Riley I worked for a company in Florida that produced firewood on an industrial level. They had several machines exactly like yours. You mentioned how big the firewood chunks were. Those big chunks won't fit in A LOT of wood stoves. That company offers optional splitting dies. Rather than 6 pieces, you could split into 8-12 pieces. This would be more convenient to some customers. They have to take split firewood and attack again with an axe. Firewood heats 5 times. When you cut it, when you split it, when you stack it ,when you haul it inside, and finally when you burn it. Observing what an excellent fabricator you are, you could create these dies yourself
@@johnnybarbar7435I am sorry you are in a marriage where you lack communication and you don’t work as a cohesive team. Your problems aren’t normal, you are at joint fault in them, and normal people try to fix those problems rather then making comments to strangers online about them 🤣
I can't believe I just watched 22 minutes of splitting fire wood Really guys, thank you for donating your excess wood. So many needy people out there lately.. God bless.
i love how you openly, and jokingly, took the constructive criticism about the hooking method. made you seem humble and willing to learn even tho i gotta chuckle outta it. livin the dream man.
IBC Tote Cages are a good idea to store wood, but they tend to be expensive if you need 20 of them. Producing firewood is not my idea of fun. Only out westc we could tou find those giant perfect uniform toothpicks to split.
Ahhhh...memories! Grew up one county north of you. Winter firewood: 20 cords for heating, 4 cords for cooking. By hand. Every fall. One year, parents got the idea we would sell firewood. Loaded trims from the local mill. Was about 12 at the time. Chainsaw, axe and hours of hard work: 65 cords of crap firewood nobody wanted (trims were mostly spruce/whitewood full of pitch). Three years of wood cut, but all that crappy firewood meant weekly chimney fires and yucky smoke in the house. Love what you are doing! Keep it up!
Back east, this pine firewood is also pretty junky. Maple or oak hardwood is way better for wood stoves. Pine burns too fast, less heat content, and too much resin/tar.
@@donaldfrazier5244 or donate to organizations who need that for bedding for animals. Some ytube channels use sawdust for flooring/bedding for chickens, goats, rabbits, etc. Although shavings might be better for that.
If the sawdust isn’t extremely dry it will mold. Pellet manufacturing plants have drying systems for this. Animal bedding is what most of it is used for in our area of the US. JMTC
I am currently working on next year's wood here in Montana...Just an old Kubota, Stihl saw, and a 27-ton splitter. It's slow but it gets the job done. I must say that processer looks fun
I’ve been binge watching your “all videos” playlist and have been loving it, but you have stopped adding videos to that playlist a while ago to my dismay. Love watching your progress but now I have to find the next one after every episode. Hope you will update that playlist soon. You have created an amazing channel ❤
For the shavings, rabbits aren't a bad idea. Excellent, abundant food source for off-grid. Another thought would be to buy some parafin wax with some of your firewood proceeds, and a bunch of cardboard egg cartons. Mix the wax and shavings and pour into the egg cartons and let cool, and you have some fire starters.
@@bryank7133 Yes. Great idea.. I’ve also seen woodmen melt down the pitch with saw dust as fire starters. For some sawmills Suspension burners are the best tech for sawdust burning. They achieve that intricate suspension and create a vortex with a cyclone type burner. Sawdust burners were well used in the past. Seems easy enough if you have a constant supply and processer for all the waste .
Yup, my wife and I have been making and using the paper egg carton/saw-chips/old candles-parafin wax fire starters for about the last 40 years. We always look for candles in the thrift stores and yard sales for that purpose.
I think later in life, with Courtney youre passion for machines, and Oliver in the working machine with his dad, Oliver is gonna be a big fan of machines.
The fish and sulphuric acid may be for preserving fish for pig food. A book on raising pigs said that the big producers raise their pigs on waste fish parts, preserved with acids. They can save food costs by using that byproduct. About a month before slaughter, they change to corn and grains to stop the pork from tasting like fish. The old timer’s let the pigs grow in the forest, eating acorns, etc, then changed to corn at harvest/ slaughter time.
