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- I decided to really ramp up the firewood cutting and splitting and actually turn this into a real business. We have the woods, the equipment, and love cutting firewood so why not? There will be lots of firewood videos this fall and winter including grapple work, log splitters, and stihl chainsaws.
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You and I share the same idea on the "Perfect Day" . The only thing you forgot to mention is Melissa dropping by with a hot cup of coffee as you work:) Best of luck Mike with the new business idea, keep the firewood videos coming.
No sir, we don’t mind firewood videos a bit.
Not crazy perfect day. I share your passion. Awesome that you are acting on your soul goals. From Virginia.
get yourself a firewood processor; your back will thank you. you do have a grapple to load a processor. oh yea, I'm still smiling about that sheep video from out west!
I also enjoy cutting and splitting wood. I recently got two big Maple trees from a neighbor that didn't want them any more. I have about four and a half cords . I have a wood burner in my garage "Man cave" as the neighbors call it. That is how I heat it in the winter. I live in Michigan. Thanks for the great videos and the know how. Keep up the good work and looking forward to seeing the next video.
Good luck. You inspired me to start a firewood business with one of your videos last year. I live 20 min south of Pittsburgh. Already making some pretty good profit in my first year. And I love being outside and splitting wood
can,t wait log cutting is one of my favorite things
Braving this excessive heat. I can't get myself to cut any wood until it cools off some.
1. Cost of Firewood cutting capital expenses: 33,000
2. cost of Medical bills: 3,000
3. cost of pain meds 500
4. Fuel cost 500
5. Time costs: 3,000
6. Sub Total of All costs: 40,000
7 Gross income firewood: sales 2,000
8 . Net Profit: Loss of 38,000....
That is a perfect day. I have been doing that with my father since I was 14 years old and now I am 57 and I am still doing it. I am like my father in that If it is stormy and I can't get to the woods for several days I get annoyed. I am semi retired.. I went from riches to rags but now I work a bit at a large corporation and cut firewood and blow snow most of the time. Not a lot of money in it but I am happy.
thanks mike, i would love to had a stack of firewood to put into your competion but now my sister is on heating oil she hardly ever lights up the log burner these winters. i would like to wish all those that enter the best of luck and enjoy. love the channel, best regards, Jakob....
Love the firewood videos, those are what brought me here originally
Great news Mike! I like all your videos but the firewood ones have always been my favorite! Wish you the best of luck on your business :) take care!
Yesss!!!! Firewood and chainsaws! :)
Best of luck to you! Id love to sell off some of mine but after 3 years im finally caught up for my outdoor wood broiler supply so maybe years down the line!
Not first, but still watching! From about day one! Mike does what he does. Old reliable. Love the videos.
Best of luck in your new venture!! You have all the necessary equipment and then some that's for sure.
Got a LogOx for Father’s Day this year. Love it! Heavy duty and works well.
Maybe consider a portable saw mill as well? I'm seriously looking at Norwood bandsaw mills on TH-cam -- they look sweet! . . . And I concur with your idea of a perfect day, too! LOL!
Good luck on the firewood. Me and 2 friends do about 30 cords a year. We log them out in 10-12' lenghts on homemade log trailer with boom, put in cribs then when seasoned split and stack in 1 cord crates we fab. Haul these to house with a tow behind pallet trailer. All for the fun and our use only.
Mike,
Sounds like a great plan, did you run that by Melissa first? She will end up posting a video “Help I lost Mike in the Woods!”
At least that’s how my wife felt after I did 20 cords this summer.
I wish you much success in your firewood business! I like your perfect day.
I would stick to hobby cutting,sell off a little surplus wood,enjoy the woods.1 acre should yield 1 face cord of wood per year,roughly.
Mike, I just returned to Texas from visiting my family on our farm in Washington County, PA. I know you have had lots of rain lately. So how about a video of how the grass is growing on your new trail?
I’ll be working up a sweat watching your firewood cutting videos, done did my share back in 70’s-2005. Got it out of my system though until a storm hits then I help where I can. Thanks for sharing your videos with us.
