You and I are more like brothers than i thought. I dont shop either, when i need something I go get it and I’m done. This weekend my wife is going to take our 5 year old granddaughter Christmas shopping. That means i get a Saturday to do what i want around my woods and yard. Cut wood, split fire wood for fires and maple syrup, for 2024 not 2023. Saw a few logs for lumber on bandsaw mill. Best part, no people around! Love my family and work but this is my therapy! Wood therapy! Friends talk about cabin fever around march, not me I have cabin time 1/4 mile out in the woods during sugar season.
I feel ya on the crowd thing. I used to live in a large metro for many years and just recently bought a house on a few acres out in the country. Closest town is 15 min away and is maybe 15,000 population. So much nicer than the metro, even if I've got to head into town. Nice and quiet out here. I cut and split my own wood out back and couldn't be happier.
I don't notice smell of Cherry much when cutting but sure like the smell as it burns! 🍒 The number 1 feedback I recieve from newly converted fireplace burners is...Cherry gets really hot and in a hurry! They overfill the rack with wood when lighting fire, but soon learn to make the needed adjustments. 👍👍
Yep, went to a grocery store, different than where I normally go, to pick up one item. Went to the check out. So many people, I never even got into the line up, just put the item back where I got it and left. To many people. Cherry is great wood.
Man you’ve gotten super busy and content quality has gone way up! Although it was always good for me. Cause like I say it motivates me to go out in my wood yard. I do this full time now and you are not lying when you say it’s a lot of work. But I enjoy it just fine. Thanks for the content Chris!
We like Cherry best for a similar reason - we have the most of it naturally on our land. Honestly, my favorite to burn is Oak, but we have 2-3x more Cherry available to us (standing dead, or fallen wood).
There’s nothing better than starting a day off work with one of your videos, Chris! I enjoyed cutting wood as well, and I love to see how you guys up north do it. I also do not care for going around any retail stores during the Christmas season. I hate having to go to the doctor with pressure wounds from the crowd, squeezing me! Lol.
Love that comment about shopping. I've done the same thing. I don't care if it's big box store and I have $800 worth of lumber. I'll just leave the cart and walk right out. I don't need to aggravation. I like it when the people in front of the line have four credit cards and they want to use up what they have on them. $38 on this one $26 on that one. This one won't work. Let me try this one. I don't deal with that either. Yes, I love cherry wood I love the smell. I used to love to get Rock oak usually on top of the mountain Pennsylvania that burns like anthracite blue flame and low ash that spoiled me on firewood. Take care, stay safe
all species of hardwoods contain the same amount of btu's per pound when 100% dry.. 8600 btu's per pound dry..seasoned hardwood ideally is 20% moisture content which lowers the btu's to 7100 btu's per pound..Dry Cherry weighs 2928# per cord..Dry red oak weighs 3528# per cord..white oak and black locust weigh about 4200# per cord..and the most dense and heavy is Osage-orange at 4728# per cord..A half ton pickup with a 8ft bed and a true half cord of say seasoned white oak would weigh 2100# or about one ton, if its a true half cord that half ton pickup will be sagging pretty good with one ton on it!..I feel most firewood sellers are ripping ppl off saying that there pickup truck load is a half a cord!..to be a half cord it either needs to be perfectly stacked in up level with the bedsides of a 8ft bed or thrown in and mounded pretty high above bedsides
Having Lived near and Drove Past Fleet Farm Everyday to & From Work. The trick to that Place Here in Wausau, Try not to go on Week ends. Fri-Sun. They Hurt for parking Some times you have to park on the Gravel along the Fence. If you get there 1 Hr before Closing, is the best time to get in & out...
Chris, you're a man after my own heart, shops are for buying things and leaving immediately, I've done the same thing as you, if there's a queue, I tip out the door. Life's too short😂🤣
Oh...Thanks for the reminder that I will need to make my annual trip to the store in a couple weeks!🙄 I find shopping much easier when the shelves are almost empty a couple days before Christmas. Oh look...some fuzzy mirror dice! I bet Chris would really like that!🎅
@@andrewviperpingel9565 #protipoftheday Get down on your knees with phone flashlight. Sometimes an item will fall behind the shelving or under it. Brush off the dust bunnies and someone is getting a very special gift!! 🎁
The main reason your customers are buying up the cherry is that it is the BEST smoking wood and is very expensive!! You're selling it as firewood but I'll bet they're buying to use on smoker; it is great with pulled pork, chicken, turkey, ribs, beef brisket, and anything else you would want a good dark color to and great taste to!! Mix in a little apple, pear, pecan, and white or post oak for total coverage on the smoker! It brings a premium down here in Tennessee and is plentiful here too!!
hi there i guess i like oak because i get alot of it . oak at night cherry in the day when i am out working about smells nice , don't care much for ash it has a lot of fly ash when i open the boiler door . . good show .john
I have a bunch of cherry this year from the father in laws woods and I really like it outside. Plus after it starts to dry I've noticed that the path to the woods smells so nice with racks of cherry 🍒 stacked up
I got a truck and trailer load of all cherry in this summer. Looking forward to processing it next spring. I stack almost all of my deliveries. For me, that's where I make the most $
Depends on the needs of the customer…. If they heat with wood 🪵 oak is better, if they want ambience for indoor fireplace or outdoor fire pit cherry is better
There’s nothing wrong with you Chris. I won’t wait in lines either🤣 When I was in the Military I had to wait in line to do everything! So I do not enjoy lines now. Love me some Cherry. We just started splitting our latest find. Should be about 2full cords. See ya tomorrow 👍🏻👍🏻GNI
like you I'd rather be working in my woodyard listening to my tunes than being in public. That is why I retired from my job. Thanks for sharing another great video my friend.
