well done .. great inspirational video as has been mentioned .. the biggest asset you have is youre own inner driving force .. keep it going on the yard and on here .. cheers
Love watching your videos! This one really helps to bring your journey to life, with the many videos I've so far viewed. My favourite TH-cam channel by far! Very inspiring. Thank you 😊 👍
Hi I've just found your channel as I have just started doing firewood and it nice to hear your journey please keep going and I will keep watching good luck
Most people don't know how to start a business. They would benefit by listening to this video. It helps if the demand for wood is increasing at the same time you are trying to sell.
Wonderful. It might actually cost you more to buy timber and have it season for a year. Your cash is stuck there. Buying drying selling might actually be cheaper. Great job!!! Merry Christmas!
Loved this Archie. You are a hard working intelligent lad. That business is going to fly. You are definitely going to need more storage for seasoned firewood. I would start planning a new shed at your yard asap. Keep up the videos if you can, I love to watch them
And further to my renewable electricity comment, I absolutely love your channel and this is a fascinating insight into how you got started. Many thanks and hope that 2024 goes well for you.
Tbh with you chap, I am you but 10 years behind. I'm sitting upfront of a fire with logs that I cut and split myself be like you but my parents said they didn't want to drive me around with logs to various customers! That vid did help alot, cheers!
Hey Archie! I throughly enjoyed having a sit and listening to your story this evening! You’re absolutely hands down a very driven hard worker whom is clearly motivated and focused on your goals in mind with building a great and successful business 🔥💯👍! I found this video quite inspiring and heartfelt to be honest and wanted to thank you for sharing this with us! It was really great to hear about and see some photos from the beginning of your business journey! This in turn I found helped answer some other questions I had along the way while going through your previous content. Also, hearing about your TH-cam journey thus far was neat too! I’ve enjoyed going back in your catalog of videos and getting caught up since finding your channel in the later part of this year! For me, I enjoy watching all the great firewood content out there in TH-cam and at one time Archie, I used to do firewood for our home heating, but circumstances changed throughout the years and it’s been quite awhile since I’ve been on the working end of a saw or a splitter! But with that being said, I’ve always appreciated in general the hard work that doing firewood takes and for myself, I thoroughly enjoy it an hope to get back doing it soon, but for now TH-cam is a great way to keep that firewood itch burning for me lol :). Anyways Archie, I want to extend a sincere thanks for having such great content / channel and for taking us along on your business journey! Really love the channel and keep up the great work! Looking forward to what’s to come in the new year with Oak Farm Firewood! Have a very Merry Christmas and happy new year and I will definitely see you on the next one! Cheers! Andrew from NB, Canada :)
Great video. Love it. So great to hear how you bootstrapped the business. WRT wholesale; keep them. Increase production. If they’re not profitable enough then increase your price. They might leave, but also they may not. If you turn them away they certainly leave. WRT loans; that’s obviously necessary, but you’re loaning it to keep piles of wood sitting in the yard. You need inventory, but keep that wood moving as fast as possible. 750 seasoned bags sitting in a shed for half a year that’s almost 100k that you’re not repaying, but paying interest on. Also that second barn, it may be necessary, but it’s costly. Moving all that wood around (between the oak farm and the 2nd barn) is costing you time and thus money, but doesn’t add any value to the product (ie it would be equally good if you stored it on site). That’s on top of the rental fee.
Yes very true! I am pushing for another barn at oak farm but time will tell. Ibc’s are the way to go at the moment for the kiln dried stuff! The rent on second barn isn’t that bad and moving the bags didn’t cost to much if I’m honest! It’s a huge help having stuff ready to go, I’ll give the second barn another year I think
As always, thanks for sharing a little insight into your firewood world. Just started a firewood business in the states and will be using some of ides to hopefully make this thing work over here. Thanks Archie, nice job.
Hats off to you lad, been watching a cpl of months now and love the content and just pressumed it were a family farm ect so fair play for taking such a big risk with finance ect i can guess that is must be a fortune so all the best 👌👌
Great video man, you weren't rambling, Keep up the honesty it's how you tubers survive and go big. Knowing about the struggles helps me motivate myself!! Best firewood youtube channel by far, Hope you have a break !
Thanks Archie for this video, it's great to hear how it all started. I always look forward to your latest video that comes out. It must take away a lot of your productive time filming these video's but they are great to watch. Have a great Christmas and hope you do get to have a bit of a break over the holiday period!
