I live in the camp fire size splits with my firewood sales too! Yeah, it takes longer to cut. Yeah, you have to handle it more. And yeah you can charge more for it. As far as a splitter goes that is why I upgraded to the Split-fire 1165V at Paul Bunyan. Speed, comfort, quality, easy to move, easy to operate, and affordable for everything you get. Just keep being you and do your thing.
Small,uniform,dry,clean, and small quantities is where it’s at in firewood!!! More money and more return customers! Sell less for more. If I split all my firewood in big pieces people would dry by my stand and laugh. The people who want it big for heating want to save a buck on energy costs and they will want it so cheap it’s not worth your time. Focusing on recreational burners is where the reward is for me! Great topic Heath👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
Agree with everything you've said. My prices are much higher than anyone around. I sell out earlier and earlier every year. The one thing I hear constantly is why does your wood burn better than anyone else's. It's because they're smaller splits so you get a better flame and also because it's seasoned.
I was just talking the other night with Jerimiah at outdoors in the 608. we both agreed we don't want to be the lowest price firewood. small split ready to burn firewood is the key market we want as well. right now around us its pretty easy to find 70 or 80 dollar face cords and I just sold 1 for 200. I had to run it through the kiln but I have a product that not everyone can produce now.
I commented once on your small wood but now I see your point. I split for my boiler and that is entirely different. Have fun at what you do and stay safe.
Heath yes you are so right! One day I sat down and figured out all the ways to sell wood such as fire wood, cooking wood, fire pit wood, etc. You just have to go after it! That is what is going to be my retirement gig. Also stay out of wife's hair!
That's the perfect size for most wood stoves. The fire box in most stoves is small, so having wood split smaller is key to loading. Keep touching your wood 🪵 👌 💪
😂Love the intro. Gotta love the ones that don’t GET IT. You get it. I agree 100%. People like the smaller stuff. Bundles are a money maker if you’re willing to work at it. Great video.
Pfff, more like hardly working Man. That was my favorite! Go with your gut, Heath! Always enjoy your shots! It's 22:39 cst in MN. Bedtime for Bonzo!!! 🤪
As you said, Heath, there are as many ways to do firewood as there are people making it. Find the right way for yourself and stick with it. Be open to improving as well. For my wife and I our splits are a mix of smalls and larger chunks. Smalls get used during the day when we can give the fire attention and larger chunks for the overnight burns. Thanks for sharing your experience.
I think it’s great what you’re doing, do you and how you want to do. Heck with what people think. I watch several channels I take what I want from each to learn
Hi, I sold wood for many years and have changed the way I did it many times. I think all the people cutting wood have the same goal of getting outside and exercising , It’s a good way to make money,meet new people and be productive. Great videos
Ignore the idiots and the haters! I honestly don't understand this thought that the less you touch the wood, the better. Give the people what they want! And I'm here yo tell ya, no matter if you sell 1,000 cords a year or 5, you're a real firewood guy. Do what works for you! And please - keep talkin', making videos, and keeping us entertained!!
good video and job. there is no fire wood market here now. TSC has a lot of wood like yours plastic is gone and wood is starting to rot. i have been feeding my boiler heavy today. take care, be safe and well.
I split my wood smaller too, in fact I've had to take my splitter to a friends house to re-split a "cord" of wood she got from someone else that was way too big. For me its about doing the best job I can to get the best product for my customers. Also I enjoy your videos I think you guys do a good job, laugh at the mom's basement cave dwellers!
Heath you and Rachel always always have great content. You work hard and share with us a part of your lives. I know personally that a comment I made was reiterated during a podcast and right then I had to set the record straight and I was glad I did. I have enjoyed every video you have ever made. I know how hard you work and I always think back to the comment I made and how I had to make it right. I'm awfully glad I did. Thank you Heath and Rachel for doing what you do. It means a lot.