I wish that I had a resource for Cherry to be able to offer my customers a little more variety than just Oak & Ash. Cherry is pretty small and sparse around me up here in God's country. Good video!
Funny this video came up. I was looking into that just yesterday. I got a lot of cherry out back. A lot got pushed down during the Derecho we got last may. It dries to 25% in 6 months and supposedly gives off a nice aroma when being burned. I planked some for a friend with my Alaskan mill too.
Lol same. I stopped by Walmart like ohh I need this oil might as well get it now before I run out of bar oil… get it walk to checkout realize it is 10:15 so Walmart went down to 1 lane and 20 people in line. I was like screw that. I’m not out of bar oil yet… now I’m out of bar oil and kinda screwed myself. Getting some this morning.
If I lived in your area and had money. I would have scooped all that cottonwood firewood from you. I would have decorated my wall with it. I would feed some to my pet grinder.
I'm the same way regarding shopping and crowds. Just... No. The only time I like a crowd is at a live concert, just because it's a cool energy and a good band will feed off of it. I just picked up a load of mixed oak- red, white, pin, etc with a bit of walnut in it. I wanted some good coaling wood to cook with, and my supply of oak and beech was dwindling fast. This year, just finding oak seems to be the impossible dream, lol. Everyone's been cutting from the seemingly limitless buffet of dead standing ash, and everything else is just a bonus. You can find some as part of a mix, sometimes, on Marketplace- but good luck getting anyone to answer their messages... I found this guy via a recommendation from another customer at the chainsaw shop! He overheard me chatting with the owner, and gave me the guy's #. He's sitting on probably 5 cords, but doesn't advertise and lives way off the beaten path. I have to agree with your assessment. The difference in burning characteristics was stark, between oak and the Ash and Sugar Maple I was also burning. I used a mix of my existing DRY oak, and the new recently rained on stuff, so it wasn't just the damp. It IS harder to get going, and burns slower, and with less flame. The coals lasted and lasted, and lasted, though. For beer drinking and marshmallow toasting fires, other woods, like maple, ash, cherry, etc are the better choice. They just burn brighter. I had one piece of Oak- a chunk of limb split off a crotch- that outlasted everything. I baked a massive potato in the coals, sauteed vegetables, and grilled pork chops- and this thing still had unburned wood showing, lol. It'd been in the fire for probably 2 hours by this point. I've seen Beech do this, too, as well as Honey Locust. Worked great, for what I wanted it for- but I'd have liked it BETTER, if it hadn't taken so long to burn down to useable coals, lol. It was 7:30 by the time I got to eat- and I started the fire at 4! I'll definitely be splitting much of this smaller, and probably cutting the knots into chunks.
I agree with you. i don't do any shopping after the 1st of Dec around here. its crazy. if i do have to go its early when they first open up. like you, i pretty much have in mind what i need to get. get in and get out. i like the cherry too. i have a big blow-down about 2 foot across the stump i need to drop and get cut up that should provide a cord or two.
I’m in upstate ny and have a lot of white pine and everyone says I’m going to burn house down! 🤦♂️ I also burn hardwood too. Everything at less than 15%
Captain Chris chucks checking clerk for Chucking cherry in the clod covered countryside. I remember that house from last year. I went to Wally World at 0600 last week. I did self checkout and the senior lady next to me threw up her arms and she yelled you have to be kidding. I asked her what was wrong and she said the screen locked up because I need to be carded to purchase gorilla glue.
Great video I've been cutting Firewood, for 22 years an the Bureaucrats are trying to put there importance above everyone in AMERICA but the English language was not my words, I was just Christopher Columbus! An the public school system trying to push this confusion on my Nephew after he reads a book then apples to right to work it's difficult to play a Bagpipe on a GMC Billboard, Burocrats trying to use English language as if you invented those words an really just Christopher Columbus!
