Mornin Y’all! A few tree service companies here have their own private dumps so about once a week I’ll make my rounds getting a cord or two. My wife compares that to me going fishing because I get all my tools/saws ready and trailer hooked up the night before. Great way to get Christmas money.
You forgot one important thing about turning that free wood into cash. The hustle!! One has to hustle to make a buck. Especially a free buck…. Great video, as always. Thanks Chris.
I miss seeing you having a big pile of logs & cutting up with the chain saw. Thats how I’ve cut wood when a tree service comes to my house to take down trees & pile them up for me.
Thats all I deal with all the time is free wood!!!.. amazing how many dead trees people want to get rid of and when you offer to do it for free in exchange for timber it's amazing how they jump at the chance!!..👍😊
@bertbrei2950 So far two doctor appointments and getting ready to take the dogs to the canine swim center. I should be able to play outside around 3:30 until the street lights come on.
Free wood is easy to come by if you work at it!! All the suggestions you mentioned is the best way to work at it!!Nice deliveries!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Great information Chris. I am fortunate with one of my tree service guys, as I will mark everything he takes down, at 16" then he or I will finish cutting. He will even noodle the largest pieces and his crew loads it into 7 x 14 the dump trailer that I bring! I only get free wood, so far.
Large wood chippers (whole tree) are called Tub Grinders. Used mainly on land clearing projects or clear cut projects. Morbark is the most well known manufacturer. Would be very uncommon for tree service unless they bring their logs to the grinder. More trivia.
Actually tub grinders grind tree debris. A "Whole Tree Chipper" does just that it chips a whole tree that is fed into a chipping head and then the chips are usually blown into trailers or possum belly's. I have a bandit 3590xl on tracks it is matched up with a chain flail striper to remove leaves, small branches and bark. I can chip a 26" diameter tree unlimited length. I can't do that in my Diamond Z tub grinder. Have a great day.
@@howardjensen1010 dont think many tree service companies are running around with a 80,000lb chipper🤔 most are trying to stay under 10k for noncommercial licensing purposes.🤨
G’morning Chris. Tree service wood is GREAT ! As you know, allll my wood is free, dropped off at my house. Awesome moves today. Keep up the strength. GoodNightIrene
Man you have it going on, Never paid for wood to many storm here in TN. But we don't go though it like you. I got alot of pine this year because of 90 plus straight wind in this area. I told em "pine is fine" just ask Chris up there in the Wood Yard!
Most tree services where I am will have a 21 inch chipper behind there trucks and some at there yards will have a tub grinder to grind it all up no matter size
There's a tree guy who's done work for me before who has a chipper that will take a 16 inch log... but the biggest he puts in is about 8, maybe 10 inch... 2 reasons: 1) trees here are tough, and he likes the extra power, and 2) anything bigger than that, he takes back to his yard, where he has a processor that'll make multiple cubic metres an hour. Now that's how you make money - get paid to take away wood that you sell as firewood....😂👍💵 🪓🇦🇺
With ash trees coming down in mass, I get logs dropped at my location for free. I got several dump trailers full of black oak, honey locust, and ash this last year. Just finished up splitting what I needed for my two shops, and my house this year. I still have probably five or six cords of good wood waiting to be split I may turn into firewood bundles for next years camping season.
I charge out for any tree work on property's. Especially if i have to climb it. The value of the wood will only just cover your time in the job before the wood even gets to your yard.
Here in Michigan tree guys double dip get paid haul wood away then sell their wood to other customers. A lot of wood pirates are everywhere to follow country road commission and federal forest people.
I literally came across your vids a few weeks ago after I got a free electric 7 ton splitter cause my brother in law is moving cross country, and after two years of only a few outdoor fires because we had another baby. Now that he’s almost three, I’ve removed the padded cover to the hearth and have been having some fires in the fire place. my gas saw took a crap, so bought a battery powered chain saw and am cleaning up a few dead standing in the back woods at the rear of my small property. Now I’m googling processing equipment and dump trailers. My wife may come after both of us. You have been warned.
I have "Chip Drop". Free wood and wood chips. I have too much wood at the moment, so just using wood chips around the property. Have older vertical/bench style wood chipper and a super splitter. I can manage anything.
Rain here today. So it’s a shop day. No wood work for me for the next week or so. Getting prepared to go and enter in to a plow match with my 1951 TEA20 Ferguson tractor. Have a great day.
