$90/hr Part Time : Firewood
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Tree companies deliver logs for free. I split wood to heat my home, and to sell a little bit. I get $30 for that small rack, and i can do 4 in an hour. $120 - overhead. I do this very part-time, and enjoy a cold one while i enjoy the split sesh
Henry sent me over to check out your channel.
Walter Dillow thanks for checking in! Henry @ Mowers N Blowers is a great guy with a great channel!
Having sold firewood for 20 years I can attest that there is a tremendous amount of work involved with cutting, transporting, splitting, stacking etc. The more simple you can make things the better. You have the best splitter on the market and the best scenario is to have people bring the wood to you and people come pick it up. Most people probably don’t understand that the motor just needs to keep the flywheels spinning. If you operate the motor just above idle to keep the oil pressure up in the motor that’s all it needs to split with a kinetic splitter. Good job on keeping it simple.
I have had it all all the way up to a diesel processor and I currently use an electric super split. Best machine out there!
Mike
I love making and watching firewood videos! Subscribed!!
Mallard 5 Farmhouse thanks! I smashed the sub button for you as well!
I burn full time for heat (#$%*&% the oil man) I generally burn approx. 4.5 to 5 cords a season (give or take 5 months) and I love it. I to get free wood in log or length form, and its turned into quite the hobby to cut, split & stack. Some of my friend question the effort I put into it (I stay 3 years ahead, so I have approx. 15 cords split and stacked at all times) But the pay off to me of moving around, exercising and saving money on my heat bill is priceless.
Kenny P i firepit in summer , and i burn in afternoons till evening all winter long. I buy 10 gallons of diesel a week during winter and only use burner for hot water rest of year. I sell a few cords a year in small quantity.
My friends also question my working so hard for such an antiquated way of heating but until someone heats with wood themselves they don't quite understand the satisfaction acquired from, splitting stacking and drying your own wood
That splitter is great! Hope your beer didn't get warm on ya. I like to split during the winter so it gets my beer almost slushy.👍
Thanks, i love the splitter. I totally love it. However, about 5% of the time i wish i had a vertical hydro to 1/4 up the big stuff. Other than that, im Drinkin a beer, makin a lil bit a $ on the side, and heating for free during the winter
How many tons of pressure does that splitter put off? It sure is faster then any 20ton splitter I've ever used
@thdevilmancometh this splitter can handles anything even big knotty wood, I have one, here in Canada they called them gripo and they have two big flywheels and they are geared to push the ram forward. They are faster on high throttle
I highly command drink lots of water on hot summer days while splitting firewood to season all the split wood to dry out and season as the cords of firewood will burn safely in the homes that have a fireplaces
Dude, you need a picaroon would save your back.
Nice pile of logs 👍
You are my hero!
Nice to see a kinetic splitter in action...I wasnt sure it would handle knotty wood, but I see it does at half speed even.
I am thinking of upgrading from a little electric 5 ton splitter.
I have gas heat and no woodstove, but I cut, split and haul rounds gleaned from my area...sold 2 cord this year.....I just do it for the exercise and to prove (to myself) I can still cut it at 71yo....have to hand split and quarter the big rounds...
My first splitter was a Homelite 5 ton Electric/hydraulic splitter. I set it on a folding table so i would work at waist height. Split about 3 cords a year with it to heat my home. Still splitting at 71? I’m ready to quit, and I’m only 46 😂
@@myfirewoodgig4336 well...when yer retired you get hungry for somn to do ;)...wouldnt have done it while I was working for a living.
We do one hundred facecord every year. We are in the prettiest place in Canada manitoulin island
100 face cords/yr sounds like a decent operation 👍🏻
My brother has a trailer on manitoulin island. Good fish and chips around there!! I do 30 bush cord a year here in southern Ontario. Good variety to choose from.
Hey John, you are right...I grew up in Manitowaning. I live down on the Bruce Peninsula now...still heating with firewood.
Not sure what world this guy lives in where they deliver him free wood already cut to firewood length but hey I wish I could come across that deal .
David Ostrowski check your local “free” ad on craigslist. Here on Long Island, tree companies dump logs for free, rather than paying to dump at landfill. Some companies deliver 10’ logs, others cut the logs to firewood length. Since i only do this barely part-time, i can be picky about what i get delivered
Your set up seems to work pretty good but I don't see how you make $90 per hour. More power to you, if you do!! 👍👍
watch your back grandad your a bit old to be lifting them blocks
That rack sells for about $30.0 in my neighborhood. One wouldn't pay $90.0. Get a full size pickup truck filled for that
Lol, at the end of the video i say “ that goes on craigslist for $30”. I do 4 of those in an hour for my $90
@@myfirewoodgig4336 Selling fire wood saved my ass throughout the Obama years after losing my job. It's a good gig. Now i cut enough to get the family through the season. It's our primary heat. Thanks for the response ..