Just ran across your video randomly. Great showcase of the ease of use of the processor! I work for DYNA and I’m glad to see happy customers showcasing our products on their channels! Thanks for a great video
The snow clips made me nostalgic and wanting me to rewatch the off grid home journey again (i watched almost all videos) and one suggestion for video is rating each battery power stations and how much you use them outside the sponsored videos and make recomendation on each on so people can buy the right one for their needs (i looking for powerstations but its little bit pricey)
That's pretty cool. There are some benefits you have that were not calculated in the processing cost. You own the equipment that you use to move the logs. It's hard work, but in my opinion, it's well worth it having the dry heat that you don't pay for. Great job, guys. Thanks again for sharing.
Hey Riley when you cut a log using the saw dogs, it allows the saw to do most of the work! I know you are a young man but staying healthy for your family is a priority!
Keep the extra wood to season longer, then next year get some bartered labor to do stacking for you in exchange for a tote full of wood some weekend in future. Try cutting totes with a.short length leftover so you can squish it flat and bend that around something like rebar so it leaves a rounded off end so no one gets cut. No grinder needed either... Seems like you've made the case for buying one of these units if it was shared by a few homesteads in area, you've got the means to move it, make everybody buy their own chainsaws and extra chains, totes etc... Schedule a month or so apiece every 3 or 4 months of fair weather seasons out of 9 useful months excepting winter ?
I honestly don't know how you get anything done Riley. With such a beautiful, talented, smart, equipment-friendly, organized, supermom and partner - - I'd be too distracted to function! You (three) are making some incredible stuff happen!! Good to see the growth - compared to splitting a few years ago!! Congratulations to you all!
Excellent video as always. Reminded me of this skid steer log splitter attachment I saw recently: It has a large tube attached to the splitting mechanism, you drive over to a trailer of long logs and capture one in the tube, which is then hoisted vertically. A single hydraulic ram powers the splitting mechanism which both cuts and splits the log from the bottom. As the split pieces are pushed out the side hole in the bottom, the log drops down and the process is repeated leaving behind a pile of split wood. It averages about 5 minutes for an entire split tree of wood. Definitely the best design I've seen
Thanks for giving me a grasp on how 15 cords of firewood looks. Our old wood burning furnace will go through 12-15 cords in a winter. 😖 I still need to get logs bucked and split. Tick tock, tick tock...!!
As you found through testing, a loosely thrown "stack" of normal sized firewood will take up 30-40% more volume compared to a tight stack of firewood. This is well documented on the internet, don't know why people are disputing that. I get that stacking is a waste of time if you're selling it and going to dump the wood in a client's driveway, but stacking makes sense for most home owners that have limited storage space.
You can mix sawdust, bee's wax, and a bit of paraffin and make fire starters. Paper egg crates, cardboard cores (TP or paper towel etc.) or paper muffin cups work. Check the price of those at the store and there's a little more $$$ in your side hustle 🗿👽🗿👽🗿
Courtney please secure your hair when you are working around any kind of equipment. I know someone who lost half her scalp because it got caught in an auger. The same thing applies to loose clothing. I love your guys can do attitude. Keep up the good work.
If just dumped into the tote, it also allows air to ventilate the wood. Helps if wet after rain or snow and begins to melt. Also if the wood isn't fully cured (dried) it will also speed up this process. Not to mention that stacking wood takes up valuable time you could be using to cut and split more wood. Which, costs you money and time.
An entire episode of straight up COUPLES GOALS! I always have facetiously joked about selling everything and running off to Alaska. My wife is totally all for it. Our son would be as well. Sadly I have had multiple life-threatening health issues over the last 20 years that put a stop to that dream as I need regular and rather serious medical care, monitoring, multiple surgeries, etc. on a regular interval. My Humira would LOVE the cold Alaska, though. Sadly, my wiener doggos, not so much. My Horgie doggo is another story...LOL! LOVES the cold.
The machine you’re using to load the logs and however you had them tucked into your house or moved by something. What is your cost plus labour enough machine that cost over billion dollars so how are you making that much easier +2 employees working every day like what
That machine is one Bad Mamma Jamma. And Courtney has alot of finesse operating it. That's a huge amount of firewood for just a weekends work. Great job yall. Oliver looks like he was having a blast in the excavator!
Courtney (we have that same Nanit monitor) you probably already know this but you can turn the sound to "always on" and you can still hear them with the screen off. Saves battery, but careful you dont leave it on when you leave the house because it EATS data!