@@InTheWoodyard Your the best I wasn't directly meaning the remark to ward you but I'm a younger man an it's hard to have someone who is an intelligent person such as your self it can be differentt dealing with family and friends and trying to make profit so I just loose money to keep from going to the hospital or jail your right Gummint talk, awesome content you let me know there's hope in the future,, an you are honestly the smartest gentleman on TH-cam but I understand helping 1 but helping all can be a hassle especially with the township getting permission by airport board and Manager an FAA but the government side of my area is putting up signs an it bothers me cause I, only cut the Trees they knockdown an I voted thease locals in an , It's aggravating they act as if I owe them, I work for people an family an always trying to prove a narrative they use me cause us individualist who never ask an always gets told how to do something after I started getting better success is taking a shot at me an it's more of a political agenda than anything an I say your video on how there changeling things on you and they use you as an example cause they know as long as your a a remodel to me or the Real person who works 7 days a week an don't let anything bother you an don't smoke, or drug, an drink they they to talk good men such as you down cause you influence a few hard working young men that looks up to you there trying to take all rights an then they will use reverse phycology but in Memphis Tennessee the company Cargill kept me for a long time cuz I worked hard because that's what they do in the cities and the smaller towns they just judge and I just don't even want to judge or be judged and so I just look up to you because you take you know you've never had a bad day I try not to have a bad day but you got some bureaucrat on the other side of the table trying to make your day bad and it don't work as if they have something that may or you might want and we're content like being individualist perhaps it's making it difficult and I fear for my nephew cuz my brother is someone always in and out of the facilities so I have to mentor him way different down here but I look up the sky and I see those C-130 is done touch an go's, I think of you my friend, and I say to myself I wonder if he's my friend in Minnesota is seeing the same C-130s I'm seeing as well but I seen how calm you were about the way you handle your situation! I appreciate your response an keep watching your 800 plus videos I told my grandpa yesterday there's a lot of Negativity in thease small towns an he said that's generally cause they can't do as much as me or you so they know I've met well with friends with wink and went for Rockefeller and I'm young then that passed away the good ones and then my grandfather was a mayor so it's like they're using me as leverage and I'm being used as leverage and they see you on the TH-cam and they starting to I started to TH-cam but they were pretty hateful toward me so I just turn my videos off in private but I I like the way you're doing your stuff and keeping your calm cuz I'm trying to and you're helping me therapeuticly on how you handle your agendas, it's just awful though people using the Constitution to break the Constitution, sometimes this liberal-minded phone of mine will type or say something correct my words to where it comes out in a different way but I send nothing but love your way and enjoy your content and I'll hit a like button and a comment every time so thank you for understanding very you're very intelligent you run for president and I'll vote for you brother!! Look forward to seeing your new video hope you have a good day tomorrow I've been done a floor job and then the hang and drywall and take the cabinets off today and sanded them I guess I got about 2 or 3 more days of it's raining down here in Arkansas so two or three more days of carpentry work and I'll get to hopefully split some more wood and get this confusion settled but I understand you're not alone with bureaucrats trying to tell you what to do as if they got some sort of importance above you but you handle it more professional like my grandpa does it I guess I take it more personal so I listen to more intelligent people than me and that helps me have better perspective on a way to look at things if you have any t-shirts or any of products like a stickers or anything I buy one I support you all the way sincerely your friend from Arkansas Anthony!👍
I think there used to be a Fleet and Farm here or at least had a similar name now there is a bunch of the Tractor Supply stores and there is a Runnings that is enormous. It went into the building that used to be Sams Club. There is a Rural King not to far away too. I think Runnings is from the Dakotas or MN so imagine you have them up there too
Really appreciate all your content and the effort you put into all the footage, it's excellent and very helpful and always look forward to new videos. Question for you, going to look at a used 576xp, includes 3 bars and a few other extras, anything you can suggest to look out for, maybe remove muffler and check piston, pull cord for compression?
One of my favorite stores is Fleet Farm in Madison. I don't mind wasting my day walking up and don the aisles at that store. Great video, as always! 🇺🇸🪵🪓🌳🌲🌳🪓🪵
I'am on my second face cord of Cherry love burning it the best wood and hottest wood I've ever burned was Red Elm very hard to find but wow does it put out the heat love your channel!!!
Nice video Chris. I have found that I can take my wife to Fleet Farm. She likes to shop and will get what I need. There are always some collateral shopping damages though. GNI
Chris that delivery must be in Kaukauna. Every time we drive past that water tower we joke that the mascot looks like a running booger. Kaukauna, home of the Runnin' Boogers. :-)
The greatest invention since penicillin by far has been Amazon for a couple years now I don’t think I’ve been into a total of three stores. I hate going to the stores I want something I order it through Amazon. Maybe you should do the same
It's an interesting paradox when a guy like you states you'd rather be out in the woodyard enjoying the work away from people (which I totally get), yet you document yourself very well and share your activities with thousands of PEOPLE here on your channel, you seem like a social guy and you respond to all or almost all your comments. Face it you love PEOPLE. By the way I like your sales pitch for cherry.. a real salesman you are!
Well said! BUT in the woods I don't SEE any people and no one tells me what to do or gets in my way like in a big city with people and rules everywhere. And I don't talk to people directly but through the camera, it feels very different to me then a crowd of thousands of people. Thanks for watching!
Yeah I hear ya. That's why it's my retirement plan to get a home with at least a 10 acre buffer somewhere in the NY State/East coast region. If I didn't have so much family here I would be open to head out more west say Appalachia, but admittedly I'm a people person, however people have been really disappointing me lately with their willingness to go along with ideologies that will surely destroy the country. WE'RE being forced to live the life THEY deserve.@@InTheWoodyard
Thanks! No, but statistically people watch longer if there is no silence and music is recommended for the enjoyment for all videos. Imagine a movie with no music.
go out, kill it, drag it home. that is my shopping technique too. Man I wish you were closer to me (Northern Missouri) I'd buy wood from you all day every day. cheers
Where I'm from in Northern Saskatchewan Canada, our hottest btu wood is tamarack and birch. Tamarack though is hotter, if just burn tamarack seen ppl warp there stoves. I assume oak must be hotter yet, have you seen ppl warp there stove with oak also?
That's not a mistake, that's normal for normal people. We are not cattle. Like Ole Remis said " stay away from crowds". You're just like me, Nope, ain't gonna do that.!
Very funny store experience but!!!! Don’t forget that it is a great thing that people actually have a physical store to go too lol. Shopping on line is a crap shoot these days. But I m like you in and out but I need those places to actually go in and out of!! These days support local businesses when you can especially for pictures lol
haha you know you been following for a while when you start recognizing the wood for sale from a splitting video haha. didnt know you bought a farm. glad to hear! will be great for you!!
@@homersimpson5668 cool haven't been here much lately. busy summer. always good to barter. I have similar arrangements with other farmer. we call it "The CO-OP" we all share resources.