I know you talked about what damage certain bugs do to wood under the bark in a previous video but I would like to see a video about if, or how you deal with pests in the wood as it dries. I recently came across a pretty impressive section of wood infested with termites while cutting. I'm not worried about it because of how and where I store my wood as it dries but things like termites and ants can be a major problem for people. I was wondering if you take any steps to insure your wood is bug free for customers or if you talk to your customers about how to safely store wood to prevent home infestations.
We do not have termites here but I can tell you ...keep the wood off of the ground and in a open sunny windy area and get it dry as fast as you can and when dry the bugs will avoid it, they need moisture. Thanks for watching!
Keep the wood dry, that gets rid of most of them. If I have a batch of bad wood, I sprinkle it with borax as I stack it, it does a number on the bugs and it pretty benign and can be burned.
I have a deal with a kid who runs a tree service that he brings me wood and I give him a hog every year. Sure saves my knees and ankles from hauling wood out of ravines here in the Ozarks. Like you said, he pays $40/ton to dump at the landfill. Win-Win.
Hi Chris, You work very hard for your money. Have you ever thought about getting a splitter for your tractor/skidsteer for the large rounds? Something like a Splitfire? It would make your downsizing of the tree service wood a whole lot easier. I have a home made Splitter on my mini-ex, not the fastest machine to split with but no effort required . Love he vids and the attention to detail you put out!
Its def worth the extra work when loads of logs here has basically doubled in price the last couple years. All while the price of firewood hasn't changed
Funny, that guy had no concept of winter firewood for heating a home, He thought wood was mostly for backyard fire pits. That said, he should think about getting a wood stove for winter heating... He really seems to love the ambiance and warmth of a fire and would enjoy it year round! Hey another way to get free wood (though not for large scale operation like yours, but for personal use) is to scrounge for it yourself. Every year I scrounge myself 5 cords of free and great hardwood which is what my wood stove eats all winter to heat my NJ home. I live in a pretty dense suburb within commuting distance of NYC. So not big properties here, so I have the ability to get wood, but never a huge amount at a time. A little at a time is fine for me and I chip away at it steady as a sort of hobby. It also takes a pretty physical effort at times lifting big logs up the bank of a river. I keep a battery powered chainsaw in my car at all times on the ready for any roadside dead-fall or cut down limbs someone pushed to the curb and then I check wild lots, small parks, edges of industrial yards, and even cemeteries back lots where they throw their dead tree limbs. I also check my local dump once a week for small scores that will fit in my cars hatchback, but it adds up because I never waste a trip to work or the store without looking for a quick wood score... and we have premo wood here in Jersey!
Cretaing a good relationship with tree companies is key! I basically only take pine, maple, and ash. I'm not a fan of oak because 2 years for appropriate seasoning just doesn't make sense business wise for me
I'd say that pays for most people's bills for a year. And still leaves a bit for the next year. . I have found one draw back to free wood is occasionally I take a chain out with metal. but luckily, dug-fir leaves a nice blue/black stain most of the time, when you get within a few feet of it.
You must have got a bad one I got one from Menards 20 years ago Got replacements parts from harbor freight and it is still going I do our 25 truck loads a year withit
"It's a scorch'a" - your Boston accent is getting better, Chris! LOL Free wood IS good. I have relationships with a couple of tree services. A lot of it is ash (EAB), but I'll get nice loads of cherry and oak here and there as well. In turn, I'll put a good word out for them when someone mentions they need a tree taken down. Win/Win. Have a great day, Woodhounds!
I dont know what the deal is around my area with tree services, it seems last year they were begging for places to drop logs and this year...crickets lol. My buddy is a big tree service and always busy but Ive seen them as far south as over an hour away so not sure if the market dried up for the time being or what but his log yard is huge with piles and piles of big wood and he said have at it but by the time I load up my skid steer, get there and pick through it and get back to my shop it's probably a half day for 2-3 cords of wood but I bought a Frostbite grapple and skid steer splitter just for this big wood but now wondering if it's worth it. I can get a try axle of poles delivered and stacked right at my shop for 800-950 bucks a load and end up with 7-10 cords.
That is the other side of the coin with 'free' wood. If you have to go and get it, you end up more than paying for it in 'time'. One can always make more money, but one cannot make more time. Most would rather have the time. This is the reason why Chris buys his logs by the trailer load.