Hello my good friends mr heath and Mrs Rachel love you both and as far as talking to much you talk all you want I can listen to you all day long For one you make perfect good sense and everything you and Rachel do is honest and down earth I love. Your videos their entertaining truthful honest In all honesty I wouldn’t purchase anything without watching your videos then and only then would I buy anything your the best there is on TH-cam and I respect that and appreciate you and Rachel ❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you from the bottom of my heart
I don't sell. I buy, and cut for myself. Small splits are what I burn. Usually, I have to resplit the wood I buy, because it's all in big mahonga chunks... Not a big deal, because I LIKE swinging an axe and splitting, but not everyone does. Just means I get to split it into the size I want. This is dry- seasoned 2 years min- clean, not punky or rotten, and bug/fungi free. AND it's all good species. Most is under a roof, too. Been burned too many times buying "seasoned" wood that was a standing tree just weeks ago... 35+% moisture isn't seasoned!! So when I found this guy, I was delighted to finally get dry, ready to burn NOW wood- and have kept going back. Lol- I'm one of those customers you were talking about- Hey, why does your wood burn so much better than everyone else's?? He's often surprised when I tell him I resplit most of it- but I burn in a kettle grill. I don't want to overload it, or wait hours to cook my supper, lol. Or enjoy a nice campfire. So, shorties, cutoffs, and cookies are welcome, too- they split up into perfect grill pieces. The BBQ wood he sells is twice the price, but I'm happy to pay- nobody else sells bulk Apple or Sugar Maple around here. He told me he even has customers who ASK him for Aspen for camp wood, just because they love the smell of it, so he keeps a supply on hand. Give people what they want, and they keep coming back. As for what I cut myself, it's primarily tree service style wood. Whatever gets cut in the neighborhood, the bigger wood gets dumped out back. Mostly Maple (Silver and Norway), and Honey Locust. Sometimes Ash (I'm ALL over that), pine, spruce, Crab Apple, or box elder, too. Yard monster soft maple can be a bear to split, but it's excellent campfire wood, free, and smells amazing. No splitter, just axes- so I have to be smarter than the wood! lol. (and know when to break out the saw to make chunks out of it)
I love the fact that those “toothpicks” make more money per cord than the quartered up rounds. At least in my area, I’m not gonna complain about selling bundles and 1/4 cords.
Heath this is a great video,(useful) on your splitter pay attention to the bottom plate of the wedge for ware , you may have to grease the underside of the rails.
I don’t sell firewood like yourself so I have a cheap single split hydraulic splitter. My neighbor said the same thing about the speed of splitting by hand vs me splitting with the machine. Told him I’ll split all day & you’ll be done in an hour or two. I let him use it one day and guess what? He bought one. lol So your intro made me laugh!
Funny intro Heath! Smaller splits amd seasoned means you've nailed the quality and enjoyment people get outta your product. Gotta go, mom's callin me up from my cellar liv rm for supper. Please let us subs know your dress size since xmas is comin and it won't hang on ya like saggy bags o' firewood.🤣🤣🤣lol
@hardworkingmanoutdoors Alot of people have money to burn( no pun intended) for a reliable source of no- nonsense firewood. Congratulations on finding that market.
Around here firewood is going for $800-1,000 for an air dried cord in bulk. Corner store… just shy of $1,400 a cord packed in 1 cu.ft. bundles. Me… I’ve had so many dead ash and storm damaged maple, walnut, sycamore, hickory, etc. to get rid of that my friends have been well stocked for free for years! I’m looking at chippers now… a lot branch wood to get rid off and drought conditions and location preclude burning it.
This is exactly what we do , A lot of our elderly customers cant lift big chunks of wood . and smaller pieces of wood provide a quick source of light and radiant heat . They don't like a lot of splinters . we burn all the Y pieces and knotty pieces and anything that doesn't look perfect . consistency and uniformity is absolutely key to getting more money for Your hard work.
I sell a little bit of firewood as a hobby that sends some extra income my way. Maybe 10 full cord per year. I only sell seasoned "toothpicks". I get a good price. And I have never had one stick left over at the end of the "selling" season. It works for me. Exercise, enjoyment and extra income instead of stupid TV. A no-brainer for me.
I don't sell any of my wood, maybe one day I will. With that being said I split my wood small, I use to be the one that would split larger wood because in my mind it was better to use for heating. What i found was that yes it did hold the fire longer, but it took a lot longer to dry and season. I also learned that it was easier for my wife to handle the small splits, she helps me with stacking and feeding the fire along with my kids. So that's what I do now smaller splits = faster drying and seasoning = more help and a happier wife, which we all know makes things better.
I am watching a video of yours that you posted about a year ago. You were splitting Beech rounds with an 8way, and you were having a hard time getting them to come apart completely. I used to split a lot of Beech by axe and found it much easier when the wood was really frozen. Just a thought.