Chris PLEASE let me know of the song played at the start of the vid. with the fiddles and violins . I"ve heard it on some of your other vids but can't place it's I think it's from a movie ?? Or if another subscriber knows please tell me. Thanks Dave in Canada
I work for myself outside and the homeowners hardly stay out 5 mins, and on weekend, I am amazed that most of the time none of the neighbors are outside either. Why would anyone want to stay inside all day?
I like cherry better. The smell, and it dries fast, lighter, and splits really easy. I split a lot of it with the Fiskars axe since its faster then running it through the splitter. At least the stuff that is no bigger then say 14 inch diameter. Most of what I cut is maple, ash, cherry, ironwood, and beech.
@@InTheWoodyard Do you have beech there? Its supposed to be 27.5 million btu. I know some people call them trash trees here since they basically drown out other trees. I know it gets some use for lumber but its not a real sought after tree for lumber but it makes great firewood. Its a bit stringy though. Lot of it here is getting some fungus or something killing a bunch off. Almost looks like a tornado went behind my body shop there is 10 of them that the tops have blown down all beech. There is a bunch of ironwood that uprooted itself back there too. Kinda hard getting in and out of there or I would have cut it all up by now. Going to have to cut a trail back in so I can get back there with my ATV to skid it out.
Chris there’s a big boy’s toys are us in Hudson thats ( Fleet Farm ) it’s a half hour drive away so I need a purpose to go. As for wood I prefer red elm , ironwood and maple . I have plenty of oak . Keep on cutting
I like the smell of sassafras the best. I sell about 150 ricks of firewood a year and several of my customers with fireplaces ask for it. I'm in Indiana I've never heard you mention sassafras. Is it not plentiful in your area or not popular?
You and I are more like brothers than i thought. I dont shop either, when i need something I go get it and I’m done. This weekend my wife is going to take our 5 year old granddaughter Christmas shopping. That means i get a Saturday to do what i want around my woods and yard. Cut wood, split fire wood for fires and maple syrup, for 2024 not 2023. Saw a few logs for lumber on bandsaw mill.
Best part, no people around!
Love my family and work but this is my therapy! Wood therapy!
Friends talk about cabin fever around march, not me I have cabin time 1/4 mile out in the woods during sugar season.
Yup, out is better than in!
I feel ya on the crowd thing. I used to live in a large metro for many years and just recently bought a house on a few acres out in the country. Closest town is 15 min away and is maybe 15,000 population. So much nicer than the metro, even if I've got to head into town. Nice and quiet out here. I cut and split my own wood out back and couldn't be happier.
Sounds like a great place !!
I am splitting a huge black cherry and I agree the smell is amazing. Very fresh and foresty. Like an old live oak forest after a fresh rain.
Yup, the smell of the outdoors is awesome!
I don't notice smell of Cherry much when cutting but sure like the smell as it burns! 🍒 The number 1 feedback I recieve from newly converted fireplace burners is...Cherry gets really hot and in a hurry! They overfill the rack with wood when lighting fire, but soon learn to make the needed adjustments. 👍👍
Yup, great fireplace wood,my logger says it makes the women amorous!
@@InTheWoodyard 🤣 🤣
Yep, went to a grocery store, different than where I normally go, to pick up one item. Went to the check out. So many people, I never even got into the line up, just put the item back where I got it and left. To many people.
Cherry is great wood.
Yup, time is more valuable!
Cherry wood is not bad wood for heating, when you have a lot of it. It produces a good coal bed when left overnight.
Yup, it does!
Man you’ve gotten super busy and content quality has gone way up!
Although it was always good for me. Cause like I say it motivates me to go out in my wood yard. I do this full time now and you are not lying when you say it’s a lot of work. But I enjoy it just fine. Thanks for the content Chris!
Yup, it is the best job I ever had!
We like Cherry best for a similar reason - we have the most of it naturally on our land. Honestly, my favorite to burn is Oak, but we have 2-3x more Cherry available to us (standing dead, or fallen wood).
Yup, I am guessing you have the oak wilt killing red and black oak off???
I have to agree with you on the Cherry! We are burning Cherry in our stove as I watch this video. Not a shopper either in, grab what I need, and go!
Yup! Hey I like your table...cool idea!!
There’s nothing better than starting a day off work with one of your videos, Chris! I enjoyed cutting wood as well, and I love to see how you guys up north do it. I also do not care for going around any retail stores during the Christmas season. I hate having to go to the doctor with pressure wounds from the crowd, squeezing me! Lol.
Ha! Pressure wounds, I am going to steal that one!
@@InTheWoodyard Your welcome my sawdust friend! See ya at 05:30!
Love that comment about shopping. I've done the same thing. I don't care if it's big box store and I have $800 worth of lumber. I'll just leave the cart and walk right out. I don't need to aggravation. I like it when the people in front of the line have four credit cards and they want to use up what they have on them. $38 on this one $26 on that one. This one won't work. Let me try this one. I don't deal with that either. Yes, I love cherry wood I love the smell. I used to love to get Rock oak usually on top of the mountain Pennsylvania that burns like anthracite blue flame and low ash that spoiled me on firewood. Take care, stay safe
Thanks for watching Ken!
In my opinion the perfect hardwood mix is 1/3 cherry, 1/3 oak and 1/3 ash.
Yup, that is a good one! I like the ABC mix ash, birch, cherry.
I live a few miles from a town of 3000 people in Southwest Montana and if I have to go to town it's a bad day.
Yup, I avoid crowds!
Good to hear that I'm not the only one. With online shopping/delivery is the way to go. Be outside doing stuff during daytime.