It is nice to see you in realizing your resources. Hey, wait a minute, that first run was done cold 4 minutes 30 seconds. So what happens when you get your groove on?
Hey I noticed you guys are stacking the wood in the tote bins, I'm assuming to get more in. Just as an experiment you should put a tote under the conveyor and load it, then empty it on the ground and stack it back into the tote to see how much extra you get in. I feel like you are making extra work for yourself
📌 In addition to getting rabbits & making wood starters with the Saw Dust, it's a GOOD addition for Compost, it's a natural carbon source, improves texture, absorbs excess liquids & feeds microbes, so you'll need to build a Compost Bin, then you'll use the compost in Garden Beds, so you'll need to build above ground Garden Boxes, Flower & Herb Boxes, possibly a Garden Shed & likely a Green House!🍓🥕🥬🌷 This saw Dust could keep you busy with so many new projects! 😉 That wood cutting & splitting machine is AWESOME!🪵
Money? We cut and seasoned Oak then split it with a singly ram splitter. We charged $360 a cord and a few bucks more to deliver and dump. More to stack. All measured cords! A lot of work but it was an added income most years.
Good firewood is hard to find. As it all has to be cured. Selling good firewood is very profitable. Location is everything though. Here in florida not a lot of demand
And the sawdust can be used for bedding.....hamsters/genie pigs/rabbits ect. Or to cover mulch for raised beds, potted plants, window gardens ect. Will help hold in the moister and heat from any mulch used. You could charge $5 to $10 all you can take. Seeing as it is a by-product.
Interesting project, those big firewood processing machines are very nice! I would be tempted to keep and store the balance of the wood after you gift some of it to worthy and needy persons. There is a saying in my neck of the woods here in the mountains of NE Oregon: "You can never have enough firewood on hand"! Different things may happen to prevent you from putting away firewood some year, and it's good to have a year's supply on hand if that should happen!😉
I got one of those manual "mini splitters" you were using last year for the smaller stuff .. . this one was made in Australia and performs outstandingly . . .
That chain isn’t wallowed out. The grab hook that holds the chain is stretched from people looking a link over the point and loading it. It’s a self perpetuating problem.
Wonderful, and you have such a nice bunch of trees there, I remember saying it already when you were building your road. That's lot of work and sweat too, but you have really good opportunities to make income there.
Curious to know if you cut those trees from your own property or had them brought in? If so, what did that load cost? If I watch to the end you just might answer these questions. Cheers!
As former owner of the pocono firewood factory and owning a Timberwolf firewood processor. As far as the loose stacking I agree you do not get as much but what I would have done is split all the wood and just let it go into a pile get that done and then worry about stacking it into the truck and the totes later. If you had just split the wood probably couldn't have Gotten the logs done in 1 day. You guys remind me of me and my ex-wife when we were younger in our 30s we owned acreage in th pocono mountains. I'm 58 now
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Love that you donate firewood to folks that need it and may not be able to afford it. Thank you for your generosity.
If they can't afford it, then they don't deserve it. Period.
Riley I worked for a company in Florida that produced firewood on an industrial level. They had several machines exactly like yours. You mentioned how big the firewood chunks were. Those big chunks won't fit in A LOT of wood stoves. That company offers optional splitting dies. Rather than 6 pieces, you could split into 8-12 pieces. This would be more convenient to some customers. They have to take split firewood and attack again with an axe. Firewood heats 5 times. When you cut it, when you split it, when you stack it ,when you haul it inside, and finally when you burn it. Observing what an excellent fabricator you are, you could create these dies yourself
I was going to mention the splitter die dimension. I bet he could make one - or just request a different die from the rental company.
Heats 8 times....add when you pay for it, and when your wife doesn't get to go out for dinner on Saturday and you tell her where the money went!
@@johnnybarbar7435I am sorry you are in a marriage where you lack communication and you don’t work as a cohesive team. Your problems aren’t normal, you are at joint fault in them, and normal people try to fix those problems rather then making comments to strangers online about them 🤣
@@probablypossibly3788 LOL I hope you are jousting a bit of fun.... I was.
agreed- we sell 200 cord a year, palm size..makes happy customers
That boy is so lucky having parents like you he is going to learn so much from you both he is 1 lucky boy 🇬🇧👍
I can't believe I just watched 22 minutes of splitting fire wood
Really guys, thank you for donating your excess wood. So many needy people out there lately..
