I've been seeing folks paying $5. per pound for those needles. I guess there's a lot of use for them in crafting: small baskets and things. By the pound would be a little more time consuming, but it's, easily, ten times more profitable than selling bales. Although, someone could buy your bales and sort them out into clean one, two, and three pound bundles to sell, and every body makes money.
@pressinpickle345 some people enjoy taking care of their landscaping and flower beds for winter months and maybe they work hard and have plenty of money to spend on what they want.
Our family hauls a couple hundred lbs of pine needles to the dump every year, never knew they were worth money, but they are mostly white/pulp pines with short needles.
@@crazyadventuresandreviews i live in central wisconsin so they arent as valuable for that and there are other alternatives i think, hay bails of a similar size usually sell for a similar price of 5dallars or so. But neat contraption, thanks for the video, it maybe would still be a useful way to clean them up and haul them away.
@@MartinD9999 the local dump is free and has a pile specifically for needles/cones. There are so many large pine trees around that the needles are overwhelming. They would make up 90% or more of the compost pile and would probably make the soil too acidic, plus when needles make up the majority of a pile they really dont decompose well, insects, animals and worms dont really eat them, so piles can literally sit for years.
I used to go to our local state park and rake up pine straw in the parking lot and load it in the trunk and bring it home to put in our landscape beds.
We hauled Bees down to Georgia for the winter about 10 years ago. We could get bales Pine straw for dollar 50 that we use in our smokers. We got back up home to Michigan. One of the local places were selling them long needle pine bales for $9.50 a bale, and when I mentioned it a guy that I he was taking a pretty good cut on that he told me that he had to pay for transportation he didn’t know what to think when I said yeah, we thought about it cause the truck coming back empty from Georgia we would’ve had $.35 of bail and transportation cost from Georgia to Michigan he was basically making about seven dollars profit off each bale.
Living out in farmville california. I see tons of money laying around the side of the road. People pay loads for the vegetation thats natural here. I dont want to pay the taxes tho.. lol...
@JuarezDerrick in South Carolina we make bank with it, my wife family had a long leaf pine tree farm they would lease and the guy who raked it, would make 2500 to 3000 dollars a trailer load selling to local landscape companies and home improvement stores like Lowe’s
Where who would I sell it to. I would be mad if I went out did all that work an can't sell the bundles. I guess I would have to be like the 3 little pigs an build a straw house.
@@knowideas7184 Actually its not easy at all. I wanted to know the same thing, so I googled it. Turns out its very easy to find out where to BUY these, or at least general mulch because that is all I got was a bunch of landscaping supply houses try to sell me stuff.
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As a bored retiree, that is a legit way to get a couple hours of fresh air and sunshine and walk away with some beer money 💴.
I've been seeing folks paying $5. per pound for those needles. I guess there's a lot of use for them in crafting: small baskets and things. By the pound would be a little more time consuming, but it's, easily, ten times more profitable than selling bales. Although, someone could buy your bales and sort them out into clean one, two, and three pound bundles to sell, and every body makes money.
I never heard of that, interesting. Thanks for sharing I learn something new everyday.
I used to make pretty good money as a kid raking, never thought to sell it...
Who buys this and what do they use it for?
Garden mulch. Works good and doesn't have seeds in it like straw does
Probably local landscape companies. Pine mulch is used for landscaping.❤
mulch
Stupid people with money to waste will buy anything. One man trash is another man's treasure.
@pressinpickle345 some people enjoy taking care of their landscaping and flower beds for winter months and maybe they work hard and have plenty of money to spend on what they want.
Son, those screws are called screw eyes or eye screws. O-rings are round, flexible rings intended to form a seal.
Our family hauls a couple hundred lbs of pine needles to the dump every year, never knew they were worth money, but they are mostly white/pulp pines with short needles.
In the south most people want long leaf for the landscaped beds, short leaf is considered trash or if it’s clean it’s sold cheaper
@@crazyadventuresandreviews i live in central wisconsin so they arent as valuable for that and there are other alternatives i think, hay bails of a similar size usually sell for a similar price of 5dallars or so. But neat contraption, thanks for the video, it maybe would still be a useful way to clean them up and haul them away.