Yup!
all species of hardwoods contain the same amount of btu's per pound when 100% dry.. 8600 btu's per pound dry..seasoned hardwood ideally is 20% moisture content which lowers the btu's to 7100 btu's per pound..Dry Cherry weighs 2928# per cord..Dry red oak weighs 3528# per cord..white oak and black locust weigh about 4200# per cord..and the most dense and heavy is Osage-orange at 4728# per cord..A half ton pickup with a 8ft bed and a true half cord of say seasoned white oak would weigh 2100# or about one ton, if its a true half cord that half ton pickup will be sagging pretty good with one ton on it!..I feel most firewood sellers are ripping ppl off saying that there pickup truck load is a half a cord!..to be a half cord it either needs to be perfectly stacked in up level with the bedsides of a 8ft bed or thrown in and mounded pretty high above bedsides
yup, you are correct!
Having Lived near and Drove Past Fleet Farm Everyday to & From Work. The trick to that Place Here in Wausau, Try not to go on Week ends. Fri-Sun. They Hurt for parking Some times you have to park on the Gravel along the Fence.
If you get there 1 Hr before Closing, is the best time to get in & out...
Yup, at the very opening or at the close!
Chris, you're a man after my own heart, shops are for buying things and leaving immediately, I've done the same thing
as you, if there's a queue, I tip out the door. Life's too short😂🤣
Yup, in and out!
Oh...Thanks for the reminder that I will need to make my annual trip to the store in a couple weeks!🙄
I find shopping much easier when the shelves are almost empty a couple days before Christmas.
Oh look...some fuzzy mirror dice! I bet Chris would really like that!🎅
Ha! Shopping is torture!
Lol me too!!! Make it exciting and fun to see what I can find for last minute gifts
@@andrewviperpingel9565 #protipoftheday Get down on your knees with phone flashlight. Sometimes an item will fall behind the shelving or under it. Brush off the dust bunnies and someone is getting a very special gift!! 🎁
@@waynetharp lol 😆
The main reason your customers are buying up the cherry is that it is the BEST smoking wood and is very expensive!! You're selling it as firewood but I'll bet they're buying to use on smoker; it is great with pulled pork, chicken, turkey, ribs, beef brisket, and anything else you would want a good dark color to and great taste to!! Mix in a little apple, pear, pecan, and white or post oak for total coverage on the smoker! It brings a premium down here in Tennessee and is plentiful here too!!
Nope. I know my customers...just fireplaces. The smoker people buy white oak and hickory from me.
Cherry is the best campfire wood period. I use it for heating also and the difference between oak and cherry is probably about an hour of coals.
Yup, my favorite wood! Cuts easy, splits easy, smells great, burns great and makes me look good to the ladies!
Ash is my choice for firewood. A nice mix of oak and ash and birch is my favorite mix.
Yup, sounds good!
hi there i guess i like oak because i get alot of it . oak at night cherry in the day when i am out working about smells nice , don't care much for ash it has a lot of fly ash when i open the boiler door . . good show .john
Thanks John!
Any update on the fella that was havin trouble gettin his wood to burn?
No, not yet!
I have a bunch of cherry this year from the father in laws woods and I really like it outside. Plus after it starts to dry I've noticed that the path to the woods smells so nice with racks of cherry 🍒 stacked up
Yup, it smells great!!
Flee farm ? Sounds like heaven
Close!
I love black cherry as well. Haven't had much around here lately. Love working with cherry lumber for furniture and smaller items. Beautiful stuff!
Yup and it smells great!
Good stuff .There's such peaceful times working the wood .The quiet is really amazing. GOD ,TREES AND ME. Keep on chucking brother.
Yup, alone in the wood is my church!
Agree about the shopping Chris,🍀🇨🇮👏👏🔥🔥🔥
Yup, not for me!
One year I had 8 measured cord down cellar ready for the heating season , that winter the house never smelled so good . fond memories .
Wow, that sounds/smells great!
I got a truck and trailer load of all cherry in this summer. Looking forward to processing it next spring. I stack almost all of my deliveries. For me, that's where I make the most $
I would to but I just don't have the time to stack all the time so I don't promote it.
Depends on the needs of the customer…. If they heat with wood 🪵 oak is better, if they want ambience for indoor fireplace or outdoor fire pit cherry is better
Yup, I agree!
Regardless of Christmas season. That store is terrible to checkout at since they sold out.
Yup!
But don't forget to take your 4¢gas coupon to wait 20min in another line
There’s nothing wrong with you Chris. I won’t wait in lines either🤣 When I was in the Military I had to wait in line to do everything! So I do not enjoy lines now. Love me some Cherry. We just started splitting our latest find. Should be about 2full cords. See ya tomorrow 👍🏻👍🏻GNI
like you I'd rather be working in my woodyard listening to my tunes than being in public. That is why I retired from my job. Thanks for sharing another great video my friend.
Yup, me too!
I wish that I had a resource for Cherry to be able to offer my customers a little more variety than just Oak & Ash. Cherry is pretty small and sparse around me up here in God's country. Good video!
Thanks Ed!
I agree I love being in the woods with my dogs and Maybe one or 2 family members
Yup!
Funny this video came up. I was looking into that just yesterday. I got a lot of cherry out back. A lot got pushed down during the Derecho we got last may.
It dries to 25% in 6 months and supposedly gives off a nice aroma when being burned.
I planked some for a friend with my Alaskan mill too.
Yes it is great wood!
Good morning Chris!!😀😀
Hello Al!
I don’t charge to stack or deliver but I need to start and I love cherry especially when I stockpile in my garage for winter. It makes it smell great
Is your time and effort and machinery valuable??? CHARGE TO DELIVER AND STACK or build it into your price!
