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.
@@Cablev94 That's where we get to use our God given intelligence and judgement and decide if someone is doing what they can and needs a bit of a hand up (call it grace), or whether they are being lazy and need to be left alone.
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.
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.
I work for a small school in southern New Hampshire that heats most of its buildings with wood. We buy log length wood and rent one of these machines one weekend a year. Despite me nearly ripping my arm off one year I love how quickly and well they work.
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
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 ran that same machine from that guy on Highway 95 just outside of Ponderay. I was able to process 14 cords of firewood when I first moved here and I’m still burning that same firewood today three years later it was worth every penny.
It's so refreshing to see a happy young couple like you two, loving life and each other the way you do😊❤! I wish you all the best. Stay safe, stay healthy, and no matter what life may bring, always remember to be kind to each other. ❤️
I would guess your chain saw dust is pretty coarse, similar to planer shavings. I stuff my planer shavings in a 5 gallon "homer" bucket and add about 1/2 gallon of diesel fuel (NOT gasoline!). I flip the bucket once a day for about 3-4 days and the moistened shavings can be used as "fire starter".
For all you entrepreneurs. If you go cut 1 cord and split a day that is 300 bucks cash in your pocket. You can easily load a flat deck 1 ton with 2 cord. Buy a splitter. If you went out and did 5 hours every day for 7 months getting two cord a day its $127,000. Minus a hydraulic splitter (1500) Gas (3000 overestimate) 2 new saws (2000-3000) and chains/tools/oils ect (1000) That is a massive total of $118,000 tax free cash working 5 hours a day for 7 months work
your positive attitudes are inspiring. i know your probably laughing right now that if we only knew about the down times.however your choice to make positive content is much appreciated. thank you
Hope you two never divorce! Your chemistry, drive and support for each other is a blessing and example for others to follow. Marriage is worth the struggle and commitment!
I hustle a little firewood on the side with my tree service. My math shows that with heaped loose firewood 170 - 180 cubic feet will stack into a proper 128 cubic foot cord. My truck can hold 2.5 cords if i tight stack it but only 1.75+ cords if the same volume is filled with wood tossed in loosely. It takes a lot of time to tight-stack firewood but depending on how far i have to drive it, delivery extra, sometimes its worth the stacking time to be able to deliver a larger load.
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
Then there's the cost of the cages, extra chains for the saw, and renting the heavy equipment needed to load the logs onto the splitter and move the cages around.
I live in southern Oregon where we’re surrounded by lumber. And if I go to the store, they sell an arm load of plastic wrapped firewood for almost $10. Crazy.
@@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 would consider separating the large bits as your stacking for potentially splitting again, as some maybe to big for peoples stoves. As your stacking manually anyway it should make to much of difference time wise 👍 or look for a difference splitter head. Maybe an 8 way or 12 way. This was the first video I found on your channel and am now a subscriber for life. Great job
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.
You should turn the sawdust into Sawdust Bricks (or tubes) and use that as heating aswell, however it won't sell for as high of a price so you should use the bricks to heat your own house
After months of research, not hand stacking and just letting it pile up allows better airflow and faster drying times. As you discovered, takes average of 30% more storage area though.
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
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.
Here is another comment for you, to cut down the time of you throwing and stacking the wood in the back of the truck. Back your truck underneath the conveyor belt, thus letting the firewood pieces to drop into the truck bed. This will save you time and energy of manually throwing it into the truck, 1 less thing for you to do, plus gives you more of an advantage of stacking it into the back of the truck which in turn makes you more money. The less time you spend on throwing it into the back of the truck besides the stacking then puts more money into your pockets due to you are making more $ per hour from it. Also 1 more little thing to help you, a typical 1 ton truck with a flatbed of 10x12 can haul 2 & 3/4 cords of split and stacked firewood, you can haul 3 cords with using straps and chains with chain binders to strap the load down. Doing this will help you also with stablizing the load as when hauling it down the road but also will help any pieces to not come lose and fall from the truck, which in turn could result in a ticket for not having a secured load.
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.
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.
I learned all this from watching Lumber Capital Log Yard Videos this past year. Their family has been doing this for like 15 years. And they seem to know how much to drop into their dump trailer. Before delivering it to their costumers.
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 ❤
While the totes may hold less wood piled in. I would think buying more IBC containers, to make up for the lack of capacity would still be a time saver.
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.
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)
Quite the operation you have there! What length are the firewood pieces. Maybe have a different splitter, with more sections, to make more/smaller pieces?
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.