Hi Archie, really enjoying your channel, looking forward to seeing what your future plans are. Solar can make sense for your business because your using power when the system will be producing, as long as the sun is shining. Don't look at the cost now look at how it will be over the life of the system, at least 25 years for the panels. Here in Australia our electricity prices have tripled in the last 3 years so factor in that the cost of electricity will also just keep going up.
You have definitely come a long way since I started watching you grow.. I hired a driver this year and it's one of the best business decisions I've made since 2020.. look forward to what next year has to bring.. Merry Christmas and happy new year
I hope you had a good Christmas and a happy prosperous New Year good video, you’ve come along way in a very short time I like the way you are realistic about your goals and strive towards them. Being self-employed myself, I know what it’s like to be your own boss. It’s good freedom to an extent, but at the end of the day, every person buying your product or service is ultimately your boss.
Great video mate - well done on building your business to what it is today, and lookikng forward to watching how things progress into 2024. Merry Christmas from NZ!
Think you've done superb buddy, as a fellow log merchant business owner i totally understand your views and i believe you've done brilliant good luck for the future
@oakfarmfirewood still watching lol. Wish I was closer, would love to see your operation. I have a Hardscaping company and looking into some land for firewood production for my employees to do in the winter.
So, solar electricity: I think you might want to talk to Good Energy. They're a fantastic company who buy and sell just renewable electricity (they sell gas too but have some way of offsetting the fossil carbon involved) and they might be very interested in working with you; the fact you're providing renewable/low carbon heating fuel may well be attractive to them. Obviously I have no idea of how much they'll pay YOU for solar (that you don't use as it's made) but I buy my power from them and sell my excess PV electricity to them. Tell them Compost John in York recommended them - I was their very first customer in my city, back in 1999.
The only advice I can give you is if you can keep producing enough wood to supply to keep up with your retail customers and wholesale do them both. If you have more retail then you can keep up then look at your options to drop wholesale. Peace.
Brilliant video Archie. I am also in the same business as yourself. Alot of hard work and determination to move forward, Just at the stage of thinking it time for a kiln. For my own business. It would be nice to get a chat with you about your kiln set up and cost of installing it.
Been waiting for this Archie and it didn’t disappoint very interesting I hope one day to do similar. Do you by any chance have any advice on getting ahold of hardwood I’m in Essex and am struggling to get wood. Have a good Christmas Monty.
Hallo archie, i followedyour advice and bought a drying kit from germany. A hot air system from schreiber anlagenbau which i fuel with my Hargassner hot water gassicationer. I have a question relating to this. How much fuelwood do you need for drying one cage of firewood. How may cages do you fit in the container? Regards Rutger from holland.
I use an ibc of fuel every 24 hours but I’m drying 27 cages in 4 days or 54 in 6-7 days from green! If you are drying already seasoned/part seasoned you can half them numbers
well done .. great inspirational video as has been mentioned .. the biggest asset you have is youre own inner driving force .. keep it going on the yard and on here .. cheers
Thank you
You have the best firewood channel in my opinion. I love all the great information, format and your setup. Cheers from Massachusetts USA - Nate
Wow, thanks Nate!
Great Story. Love the indoor firewood factory.
Glad you enjoyed it
Awesome, Amazing, Inspirational. Hope 2024 delivers everything you want it to.
Love watching your videos! This one really helps to bring your journey to life, with the many videos I've so far viewed. My favourite TH-cam channel by far! Very inspiring. Thank you 😊 👍
Wow, thank you!
Absolutely fascinating. A great inspirational video. You've accomplished so much in a short time.
Thanks so much!
I’ve been looking forward to this video! Great insight. Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Really enjoyed your video
You're inspiring
Well done and all the best for 2024
Hi I've just found your channel as I have just started doing firewood and it nice to hear your journey please keep going and I will keep watching good luck
Thank you for posting this super interesting and informative 😄👍
Most people don't know how to start a business. They would benefit by listening to this video. It helps if the demand for wood is increasing at the same time you are trying to sell.
Thanks for your kind words
Interesting. Hello from Colorado Nate
I really enjoyed listening to your firewood journey, hard work and determination all the way.
Thanks 👍
What a great story , you should be standing at the top of a classroom inspiring the next generation , a great achievement
Wonderful. It might actually cost you more to buy timber and have it season for a year. Your cash is stuck there. Buying drying selling might actually be cheaper. Great job!!! Merry Christmas!
Yes but also it’s less stressful
When you can’t get timber due to wet conditions
Loved this Archie. You are a hard working intelligent lad. That business is going to fly. You are definitely going to need more storage for seasoned firewood. I would start planning a new shed at your yard asap. Keep up the videos if you can, I love to watch them
That’s the plan!