Your family dumps it!? Not converted to mulch or even allowed to fertilize the soil around the tree itself?
And doesn’t the dump charge a fee too?
@@MartinD9999 the local dump is free and has a pile specifically for needles/cones. There are so many large pine trees around that the needles are overwhelming. They would make up 90% or more of the compost pile and would probably make the soil too acidic, plus when needles make up the majority of a pile they really dont decompose well, insects, animals and worms dont really eat them, so piles can literally sit for years.
People will buy anything.. we have seed pods come off our tree and I guess it's edible and people buy it to make flour out of..😂
Wow, I didn't know there was a market for pine needles....I had tons of them in North CA.
Very cool! I'm now sitting on a million dollar gold mine! Hot dang! ❤
If u got a couple hundred acres and a few hard workers and a 18 wheeler u could do very well
I used to go to our local state park and rake up pine straw in the parking lot and load it in the trunk and bring it home to put in our landscape beds.
Nice. Consider - be certain buyers understand you are not using conventional methods. The differences in bale weights can be significant. Stay safe.
It's a volume, not a weight product. For $5.00 a bale . For what it's worth to people.
What is pine straw used for??
Mulch
We hauled Bees down to Georgia for the winter about 10 years ago. We could get bales Pine straw for dollar 50 that we use in our smokers. We got back up home to Michigan. One of the local places were selling them long needle pine bales for $9.50 a bale, and when I mentioned it a guy that I he was taking a pretty good cut on that he told me that he had to pay for transportation he didn’t know what to think when I said yeah, we thought about it cause the truck coming back empty from Georgia we would’ve had $.35 of bail and transportation cost from Georgia to Michigan he was basically making about seven dollars profit off each bale.
Please edit this, it makes no damn sense what you’re trying to communicate.
@knowideas7184
😂 There’s maybe 3 periods and perhaps 2 commas in all that.
@knowideas7184 it reads like he wrote it with a fk'n potato. Lol
Should i use a poly bag or a padded mailer? ✌🏻💚🙏🏻
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Living out in farmville california. I see tons of money laying around the side of the road. People pay loads for the vegetation thats natural here. I dont want to pay the taxes tho.. lol...
That's pretty good. Very creative.
Lov this ideal. ❤
Clever build.
And for years i just been racking and burning them
I did that with a trash bag.And mow yards.
I don’t get it why would anyone want a bale of pine straw, live in east texas and we can’t get rid of the stuff
@@michaelmcdaniel7493 because only the south eastern states use it for landscaping
Often used as mulch near structures in moist climates as it is less likely to attract termites.
Yep I grew up in Palestine Texas and we couldn't get rid of that shit 😂😂😂
@JuarezDerrick in South Carolina we make bank with it, my wife family had a long leaf pine tree farm they would lease and the guy who raked it, would make 2500 to 3000 dollars a trailer load selling to local landscape companies and home improvement stores like Lowe’s
Good stuff.
Ingenious
I don't need to know how to make a bale, I need to know where you find the fools to buy this junk?
So I guess most people from the south are fools for using pine straw to insulate flower beds in the winter. U seem like a great guy. Bye
@@crazyadventuresandreviews Well I burn this stuff in huge piles, never thought somebody would buy it
@@integr8er66 not much of an apology, but we'll take it.
Yeah key thing from this video would have been showing how to sell it and what it is used for. Maybe a follow up video.
@zignitz try to google it, it’s not like any of u people would actually do this anyways.
"Installing" pine straw........
Thanks sugar bear
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Where who would I sell it to. I would be mad if I went out did all that work an can't sell the bundles. I guess I would have to be like the 3 little pigs an build a straw house.
It’s wild asking a question so easily answered by the google on the internet…
@@knowideas7184 Actually its not easy at all. I wanted to know the same thing, so I googled it. Turns out its very easy to find out where to BUY these, or at least general mulch because that is all I got was a bunch of landscaping supply houses try to sell me stuff.
Sit your azs at a corner with a sign and umbrella like the watermelon 🍉 sellers do.
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