I didn't check to see where they get it from but I went to dollar general yesterday evening and they had a cords worth of bundle wood. Everyone of the bundles had chunks as big and bigger that you was respliting more than once per piece.
Dude I've seen your legs...PLEASE...NO dress, kilt, whatever. LOL Seriously Heath I think you "hit the nail" squarely on the head. Knowing your market. I've said this next ad nauseum. Texas winters are generally so mild, there's simply no need for home heating firewood. Outdoor entertaining, backyard burn pits probably accounts for most sales. But, we experience this annually in late summer/early fall. Anywhere from abnormally dry to moderate to severe drought. So well over half of the 254 counties in Texas are under mandatory outdoor burn bans. Hard to sell firewood like that. Really enjoy your videos. Keep em coming.
If you sell bundle and box wood you almost always wind up doing some form of resplitting, at least I do anyways. The wedge choice and the log diamiter can make or break ya. I try to resplit right at the processor but as is normally the case you can't catch them all and once they hit the conveyor I'm already dropping the next round in the chamber.
what you just said there i have no complaints, when i comes to season firewood for 12 24 36 months you have to charge double the price for customers who are heating there homes and doing barbecues for next year, take care your family in Michigan,
Heath, love your show. I’m curious, does it normally take 3 years for your small red oak splits to reach below 20% or are you trying to get it more like low teens before you sell it?
Thanks, no it does not, I just hadn’t marketed that wood yet because I was going to market it as smoker wood but he wanted it for his fireplace. I’m out of regular seasoned hardwoods.
hi there good show , i guess it was your turn for the (you should haves ) . so you are going to split wood in a dress . that will be interesting , best to all john
As a so called "Real firewood guy" we sell bulk 5 facecord minimum for delivery. In a day we've done 35 facecords or 7 deliveries plus we also sell in house for pickup customers.. we really don't have the time to go through the loads and resplit.. any custom cut we run through our blacks creek which does our resplits or the Axis.. Obviously your resplits make you more money per cord... I wouldn't call you a "Real firewood guy" but I'll call you a Hobbiest!!!
LOL! You're never going to please everyone Heath. Big wood, small wood... so long as the wife's happy, WHO CARES! They're just jealous. Let it go and you do you! One more thing... EVERY man touches his "wood"... maybe enough or maybe too much. WHO CARES! IT'S HIS WOOD!!!
I know why you do it. It's just hard for some one like me who never made $50,000.00 a year to wrap thier head around why someone would pay that much for wood that small. We did bonfires and just pulled wood off the pile. Not saying anything bad about you. And I'm not in the firewood Business. Just cut my own and can hardly do that any more. lol
For sure, a lot of the newer stoves seem to have smaller fire boxes as well. It’s crazy to me how much some people spend to burn wood for fun but they do it.
The people that complain the most about what you are doing I found from experience are one of the lazies people you will ever meet. The more you slit sourwood the more it's worth. Any real wood person will tell you that.. Go to any real wood yard and you will see they separate all there wood by species and size of splits.. That is a true fact and if you say different then ignorance is bliss for you
Great video. And good fun. Good advice. So. I cut trees, drag them out of the woods, I buy 8’ logs, I cut these up with a chainsaw, I split the wood with a homemade hydraulic splitter hooked to and powered by a 1975 Case 224 garden tractor, I pile wood, I stack wood, I burn wood , my son burns wood, my sister in law burns wood, I do most of the process from tree to split wood. I don’t sell wood ! So, am I a firewood guy ? 🤭 Have a great day Heath. 👍🏻👍🏻👋👋🪵🪓🔥
The vast majority of people living within the city do not burn firewood to heat their homes. They burn firewood 🪵 for the ambiance and entertainment value of it. By providing quality firewood 🪵 one can get a premium return. It’s a no-brainer.
Heath and Rachel I always look forward to seeing what idea Heath comes up with good or bad. Keep up the good videos and to hell with the negative nellies they don’t know squat. 🪵🦌🇺🇸👍
I live in the camp fire size splits with my firewood sales too! Yeah, it takes longer to cut. Yeah, you have to handle it more. And yeah you can charge more for it. As far as a splitter goes that is why I upgraded to the Split-fire 1165V at Paul Bunyan. Speed, comfort, quality, easy to move, easy to operate, and affordable for everything you get. Just keep being you and do your thing.
