Community

Scholarship Supports Hard Working, Innovative Students  Birch Equipment awarded its first scholarship with Bellingham Technical College. The $1,500 endowed  scholarship supports eligible students in the Diesel Mechanic Program. It’s first recipient, Scott Fuhrman, was honored at an awards breakfast this month, and he has been invited to the Bellingham facility to meet Birch’s maintenance and […]

  Birch Equipment joined forces with the Skagit Sportsmen & Training Association (SSTA) and other businesses earlier this year to benefit Meals on Wheels in Skagit County resulting in a $2500 donation to the service. Click here for a recap in the SSTA newsletter. Birch donates equipment including generators, tables, chairs, tents, barbecues, PA Systems […]

The countdown to go-time is on for the 11th annual Birch Equipment Whatcom Hospice Pro-Am. Golf pros and fanatics play to benefit the Whatcom Hospice Foundation at the Bellingham Golf and Country Club. The signature event is on August 31st. Looking for a reason to participate? Here’s our Top 10 list. One-day Event – because […]

Whatcom Hospice Foundation Board member Sarah Rothenbuhler is the owner of Birch Equipment Rental & Sales. Her inspirational leadership has transformed her small local business into a nationally respected rental equipment company with stores in Washington and Alaska… View the entire article here  Birch Equipment is the Pro Sponsor and Tournament Director of the 2017 Hospice […]

Birch’s CEO / Owner Sarah Rothenbuhler & Information Director Cara Buckingham spent some time at our state capital in November for recognition of receiving the 2016 Corporations for Communities Award presented by the Washington Secretary of State – Corporations Division. Birch has given over 1.5 Million in the last 15 years to our communities – […]

Birch Equipment Bellingham, Washington will hold its annual Fall Demo Days Thursday, September 29th, 2016, from 11am to 2pm. This is the 20th year Birch Equipment has hosted the event. While at Demo Days visitors can try their hand at operating excavators, demo Husvqarna lawn & garden equipment, use pressure washers, operate remote-controlled rollers and more. […]

Birch Equipment has been the Pro Sponsor & Tournament Director of the Birch Equipment Whatcom Hospice Pro-Am since 2015. The 2016 Pro-Am grossed over $252,000 for Whatcom Hospice, a record for the golf classic. Sarah Rothenbuhler, CEO of Birch Equipment and Tournament Director, and Chair Jessie Everson, Director of Employee and Customer Programs at Birch […]

Nearly 400 people participated in the 14th Bellingham Traverse on Saturday, September 18th in Bellingham. The relay race celebrates the journey of wild salmon. The legs of the race involved running, biking and paddling through Bellingham’s scene parks, winding trails and open waterways. Traverse Silver Sponsor, Team Birch Equipment (Jonathon Quimby, Luke Demoe, Michael Finley, Tanner Boyd, […]

Seattle Seahawks invited Birch Equipment’s Owner / C.E.O, Sarah Rothenbuhler, to their headquarters in Renton, WA in February to talk about the great groups of co-workers, customers, family & friends Birch hosts at each home game. At Birch, a Hawks game is a family event where customers / families / friends all overlap. As Sarah […]

Birch Equipment recently donated the use of a John Deere Mini Excavator to the Diesel Technology program at Bellingham Technical College. Having the mini excavator allows students to get hands on experience to parallel what Diesel Instructor, Jeff Curtis, has been teaching them over their program course.  Birch Equipment has many alumni of BTC’s Diesel […]