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Another good reason why i sell in bulk for the homeowner needing heat for the winter. For whatever reason, August is my busy season for sales by mid-September. i am all done and out

Yup... my area in KY has a 5-month burn ban (it sucks) from the beginning of May to the beginning of October. (We have a hell'uv'a bonfire at the beginning of October) There should be exceptions for Rainy days, in my opinion. As for firewood sales.... The backyard solo pits (social backyard contained fires) are exempt, I believe.... so I'd say keep selling if you have similar laws. Best, -- J. Andre. / Old Iron Acres

I totally understand why some may feel that ceasing firewood sales during a burn ban is appropriate HOWEVER I doubt retailers stop selling matches, lighters, gasoline or diesel fuel during the same timeframe. Tim in northern TN

If people looked at our government this way, our country would be better! Morality has gone bye bye unfortunately

Question…are car dealers/auto makers refusing to sell to people who speed and putting other people at risk? I’m not here to police my customer’s behaviour!

NY has a set ban , Mar - May. ????? The wettest time of year!!!! That's how dumb our politicians are

Good topic. Last year we had a total burn ban for 4 months for the entire state of Louisiana during the extreme drought. Fireplaces, BBQ pits and any outdoor cooking was illegal and punishable with heavy fines and jail. But, when the ban was lifted in December every stick of wood I had disappeared. Not a single one of my regulars called until it was lifted so good on them. I certainly appreciated the ban and all who abided by it because I live in a log home surrounded by hundreds of acres of pine plantations.

1st video I’ve seen of yours. Great points! Think wood inventory stock like gas in your car half tank = empty tank Also, it’s a visual thing for your customers. Nobody wants to pick through crumbs….they want to see a wall of split wood

Thanks bro

Since I am bulk sales, my busiest time is August/September.

I've withdrawn sales here where I live because of fire danger. It sucks but Id rather not have the guilt if someone dumb starts a fire. lol

Hey Travis, glad to see you made it back home Safe! How did you like the East Coast Humidity? Hot and Humid is a terrible combination! Not good for processing firewood. Or anything else for that matter!😂 Stay Safe, Keep Cuttin!🪵🪵🪵🪵

Perhaps "backstock" your firewood for weekends. Have a holding place for your bundles. Then when your stand runs low, you just take from backstock and fill up ready to go. So say you'll sell 15 bundles, instead of just filling 15 more, get 25 more bundles ready for sale and hold that to restock. Or better yet take your total sales of 1 week and add 5% to that total or even 10% so 1 day of the week you're wrapping your firewood and stock it in a particular area of your yard and take from that to fill your stand when needed.

I always assumed Fridays were my big day but it's actually been Thursdays. That seems to be when people start thinking about their weekend

That's ENOUGH FLIP FLAP ! You need to get that firewood stand restocked! Getter done! 💰👍

You're a great dude, brother. Thank you for such a giving heart. You will be Blessed for this. Chip

I tried buying a cord of split and seasoned birch to resell for bundles. Turned out that a lot of then pieces needed to be resplit. They said it was 16" but 90% of the cuts were about 14". Most of the wood wasn't seasoned enough and needed a few months in the sun

Hey Travis. I don't think you'll lose any customers, one or two purchases but not permanent. As Will said, retail's almost 2x the cost and people are having to be more and more frugal now. Hope you were able to somewhat enjoy your workcation. At least ya caught good weather mostly. Any day ending with y is a good one to work on it

Only tracking from memory, sales are mostly Wednesday through Saturday. We are hitting 100 or so degrees for the next few days and high fire danger so I pulled out all remaining bundles even though the forest is not officially shut down.

Firewood is weird. Takes the tree decades to grow. Takes a lot of time and resources to process it and get it to the point to be ready to dry, then it can take many months or even years to dry....but people think it should basically free.

Hey Travis, I had someone comment on the volume of firewood for the price early on with my stand. I kindly asked them to price it out at a hardware store, grocery store or convenience store. They are one of my better customers multiple years later lol.