God bless.
I cheated. I skipped through half of it.
i love how you openly, and jokingly, took the constructive criticism about the hooking method. made you seem humble and willing to learn even tho i gotta chuckle outta it. livin the dream man.
I have never seen a channel make boring thing such as firewood procesing look fun. I mean you guys are amazing.
IBC Tote Cages are a good idea to store wood, but they tend to be expensive if you need 20 of them. Producing firewood is not my idea of fun. Only out westc we could tou find those giant perfect uniform toothpicks to split.
Ahhhh...memories! Grew up one county north of you. Winter firewood: 20 cords for heating, 4 cords for cooking. By hand. Every fall. One year, parents got the idea we would sell firewood. Loaded trims from the local mill. Was about 12 at the time. Chainsaw, axe and hours of hard work: 65 cords of crap firewood nobody wanted (trims were mostly spruce/whitewood full of pitch). Three years of wood cut, but all that crappy firewood meant weekly chimney fires and yucky smoke in the house. Love what you are doing! Keep it up!
Back east, this pine firewood is also pretty junky. Maple or oak hardwood is way better for wood stoves. Pine burns too fast, less heat content, and too much resin/tar.
Bravo for donating your excess. There are always people worse off and firewood is truly useful
Hey Riley, get a sawdust compression machine and either make logs or pellets out of all that sawdust.
Yes pressed to logs or pellets,absolutely no waste!
@@donaldfrazier5244 or donate to organizations who need that for bedding for animals. Some ytube channels use sawdust for flooring/bedding for chickens, goats, rabbits, etc. Although shavings might be better for that.
If the sawdust isn’t extremely dry it will mold. Pellet manufacturing plants have drying systems for this. Animal bedding is what most of it is used for in our area of the US. JMTC
@@stevenwescott1422I also use it in firing Raku pottery. Community arts programs love donations. 😊
Well, maybe tweak those pellets with some coffee ground? th-cam.com/video/BrUE1Hs82iQ/w-d-xo.html
I am currently working on next year's wood here in Montana...Just an old Kubota, Stihl saw, and a 27-ton splitter. It's slow but it gets the job done. I must say that processer looks fun
50 years ago I used to split wood as a kid using a Maul. Probably replaced the wooden handle at least a dozen times. And I still have it today. :)
Me too..
Things don’t change. My son is a handle breaking machine.
@@daver6564 After breaking many myself as a teen ,My father(now in heaven) replaced with plastic handles.I still use today along with 30 ton splitter.
So nice that you are donating the rest!!! You guys are super awesome people!!! May God continue to bless each of you always!!!!!
I’ve been binge watching your “all videos” playlist and have been loving it, but you have stopped adding videos to that playlist a while ago to my dismay. Love watching your progress but now I have to find the next one after every episode. Hope you will update that playlist soon. You have created an amazing channel ❤
I look forward to seeing your videos every Sunday. I'm amazed at the things you two come up with!
For the shavings, rabbits aren't a bad idea. Excellent, abundant food source for off-grid. Another thought would be to buy some parafin wax with some of your firewood proceeds, and a bunch of cardboard egg cartons. Mix the wax and shavings and pour into the egg cartons and let cool, and you have some fire starters.
@@bryank7133
Yes. Great idea.. I’ve also seen woodmen melt down the pitch with saw dust as fire starters.
For some sawmills Suspension burners are the best tech for sawdust burning.
They achieve that intricate suspension and create a vortex with a cyclone type burner.
Sawdust burners were well used in the past.
Seems easy enough if you have a constant supply and processer for all the waste .
Riley can make a compressed log jig, a good winter project. Something an engineer could have fun designing and building himself.
Or compact them into pellets and use. Also works :)
You can used the sawdust as bedding for a chicken coop. 🐓
Yup, my wife and I have been making and using the paper egg carton/saw-chips/old candles-parafin wax fire starters for about the last 40 years. We always look for candles in the thrift stores and yard sales for that purpose.
Only you guys could make a video of splitting wood interesting.
I think later in life, with Courtney youre passion for machines, and Oliver in the working machine with his dad, Oliver is gonna be a big fan of machines.