Lol same. I stopped by Walmart like ohh I need this oil might as well get it now before I run out of bar oil… get it walk to checkout realize it is 10:15 so Walmart went down to 1 lane and 20 people in line. I was like screw that. I’m not out of bar oil yet… now I’m out of bar oil and kinda screwed myself. Getting some this morning.
Yup, to many people to wait for!
If I lived in your area and had money. I would have scooped all that cottonwood firewood from you. I would have decorated my wall with it. I would feed some to my pet grinder.
Okay!
Enjoyed the video. Glad it wasn’t an info commercial.
Thanks for watching!
I'm the same way regarding shopping and crowds. Just... No. The only time I like a crowd is at a live concert, just because it's a cool energy and a good band will feed off of it.
I just picked up a load of mixed oak- red, white, pin, etc with a bit of walnut in it. I wanted some good coaling wood to cook with, and my supply of oak and beech was dwindling fast. This year, just finding oak seems to be the impossible dream, lol. Everyone's been cutting from the seemingly limitless buffet of dead standing ash, and everything else is just a bonus. You can find some as part of a mix, sometimes, on Marketplace- but good luck getting anyone to answer their messages... I found this guy via a recommendation from another customer at the chainsaw shop! He overheard me chatting with the owner, and gave me the guy's #. He's sitting on probably 5 cords, but doesn't advertise and lives way off the beaten path.
I have to agree with your assessment. The difference in burning characteristics was stark, between oak and the Ash and Sugar Maple I was also burning. I used a mix of my existing DRY oak, and the new recently rained on stuff, so it wasn't just the damp. It IS harder to get going, and burns slower, and with less flame. The coals lasted and lasted, and lasted, though. For beer drinking and marshmallow toasting fires, other woods, like maple, ash, cherry, etc are the better choice. They just burn brighter. I had one piece of Oak- a chunk of limb split off a crotch- that outlasted everything. I baked a massive potato in the coals, sauteed vegetables, and grilled pork chops- and this thing still had unburned wood showing, lol. It'd been in the fire for probably 2 hours by this point. I've seen Beech do this, too, as well as Honey Locust.
Worked great, for what I wanted it for- but I'd have liked it BETTER, if it hadn't taken so long to burn down to useable coals, lol. It was 7:30 by the time I got to eat- and I started the fire at 4! I'll definitely be splitting much of this smaller, and probably cutting the knots into chunks.
Yup, all that sounds right!
I love workin with cherry!!
Yup, me toooooo!
Agree, no people is better, Thus my love of the woods.
Yup!
I agree with you. i don't do any shopping after the 1st of Dec around here. its crazy. if i do have to go its early when they first open up. like you, i pretty much have in mind what i need to get. get in and get out. i like the cherry too. i have a big blow-down about 2 foot across the stump i need to drop and get cut up that should provide a cord or two.
Sounds like a good tree!
I’m in upstate ny and have a lot of white pine and everyone says I’m going to burn house down! 🤦♂️ I also burn hardwood too. Everything at less than 15%
Yup, that explosive pine that is burned almost all the time out west exclusively!
Wood yard brings peace ☮️
Yes it does!
I use an iron rake to pull the wood to me so that I don't have to climb up into the bed and possibly bust up my shins if I slip
I have done that and it works but is slow.
G’morning Chris ! I like cherry for all the same reasons. ‘Tis the season…
I love Fleet Farm.
GoodNightIrene
Yup! Cherry is the bestest ! GNI
Cherry 🍒 wood is like the wood that looks good with the flames 🔥 like you said Chris
Yup, it does that!
Realy enjoying your channel man
Thanks!
Captain Chris chucks checking clerk for Chucking cherry in the clod covered countryside.
I remember that house from last year.
I went to Wally World at 0600 last week. I did self checkout and the senior lady next to me threw up her arms and she yelled you have to be kidding.
I asked her what was wrong and she said the screen locked up because I need to be carded to purchase gorilla glue.
Yup! I hate it too!
Great job Chris 👏 Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks Frank!
Great video I've been cutting Firewood, for 22 years an the Bureaucrats are trying to put there importance above everyone in AMERICA but the English language was not my words, I was just Christopher Columbus! An the public school system trying to push this confusion on my Nephew after he reads a book then apples to right to work it's difficult to play a Bagpipe on a GMC Billboard, Burocrats trying to use English language as if you invented those words an really just Christopher Columbus!
Thanks for watching, yup, it is all about I am smarter than you so you should do what I say...(gubmint talk)!