Now if you go to a processor you will take all the enjoyment out of firewood meaning the fun of is getting it out of your woods by cutting it up an messing with it.. lol Keep the vids up love it PS I see you have the OX I think I will get one.
mike with the sounds of it i think a partnership with woodmiser (i think thats what its called) should be in your future. ive seen their ads before a couple of your videos. look like some neat compact firewood processors. i just picked up an older vermeer 22 ton splitter i plan to get running and hopefully put it through its paces lol. have a good one! thanks for the videos.
Mike how ya doing? I can sell firewood but feel guilty for making too much money off it... I feel bad... can't do it
50 cord! That's enough to be going on with. Any thoughts about the suitability of your current splitter? Toro is making a nice one for rental duty, but the kinetics like the Super Split seem like they would be pretty nice for what kind of wood you tend to split from what I've seen on here. Lots of outdoors goodness coming up either way.
You must a a nice fireplace. Maybe a vid of your fireplace burning...:)
A friend that I cut with said that his price for his firewood goes up the more times he has to touch it. He drops splits it and it goes straight into the dump trailer then straight to the customer. He splits around 250-300 cord a year by hand and is 63. Keeps him young.
Glad to see you finally got some chaps. It only takes once. 👍
Great ideas. You could make 2 x 4 dunnage/pallets with blocks at the end so the logs don’t roll off
Hello Mike, you need a firewood processor like this "www.posch.com/p/spaltfix-s-375/" (Austria)
or from other brands like "Hakki Pilke" (Finland), "Süma BGU" (Germany) etc. .
For a firewood processor, i would prefer a circular saw instead of a chain saw, a chain saw have an higher wear and need engine oil. Drive with high voltage or POT or better combined.
I have a "Home made Acc-U-Mark
" I attached a 16" piece of 1/4" Pex to a neodymium magnet. Instead of placing the device near the tip of the bar, I center the magnet on the base of the bar (against the saw motor) (18" bar). So if I'm cutting anything smaller than 18" I just line up the end of my pex with the end of the wood, and go. This eliminates the extra step of marking the entire tree first.
I'm interested to hear your 2 cents on the LOG-OX after you get a little use with it.
My experience with a product very similar to the LOG-OX......
that thing is more of a gimmick...
more fiddling around and effort than it is worth....
much easier to just buck the log into about 8 foot sections, make a bunch of cuts 2/3s way thru, and then roll the log and finish the cuts.
Mike, my second wood pile is too long for a selfie. Its only right now 243ft long
I thought this video would give me an idea on how to start a firewood business as the title says. What I saw instead was about $50,000 worth of specialized equipment. If your goal was to discourage competition from entering the market, good job :) Many good ideas though, thanks.
That Paul Bunyan show you will find a firewood processor. Ron
Congrats and good luck on this endeavor. Is your plan to be sustainable? Or once it's gone, its gone? I suppose it will depend on the success...maybe you'll need more land.
He's got a hundred acres, probably mostly of unthinned forest. There's no need to take out all the trees for a firewood business, for the foreseeable future.
The first video of "Mike the firewood magnate " Has a good sound to it lmao Look forward to seeing how it goes Do you deliver to Canada Just a question
I burn 24" wood but I end up with a lot of 16"-18" rounds. Living on a busy road I think I'll make up a bunch of bundles and sell them right out front. Free money as I see it.
Mike you should look into pelletguns super fun Ammo is cheaper My pellet gun will shoot an aspirin of the top of a balloon at 100 yards. Check some out on TH-cam I think you really would enjoy it. I have a .30 cal FX Crown.
I love your firewood videos! Gets me in the mood!