I mean, I go out in the woods, scout wood,chainsaw it up, move each piece to my truck several times usually, wood is really hard to find and a dwindling resources etc. get home unload wood, proceed to split up wood with old maul,haul to and stack in shed cus a bit…just getting by
Hey guys, I absolutely love your channel! It's inspiring to see your hard work, generosity, and the fun you bring to each project. To answer the question at the end of the video, I took a picture of my screen and asked ChatGPT about the fish symbol. Turns out, it represents environmental hazards, specifically substances that are toxic to aquatic life. It's part of the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for labeling chemicals. Keep up the amazing content-you guys rock!
300 bucks a cord, that's a lot and good for you guys if you were to sell it. We sell for 80-200 depending on the type of wood. That's just the going rate in our area.
Nice presentation. I think you also need to factor in the amount of hours you did this for and the aid of the equipment you had on site. In my opinion there is very little money in selling fire wood. You are better off working some over time at your day day job which is most likely much easier.
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!
My area has a lot of guys who sell wood and mulch in stl, Chicago and KC for a living 6 days a week. One guys company has like 10 trucks he runs daily with a crew of 3-4 guys. He makes a good living
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.
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.
Everyone who buys fire wood I hope you payed attention to the stacking part vs just letting it flop in where ever. If your buying a cord of fire wood and it is not nicely stacked then your getting ripped off a cord of wood should be nicely stacked I have seen so many places that sell a tote of fire wood that is just thrown in every where and they say your getting a cord of wood.
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 . . .
Pine splits so nice and easy, it it was a hardwood it would take you forever to do 15 cords, I say this because I just didn’t it a month ago with the same machine
That isn't exactly big firewood and it's pretty low grade stuff too. On the north coast of Vancouver Island we used to get fir peelers that you needed a Stihl 090 to buck it up. Even in the Kootenays it's usually bigger that that stuff.
Those are the straightest logs without any knots that I have ever seen! we split red Oak and it makes excellent firewood, but you don’t get clear logs like those.
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...!!
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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.
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.
just forward like I did 4 minutes in total
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.
@@Cablev94 go to satan
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That's where we get to use our God given intelligence and judgement and decide if someone is doing what they can and needs a bit of a hand up (call it grace), or whether they are being lazy and need to be left alone.
We have fire wood. Come get some . We're in Ashville.
@@Cablev94 Trolly McTrollface- you kinda miss the whole vibe of their content
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.
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.
I work for a small school in southern New Hampshire that heats most of its buildings with wood. We buy log length wood and rent one of these machines one weekend a year. Despite me nearly ripping my arm off one year I love how quickly and well they work.
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
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
I ran that same machine from that guy on Highway 95 just outside of Ponderay. I was able to process 14 cords of firewood when I first moved here and I’m still burning that same firewood today three years later it was worth every penny.
Bravo for donating your excess. There are always people worse off and firewood is truly useful
That boy is so lucky having parents like you he is going to learn so much from you both he is 1 lucky boy 🇬🇧👍
Please don’t have young kids around equipment. I know a guy who lost his infant son riding on a tractor.
Please
So nice that you are donating the rest!!! You guys are super awesome people!!! May God continue to bless each of you always!!!!!
Riley you can build your own firewood processing center and saw Mill you can get most of what you need at a junkyard 😊
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.
You two are the best example of what Makes America Great. The best to you in the new year.
It's so refreshing to see a happy young couple like you two, loving life and each other the way you do😊❤! I wish you all the best. Stay safe, stay healthy, and no matter what life may bring, always remember to be kind to each other. ❤️
I would guess your chain saw dust is pretty coarse, similar to planer shavings. I stuff my planer shavings in a 5 gallon "homer" bucket and add about 1/2 gallon of diesel fuel (NOT gasoline!). I flip the bucket once a day for about 3-4 days and the moistened shavings can be used as "fire starter".
For all you entrepreneurs. If you go cut 1 cord and split a day that is 300 bucks cash in your pocket. You can easily load a flat deck 1 ton with 2 cord. Buy a splitter. If you went out and did 5 hours every day for 7 months getting two cord a day its $127,000. Minus a hydraulic splitter (1500) Gas (3000 overestimate) 2 new saws (2000-3000) and chains/tools/oils ect (1000) That is a massive total of $118,000 tax free cash working 5 hours a day for 7 months work
Where do you sell the firewood?
your positive attitudes are inspiring. i know your probably laughing right now that if we only knew about the down times.however your choice to make positive content is much appreciated. thank you
Hope you two never divorce! Your chemistry, drive and support for each other is a blessing and example for others to follow. Marriage is worth the struggle and commitment!
Me too....