So many free wood stories which to share... There was a tree service working at the top of our road with his truck loaded with rounds i stopped and said "Hey is that for me?" The guy looked at me like he was deep in thought and said "Well it's Friday afternoon and i have to drive 45 minutes to my shop, dump this, and come back to load up again". I said "I live a mile down the road". So i got probly 3 cords of Osage Orange dumped in my driveway for free, only one of the best woods there is. The bonus was my father and i BOTH had osage oranges fall out of the trees and dent our hoods on that section of road over the years and now they were gone. I wonder if you don't have any mulch suppliers where you are. We have 2 'Mulch Farms' near us where you pay to dump and they sell the mulch. They have piles of mulch must be a hundred feet tall there. Kind of impressive. They have Tub Grinders there but you can only really get an 8 to 10 foot log in before they fall out. Vermeer calls their whole tree chipper a "whole tree chipper" ha ha. Has a belt feeder and rising mill to take in anything mostly fed my a grapple loader. Whew long comment today. Too much coffee! GNI. Don't be a Turd!
Municipal dumps are s good place to look as well. Im talking about where the local highway dept/village/ town takes all the brush, trees etc they pick up or clean out. In a heavily treed area like im in, it piles up fast - youd be amazed at how much wood is there. Don't know if theyd be happy with commercial sellers on and out constantly, but they're usually happy to have residents come get it. Less that they jave to do something with. The village dump is my secret source for hard maple and walnut to burn, lol Tree service wood is even more fun for those of us without hydraulics, lol. As often as not, those monster logs from yard trees are also twisty, gnarly, and tough. Especially silver maple and cottonwood- those trees can get monstrous sized around me. Cottonwood isnt worth the bother, unless you can get some small, strat, younger limbs. Silver maple, otoh, is ideal campfire or fireplace wood. Smells great burning, too. It can be tough to split though.
@@karlrovey Ya it can be like that. I cut some chunks the other day of green silver maple, that split very easily. Imo, the problems come from yard trees. Esp the butt log- which is nearly always curly grained, and from limbs that grow out, rather than up. That wood is tougher, because it has to be to hold all that weight. If the center is way off to the side, that's a good sign of a log that'll be a bitch to split.
@@InTheWoodyard good points, however if you have a backhoe, are good at operating it, it sure does make the process much less labor intensive. Thanks for your thoughts
I'm so envious of your lifestyle! I'd be happy as a pig in sh*t if I could do firewood like this full time :). ...firewood is all dirty Mafia in Bulgaria 😂
Wish i could find more people that wanted free wood. Just started a 320 acre burr oak land clearing project in southern mn and no where for it to go. Gonna be some big bon fires soon.. lol
Seems like there should be some way for a guy with a semi truck and a boiler should be able to find a fire wood seller with a splitter and both get together with you
@jeanvaljohn3921 aint no one around here for over 80 miles is the issue.. lol. Nearest sawmill is 83 miles down the road. The nearest decent sized firewood seller is 63 miles . Bonfire time is all it is. Been working on unloading it for almost 3 months. But i got a heck of new 4 ft diameter tornado fan to make it burn fast.
Getting free wood is still a business transaction make sure you hold up your end of the deal or it might be the end of the free wood, tying up a tree crew because you were late showing up with your trailer to pickup free wood will not happen to many times before the free wood ends. etc etc😉
I've got some tree service maple that my 24in bars will not go through when cut from both sides. Doing a special video on how to whittle them down to size.
@iffykidmn8170 my saws can't handle a 36in bar to be able to cut the monster maple whe. Cutting from both sides. Need to think about that too. Is not a problem to noodle some off the sides to be able to get through the rest of the log from both sides.
I have never had to buy wood. I have 45 acres of trees and I have a 400 acre farm of mature trees that I watch over. I have never had to cut a live tree. I only cut dead trees and trees that storms take down. 1 acre of woods will produce 1 cord of wood a year to natural selection
Good vid today ,thanks, There is a wee bit of misnomer Associated with the term " Free Wood" When you include The time ,the effort , equipment to process and fuel. There seems to be some cost involved. There are a minority of Americans that hear the term " Free" and associate it with laying in bed and playing video games. 🙄
Problem with a lot of that good advice Chris but nowadays you can’t go on somebody here unless you got medical insurance otherwise they get hurt on your property then they wanna own your property
That is the going rate in my area, in Chicago it sells for $700-800 a cord and 50 miles west of me it sells for $150-180 a cord. More trees less people = cheap wood and lots of people and no trees = expensive wood.