I would have given you some Christmas decorations to spice it up if you asked 😂😂 it’s great to watch it grow pal. Here’s to another year 💪🏼
😂 next time! You got that right!
Superb video and a awesome insight.. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
And further to my renewable electricity comment, I absolutely love your channel and this is a fascinating insight into how you got started. Many thanks and hope that 2024 goes well for you.
Great comment! Thanks John and you
Very interesting! I enjoyed it!
Thanks for the visit
Tbh with you chap, I am you but 10 years behind. I'm sitting upfront of a fire with logs that I cut and split myself be like you but my parents said they didn't want to drive me around with logs to various customers! That vid did help alot, cheers!
Great video and amazing that you have come all this way by your own means.
I appreciate that!
Hey Archie! I throughly enjoyed having a sit and listening to your story this evening! You’re absolutely hands down a very driven hard worker whom is clearly motivated and focused on your goals in mind with building a great and successful business 🔥💯👍! I found this video quite inspiring and heartfelt to be honest and wanted to thank you for sharing this with us! It was really great to hear about and see some photos from the beginning of your business journey! This in turn I found helped answer some other questions I had along the way while going through your previous content. Also, hearing about your TH-cam journey thus far was neat too! I’ve enjoyed going back in your catalog of videos and getting caught up since finding your channel in the later part of this year! For me, I enjoy watching all the great firewood content out there in TH-cam and at one time Archie, I used to do firewood for our home heating, but circumstances changed throughout the years and it’s been quite awhile since I’ve been on the working end of a saw or a splitter! But with that being said, I’ve always appreciated in general the hard work that doing firewood takes and for myself, I thoroughly enjoy it an hope to get back doing it soon, but for now TH-cam is a great way to keep that firewood itch burning for me lol :).
Anyways Archie, I want to extend a sincere thanks for having such great content / channel and for taking us along on your business journey! Really love the channel and keep up the great work! Looking forward to what’s to come in the new year with Oak Farm Firewood! Have a very Merry Christmas and happy new year and I will definitely see you on the next one! Cheers! Andrew from NB, Canada :)
Thank you Andrew for your kind words! I hope you and your family have a good Christmas and new year
@@oakfarmfirewood cheers! 🔥💯👍
Thank you your Videos Are Amazing! Thank you for inspiring me
Glad you are enjoying them
Great video. Love it. So great to hear how you bootstrapped the business.
WRT wholesale; keep them. Increase production. If they’re not profitable enough then increase your price. They might leave, but also they may not. If you turn them away they certainly leave.
WRT loans; that’s obviously necessary, but you’re loaning it to keep piles of wood sitting in the yard. You need inventory, but keep that wood moving as fast as possible. 750 seasoned bags sitting in a shed for half a year that’s almost 100k that you’re not repaying, but paying interest on.
Also that second barn, it may be necessary, but it’s costly. Moving all that wood around (between the oak farm and the 2nd barn) is costing you time and thus money, but doesn’t add any value to the product (ie it would be equally good if you stored it on site). That’s on top of the rental fee.
Yes very true! I am pushing for another barn at oak farm but time will tell. Ibc’s are the way to go at the moment for the kiln dried stuff! The rent on second barn isn’t that bad and moving the bags didn’t cost to much if I’m honest! It’s a huge help having stuff ready to go, I’ll give the second barn another year I think
You are doing a great job Archie. Merry Christmas to you and your hard work. Colorado USA.
Thanks, you too!
Well done!
Excellent video archie well done mate hope you have a good Christmas and woody 👍
Thanks, you too!
great video mate, look forward to watching next year
Thanks!
Have a well earned rest Archive, you have worked hard, used good judgement and you deserve it.
Continued success in your endavours👍
Thank you kindly
As always, thanks for sharing a little insight into your firewood world. Just started a firewood business in the states and will be using some of ides to hopefully make this thing work over here. Thanks Archie, nice job.
That is awesome!
Hats off to you lad, been watching a cpl of months now and love the content and just pressumed it were a family farm ect so fair play for taking such a big risk with finance ect i can guess that is must be a fortune so all the best 👌👌
Thanks Martin
Good information and interesting
Glad you think so!
Well done you, keep up the work and the videos
Thanks, will do!
like the way of looking at a machine as an employee by paying it like a monthly wage
A friend of mine once told me this way and it made total sense
Great video! Merry Christmas and go have some well earned time off!
Thanks! You too!
Great video man, you weren't rambling,
Keep up the honesty it's how you tubers survive and go big.
Knowing about the struggles helps me motivate myself!!
Best firewood youtube channel by far,
Hope you have a break !