My dad heats his body shop with wood. They have a fireplace in the house too but haven't used it in years. Used to go through a lot more wood but since they come south to my house in Myrtle Beach in the winter plus we go to our other house in Gulf Shores they just aren't up there as much to be burning and the guys that work for dad only come in a time or 2 a week through the winter because we don't do hardly any customer work we have been building mostly hotrods the past few years so there always seems to be a bit of wood left each year. I probably cut and split up 3-8 face cords a year for them out there and there is always a bit left. We had a tree company come take out some trees last year when I was up there and after I cut it up I still haven't finished splitting it lol. It was only 11 trees but those maples were huge. One was so big they had to cut it up for me I didn't have enough saw at the time for the job, I do now didn't then so they at least cut it up to pieces small enough I could move it. I know a few people who heat with wood think I might sell them some of what is left over so the wood doesn't rot before we actually burn it. See triaxle loads for $450 advertised in the Erie, PA area. Been thinking I might order a couple. The people I know already buy wood they don't cut their own so they might as well buy it from me. Could pay for the 4 saws I have bought in the past couple weeks lol. Seems everybody wants $50-$75 for a face there but I see people advertising cherry only and wanting double what mixed hardwood goes for. Bout all I cut is maple, ash, cherry, ironwood every now and then hickory and oak. Always enough trees come down on their own for me to cut for our personal use.
That's the plan and it sounds like a great plan to me.Look forward to seeing how it all goes this winter but i think you will do very well and as you said you already have the tools so why not make money and have some fun while doing it and the best part is we get to see it all unfold .Thanks for sharing.
Gosh Mike, I’m glad you’ve decided to something with all the extra time you have on you hands. Starting a firewood business... why not? Doesn’t seem like you’re busy doing anything else!!! LOL Good luck!!!
I think you are successful at whatever you put your efforts into!!👍👊
Glad you two had a nice vacation but for me I’m glad your back to the basics.
I love cutting wood to and dont really know why either..I did look back a generation and did see that my Washingtonian Uncles and granpas used to build log cabins.. So maybe its in the genes
Save your back. You could rent a firewood processor for $200-$300 a day. You can process 20 plus cord a day with one as long as you have the logs stacked up ready to go.
What are the pros and cons to debarking your wood, if you should; if there are any? I've seen some mixed opinions, but I'd love to hear yours!
You may be interested in a new splitter with this new venture. Check out Wolfe Ridge mfg. I work there and we build some really nice efficient machines. Give us a call and ask for Chris. He has some videos on here as well you can check out.
Love the firewood business idea! Goodluck with it and cant wait to see all the firewood videos
5-600/load!?!?! fook me the cost of living is so much different then western WA
How is the ms362? Sounds like it's coming into its own.
Hey Mike - can't wait to meet you at PBS in October... What is the tool at the beginning of the video called and where can I find one? I think that's a lot easier than the marking paint wheel.
Great idea. What is the going $ rate for a Cord of wood? Rob from England 20’F is that like -5’C
Have you seen the splitter GP Outdoors has been using? If you don't go full on processor you should consider one of those. I haven't seen a dual splitter before it's quite ingenious.
I suspect you enjoy it because it's in nature, confused animals staring at you wondering what you are doing, fairly simple mentally but satisfying fatigue you earned at the end of the day where you can see your accomplishments.
Had to come watch some old videos... to get my outdoors with the Morgan’s fix LOL
Do you have to have a license to have a firewood business in PA? Does it have to be USDA inspected or is it up to buyer to not take potentially infested wood into the camping areas? Here in IN any firewood taken into the state parks has to be USDA inspected because of ash borer and other pests. Do you have termites there? Just wondered since the pieces you lay on the ground to stack firewood on do not appear to be treated.
In 14 I'm thinking of getting started splitting wood I ain't got a vehicle to haul it I ain't got a chainsaw and I ain't got a wood splitter I have a splitting maul. Got any ideas we live in the woods there's a lot of fallen trees
please answer this question ; how much trees do you have on your land and how much time it will last keeping in mind your current consumption? live and death trees both
Where are you at in Pennsylvania I live in from Western Pennsylvania and we always run out of firewood matter how much we chop
Are you getting used to your flat county after Moab
Is your gun dealer going to be able to keep up???
I have a question? When you buy firewood are you really paying for the fire wood or the time it takes to cut and deliver it.
My family owns 300 acres of all woods and we can’t get the trees out fast enough. Lots of dead ash trees on the property.
Should log it out make some money on that died stuff
Ash is in demand and the prices are up right now. You should consider killjoy42086's suggestion or at least consider selling logs to a mill.