Good advice! Especially about the free gooder wood. - Your customer said something that could be valuable advice: "Thanks for the speedy delivery." So now you're not playing Superman, you're copying Speedy Gonzales, the fastest mouse in all Maheco, and Wisconsin!! - All the folks worried about global warming don't know about you and Kenny. Selling so much firewood that it's all your fault. Just wait 'til I tell on you!! I only hope the head of the global heat police is not one of your customers! - Bert is always helping out. Do you ever get a chance to help him? GNI
Ya, I am just learning how to do this youtube thing, I only have 46,000 subs over 30,000 daily views and 24million views so far. So, I went to your channel for some how to tips, I did not see any videos????
@@InTheWoodyard ….oh look….flexing your numbers with a wordy reply. Go figure. I’m guessing telling everyone the details of your day is a form of therapy. Dude….I enjoy watching you cut wood…..that’s my therapy. All the words….just not needed….for me, at least.
Mornin Y’all! A few tree service companies here have their own private dumps so about once a week I’ll make my rounds getting a cord or two. My wife compares that to me going fishing because I get all my tools/saws ready and trailer hooked up the night before. Great way to get Christmas money.
Good point, yes some do that here too.
You forgot one important thing about turning that free wood into cash. The hustle!! One has to hustle to make a buck. Especially a free buck….
Great video, as always.
Thanks Chris.
Great point!
I miss seeing you having a big pile of logs & cutting up with the chain saw. Thats how I’ve cut wood when a tree service comes to my house to take down trees & pile them up for me.
There will be more saw work as I get caught up.
Great music playing while you were backing and loading the trailer. Thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Thats all I deal with all the time is free wood!!!.. amazing how many dead trees people want to get rid of and when you offer to do it for free in exchange for timber it's amazing how they jump at the chance!!..👍😊
Yup, they want it gone!
Awesome vid that day Chris! Enjoyed this one 🔥💯👍. See you soon! Andrew from NB :)
🤙 THANKS!
Thanks for talking about free wood,some viewers may not know informative video 👍
You bet, thanks for watching!
Nice cache and you were blessed with space to put the treasures.
Tis the seadon. 60 todsy
Good thing Im almost done with work and can enjoy the nice day outside.
@bertbrei2950 So far two doctor appointments and getting ready to take the dogs to the canine swim center. I should be able to play outside around 3:30 until the street lights come on.
Yup, great weather today!
Free wood is easy to come by if you work at it!! All the suggestions you mentioned is the best way to work at it!!Nice deliveries!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Very true! Thanks!
Great information Chris. I am fortunate with one of my tree service guys, as I will mark everything he takes down, at 16" then he or I will finish cutting. He will even noodle the largest pieces and his crew loads it into 7 x 14 the dump trailer that I bring! I only get free wood, so far.
Nice for you!
Great job free wood is good wood!!👍👍
It sure is!
Masterful grasp of England at the end there Chris
Thanks!!
Large wood chippers (whole tree) are called Tub Grinders. Used mainly on land clearing projects or clear cut projects. Morbark is the most well known manufacturer. Would be very uncommon for tree service unless they bring their logs to the grinder. More trivia.
Yup, that was what I was looking for! Thanks!
Actually tub grinders grind tree debris. A "Whole Tree Chipper" does just that it chips a whole tree that is fed into a chipping head and then the chips are usually blown into trailers or possum belly's. I have a bandit 3590xl on tracks it is matched up with a chain flail striper to remove leaves, small branches and bark. I can chip a 26" diameter tree unlimited length. I can't do that in my Diamond Z tub grinder. Have a great day.
@@howardjensen1010 dont think many tree service companies are running around with a 80,000lb chipper🤔 most are trying to stay under 10k for noncommercial licensing purposes.🤨
@@iffykidmn8170 nor are they running around with a 120,000 lb 1200hp tub grinders. Have a great day.
Good information! I like your wood yard. KC Don 😉
Thanks!!
G’morning Chris. Tree service wood is GREAT ! As you know, allll my wood is free, dropped off at my house. Awesome moves today. Keep up the strength. GoodNightIrene
Morning! Thanks Sir Corey!
Man you have it going on, Never paid for wood to many storm here in TN. But we don't go though it like you. I got alot of pine this year because of 90 plus straight wind in this area. I told em "pine is fine" just ask Chris up there in the Wood Yard!
Thanks for watching!
Most tree services where I am will have a 21 inch chipper behind there trucks and some at there yards will have a tub grinder to grind it all up no matter size
nice.