Thanks Andrew!
Thoroughly enjoyed watching the development of your business, your risks are turning into rewards mate! Merry Christmas Archie 👍🏼👍🏼
Much appreciated!
Thanks Archie for this video, it's great to hear how it all started. I always look forward to your latest video that comes out. It must take away a lot of your productive time filming these video's but they are great to watch. Have a great Christmas and hope you do get to have a bit of a break over the holiday period!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks
Excellent content keep it up. Always more timber to cut
Cheers
Hi Archie, really enjoying your channel, looking forward to seeing what your future plans are.
Solar can make sense for your business because your using power when the system will be producing, as long as the sun is shining. Don't look at the cost now look at how it will be over the life of the system, at least 25 years for the panels. Here in Australia our electricity prices have tripled in the last 3 years so factor in that the cost of electricity will also just keep going up.
Thanks for the tips!
You have definitely come a long way since I started watching you grow.. I hired a driver this year and it's one of the best business decisions I've made since 2020.. look forward to what next year has to bring.. Merry Christmas and happy new year
That is awesome!
Great explanation. Always good to reflect on where you came from and where you’re going.
Thanks mate
Hi Archie Interesting video always good to know were business started how far you have come all the best for next year Thanks again
Happy new year!
Fantastic
the boys done good merry christmas to you and yours
Thanks bob
I hope you had a good Christmas and a happy prosperous New Year good video, you’ve come along way in a very short time I like the way you are realistic about your goals and strive towards them. Being self-employed myself, I know what it’s like to be your own boss. It’s good freedom to an extent, but at the end of the day, every person buying your product or service is ultimately your boss.
Thanks, you too! Very very true
Great video mate - well done on building your business to what it is today, and lookikng forward to watching how things progress into 2024. Merry Christmas from NZ!
Much appreciated thanks!
Well done mate hope you continue growing your business and keep them videos coming👍
Thanks, will do!
Think you've done superb buddy, as a fellow log merchant business owner i totally understand your views and i believe you've done brilliant good luck for the future
Thank you
Great video. Looking for this all week!
Hope you enjoy it!
@oakfarmfirewood still watching lol. Wish I was closer, would love to see your operation. I have a Hardscaping company and looking into some land for firewood production for my employees to do in the winter.
So, solar electricity: I think you might want to talk to Good Energy. They're a fantastic company who buy and sell just renewable electricity (they sell gas too but have some way of offsetting the fossil carbon involved) and they might be very interested in working with you; the fact you're providing renewable/low carbon heating fuel may well be attractive to them. Obviously I have no idea of how much they'll pay YOU for solar (that you don't use as it's made) but I buy my power from them and sell my excess PV electricity to them. Tell them Compost John in York recommended them - I was their very first customer in my city, back in 1999.
Great video lad keep it up best of luck with 2024 Happy Christmas
Thanks, you too!
The only advice I can give you is if you can keep producing enough wood to supply to keep up with your retail customers and wholesale do them both. If you have more retail then you can keep up then look at your options to drop wholesale. Peace.
Very true
Thanx & best of luck to you
Thanks
I thought you did a great job of telling us your story! And you weren’t rambling. Happy Christmas.🎉
Thank you! You too!
Merry Xmas to you and a happy new year from John😅😅😅
Thank you! 😃
Brilliant video Archie. I am also in the same business as yourself. Alot of hard work and determination to move forward, Just at the stage of thinking it time for a kiln. For my own business. It would be nice to get a chat with you about your kiln set up and cost of installing it.
It’s definitely a game changer!!
consider increasing product prices.
Been waiting for this Archie and it didn’t disappoint very interesting I hope one day to do similar. Do you by any chance have any advice on getting ahold of hardwood I’m in Essex and am struggling to get wood. Have a good Christmas Monty.
We are all struggling this time of year with all the rain! And you
Outstanding!
Thank you! Cheers!
we have just set up a new electric contract though nfu energy prices from 19p to 26p per kw
Merry Christmas
Same to you!
bonsoir l ami bonne fêté de fin d année
God jul😊
Merry Christmas to you to!
Hallo archie, i followedyour advice and bought a drying kit from germany. A hot air system from schreiber anlagenbau which i fuel with my Hargassner hot water gassicationer. I have a question relating to this. How much fuelwood do you need for drying one cage of firewood. How may cages do you fit in the container? Regards Rutger from holland.
I use an ibc of fuel every 24 hours but I’m drying 27 cages in 4 days or 54 in 6-7 days from green! If you are drying already seasoned/part seasoned you can half them numbers
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