A stand wouldn’t work here because the meth heads from the next parish would take the wood and the stand. I sell partial or full cords, delivered. No one is allow to pick up their own but everything is usually spoken for every year anyway and they all want delivery. Fun and informative show, thanks.

Such a great and fascinating video, thanks for sharing your tip to restore the firewood stand

Hey Travis 👍🚜

Same goes for autoparts or anything thing else you want to do. Start small and by low and sell high. When I started firewood was looking at the lowest guys on Craigslist and i went 50 bucks higher than them. Now i am (or think i am) 20 bucks from the top 3 in my county. I am doing this all in bulk and heating at least 30 homes around the Tacoma/Seattle area.

It Good to help others when your able

Glad your feeling better Travis

It looks like a lot of work. The conversation would have been over exactly there

Glad to hear your feeling better! Keep cuttin' Travis! (beautiful land there!)

Baby D is awesome and you’re a great dad. I’m thinking you might have yourself a Lil Bossman.

I think it’s good of you to help someone thinking about starting. It’s a good idea.

I'm on board but have to say there are easier ways to make a buck.

I started out selling bundles of wood split with an axe. Proceeds from the sale of the bundles paid for a log splitter which was bought used. More sales resulted in the need of an additional splitter in my woodyard in PA, which bundle sales bought as well. I then bought my dump trailer with proceeds from bundle sales with all the projects I have going on a dump trailer was needed to move material to improve fields, woodyard and to expedite bulk deliveries. I believe in growing my firewood business organically with the proceeds from sales. Yes, it is slower but it definitely works.

Glad your feeling better Travis. Stinks we didn't get to link up while I was up.

Congratulations helping someone SPLIT ON! Tim in northern TN

Hope you're feeling better Travis!

I love the realness of this channel. Everything is so down to earth. Nice work Travis keep putting that Pinkway to work dude!

When I am not feeling it, I don't run the saws as to me that's a sign before accidents happen. Get better soon, Travis 😉👍

Plenty of dry wood 🪵 in that tree…! How many cords will they burn per winter in VT…? Does MIL have a stove..??? Feel better soon my friend…!!!

Hey, Brother Travis, Here are a few marketing thoughts to consider. #1 Always put every single individual split into it's most profitable category. And that best wood could be called your premium woods or whatever you want to call them. Take the next ones And put Them in your loose rack in your firewood stand. Next, take your super premium naked splits and use them for bags or bundles or whatever you currently use them for. Then you can take another grade of wood and call it campfire wood if you like. Last, take all the rest of the junk wood and put it in your personal pile. This way you get the absolute most profit out of each stick and You don't waste or misgrade even 1 stick. And all of your wood gets used up or sold. And you can take all the cookies and the chunks and all the weird stuff and put them in a tote like you mentioned, and you can take all t and sell those by the tote for 50 bucks or 75 bucks or whatever you think is fair. Just a few thoughts. I hope I said this in a way that makes some sense. I hope you have a Blessed day! Chip

Cheers Travis🍻Stay Safe ,Keep Cuttin!🪵🪵🪵🪵

Looks like a good day cutting

Hey, you're a cool dude Travis. I really enjoy your videos and your commentary. Chip

Looks like good firewood.

Will end up with a fair amount of wood from that one tree. Nice job getting it worked up.

YOU'RE A GREEN HORN at this! Just pay attention and learn and you will be all right!

Great job Travis. Practice makes perfect. It fell where you needed it to thats all that matter's

I think I would try a conventional notch. I would also run your 372 for falling. You’ll like that big saw way better I think. I could critique the heck out of it and we could talk and learn some lessons, but I’d far rather do that in private so the world doesn’t think I’m being a jerk to a buddy. Don’t quit based on your first attempt! Use this as a learning experience and try again!

Good on you to have the balls, and the ppe, and a get out of the way quick attitude, and you posted it either way. Love your channel, glad u ok, and keep cutting my guy.

It's not the cleanest, but others have said. No one got hurt, and it's on the ground. That all that matters