There's a tree guy who's done work for me before who has a chipper that will take a 16 inch log... but the biggest he puts in is about 8, maybe 10 inch... 2 reasons: 1) trees here are tough, and he likes the extra power, and 2) anything bigger than that, he takes back to his yard, where he has a processor that'll make multiple cubic metres an hour. Now that's how you make money - get paid to take away wood that you sell as firewood....😂👍💵 🪓🇦🇺
Yup, you are correct!
With ash trees coming down in mass, I get logs dropped at my location for free. I got several dump trailers full of black oak, honey locust, and ash this last year. Just finished up splitting what I needed for my two shops, and my house this year. I still have probably five or six cords of good wood waiting to be split I may turn into firewood bundles for next years camping season.
Nice, that sounds great!
I charge out for any tree work on property's. Especially if i have to climb it. The value of the wood will only just cover your time in the job before the wood even gets to your yard.
This all came to me free.
Well done, from California 😊
Thanks! 😃
Good morning, no firewood today, gonna run the sawmill
Have fun!
Wood in the bins looks really dry! The wind and the sun at the new wood yard is paying off big time! Stay safe
Thanks 👍
Here in Michigan tree guys double dip get paid haul wood away then sell their wood to other customers. A lot of wood pirates are everywhere to follow country road commission and federal forest people.
Here all over in the USA tree guys do that. But some just want it gone so you just need to find them.
Very nice deliveries.
Thanks!
I literally came across your vids a few weeks ago after I got a free electric 7 ton splitter cause my brother in law is moving cross country, and after two years of only a few outdoor fires because we had another baby. Now that he’s almost three, I’ve removed the padded cover to the hearth and have been having some fires in the fire place. my gas saw took a crap, so bought a battery powered chain saw and am cleaning up a few dead standing in the back woods at the rear of my small property. Now I’m googling processing equipment and dump trailers. My wife may come after both of us. You have been warned.
Thanks for watching, welcome to world of wood!!!
I have "Chip Drop". Free wood and wood chips. I have too much wood at the moment, so just using wood chips around the property. Have older vertical/bench style wood chipper and a super splitter. I can manage anything.
Sounds great!
Rain here today. So it’s a shop day.
No wood work for me for the next week or so.
Getting prepared to go and enter in to a plow match with my 1951 TEA20 Ferguson tractor.
Have a great day.
Sounds great! Have a good one!
🤘free is gooder for sure. Just keep scrounging!
Yup! I will!
Nice video/chat Chris. Free wood is the best wood IMHO. Just don't let them dump junk wood at your place. GNI
Very true!
All great information Chris.. 90% of what i get is tree service the rest is from an Excavating company
Nice!
I know you talked about what damage certain bugs do to wood under the bark in a previous video but I would like to see a video about if, or how you deal with pests in the wood as it dries. I recently came across a pretty impressive section of wood infested with termites while cutting. I'm not worried about it because of how and where I store my wood as it dries but things like termites and ants can be a major problem for people. I was wondering if you take any steps to insure your wood is bug free for customers or if you talk to your customers about how to safely store wood to prevent home infestations.
We do not have termites here but I can tell you ...keep the wood off of the ground and in a open sunny windy area and get it dry as fast as you can and when dry the bugs will avoid it, they need moisture. Thanks for watching!
Keep the wood dry, that gets rid of most of them. If I have a batch of bad wood, I sprinkle it with borax as I stack it, it does a number on the bugs and it pretty benign and can be burned.
I have a deal with a kid who runs a tree service that he brings me wood and I give him a hog every year. Sure saves my knees and ankles from hauling wood out of ravines here in the Ozarks. Like you said, he pays $40/ton to dump at the landfill. Win-Win.
Great score!! Win win is good!!!
Hi Chris, You work very hard for your money. Have you ever thought about getting a splitter for your tractor/skidsteer for the large rounds? Something like a Splitfire? It would make your downsizing of the tree service wood a whole lot easier. I have a home made Splitter on my mini-ex, not the fastest machine to split with but no effort required . Love he vids and the attention to detail you put out!
Yes I have, as a matter of fact Bert has one and we have used it in a few videos already.
Its def worth the extra work when loads of logs here has basically doubled in price the last couple years. All while the price of firewood hasn't changed
Yup, I agree!
Buy 2, get 1 FREE. Your customers must love you. It’s all good.
Sometime, yup.
Funny, that guy had no concept of winter firewood for heating a home, He thought wood was mostly for backyard fire pits. That said, he should think about getting a wood stove for winter heating... He really seems to love the ambiance and warmth of a fire and would enjoy it year round!