I would love to buy some from you as we wanted to do some camp fires here. Not sure what would be the best way to do that, maybe a private message/email when you have some ready?
Message me on FB
A firewood processor would be great!
I’m sure it will be a success! 👍👍
I love your perfect day idea!!!!!!!!
You shouldn’t cut with the end of the saw it could kick back really bad
How can I get the firewood? could you explain me
What do you have besides the Sthil MS 362? I like Husqvarna, Sthil and I recently bought an Echo Timberwolf this past June. A wonderful saw for the money. Its been a great saw so far. I really like my older Husqvarna 340 and 353.
Best of luck on the business
If you had simply cut backwards from the top of the tree, after you had marked your cutting interval, the root bawl of the tree would have kept the trunk in perfect alignment, thus eliminating all that additional work you created for yourself, Rolling the log back into position and propping it up off the ground.
Work smarter, not harder.
No it wouldn't have, that little tree was pushed over with the tractor then moved there, it wasn't a blow down and still partially connected to the ground. Every single cut would pinch
I'd run the logs that were nice enough through my own sawmill. A semi load of 12 cords of firewood logs in my area is about $1000 delivered.
Yea! Yippee...more firewood videos! They’re very relaxing and greatly enjoyed 🧚🏻♀️
Good luck with the wood business. Here in Nova Scotia, it's hard to believe, but sometimes it's a challenge to get hardwood fire wood. Pulp companies cut it all and send it offshore...
Hey it's Pete from Wollongong, Australia. Is that a brand new chainsaw. Looks like it. How about a review?
Hi Mike. What is your full time job?
Good luck Mike, hope it works. If not at least we get some great videos of you working. If you go for it and as you already have he tractors, I'd look at a timber trailer for a tractor to lift your poles onto. Then you can lift your poles straight onto a processor. Depends how much you want to earn and enjoy handling it.
Looking forward to your firewood videos! I enjoy it myself. Love the fall and winter! I really do enjoy your video's a bunch!
100% correct, gratification, exercise, satisfaction. Although it is a hard work, I love cutting/splitting wood also.
U need a hand just give me a shout 😂🏴only over the pond 👍🏼
How is the rod used for measuring secured to the chain bar?
I wanna jump in this vidya and get me some of that cherry!! MMMM I sure love cherry. :) Ready for wood burning season here in western SE WI. I can almost smell it through my computer! I can't get through cutting or splitting any amount of cherry without stopping and smelling the freshly exposed wood. Good thing I don't have neighbors haha.
Around here(MN) all firewood has to be stacked at least 12" off the ground to prevent critters from nesting under it. Apparently you don't have those rules.
Hi Mike,I haven't been with you for a couple of months. Been really busy with my own endeavors. Hope to be back more regularly.
Loved the video Mike, Last year I think I told you about my customer had 5 red oaks blown over by a storm. It was all green and I sold every bit of it, made $2340 and that’s how I purchase my grapple. Looking to sell a lot this year. Good luck and sell the green also. People and myself like to mix green and dry.
Sounds like my perfect day to👍🏼looking forward to firewood videos
An attaboy for all the PPE you are wearing. There was another fellow I was following who thought it was too much of a bother to employ recommended safety guidelines. I quit following him, and hope nobody gets hurt by learning from him. Thanks for being a good example!
Haha, I bet Melissa is happy about the venture you're going into. Maybe she'll get her pool! 😄😄😄 I'm pulling for you Melissa 👍👍👍
We share the same passion for wood. I’ve just retired and recently added a Wood-Mizer mill to sell rough-cut lumber on top of firewood, wishing you great success with your firewood business.
Mike, I'm with you. I LOVE cutting, splitting, stacking and burning firewood. It's a great job for an introvert plus I'm saving my family money.
Where do you find places to cut trees?
Perfect day for me. Saw some firewood. Bowl of chili with ice tea and then some Ohio State football.Wendell Have you decided on a prize saw? 362 maybe.
Hi Mike, Love the videos and having found similar obsessives😉 - many thanks. Just wondering if you have any re planting strategies to reforest? Thanks again for everything