@@InTheWoodyard Your the best I wasn't directly meaning the remark to ward you but I'm a younger man an it's hard to have someone who is an intelligent person such as your self it can be differentt dealing with family and friends and trying to make profit so I just loose money to keep from going to the hospital or jail your right Gummint talk, awesome content you let me know there's hope in the future,, an you are honestly the smartest gentleman on TH-cam but I understand helping 1 but helping all can be a hassle especially with the township getting permission by airport board and Manager an FAA but the government side of my area is putting up signs an it bothers me cause I, only cut the Trees they knockdown an I voted thease locals in an , It's aggravating they act as if I owe them, I work for people an family an always trying to prove a narrative they use me cause us individualist who never ask an always gets told how to do something after I started getting better success is taking a shot at me an it's more of a political agenda than anything an I say your video on how there changeling things on you and they use you as an example cause they know as long as your a a remodel to me or the Real person who works 7 days a week an don't let anything bother you an don't smoke, or drug, an drink they they to talk good men such as you down cause you influence a few hard working young men that looks up to you there trying to take all rights an then they will use reverse phycology but in Memphis Tennessee the company Cargill kept me for a long time cuz I worked hard because that's what they do in the cities and the smaller towns they just judge and I just don't even want to judge or be judged and so I just look up to you because you take you know you've never had a bad day I try not to have a bad day but you got some bureaucrat on the other side of the table trying to make your day bad and it don't work as if they have something that may or you might want and we're content like being individualist perhaps it's making it difficult and I fear for my nephew cuz my brother is someone always in and out of the facilities so I have to mentor him way different down here but I look up the sky and I see those C-130 is done touch an go's, I think of you my friend, and I say to myself I wonder if he's my friend in Minnesota is seeing the same C-130s I'm seeing as well but I seen how calm you were about the way you handle your situation! I appreciate your response an keep watching your 800 plus videos I told my grandpa yesterday there's a lot of Negativity in thease small towns an he said that's generally cause they can't do as much as me or you so they know I've met well with friends with wink and went for Rockefeller and I'm young then that passed away the good ones and then my grandfather was a mayor so it's like they're using me as leverage and I'm being used as leverage and they see you on the TH-cam and they starting to I started to TH-cam but they were pretty hateful toward me so I just turn my videos off in private but I I like the way you're doing your stuff and keeping your calm cuz I'm trying to and you're helping me therapeuticly on how you handle your agendas, it's just awful though people using the Constitution to break the Constitution, sometimes this liberal-minded phone of mine will type or say something correct my words to where it comes out in a different way but I send nothing but love your way and enjoy your content and I'll hit a like button and a comment every time so thank you for understanding very you're very intelligent you run for president and I'll vote for you brother!! Look forward to seeing your new video hope you have a good day tomorrow I've been done a floor job and then the hang and drywall and take the cabinets off today and sanded them I guess I got about 2 or 3 more days of it's raining down here in Arkansas so two or three more days of carpentry work and I'll get to hopefully split some more wood and get this confusion settled but I understand you're not alone with bureaucrats trying to tell you what to do as if they got some sort of importance above you but you handle it more professional like my grandpa does it I guess I take it more personal so I listen to more intelligent people than me and that helps me have better perspective on a way to look at things if you have any t-shirts or any of products like a stickers or anything I buy one I support you all the way sincerely your friend from Arkansas Anthony!👍
Always interesting and informative content. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Everything is better with cherry on top ❤ happy wood chucking 😮
Yup!
With you on the shopping LOL!! No thanks! I'll take a quiet wood yard over that too haha
Even noisy woods!
Yeah, I hate waiting in line. Always try to go when there’s a hockey game or late at night 😂
Yup, to many people !!
I think there used to be a Fleet and Farm here or at least had a similar name now there is a bunch of the Tractor Supply stores and there is a Runnings that is enormous. It went into the building that used to be Sams Club. There is a Rural King not to far away too. I think Runnings is from the Dakotas or MN so imagine you have them up there too
Nope, just Fleet farm.
Not weird. I'm wired the same way. Usually with 15 -20 registers, there's maybe 8 people checking.
Yup, I hate wasting time waiting!
Really appreciate all your content and the effort you put into all the footage, it's excellent and very helpful and always look forward to new videos. Question for you, going to look at a used 576xp, includes 3 bars and a few other extras, anything you can suggest to look out for, maybe remove muffler and check piston, pull cord for compression?
Glad you like them! Wear, compression, leaks, dents, brakes, cracks, loose nuts/bolts.
One of my favorite stores is Fleet Farm in Madison. I don't mind wasting my day walking up and don the aisles at that store. Great video, as always! 🇺🇸🪵🪓🌳🌲🌳🪓🪵
I do not have time to waste, I am running out ....only about 25-30 years left!!
@@InTheWoodyard Lets hope for at least 30!!!! God Bless, Chris.
I like cherry too and when I get it (since I dont get much of it same with Locust) I either send it to Family or I stack it all by its self..
Yup, it is good stuff!
I'am on my second face cord of Cherry love burning it the best wood and hottest wood I've ever burned was Red Elm very hard to find but wow does it put out the heat love your channel!!!
Thanks for watching Lisa!
I am the same way. Cant stand in a line up like that. No patience for that.
Yup!
Great video. I think it is awesome that you reply to every single comment.
I try! Thanks for watching Becky!
I love me some Cherry!
KEEP PUSHING!!!
Yup!
Nice video Chris. I have found that I can take my wife to Fleet Farm. She likes to shop and will get what I need. There are always some collateral shopping damages though. GNI
Yup, too much good stuff!
If I cut it myself I love cherry if I buy I like oak
Makes sense!
Chris that delivery must be in Kaukauna. Every time we drive past that water tower we joke that the mascot looks like a running booger. Kaukauna, home of the Runnin' Boogers. :-)
You got that right!
The greatest invention since penicillin by far has been Amazon for a couple years now I don’t think I’ve been into a total of three stores. I hate going to the stores I want something I order it through Amazon. Maybe you should do the same
I normally do not shop! I needed something so went...mistake!
Cherry on the west coast is twisted & knotty hard to chop ! burns great!
Here it splits easy!
Cardio!!!!! chuckin, stackin n chuckin some more!! Stack them Benjy's!!
Yup, firewood is my gym!
It's an interesting paradox when a guy like you states you'd rather be out in the woodyard enjoying the work away from people (which I totally get), yet you document yourself very well and share your activities with thousands of PEOPLE here on your channel, you seem like a social guy and you respond to all or almost all your comments. Face it you love PEOPLE.