Hey another way to get free wood (though not for large scale operation like yours, but for personal use) is to scrounge for it yourself. Every year I scrounge myself 5 cords of free and great hardwood which is what my wood stove eats all winter to heat my NJ home. I live in a pretty dense suburb within commuting distance of NYC. So not big properties here, so I have the ability to get wood, but never a huge amount at a time. A little at a time is fine for me and I chip away at it steady as a sort of hobby. It also takes a pretty physical effort at times lifting big logs up the bank of a river.
I keep a battery powered chainsaw in my car at all times on the ready for any roadside dead-fall or cut down limbs someone pushed to the curb and then I check wild lots, small parks, edges of industrial yards, and even cemeteries back lots where they throw their dead tree limbs. I also check my local dump once a week for small scores that will fit in my cars hatchback, but it adds up because I never waste a trip to work or the store without looking for a quick wood score... and we have premo wood here in Jersey!
nice
Hi Chris have nice day I like Free Wood same here ( ty Ron
Thanks, you too!
Do you sell much maple for wood stoves or fireplaces? Really just wanting to know your thoughts on burning maple for heat.
Hard maple is better than oak in my opinion, dries faster and holds coals better and the same BTUs as oak...24
@@InTheWoodyard thank you sir
Cretaing a good relationship with tree companies is key! I basically only take pine, maple, and ash. I'm not a fan of oak because 2 years for appropriate seasoning just doesn't make sense business wise for me
Send it to me, I'll take it!!!
@@InTheWoodyardif you were in Maine I definitely would!!
There are actually tree services in my area that advertise free dump trucks of logs delivered to your property. If you'll take the whole thing
yup.
you Sir are and inspiration! I'm pretty sure you don't have trouble sleeping. lol
Thanks, yup, sleep is easy!
I'd say that pays for most people's bills for a year.
And still leaves a bit for the next year.
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I have found one draw back to free wood is occasionally I take a chain out with metal. but luckily, dug-fir leaves a nice blue/black stain most of the time, when you get within a few feet of it.
Yup, metal hurts!
Good vid as always. Take care
Thanks, you too!
You should get one of those truck bed liners that crank rolls up to the base on the tailgate like he uses in "Ohio Wood Burner "
I have one and I have done videos on it over a year ago...it was a piece of crap, works slow and extra work..
You must have got a bad one
I got one from Menards 20 years ago
Got replacements parts from harbor freight and it is still going
I do our 25 truck loads a year withit
"It's a scorch'a" - your Boston accent is getting better, Chris! LOL Free wood IS good. I have relationships with a couple of tree services. A lot of it is ash (EAB), but I'll get nice loads of cherry and oak here and there as well. In turn, I'll put a good word out for them when someone mentions they need a tree taken down. Win/Win. Have a great day, Woodhounds!
Thanks, you too!
Good night Irene
Thanks!
Hey Chris it's Hugh how do you go about getting a woodyard where you don't have to pay a lot of money
Help someone out who has space in trade, free wood, helping out on the property. Start talking to people and you might get a good place???
I dont know what the deal is around my area with tree services, it seems last year they were begging for places to drop logs and this year...crickets lol. My buddy is a big tree service and always busy but Ive seen them as far south as over an hour away so not sure if the market dried up for the time being or what but his log yard is huge with piles and piles of big wood and he said have at it but by the time I load up my skid steer, get there and pick through it and get back to my shop it's probably a half day for 2-3 cords of wood but I bought a Frostbite grapple and skid steer splitter just for this big wood but now wondering if it's worth it. I can get a try axle of poles delivered and stacked right at my shop for 800-950 bucks a load and end up with 7-10 cords.
Truck loads around here are 1200 to 1500 for 10 to 20 cords.
That is the other side of the coin with 'free' wood. If you have to go and get it, you end up more than paying for it in 'time'. One can always make more money, but one cannot make more time. Most would rather have the time. This is the reason why Chris buys his logs by the trailer load.
It would be interesting to see the tri axle load prices around the country. Anybody know about the prices in the sw Ohio dayton area?
Yup, buying logs is fast and efficient.
Yup, good point!
So many free wood stories which to share... There was a tree service working at the top of our road with his truck loaded with rounds i stopped and said "Hey is that for me?" The guy looked at me like he was deep in thought and said "Well it's Friday afternoon and i have to drive 45 minutes to my shop, dump this, and come back to load up again". I said "I live a mile down the road". So i got probly 3 cords of Osage Orange dumped in my driveway for free, only one of the best woods there is. The bonus was my father and i BOTH had osage oranges fall out of the trees and dent our hoods on that section of road over the years and now they were gone.