The school I went to taught me 4 times 30 was 120 either way if the wood was "free" it's profit minus gas and the $3000 for the super split. I've done wood for over 30 years and found there's not a whole lot of profit in it only the joy of beating your body up...priceless. keep up the good work
What's the brand name of your splitter? I'm currently looking at several manufacturers on the market. Thanks!
lawnman, the manufacturer is “Super Split”, based out of Massachusetts. Mine is an old “j” model, that i was lucky enough to find used on craigslist. Happy Thanksgiving
@@myfirewoodgig4336 yes, I've seen that one on TH-cam. That's one of the few I've been looking at along with the woodmaxx. Thanks!
@@myfirewoodgig4336 and Happy Thanksgiving to you too as well from Southeast Michigan near Ann Arbor.
How do you go about getting the wood???? 👊👍
Chris Liggett the tree fella I get the wood delivered to my home from tree companies. Check out Craigslist “free” ads. Some companies deliver 8’ long logs, some deliver firewood length. There is a local company i contact every once in a while to ask for a free delivery if they are in the area. 👊🏻
@@myfirewoodgig4336 that's a sweet deal. Do you ever get any that little machine won't split???? 👊👍
The machine is amazing with white oak,red oak, and maple(95% of deliveries). I struggle sometimes with really twisted cherry, locust, some oak crotches, and knotty peices. It may take a few strikes, but eventually splits
Ya cant run a engine 1/4 throttle, and expect it to perform correctly, it doesn't save any gas, why would a person do that.
Yes you can and yes it do's. May be you blow a poorly made engine at some time or another.
That $99 harbor freight engine has lasted 3 years so far. 2 years more than i originally anticipated, but then again i hardly use it
Be glad youre not living closer to a city. People would be stealing your wood at night and they selling on CL or heating with it
Dale Trayner I am grateful to live in a “dead end” street community where neighbors still help each other out, and more importantly keep an eye out for each other. ✌🏻
For me the wood splitter is too slow. I have a tire and platform and split from that. 30 cord a year by hand.
Michael G 30 cord by hand is awesome! Im never in a rush when it comes to this stuff, i just make it as profitable as possible for the little bit of time i put in.
My Firewood Gig I know what you are saying.... Your splitter is actually pretty good because it has rest for the wood. My problem is that when I use the splitter by myself I'm having to grab at wood falling on ground that I'm not finished splitting yet. It would be the same when splitting by hand except for the fact that I made the platform with a tire to keep wood contained so I'm not wasting time and energy chasing after pieces falling of splitting log and also it saves the back.... Also for the past 2 years I have burned myself out doing 30 cord by the end. I start in March and next thing you know it is late summer or early fall and I realize that's all I have done. Every year I swear to myself I won't do more than 10 cord for the farm instead of extra to sell and every year I convince myself I can do it... Like it's addicting once I'm out there.
@@myfirewoodgig4336 + beer :)
what is the brand of your log splitter?
Anthony Laplante it is a Super Split. I believe it’s an old J model
don't know where you live I've cut wood for years and 90 bucks an hr aint happening
john carpenter i live on Long Island. People here spend $7.99 for a bag of hot sticks at the local convenience store. I fill up that 36” x 36” rack, (over 10 bundles worth) and sell it for $30 as is, or $40 semi seasoned. It only took me 13 minutes to fill that rack at a gentlemans pace(4/hr). I get the logs delivered for free, and customers come to me, to pick up out of my driveway.
@@myfirewoodgig4336 Dang dude. You've got it made. How have you worked it out that people drop off decent size logs to your house free of charge? I think most people here watching probably cut and split wood for one reason or another. And we all have different motives.
Tim Werner check out your craigslist free ads. Here on long island, most tree companies dont sell firewood. They cut it to firewood length and leave at curb, or will deliver a load for free. Otherwise they pay to dump at town landfill.......
@@myfirewoodgig4336 Thanks for that tip. I will check that out in my local area. Both the Tree Service companies and the town's pump site.
@@timwerner7066 I'm in the Baltimore Washington Metro area and I also can have as much wood delivered for free as I can handle. I normally have to turn wood away. I process part time as well and sell 5-10 cords a year. One year I was able to sell 40-45 cords all from tree companies that dropped log length or firewood rounds. We sell for $225/cord and it normally takes me 5 hours per cord to cut and split. Another hour~ to load a cord to deliver.
Oooh.. splitting firewood!!.. golly shucks!!
Is that a "HD" or a "J" model?
Canby Norman i believe its an old j model