Lessons From a 3000 Cord/Year Firewood Business
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ย. 2024
- If you're interested in growing a firewood business, there is plenty to learn from well-established firewood sellers about how to grow, scale, and stay productive as the woodyard grows. Today we visit Reeves Timber in Big Island, Virginia to see their operation to see what we can learn from their operation that does up to 3000 cords per year.
Thank you Phil! We enjoyed your visit here with us at Reaves Timber!
Thanks for hosting this visit. It was a great video outcome.
@ReavesTimber Do you sell the pickup loads by weight? Do you sell big truck by weight or volume? If by weight do you have different prices for green vs seasoned? Seems selling by weight would help you determine your cost of the processed wood going out. Thanks Jon
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simple, convenient, less labor
If you have a scale.
If you are not high volume, you probably will not have a scale on your property. Another essential would be to have the wood a consistent moisture which means consistently dry. Actually the btu count is more highly correlated with weight than with volume due to density variation between species.
That's a true firewood operation there nothing donated there hard work gets you that just the cost know a days to sustain an operation like that no one thinks about that well done
Very true
So much operating cost , at least 60-70% min of face value to the customer. It's the positive feedback and pride in knowing you're putting the effort into the right places that keeps it sustainable.
Thanks for taking us along with your visits to different woodyards!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Great Americans!! Hard work, fair prices, proud work
Great information. I am still on the small scale side of things, and I am happy with that .
I don't think I'll ever get his size but a few things I'm taking away from his progression - make investments to minimize manual work and maximize output, increase bulk sales by being able to make larger deliveries.
Yes, me too, but I started selling bundles and doubled my profit
Nice video my good man..Thanks!
Love your attention to detail.
Little history, I took over the Falmouth Lion's firewood fund raising 6 years ago. It has gone from 6 cords to 24 cords. Our wood is processed ready for delivery 1 year in advance. Today is June 8th, all 24 cord has been spoken for. Had a gentleman in the yard yesterday that couldn't believe the consistency and quality, bought our last 4 cords.
This is fund raising, I have been called the wood snob, wear the badge proudly. I take it you guys are brothers? My brother lives across the road from me, priceless.
Wow awesome video would like to see in person
good job
Roy clearly know what's up, no questioning that. I would say that firewood in general has a few things to improve on yet. I get his point about overselling rather than underselling product. It's just better business practice; but man it's confusing if you're a customer. So many do it different on quantity and even quality sometimes. And states vary on standards too. Seems like an area to improve, not necessarily regulate. At least he scales, some don't even do that lol.
Otherwise, that was a pretty interesting insight. Smaller sales and splits seem to be all the rage, but I have a feeling guys like Roy will find in coming years that bulk sales still have a place. Firewood may be the future on heat if the tech improves futher on inserts and stoves and the public is educated better on burning. All depends on insurance companies, municipalities not banning wood burning, etc. Could go either way right now. But his rural sales will be fine I'm sure.
It's interessting to hear that running a stationary machine on diesel is even consindered.
Most places have no three-phase.
Great video! Thank you
That's great stuff!
Good stuff
We do we sell firewood at are tree company paid to take down have a processor and splitters guys who split it and people come and pick up pickup loads are trailer loads even supply parks and campgrounds do a really good business open year around for people picking up wood for camping outside burn pits are whatever we sell year around fall customer buy 10/25l loads of wood got mixed and hard wood both selling good 16:27
Use more periods.
@jakebredthauer5100 I'm an old man just post stuff and hope I spell stuff right thanks I will try but forget
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If he have 5 semi logging truck he could put out little over 15,000 cords a yr. Buddy . STICK on the ICE 🧊 SAW in the WOOD 🪵 and RUBBER on the ROAD ! 😊
I think it's pretty good considering he got one guy managing the yard, cutting the wood and delivering.
@@WoodsTreeFarm people are so impractical some times. That mindset is why we need conservation efforts or we'll have nothing left quickly lol
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@@HubertofLiege So glad you informed me. Never knew trees were our renewable resource *sarcasm* Can't take more faster than can be grown. Simple point I'm making.
@@CodyH88 and…..we’ve added more forestland than we’ve cut in the history of our country. Easily quantifiable through aerial photography.
Only 3000 cords what slacker
I'm no expert, but that's only 10 chords a day for 300 days.
Is that all?
That machine will do 25 cords a day easy
Singing a lonely song,he is. But ten cords a day, now that music to my ears
3000 cord a yr. That the government knows about