I wonder if you don't have any mulch suppliers where you are. We have 2 'Mulch Farms' near us where you pay to dump and they sell the mulch. They have piles of mulch must be a hundred feet tall there. Kind of impressive.
They have Tub Grinders there but you can only really get an 8 to 10 foot log in before they fall out. Vermeer calls their whole tree chipper a "whole tree chipper" ha ha. Has a belt feeder and rising mill to take in anything mostly fed my a grapple loader.
Whew long comment today. Too much coffee! GNI. Don't be a Turd!
Thanks so much for the story and congrats on the wood score on the hood denters!
Municipal dumps are s good place to look as well. Im talking about where the local highway dept/village/ town takes all the brush, trees etc they pick up or clean out. In a heavily treed area like im in, it piles up fast - youd be amazed at how much wood is there. Don't know if theyd be happy with commercial sellers on and out constantly, but they're usually happy to have residents come get it. Less that they jave to do something with. The village dump is my secret source for hard maple and walnut to burn, lol
Tree service wood is even more fun for those of us without hydraulics, lol. As often as not, those monster logs from yard trees are also twisty, gnarly, and tough. Especially silver maple and cottonwood- those trees can get monstrous sized around me. Cottonwood isnt worth the bother, unless you can get some small, strat, younger limbs. Silver maple, otoh, is ideal campfire or fireplace wood. Smells great burning, too. It can be tough to split though.
Yup, good stuff!
I guess I lucked out on the silver maple I split the other day. The only parts that gave me problems had knots.
@@karlrovey Ya it can be like that. I cut some chunks the other day of green silver maple, that split very easily.
Imo, the problems come from yard trees. Esp the butt log- which is nearly always curly grained, and from limbs that grow out, rather than up. That wood is tougher, because it has to be to hold all that weight. If the center is way off to the side, that's a good sign of a log that'll be a bitch to split.
Sounds like a backhoe or excavator with a splitter attachment would come in real handy and make short work of those bigger pieces to split
I have seen them, to me they are kind slow and cumbersome to operate. AND Very expensive for the results given.
@@InTheWoodyard good points, however if you have a backhoe, are good at operating it, it sure does make the process much less labor intensive. Thanks for your thoughts
I'm so envious of your lifestyle! I'd be happy as a pig in sh*t if I could do firewood like this full time :).
...firewood is all dirty Mafia in Bulgaria 😂
Just do it then, like is about choices, make it happen!
Wish i could find more people that wanted free wood. Just started a 320 acre burr oak land clearing project in southern mn and no where for it to go. Gonna be some big bon fires soon.. lol
Seems like there should be some way for a guy with a semi truck and a boiler should be able to find a fire wood seller with a splitter and both get together with you
@jeanvaljohn3921 aint no one around here for over 80 miles is the issue.. lol. Nearest sawmill is 83 miles down the road. The nearest decent sized firewood seller is 63 miles . Bonfire time is all it is. Been working on unloading it for almost 3 months. But i got a heck of new 4 ft diameter tornado fan to make it burn fast.
Might want to put adds on facebook market place and craigslist
That is too bad!
@InTheWoodyard be the 4th one this size that ive had to do it too.. but no one down here burns wood anymore and waltz ran out the sawmill guys in 2020
Thanks for NOT showing us ten minutes of driving footage ,
There are others that do that, I find it to be a vid killer.
I agree, a very little goes a long way.
May I ask what is going rates for a face cord of hardwood firewood. I want to make sure I am keeping my prices current. Western Ny
I depends on your market. I get $120 a face cord but 1 hour west it's $60 and 1 1/2 south it is $175 in Chicago it is $250
Thank you
Would you think about selling ten cords to some guy in Chicago $320.00 per cord if he came and picked'em up?
Now back to my wood pile of free wood. Keep on cutting
Rock on!
Getting free wood is still a business transaction make sure you hold up your end of the deal or it might be the end of the free wood, tying up a tree crew because you were late showing up with your trailer to pickup free wood will not happen to many times before the free wood ends. etc etc😉
good point
That’s good idea
Thanks!
Good morning
Hello other Chris!
Good morning all!
Good morning!
Free wood. Are there two better four letter words ever?
Yup, free food, free booz, free beer, free cash, free domm!
I've got some tree service maple that my 24in bars will not go through when cut from both sides. Doing a special video on how to whittle them down to size.
That is a biggin!
bolting on a longer bar and chain is nothing special.