That is definitely a great splitter for the high dollar wood production!
Small,uniform,dry,clean, and small quantities is where it’s at in firewood!!! More money and more return customers! Sell less for more. If I split all my firewood in big pieces people would dry by my stand and laugh. The people who want it big for heating want to save a buck on energy costs and they will want it so cheap it’s not worth your time. Focusing on recreational burners is where the reward is for me! Great topic Heath👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸
Exactly! You will never prosper marketing to broke people.
@ yep you hear everybody say time is money! So spend a little more time and get a lot more money!!🤷♂️
Absolutely! Time is money etc but a little more time is a lot more money!!!
I live in Southern Oregon and grew up with wood and I like what you are doing , so keep it up 😊
Thanks, will do!
Agree with everything you've said. My prices are much higher than anyone around. I sell out earlier and earlier every year. The one thing I hear constantly is why does your wood burn better than anyone else's. It's because they're smaller splits so you get a better flame and also because it's seasoned.
So true. People love it and it sells itself.
Haters gonna hate brother but keep being you! Great video!!!
Yes sir! Thanks Tony.
I was just talking the other night with Jerimiah at outdoors in the 608. we both agreed we don't want to be the lowest price firewood. small split ready to burn firewood is the key market we want as well. right now around us its pretty easy to find 70 or 80 dollar face cords and I just sold 1 for 200. I had to run it through the kiln but I have a product that not everyone can produce now.
Definitely, I’d say I’m o e of the higher priced guys in the area and I still can’t keep up.
Even being a full time firewood producer I agree with everything you have said. We are going to start getting very big into the small split market.
People love the small splits!
I commented once on your small wood but now I see your point. I split for my boiler and that is entirely different. Have fun at what you do and stay safe.
For sure! Thanks.
Heath yes you are so right! One day I sat down and figured out all the ways to sell wood such as fire wood, cooking wood, fire pit wood, etc.
You just have to go after it!
That is what is going to be my retirement gig. Also stay out of wife's hair!
For sure, people pay more for fun! Loving making firewood and being outside helps too!
That's the perfect size for most wood stoves. The fire box in most stoves is small, so having wood split smaller is key to loading.
Keep touching your wood 🪵 👌 💪
Thanks Kenny, I agree.
😂Love the intro. Gotta love the ones that don’t GET IT. You get it. I agree 100%. People like the smaller stuff. Bundles are a money maker if you’re willing to work at it. Great video.
Thank you!
Pfff, more like hardly working Man. That was my favorite! Go with your gut, Heath! Always enjoy your shots! It's 22:39 cst in MN. Bedtime for Bonzo!!! 🤪
Thanks, figured I’d have a little fun with some comments.
As you said, Heath, there are as many ways to do firewood as there are people making it. Find the right way for yourself and stick with it. Be open to improving as well. For my wife and I our splits are a mix of smalls and larger chunks. Smalls get used during the day when we can give the fire attention and larger chunks for the overnight burns. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Thanks, we do it like that was well a nice mix of sizes for our burning.
I think it’s great what you’re doing, do you and how you want to do. Heck with what people think. I watch several channels I take what I want from each to learn
Thanks, we do a lot different and learn a lot. Figured we’d have some fun with it.
Hi, I sold wood for many years and have changed the way I did it many times.
I think all the people cutting wood have the same goal of getting outside and exercising , It’s a good way to make money,meet new people and be productive.
Great videos
That’s one of the things I love about it, we are all always adapting.
Hello Heath, yep I agree with you👍🇺🇸
Thanks guys.
Great intro! The “mean tweets” style humor always cracks me up. Keep doing your thing bro the only thing that matters is results.
Thanks, they don’t really bother me so we figured we’d have a little fun with it.
Ignore the idiots and the haters! I honestly don't understand this thought that the less you touch the wood, the better. Give the people what they want! And I'm here yo tell ya, no matter if you sell 1,000 cords a year or 5, you're a real firewood guy. Do what works for you!
And please - keep talkin', making videos, and keeping us entertained!!
Thanks and I agree. One thing I love about firewood is everyone can do it a little different and it works for them.
good video and job. there is no fire wood market here now. TSC has a lot of wood like yours plastic is gone and wood is starting to rot. i have been feeding my boiler heavy today. take care, be safe and well.