Riley is a comedian, live it. Good of you to donate the wood, there will be some warm families in the neighborhood!
Love watching you guys always so energetic and positive... 🎉 Courtney always great job editing 🎉
Watch 2 of your videos and you guys are in such great spirits no matter what happens. Positivity is addictive
The fish and sulphuric acid may be for preserving fish for pig food. A book on raising pigs said that the big producers raise their pigs on waste fish parts, preserved with acids. They can save food costs by using that byproduct. About a month before slaughter, they change to corn and grains to stop the pork from tasting like fish. The old timer’s let the pigs grow in the forest, eating acorns, etc, then changed to corn at harvest/ slaughter time.
Just ran across your video randomly. Great showcase of the ease of use of the processor! I work for DYNA and I’m glad to see happy customers showcasing our products on their channels! Thanks for a great video
The snow clips made me nostalgic and wanting me to rewatch the off grid home journey again (i watched almost all videos) and one suggestion for video is rating each battery power stations and how much you use them outside the sponsored videos and make recomendation on each on so people can buy the right one for their needs (i looking for powerstations but its little bit pricey)
Courtney, I wish you would put your hair in a ponytail for safety every time you’re around moving machinery!
A must. I had a friend with 2 foot long hair that got caught in machinery pulling a huge patch from her scalp.
.... on the other hand, you had enaugh lumber to build a log house! Greetings from Germany, Chris
Firewood logs would generally be rejects. Big knots, big splits etc.
Almost looked like fun ,well almost .Oliver will learn from the best😊
That's pretty cool. There are some benefits you have that were not calculated in the processing cost. You own the equipment that you use to move the logs. It's hard work, but in my opinion, it's well worth it having the dry heat that you don't pay for. Great job, guys. Thanks again for sharing.
Love the picture with Oliver in the cab of the excavator. I have those same memories with my Kids ! Keep it up Go Mustangs!
Those machines are pretty cool. They make hard work easy. Fun to watch thanks guys.
Hey Riley when you cut a log using the saw dogs, it allows the saw to do most of the work! I know you are a young man but staying healthy for your family is a priority!
Next up: Riley upgrades his Husky with Westcoast Saw felling dogs. Or, designs his own. :-)
Riley, very responsible. You're one of the few US TH-camrs I follow wearing protective gear while chainsawing.👍
You can thank Courtney for that. 🤣
I live near you guys. WHERE are you getting the tote cages for $35??
Can’t wait to see what you bought in Michigan
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…unless it’s another house. We can absolutely do without THAT video. 😂😂
What a surprising amount of entertainment such a cool machine is to both watch and operate. Not to mention the surplus value.
Another great video of watching you guys work together as a team. Each one finding out where you best fit in the team and doing it.
Excellent job.
Keep the extra wood to season longer, then next year get some bartered labor to do stacking for you in exchange for a tote full of wood some weekend in future.
Try cutting totes with a.short length leftover so you can squish it flat and bend that around something like rebar so it leaves a rounded off end so no one gets cut. No grinder needed either...
Seems like you've made the case for buying one of these units if it was shared by a few homesteads in area, you've got the means to move it, make everybody buy their own chainsaws and extra chains, totes etc... Schedule a month or so apiece every 3 or 4 months of fair weather seasons out of 9 useful months excepting winter ?
Big congrats to Oliver, the Star of the show, and to his parents who make it all work. Love your doings. Ron PTL USA🙂
I honestly don't know how you get anything done Riley. With such a beautiful, talented, smart, equipment-friendly, organized, supermom and partner - - I'd be too distracted to function! You (three) are making some incredible stuff happen!! Good to see the growth - compared to splitting a few years ago!! Congratulations to you all!
Excellent video as always. Reminded me of this skid steer log splitter attachment I saw recently: It has a large tube attached to the splitting mechanism, you drive over to a trailer of long logs and capture one in the tube, which is then hoisted vertically. A single hydraulic ram powers the splitting mechanism which both cuts and splits the log from the bottom. As the split pieces are pushed out the side hole in the bottom, the log drops down and the process is repeated leaving behind a pile of split wood. It averages about 5 minutes for an entire split tree of wood. Definitely the best design I've seen
Those have to be the longest, straightest firewood logs I've ever seen.