@iffykidmn8170 my saws can't handle a 36in bar to be able to cut the monster maple whe. Cutting from both sides. Need to think about that too. Is not a problem to noodle some off the sides to be able to get through the rest of the log from both sides.
I have never had to buy wood. I have 45 acres of trees and I have a 400 acre farm of mature trees that I watch over. I have never had to cut a live tree. I only cut dead trees and trees that storms take down. 1 acre of woods will produce 1 cord of wood a year to natural selection
That sounds great!
Have ever considered a cloth roller for the truck bed? They work well and you don't alter the truck!
If you go way back in videos you'll see he tried one and didnt like it.
Yup, I have one, it is a piece of crap.
No, I hated it.
16.5k if your selling that ash as mixed hardwood at 110 a face or 330 a cord if we’re talking 50 cords. Still well worth it. GNI
Yup, I sell it for $120 a face now.
HOts good wood seasones better when its hot
ok
Chris it’s not more gooder it’s betterer!
Yup!
Free wood but it's a lot of work to get it to firewood 💪🏽. C u tomorrow 🤘🏽
You got that right!
Max. Yes but if you are willing to work with it (like me) it's turns out awesome..😁👍
@@DanielAtkinsFirewood truth 👍🏽
Also a square metre or a cubic metre or a cube. = Roughly a face cord.
I was told a cubic meter was about .82 of a face cord???
Did calculations 0.822
Good vid today ,thanks,
There is a wee bit of misnomer
Associated with the term " Free Wood"
When you include
The time ,the effort , equipment to process and fuel.
There seems to be some cost involved.
There are a minority of Americans that
hear the term " Free"
and associate it with laying in bed and playing video games.
🙄
Yup, good point!
To be clear, of all of the "free wood"
Only a very small amount would have been split and ready for the pile.
(?)
Yup, there is a time cost for sure.
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Thanks!!!
Problem with a lot of that good advice Chris but nowadays you can’t go on somebody here unless you got medical insurance otherwise they get hurt on your property then they wanna own your property
Yup, good point.
damn man thats a lot of wood for 220.
I deliver less for 300 a load delivered SE MI
That is the going rate in my area, in Chicago it sells for $700-800 a cord and 50 miles west of me it sells for $150-180 a cord. More trees less people = cheap wood and lots of people and no trees = expensive wood.
You need to simplify your wood terms. Just stick to 1.2m3 rather than face cord, 1/3 cord, rick, truckload etc.
That would be un-AMERICAN!
LMAO 🤣.
Hey Chris this is you from
Hello!
Good morning everyone
Hello Sir Stanley!!
Can you repeat that "free fire firewood" or was that a "one off"?
Maybe just for you I can! Ha!
all the wood i burn is free wood,i cut it on a buddy land,have for about 20 years now
Very nice!!
Put on your big boy pants when you get tree service wood , at least that my experience !
Yup, it is work!
Good advice! Especially about the free gooder wood. - Your customer said something that could be valuable advice: "Thanks for the speedy delivery." So now you're not playing Superman, you're copying Speedy Gonzales, the fastest mouse in all Maheco, and Wisconsin!! - All the folks worried about global warming don't know about you and Kenny. Selling so much firewood that it's all your fault. Just wait 'til I tell on you!! I only hope the head of the global heat police is not one of your customers! - Bert is always helping out. Do you ever get a chance to help him? GNI
Yup, we just put down some new boards in his barn, I'll show everyone some day.
More gooder.
Gooderest!
Cat
dog
Good morning Woodhounds!!(-:
Morning!
Uncle Benjamin is comin home!!! GNI
Yup, where he belongs!
thay burned threw a cord in 3 weeks
ok
firewood is never free. you at least have to buy equipment and fuel.
Yup, and time and effort and energy.
One day your going to figure out how to load wood using a machine and you will laugh at how you used to do it by hand. Come on dude.. figure this out
Yup! And then I will get FAT and WEAK!
wow free wood more profit
YES IT IS!
Jeeezzzzzzz…..waaayyyy too much talking.
Ya, I am just learning how to do this youtube thing, I only have 46,000 subs over 30,000 daily views and 24million views so far. So, I went to your channel for some how to tips, I did not see any videos????
@@InTheWoodyard ….oh look….flexing your numbers with a wordy reply. Go figure. I’m guessing telling everyone the details of your day is a form of therapy. Dude….I enjoy watching you cut wood…..that’s my therapy. All the words….just not needed….for me, at least.
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Thanks!