I hustle a little firewood on the side with my tree service. My math shows that with heaped loose firewood 170 - 180 cubic feet will stack into a proper 128 cubic foot cord. My truck can hold 2.5 cords if i tight stack it but only 1.75+ cords if the same volume is filled with wood tossed in loosely. It takes a lot of time to tight-stack firewood but depending on how far i have to drive it, delivery extra, sometimes its worth the stacking time to be able to deliver a larger load.
With the price of oil etc this could be a fantastic business … my neighbour has been doing it for years and is always busy 👍
I look forward to seeing your videos every Sunday. I'm amazed at the things you two come up with!
I liked that the tote driver showed you respect by taking off his glove to shake your hand
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
Very nice. I wish I could borrow something like that in Germany.😅
Then there's the cost of the cages, extra chains for the saw, and renting the heavy equipment needed to load the logs onto the splitter and move the cages around.
I live in southern Oregon where we’re surrounded by lumber. And if I go to the store, they sell an arm load of plastic wrapped firewood for almost $10. Crazy.
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
All that sawdust would make good fire starter, I use it all the time along with used candle wax and cardboard egg cartons and it works great
I would consider separating the large bits as your stacking for potentially splitting again, as some maybe to big for peoples stoves. As your stacking manually anyway it should make to much of difference time wise 👍 or look for a difference splitter head. Maybe an 8 way or 12 way. This was the first video I found on your channel and am now a subscriber for life. Great job
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.
You could close the gap on the hook for the chain, either a heavy hammer or heat it first then wak it good.
Watch 2 of your videos and you guys are in such great spirits no matter what happens. Positivity is addictive
Your videos are so well-edited, [10:02]and the camera angles truly capture the power of these machines!
You should turn the sawdust into Sawdust Bricks (or tubes) and use that as heating aswell, however it won't sell for as high of a price so you should use the bricks to heat your own house
Riley, you and Courtney need a outdoor wood furnace with all that fire.wood you got, that'd be a very efficient way to heat your house.
After months of research, not hand stacking and just letting it pile up allows better airflow and faster drying times. As you discovered, takes average of 30% more storage area though.
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
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.
Here is another comment for you, to cut down the time of you throwing and stacking the wood in the back of the truck. Back your truck underneath the conveyor belt, thus letting the firewood pieces to drop into the truck bed. This will save you time and energy of manually throwing it into the truck, 1 less thing for you to do, plus gives you more of an advantage of stacking it into the back of the truck which in turn makes you more money. The less time you spend on throwing it into the back of the truck besides the stacking then puts more money into your pockets due to you are making more $ per hour from it. Also 1 more little thing to help you, a typical 1 ton truck with a flatbed of 10x12 can haul 2 & 3/4 cords of split and stacked firewood, you can haul 3 cords with using straps and chains with chain binders to strap the load down. Doing this will help you also with stablizing the load as when hauling it down the road but also will help any pieces to not come lose and fall from the truck, which in turn could result in a ticket for not having a secured load.
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.
Mix a little diesel with the saw chips and dust, makes great fire starter.
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.
If your back hurts picking up split logs from the ground to stack them, get yourself a hookaroon and just spike/lift with it. Helps me a lot.
Riley is a comedian, live it. Good of you to donate the wood, there will be some warm families in the neighborhood!
Best part you could use the wood ashes produced as sand for your driveways and fertilizer.
Only you guys could make a video of splitting wood interesting.
I learned all this from watching Lumber Capital Log Yard Videos this past year. Their family has been doing this for like 15 years. And they seem to know how much to drop into their dump trailer. Before delivering it to their costumers.
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 ❤
Love watching you guys always so energetic and positive... 🎉 Courtney always great job editing 🎉
While the totes may hold less wood piled in. I would think buying more IBC containers, to make up for the lack of capacity would still be a time saver.
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.
Growing up my Dad and I would use a Styl chainsaw and cut wood. It was fun. It was about the time spent doing it together. Winwin.
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)
Love the picture with Oliver in the cab of the excavator. I have those same memories with my Kids ! Keep it up Go Mustangs!
Quite the operation you have there!
What length are the firewood pieces. Maybe have a different splitter, with more sections, to make more/smaller pieces?
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 this video. Found you guys earlier today and watch your water tank video. Subscribed. The music in the video is so good. Are you using epidimic?
Now that’s a splitter. Having that excavator there to load those logs is awesome!
...the joy on the Woman's face as she operated this machine was great to watch 😊...🇦🇺...
Almost looked like fun ,well almost .Oliver will learn from the best😊
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.
A split pool noodle or pipe insulation foam on the sides of those totes would help protect against nasty scratches while loading.