Just ignore the bad comments, keep on cranking the wood out . Good channel 👍
For sure. Thanks.
Lol, Heath. I enjoy your humor. Good video on the variety of ways to be successful in the firewood business. 👍
Thanks! We definitely have some fun.
I split my wood smaller too, in fact I've had to take my splitter to a friends house to re-split a "cord" of wood she got from someone else that was way too big. For me its about doing the best job I can to get the best product for my customers. Also I enjoy your videos I think you guys do a good job, laugh at the mom's basement cave dwellers!
Thanks! Appreciate the feedback.
Heath you and Rachel always always have great content. You work hard and share with us a part of your lives. I know personally that a comment I made was reiterated during a podcast and right then I had to set the record straight and I was glad I did. I have enjoyed every video you have ever made. I know how hard you work and I always think back to the comment I made and how I had to make it right. I'm awfully glad I did. Thank you Heath and Rachel for doing what you do. It means a lot.
I don’t remember the comment but not much bothers us. We appreciate all of your comments!
Hello my good friends mr heath and Mrs Rachel love you both and as far as talking to much you talk all you want I can listen to you all day long
For one you make perfect good sense and everything you and Rachel do is honest and down earth I love. Your videos their entertaining truthful honest
In all honesty I wouldn’t purchase anything without watching your videos then and only then would I buy anything your the best there is on TH-cam and I respect that and appreciate you and Rachel ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you from the bottom of my heart
Thank you David, as always we appreciate the feedback!
When you sell wood customer satisfaction is your goal, give them what they want.
Yes it is.
I don't sell. I buy, and cut for myself.
Small splits are what I burn. Usually, I have to resplit the wood I buy, because it's all in big mahonga chunks... Not a big deal, because I LIKE swinging an axe and splitting, but not everyone does. Just means I get to split it into the size I want. This is dry- seasoned 2 years min- clean, not punky or rotten, and bug/fungi free. AND it's all good species. Most is under a roof, too. Been burned too many times buying "seasoned" wood that was a standing tree just weeks ago... 35+% moisture isn't seasoned!! So when I found this guy, I was delighted to finally get dry, ready to burn NOW wood- and have kept going back. Lol- I'm one of those customers you were talking about- Hey, why does your wood burn so much better than everyone else's??
He's often surprised when I tell him I resplit most of it- but I burn in a kettle grill. I don't want to overload it, or wait hours to cook my supper, lol. Or enjoy a nice campfire. So, shorties, cutoffs, and cookies are welcome, too- they split up into perfect grill pieces.
The BBQ wood he sells is twice the price, but I'm happy to pay- nobody else sells bulk Apple or Sugar Maple around here. He told me he even has customers who ASK him for Aspen for camp wood, just because they love the smell of it, so he keeps a supply on hand.
Give people what they want, and they keep coming back.
As for what I cut myself, it's primarily tree service style wood. Whatever gets cut in the neighborhood, the bigger wood gets dumped out back. Mostly Maple (Silver and Norway), and Honey Locust. Sometimes Ash (I'm ALL over that), pine, spruce, Crab Apple, or box elder, too.
Yard monster soft maple can be a bear to split, but it's excellent campfire wood, free, and smells amazing. No splitter, just axes- so I have to be smarter than the wood! lol. (and know when to break out the saw to make chunks out of it)
Absolutely, good high quality wood can be tough to come by sometimes. That’s why people keep coming back. I like silver maple for campfire wood!
I love the fact that those “toothpicks” make more money per cord than the quartered up rounds. At least in my area, I’m not gonna complain about selling bundles and 1/4 cords.
For sure, a little more work a lot more money!!
Good explanations Heath!
Thank you.
@@hardworkingmanoutdoors How about a vid on which is the best mower blade sharpener?
Heath this is a great video,(useful) on your splitter pay attention to the bottom plate of the wedge for ware , you may have to grease the underside of the rails.
Thanks Brian.
Great talk Heath! I definitely have got the toothpick comment before!!😂👍👍
Oh yeah, I’m sure a lot of us do.
I don’t sell firewood like yourself so I have a cheap single split hydraulic splitter. My neighbor said the same thing about the speed of splitting by hand vs me splitting with the machine. Told him I’ll split all day & you’ll be done in an hour or two. I let him use it one day and guess what? He bought one. lol
So your intro made me laugh!