Thanks for giving me a grasp on how 15 cords of firewood looks. Our old wood burning furnace will go through 12-15 cords in a winter. 😖 I still need to get logs bucked and split. Tick tock, tick tock...!!
One thing to do with the shavings is to make wood pellets. There are some relatively inexpensive pellet Mills.
You don't use pine to make smoking pellets ever.
As you found through testing, a loosely thrown "stack" of normal sized firewood will take up 30-40% more volume compared to a tight stack of firewood. This is well documented on the internet, don't know why people are disputing that. I get that stacking is a waste of time if you're selling it and going to dump the wood in a client's driveway, but stacking makes sense for most home owners that have limited storage space.
You 2 Always come up with fun topics. Love the video. And we say, hook the chain the way it will work!
happy 600k guys man im part of this journey remember when you just building the camper…congrats
Such a lovely hard working family. Thanks for sharing
300$ a cord 😬
Here in Tennessee it’s only like 70$
300 a cord? is that a bush cord? Where I life (southern Ontario) its $75-90/face cord for maple, and ash hardwood.
Silly question are you cutting and splitting pine ??? Here Australia we like to use hard wood and pine for our wood heaters
You can mix sawdust, bee's wax, and a bit of paraffin and make fire starters. Paper egg crates, cardboard cores (TP or paper towel etc.) or paper muffin cups work. Check the price of those at the store and there's a little more $$$ in your side hustle 🗿👽🗿👽🗿
Courtney please secure your hair when you are working around any kind of equipment. I know someone who lost half her scalp because it got caught in an auger. The same thing applies to loose clothing. I love your guys can do attitude. Keep up the good work.
Cut 3/4 inch foam pipe wrap and zip ties saves the need for bandagesfor your totes. works for us.
If just dumped into the tote, it also allows air to ventilate the wood. Helps if wet after rain or snow and begins to melt. Also if the wood isn't fully cured (dried) it will also speed up this process. Not to mention that stacking wood takes up valuable time you could be using to cut and split more wood. Which, costs you money and time.
Thanks for all the facts and figures!
I never miss an episode
Man, you guys are the BEST!
Great job and greater uses!! Love seeing Oliver grow up! Blessings on your family (the four legged ons too!)🥰
"I didn't crash the other two drones...Riley did."
That's marriage!
Love it!
And that is managing the marriage very well!
Courtney's happy dance for winning the competition needs an episode of it's own!
I couldn't get my girlfriend to ever do anything like this. You two deserve each other.
An entire episode of straight up COUPLES GOALS! I always have facetiously joked about selling everything and running off to Alaska. My wife is totally all for it. Our son would be as well. Sadly I have had multiple life-threatening health issues over the last 20 years that put a stop to that dream as I need regular and rather serious medical care, monitoring, multiple surgeries, etc. on a regular interval. My Humira would LOVE the cold Alaska, though. Sadly, my wiener doggos, not so much. My Horgie doggo is another story...LOL! LOVES the cold.
Great video, nice to see Oliver getting in on the action haha
You two never cease to amaze me keep up the good work.
The machine you’re using to load the logs and however you had them tucked into your house or moved by something. What is your cost plus labour enough machine that cost over billion dollars so how are you making that much easier +2 employees working every day like what
That machine is one Bad Mamma Jamma. And Courtney has alot of finesse operating it. That's a huge amount of firewood for just a weekends work. Great job yall. Oliver looks like he was having a blast in the excavator!
Awesome video guys! Love everything you guys put out and your generosity to donate part of the wood at the end. Keep it up!
Watching from Ireland , both of you's did a brilliant job
“Is everyone ready?” no one said anything so I’m gonna assume that they’re ready ,so I’m gonna turn this machine on”. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!
Such a satisfying process! You guys are moviestars (only not corrupt like they are)😊
Yep, not childless cat ladies that don't defend women in sports
Fantastic and so nice of you to donate the extra wood. Luv you guys
Courtney (we have that same Nanit monitor) you probably already know this but you can turn the sound to "always on" and you can still hear them with the screen off. Saves battery, but careful you dont leave it on when you leave the house because it EATS data!
Thanks Riley ., Courtney, Oliver .Love the videos
You guy's are a breath of fresh air for my youtube veiwing pleasure..thank you.