I mean, I go out in the woods, scout wood,chainsaw it up, move each piece to my truck several times usually, wood is really hard to find and a dwindling resources etc. get home unload wood, proceed to split up wood with old maul,haul to and stack in shed cus a bit…just getting by
Hey guys, I absolutely love your channel! It's inspiring to see your hard work, generosity, and the fun you bring to each project. To answer the question at the end of the video, I took a picture of my screen and asked ChatGPT about the fish symbol. Turns out, it represents environmental hazards, specifically substances that are toxic to aquatic life. It's part of the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for labeling chemicals. Keep up the amazing content-you guys rock!
Such a lovely hard working family. Thanks for sharing
300 bucks a cord, that's a lot and good for you guys if you were to sell it. We sell for 80-200 depending on the type of wood. That's just the going rate in our area.
You guy's are a breath of fresh air for my youtube veiwing pleasure..thank you.
I couldn't get my girlfriend to ever do anything like this. You two deserve each other.
Nice presentation. I think you also need to factor in the amount of hours you did this for and the aid of the equipment you had on site. In my opinion there is very little money in selling fire wood. You are better off working some over time at your day day job which is most likely much easier.
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!
My area has a lot of guys who sell wood and mulch in stl, Chicago and KC for a living 6 days a week. One guys company has like 10 trucks he runs daily with a crew of 3-4 guys. He makes a good living
Great job, great team, great looking family, the eay it should be 👍
300 a cord? is that a bush cord? Where I life (southern Ontario) its $75-90/face cord for maple, and ash hardwood.
For the shavings, rabbits aren't a bad idea. Excellent, abundant food source for off-grid. Another thought would be to buy some parafin wax with some of your firewood proceeds, and a bunch of cardboard egg cartons. Mix the wax and shavings and pour into the egg cartons and let cool, and you have some fire starters.
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Yes. Great idea.. I’ve also seen woodmen melt down the pitch with saw dust as fire starters.
For some sawmills Suspension burners are the best tech for sawdust burning.
They achieve that intricate suspension and create a vortex with a cyclone type burner.
Sawdust burners were well used in the past.
Seems easy enough if you have a constant supply and processer for all the waste .
Riley can make a compressed log jig, a good winter project. Something an engineer could have fun designing and building himself.
Or compact them into pellets and use. Also works :)
You can used the sawdust as bedding for a chicken coop. 🐓
Yup, my wife and I have been making and using the paper egg carton/saw-chips/old candles-parafin wax fire starters for about the last 40 years. We always look for candles in the thrift stores and yard sales for that purpose.
That chain isn’t wallowed out. The grab hook that holds the chain is stretched from people looking a link over the point and loading it. It’s a self perpetuating problem.
dont forget you have a skid steer and hymac if you rented them to plus wages you are about even
Where I live at, a cord of fire wood cost about 4 to 500$
I would love to see how it works with some seasoned oak or maple, even some walnut.
Everyone who buys fire wood I hope you payed attention to the stacking part vs just letting it flop in where ever. If your buying a cord of fire wood and it is not nicely stacked then your getting ripped off a cord of wood should be nicely stacked I have seen so many places that sell a tote of fire wood that is just thrown in every where and they say your getting a cord of wood.
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 . . .
Big congrats to Oliver, the Star of the show, and to his parents who make it all work. Love your doings. Ron PTL USA🙂
Awesome set up❤ good money
You should compare vs how much money you would get for selling logs only. As the only diffrence you get from splitting wood is the actual profit.
QUESTION: How much wood would you say one tote is...1/4 ..1/5..1/8 ect..of a cord of wood?
Pine splits so nice and easy, it it was a hardwood it would take you forever to do 15 cords, I say this because I just didn’t it a month ago with the same machine
That isn't exactly big firewood and it's pretty low grade stuff too. On the north coast of Vancouver Island we used to get fir peelers that you needed a Stihl 090 to buck it up. Even in the Kootenays it's usually bigger that that stuff.
Thats a big machine. Ive seen smaller wood spliters before. It makes work lighter.
The hard part is stacking all the wood.
Pile wood should be about 2/3 vs loose in a pile. In the wood yard will confirm that.
Those machines are pretty cool. They make hard work easy. Fun to watch thanks guys.
Those are the straightest logs without any knots that I have ever seen! we split red Oak and it makes excellent firewood, but you don’t get clear logs like those.
So, it looks like you are processing pine , is that so ?? Here in NH pine is used for kindling , but we burn hardwood in stoves. Pine is “ camp wood “
Thats is so cool. I think you need a chair if you are splitting a whole lot of logs.💪🏾✌🏽❤️
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...!!
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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
I'd love to see this machine try and cope with Australian hardwoods. Hard a rock and no straight bits!
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. 🤣
Cut 3/4 inch foam pipe wrap and zip ties saves the need for bandagesfor your totes. works for us.