They definitely allow you to make more wood per day!
Funny intro Heath! Smaller splits amd seasoned means you've nailed the quality and enjoyment people get outta your product.
Gotta go, mom's callin me up from my cellar liv rm for supper.
Please let us subs know your dress size since xmas is comin and it won't hang on ya like saggy bags o' firewood.🤣🤣🤣lol
lol, no dresses for me.
@hardworkingmanoutdoors Alot of people have money to burn( no pun intended) for a reliable source of no- nonsense firewood. Congratulations on finding that market.
Nice vid and great intro. Take care.
Thanks! Thought we’d have a little fun.
I love the intro. I agree with smaller hand sized pcs equals more $$/ truck.
Thanks, and yes it does.
Around here firewood is going for $800-1,000 for an air dried cord in bulk. Corner store… just shy of $1,400 a cord packed in 1 cu.ft. bundles. Me… I’ve had so many dead ash and storm damaged maple, walnut, sycamore, hickory, etc. to get rid of that my friends have been well stocked for free for years! I’m looking at chippers now… a lot branch wood to get rid off and drought conditions and location preclude burning it.
Nice to have a fully stocked yard! Hopefully you guys get some rain!
This is exactly what we do , A lot of our elderly customers cant lift big chunks of wood . and smaller pieces of wood provide a quick source of light and radiant heat . They don't like a lot of splinters . we burn all the Y pieces and knotty pieces and anything that doesn't look perfect . consistency and uniformity is absolutely key to getting more money for Your hard work.
Definitely, people love it.
I sell a little bit of firewood as a hobby that sends some extra income my way. Maybe 10 full cord per year. I only sell seasoned "toothpicks". I get a good price. And I have never had one stick left over at the end of the "selling" season. It works for me. Exercise, enjoyment and extra income instead of stupid TV. A no-brainer for me.
For sure! I love it.
I don't sell any of my wood, maybe one day I will. With that being said I split my wood small, I use to be the one that would split larger wood because in my mind it was better to use for heating. What i found was that yes it did hold the fire longer, but it took a lot longer to dry and season. I also learned that it was easier for my wife to handle the small splits, she helps me with stacking and feeding the fire along with my kids. So that's what I do now smaller splits = faster drying and seasoning = more help and a happier wife, which we all know makes things better.
The small splits definitely have a lot of advantages!
I am watching a video of yours that you posted about a year ago. You were splitting Beech rounds with an 8way, and you were having a hard time getting them to come apart completely.
I used to split a lot of Beech by axe and found it much easier when the wood was really frozen. Just a thought.
I remember that video, that beech was definitely stingy!
I didn't check to see where they get it from but I went to dollar general yesterday evening and they had a cords worth of bundle wood. Everyone of the bundles had chunks as big and bigger that you was respliting more than once per piece.
It amazes me how much some stores/gas stations charge for such sub par wood.
My wife says i touch my wood to much too!😂
Don’t we all lol.
Dude I've seen your legs...PLEASE...NO dress, kilt, whatever. LOL Seriously Heath I think you "hit the nail" squarely on the head. Knowing your market. I've said this next ad nauseum. Texas winters are generally so mild, there's simply no need for home heating firewood. Outdoor entertaining, backyard burn pits probably accounts for most sales. But, we experience this annually in late summer/early fall. Anywhere from abnormally dry to moderate to severe drought. So well over half of the 254 counties in Texas are under mandatory outdoor burn bans. Hard to sell firewood like that. Really enjoy your videos. Keep em coming.
Thanks! Burn bans definitely hurt wood sales!
I agree with everything u say
Thanks Robert.
If you sell bundle and box wood you almost always wind up doing some form of resplitting, at least I do anyways. The wedge choice and the log diamiter can make or break ya. I try to resplit right at the processor but as is normally the case you can't catch them all and once they hit the conveyor I'm already dropping the next round in the chamber.
Definitely! Wedge and wood make all the difference.
what you just said there i have no complaints, when i comes to season firewood for 12 24 36 months you have to charge double the price for customers who are heating there homes and doing barbecues for next year, take care your family in Michigan,
Thanks!
We don’t have beech where I live. How does it compare to red oak or hickory?
I’d say it burns similar but is cleaner due to the smooth bark. I wish I had more of it!