It is nice to see you in realizing your resources.
Hey, wait a minute, that first run was done cold 4 minutes 30 seconds.
So what happens when you get your groove on?
Hey I noticed you guys are stacking the wood in the tote bins, I'm assuming to get more in. Just as an experiment you should put a tote under the conveyor and load it, then empty it on the ground and stack it back into the tote to see how much extra you get in. I feel like you are making extra work for yourself
📌 In addition to getting rabbits & making wood starters with the Saw Dust, it's a GOOD addition for Compost, it's a natural carbon source, improves texture, absorbs excess liquids & feeds microbes, so you'll need to build a Compost Bin, then you'll use the compost in Garden Beds, so you'll need to build above ground Garden Boxes, Flower & Herb Boxes, possibly a Garden Shed & likely a Green House!🍓🥕🥬🌷 This saw Dust could keep you busy with so many new projects! 😉
That wood cutting & splitting machine is AWESOME!🪵
That's a lot of fire wood and fun.
Winter is coming, doors for the MTR yet?
Money? We cut and seasoned Oak then split it with a singly ram splitter. We charged $360 a cord and a few bucks more to deliver and dump. More to stack. All measured cords! A lot of work but it was an added income most years.
Hey Yall, how long was your log setting?? 16" ?? Looks like a future adventure for sure!
What about the cost of the IBC tote cages
Seeing Oliver in the video is always a special treat, but seeing him on Daddy's lap in the cab of the excavator was just the bee's knees!!
You guys weren’t joking about cutting a lot of fire wood!!!
Good firewood is hard to find. As it all has to be cured. Selling good firewood is very profitable. Location is everything though. Here in florida not a lot of demand
And the sawdust can be used for bedding.....hamsters/genie pigs/rabbits ect. Or to cover mulch for raised beds, potted plants, window gardens ect. Will help hold in the moister and heat from any mulch used. You could charge $5 to $10 all you can take. Seeing as it is a by-product.
Riley, that placard on the tote is Marine Pollutant hazard.
All that firewood looks good for winter!
Interesting project, those big firewood processing machines are very nice! I would be tempted to keep and store the balance of the wood after you gift some of it to worthy and needy persons. There is a saying in my neck of the woods here in the mountains of NE Oregon: "You can never have enough firewood on hand"! Different things may happen to prevent you from putting away firewood some year, and it's good to have a year's supply on hand if that should happen!😉
I got one of those manual "mini splitters" you were using last year for the smaller stuff .. . this one was made in Australia and performs outstandingly . . .
Your son is adorable, Courtney is very attractive, you are a blessed man!
@ambition strikes what what is that auger for the skid steer? Has it held up decent besides the bent auger?
The hook is spread just beat it down with a hammer and the chain will work correctly again. I want a log splitter like that!
That chain isn’t wallowed out. The grab hook that holds the chain is stretched from people looking a link over the point and loading it. It’s a self perpetuating problem.
So was the 256k just click bait? Where did that number come from
Wonderful, and you have such a nice bunch of trees there, I remember saying it already when you were building your road. That's lot of work and sweat too, but you have really good opportunities to make income there.
they purchased the logs that they processed this time. so this was mostly for content and some for themselves plus charity
Curious to know if you cut those trees from your own property or had them brought in? If so, what did that load cost? If I watch to the end you just might answer these questions. Cheers!
As former owner of the pocono firewood factory and owning a Timberwolf firewood processor. As far as the loose stacking I agree you do not get as much but what I would have done is split all the wood and just let it go into a pile get that done and then worry about stacking it into the truck and the totes later. If you had just split the wood probably couldn't have Gotten the logs done in 1 day. You guys remind me of me and my ex-wife when we were younger in our 30s we owned acreage in th pocono mountains. I'm 58 now
Donating the rest???!?!?!? You guys just get better and better. Keep up the great work you 2!!!
Hi riley, I am also in north idaho and I was wondering who you used to purchase your ibc crates
Courtney you are an incredible young lady! Riley, you ain’t that bad either! Great content you guys. Quite a team.
I used to fire wood kilns with the guys at Notre Dame, and we’d spend entire weekends with a dozen guys doing what you’ve done in half the time.