TREE SERVICE WOOD - Is It Worth It??? A Good Source Of Firewood Or What?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ค. 2024
- Tree service wood: Is it worth it to get free wood for your home or your firewood business?
It's natural to view tree service companies as a source of firewood, whether you're using it for yourself personally or supplying a business selling firewood. I will go through a number of points relating to this prospect and what to be aware of.
Getting wood from tree companies could be a good score or a no go depending on the characteristics of individual companies. Tune in to get the details.
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Nice to see a supplier/wood person not complain about their tree service wood. Embrace it and work with it, or not. Thanks man. Very good content and breakdown of what you are currently working with. 👌
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For some time now, I was felling, bucking and dragging logs out of the woods with chains or a hand truck. Then, cutting them to needed sizes and splitting with a maul and stacking. Lately, a tree service has been dropping dump truck loads of Oak logs. I can generally use about 75% for selling and the rest I use personally. Sure, you do get some junk but for me, I operate solo so I need every advantage I can get.
As time goes, you'll get better with efficiency, supply and production. I can get wood easily, the hard part is cycling through it so I'm always trying to do things more efficiently. One example, instead of wheelbarrowing 5 or 10 loads of boiler wood up to the 40 yard bin, I just throw it all in the truck and drive it all at once to the bin and toss it in. Also, the woodyard changes every year. How much do you sell a year?
It's the age old mantra "What you don't pay for in money, you pay for in your time."
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Around here a lot of tree services have small log trucks or use roll offs to put logs in. A load of 3-4 cords costs 100-150 dollars. That's not bad. However a load of 7-8 cords from a logger isn't worth the cost. Usually about $700. A split and seasoned cord is at most $300. Not much profit considering the labor involved.
Ya that's true. I don't even know what a load of logs cost because I've never had to order any considering that there's so much tree service wood available in the city of Toronto
In my case all I really know is tree service wood., I have a few friends thats what they do for a living. So,when the home owners dont want it I get in my F250 and go get it.. Been doing this for 4 years now and every year I make a change.
Everything over 16inch goes into stacks for fireplaces and out side burning. 16inches and smaller go into another stack for wood stoves..
So far its been working out great..
You'll get even better at it. Firewood use is an evolution
Like the way you stack your totes, sure gives you a lot of wood in a small area. Like your explanations, I’m from Alberta we don’t have many different types of wood like you do in Ontario. I think the best splitter for big rounds is the Eastonmade Axis, a powerful splitter that lifts the big rounds. Stay safe my friend
Thank you, with the narrow space that I have, going vertical with wood storage was the best option. I thought of building large metal racks for easy stacking and access, but that was gonna be much more costly
Great video. My back hurts watching you cut that wood. I love working with wood, but my back hurts so much after doing about 10 or 15 minutes of that bending over cutting, that have to sit down.
That is unfortunate, I don't know why it doesn't bother me
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Some days you make 10 dollars an hour. Some days its 60 dollars an hour. Some days are just better then others.
That's the way she goes!
Ain’t that the truth.
You figure out what works in the end, no matter what the situation. Thanks for watching!
What's your thoughts on maple ?
Some maple is good, some is just average. Sugar and sycamore are good, Norway so-so, red, silver and Manitoba (aka box elder or maple ash) are just average. Stay away especially from the box elder. Smells bad. Thanks for subscribing!
@@OntarioFirewoodResource just getting Into the firewood business myself. I love it . My first load I made the mistake of picking up a chord of pine, splitting and stacking. I learned that I should only use my time and energy for hardwood.
@@OntarioFirewoodResource just had a tree company message me today for a load of Norway maple . Was going to pick it up, it's better than the soft pine I already split. Is the Norway maple Worth the trouble ?
Ya it's worth it, splits very easy. Can't go wrong if it's free. Why I am uncertain about it? it seems to be okay, but it's a hardwood that originates in a very northerly region, where hardwoods tend to be not so hard, for the most part. There is no much info on it's heat rating online but it seems to be in the mid range of all the maples that I mentioned
@@OntarioFirewoodResource turns out they only has branch logs . Not worth the time
Sure is a mess of wood and twice the work of buying a log truck but free... your overhead is very low.. making it a profitable business... it be kinda kool to see a log truck in your yard though..
Free wood - trade off is that it's not consistent to work with. I do salivate over log loads though, I'd do a lot of that splitting with a big maul if I didn't have a Wolf Ridge or Eastonmade