Heath, love your show. I’m curious, does it normally take 3 years for your small red oak splits to reach below 20% or are you trying to get it more like low teens before you sell it?
Thanks, no it does not, I just hadn’t marketed that wood yet because I was going to market it as smoker wood but he wanted it for his fireplace. I’m out of regular seasoned hardwoods.
@ nice! Thank you
hi there good show , i guess it was your turn for the (you should haves ) . so you are going to split wood in a dress . that will be interesting , best to all john
Originally I thought he said about splitting in tights, but a dress will do. lol !!!! 😂😂
@@TimStout71 Him and Dan splitting wood in a dress challenge.
I didn’t say I was going to split in a dress lol. Some guy on FB said I probably wear a dress.
Like Chris says it's drinking wood. Lol . By the way how are you liking your hyper split? Loving mine.
Yes it is. I like the Hyper split, tough to beat for the money! Hopefully it will hold up!
I was cracking up at the first part of the video. Because everybody’s an expert, and everybody wants to tell you how to do it better.
Yes they do. Thanks!
What is the gpm on that hyper split?
As a so called "Real firewood guy" we sell bulk 5 facecord minimum for delivery. In a day we've done 35 facecords or 7 deliveries plus we also sell in house for pickup customers.. we really don't have the time to go through the loads and resplit.. any custom cut we run through our blacks creek which does our resplits or the Axis.. Obviously your resplits make you more money per cord... I wouldn't call you a "Real firewood guy" but I'll call you a Hobbiest!!!
Fair enough lol. Maybe a pro hobbyist lol.
LOL! You're never going to please everyone Heath. Big wood, small wood... so long as the wife's happy, WHO CARES! They're just jealous. Let it go and you do you! One more thing... EVERY man touches his "wood"... maybe enough or maybe too much. WHO CARES! IT'S HIS WOOD!!!
So true! We do t let much bother us but figured we’d have a little fun with a few comments.
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I know why you do it. It's just hard for some one like me who never made $50,000.00 a year to wrap thier head around why someone would pay that much for wood that small. We did bonfires and just pulled wood off the pile. Not saying anything bad about you. And I'm not in the firewood Business. Just cut my own and can hardly do that any more. lol
For sure, a lot of the newer stoves seem to have smaller fire boxes as well. It’s crazy to me how much some people spend to burn wood for fun but they do it.
Ya the more they make the more they indulge. But that helps your business.👍
Keith in my area what you are doing will not work here. There isn't a firewood stand no where in my area. I live in SW Arkansas.
Yeah, every area is different for sure.
The people that complain the most about what you are doing I found from experience are one of the lazies people you will ever meet. The more you slit sourwood the more it's worth. Any real wood person will tell you that.. Go to any real wood yard and you will see they separate all there wood by species and size of splits.. That is a true fact and if you say different then ignorance is bliss for you
The small splits are definitely a game changer.
Great video. And good fun. Good advice.
So. I cut trees, drag them out of the woods, I buy 8’ logs, I cut these up with a chainsaw, I split the wood with a homemade hydraulic splitter hooked to and powered by a 1975 Case 224 garden tractor, I pile wood, I stack wood, I burn wood , my son burns wood, my sister in law burns wood, I do most of the process from tree to split wood. I don’t sell wood !
So, am I a firewood guy ? 🤭
Have a great day Heath. 👍🏻👍🏻👋👋🪵🪓🔥
In my book you are definitely a firewood guy! I never knew there was a minimum requirement lol.
Great video Heath! Love the beginning.
Well said man! That hyper split is fast
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Thanks Jacob. It definitely moves especially for a box store splitter.
The vast majority of people living within the city do not burn firewood to heat their homes. They burn firewood 🪵 for the ambiance and entertainment value of it. By providing quality firewood 🪵 one can get a premium return. It’s a no-brainer.
For sure!
Heath,every single thing that you said about making money with fire wood 🪵 was absolutely true 👍😮😊❤
Thanks Todd!
Heath and Rachel I always look forward to seeing what idea Heath comes up with good or bad. Keep up the good videos and to hell with the negative nellies they don’t know squat. 🪵🦌🇺🇸👍
Thanks Bob we definitely try to have some fun.
Unbelievable how negative people can be in the comments🤡, you guys are Awesome 🪵🔥
True but it’s engagement none the less.