By the way I like your sales pitch for cherry.. a real salesman you are!
Well said! BUT in the woods I don't SEE any people and no one tells me what to do or gets in my way like in a big city with people and rules everywhere. And I don't talk to people directly but through the camera, it feels very different to me then a crowd of thousands of people. Thanks for watching!
Yeah I hear ya. That's why it's my retirement plan to get a home with at least a 10 acre buffer somewhere in the NY State/East coast region. If I didn't have so much family here I would be open to head out more west say Appalachia, but admittedly I'm a people person, however people have been really disappointing me lately with their willingness to go along with ideologies that will surely destroy the country. WE'RE being forced to live the life THEY deserve.@@InTheWoodyard
Love your content. Is the music really necessary while you're trying to talk and make a point?
Thanks! No, but statistically people watch longer if there is no silence and music is recommended for the enjoyment for all videos. Imagine a movie with no music.
go out, kill it, drag it home. that is my shopping technique too. Man I wish you were closer to me (Northern Missouri) I'd buy wood from you all day every day. cheers
I do deliver!!! Haaaa!
I alway add a little more than what they order because that way there is now way i shorted them and they will call back
Yup! Me too!
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Thanks!
I’ve done that several times , I live by the biggest hardware store in the US and have chosen the wrong day several times to go buy a box of screws.
Yup, no time to waste!
My old man has always said about Mills: “if they don’t have it, you don’t need it.”
Yup, I agree!
Yellow birch & white birch smell good to. I don't shop either
Yup!
Lol, you're a man of many talents, sitting still is not one of them.
Nope, I hate not doing!
Where I'm from in Northern Saskatchewan Canada, our hottest btu wood is tamarack and birch. Tamarack though is hotter, if just burn tamarack seen ppl warp there stoves. I assume oak must be hotter yet, have you seen ppl warp there stove with oak also?
I say, Yes.
That is great!
Looks like you would stack it in your truck you could probably get a little more in it and your customers would get more for the money
I deliver what they pay for one face cord.
Awesome job.
Thanks !!
Cherry and apple is best for barbeque!
Some say that.
I was told its might snow 12 feet in wisconcin
Yup
Flea farm sounds like rural king
Yup, we do not have them here.
@In The Woodyard what state you live in ?
If I can't find what I'm looking for in 5 minutes, I'm "outta there"....
You are a better man than me, I am good for about 59 seconds!
That's not a mistake, that's normal for normal people. We are not cattle. Like Ole Remis said " stay away from crowds". You're just like me, Nope, ain't gonna do that.!
Yup!
Very funny store experience but!!!! Don’t forget that it is a great thing that people actually have a physical store to go too lol. Shopping on line is a crap shoot these days. But I m like you in and out but I need those places to actually go in and out of!! These days support local businesses when you can especially for pictures lol
Yup!
haha you know you been following for a while when you start recognizing the wood for sale from a splitting video haha. didnt know you bought a farm. glad to hear! will be great for you!!
He didn’t buy a farm , worked out a deal with a local farmer to use his land
@@homersimpson5668 cool haven't been here much lately. busy summer. always good to barter. I have similar arrangements with other farmer. we call it "The CO-OP" we all share resources.
Not my farm, a friends to use in exchange for firewood tools.
Yup
good deal!
Chris PLEASE let me know of the song played at the start of the vid. with the fiddles and violins . I"ve heard it on some of your other vids but can't place it's I think it's from a movie ?? Or if another subscriber knows please tell me.
Thanks
Dave in Canada
Dave! Click on "show more" just below the description on any video of mine and it will be there.
It is music from youtubes music library.
I work for myself outside and the homeowners hardly stay out 5 mins, and on weekend, I am amazed that most of the time none of the neighbors are outside either. Why would anyone want to stay inside all day?
I agree out is better than in!
I like cherry better. The smell, and it dries fast, lighter, and splits really easy. I split a lot of it with the Fiskars axe since its faster then running it through the splitter. At least the stuff that is no bigger then say 14 inch diameter. Most of what I cut is maple, ash, cherry, ironwood, and beech.
Yup, it is good stuff, sounds like you have some nice firewood!
@@InTheWoodyard Do you have beech there? Its supposed to be 27.5 million btu. I know some people call them trash trees here since they basically drown out other trees. I know it gets some use for lumber but its not a real sought after tree for lumber but it makes great firewood. Its a bit stringy though. Lot of it here is getting some fungus or something killing a bunch off. Almost looks like a tornado went behind my body shop there is 10 of them that the tops have blown down all beech. There is a bunch of ironwood that uprooted itself back there too. Kinda hard getting in and out of there or I would have cut it all up by now. Going to have to cut a trail back in so I can get back there with my ATV to skid it out.
Chris there’s a big boy’s toys are us in Hudson thats ( Fleet Farm ) it’s a half hour drive away so I need a purpose to go. As for wood I prefer red elm , ironwood and maple . I have plenty of oak . Keep on cutting
All wood is good!
I like the smell of sassafras the best. I sell about 150 ricks of firewood a year and several of my customers with fireplaces ask for it. I'm in Indiana I've never heard you mention sassafras. Is it not plentiful in your area or not popular?
Good question! We do not have it here as far as I know, we also do not have Osage orange either.
If you ever run across it, check it out. It smells fantastic especially while cutting it.
Don't have alot of cherry around my place, oak is my favorite
Yup, a lot of people like oak.
i thesame way hate shoping get in get what u need get out unless it a tool store then mite have hard time find my way out lol
Yup, get in get out!
@@InTheWoodyard kind like sex et get out lol