't lie to you. The woods don't cheat you. The woods don't disappear when the invoice comes due.
People do.
THE TURN
In 2014, I was in a serious logging accident on my way back from the mill.
I survived. But I couldn't walk my own parcels anymore. I couldn't be on every job site. I couldn't verify with my own eyes what the scales said, what the mill paid, or what was leaving the woods.
For the first time in my career, I had to trust people I couldn't watch.
And I learned what this industry does to people who have no choice but to trust.
My business partner embezzled from the company. The mill we sold to lied about timber prices — paying him under the table while underreporting to me. By the time the truth surfaced, the damage was done.
In 2015, I closed the company I had built from nothing.
What followed was two and a half years of recovery. A surgery I wasn't sure I'd come back from. Two rounds of rehab. Long nights when I wasn't sure I'd ever log again — and longer nights when I wasn't sure I wanted to.
A lot of time to think about how I got there. And what could have stopped it.
WHAT I LEARNED
Every wound I carried out of that chapter — and every story I've heard since from loggers, landowners, mill workers, and truckers across this country — traces back to the same root cause:
THIS INDUSTRY RUNS ON
HIDDEN INFORMATION.
Hidden prices.
Hidden reviews.
Hidden payments.
Hidden histories.
When information is hidden, honest people get exploited. Every time. Because honest people don't expect to be lied to. They trust. And the people who profit from opacity have known this for generations.
I lost a company because I had no choice but to trust.
Landowners lose their timber for half its value because they don't know what fair looks like.
Loggers lose contracts to bad actors because there is no public record of who does honest work.
Truckers get stiffed on payments because nobody is keeping receipts.
Mills get burned by suppliers because there is no shared history.
It doesn't have to be this way. And after everything I lived through, I refused to let it stay this way.
WHY THIS WORK FINDS ME
Something funny has happened my whole life.
People tell me things.
Strangers in line at the feed store. Truckers I've never met before. Landowners I just shook hands with. Within minutes, they're telling me about the deal that wronged them, the partner who lied, the contract they wish they hadn't signed, the years they're still trying to claw back.
I don't know why people open up to me. I just know they do. And I've been listening for over a decade.
Every story sounds different. But the wound is always the same:
"I trusted someone. And they took advantage of that trust."
Logger, landowner, trucker, mill — doesn't matter. The pain is the same. The frustration is the same. That sick feeling in your stomach when the numbers don't add up and you realize they never did.
I've felt it. I've lived it. I carry it.
And every single one of those conversations became a brick in the foundation of Timberlark.
This platform wasn't designed in a conference room by people guessing what this industry needs. It was built by someone who sat across the table from the people living it — and listened until the answer was obvious.
WHAT I BUILT
Timberlark is the system that would have protected me when I couldn't protect myself.
It's the platform this industry has needed for generations and never had — a place where landowners, loggers, mills, and truckers can find each other directly, in the open, with the truth on the table:
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TRANSPARENT PRICES
So no one can lie about what timber is worth.
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HONEST RATINGS
So good operators get rewarded — and bad actors can't hide.
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A REAL JOB BOARD
So contracts don't disappear into a black market of who-knows-who.
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A REAL PRICE BOARD
So landowners know what mills are actually paying.
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DIRECT CONNECTIONS
So middlemen can't take cuts you don't even know about.
I am a logger, not a tech founder.
I built this because nobody else was going to.
MY PROMISES TO YOU
These aren't slogans. They're rules I built into the foundation of Timberlark, and I will not break them:
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I will never sell your data.
Not to anyone. Not for any price.
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Always free to join, list, and browse.
Signing up, posting jobs, browsing prices, using every tool on the platform — always free. Timberlark only takes 5% when a job is completed and paid through the platform. That's it.
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I will never hide negative reviews.
The honest record is the entire point.
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Timberlark will always be FAIR.
The features that level the playing field — public prices, honest ratings, real connections — will always be open to you. Joining, listing, browsing, and using every tool on this platform is free. When a job is completed and paid through Timberlark, the platform takes 5% — one simple, transparent fee. No hidden charges, no surprise costs, no subscriptions required to do honest business.
If I ever break any of these promises, I want you to call me on it. Publicly. That's the kind of accountability this industry needs more of.
WHO THIS IS FOR
If you're a LANDOWNER who's been told your timber is worth less than it is — Timberlark is for you.
If you're a LOGGER who does honest work and is tired of being underbid by people who don't — Timberlark is for you.
If you're a MILL that wants to do business with verified, reliable suppliers — Timberlark is for you.
If you're a TRUCKER tired of getting jerked around on rates and routes — Timberlark is for you.
If you've ever been hurt by this industry and thought "someone should do something about this" —
TIMBERLARK IS WHAT
SOMEONE IS DOING.
WHERE WE'RE GOING
Timberlark just launched. We're small, and we're growing fast.
In our first weeks alone, we've welcomed visitors from the United States, Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, and the Netherlands — landowners and loggers and mills and truckers from across the world, all looking for the same thing:
A better way.
I plan to make Timberlark the most trusted name in the timber industry — not by being the biggest, but by being the most honest.
The door is open.
The work has started.
And there's a place here for you.
JOIN US
Sign up free at timberlark.com.
Browse the job board, price board, and ratings without an account.
Or message me personally at hoffmanjeanine88@gmail.com.
I read every email myself.
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Jeanine Bradbury
Owner, Still Stumpin Logging Inc.
Founder, Timberlark