cutting and splitting firewood is a joy for my retirement years not work. but good exercise and in the woods I go after the harder stuff to get and split, just for the extra exercise. I got neighbors don't understand my desire to cut firewood. But they are the ones that think because I'm 70 I should be doing nothing. I'm right there with you "best job I ever had"
I can't be alone here feeling happy seeing the wood leave the wood yard. All the time and effort going into making the firewood, it's awesome to see the payoff of not only the money but the happy customers. Awesome video Chris and well done!!!
The efficiencies you have added to your operations have caused less physical effort to achieve greater productivity. When I was in my mid to late 60s, I was felling trees from sunrise to sunset, 6 days a week. Of course, this will take its toll. My cardiologist told me to listen to my body and to pace myself accordingly. Twenty years later , I am still kicking but not as high or often. Lol 😊 Keep enjoying what you're doing .
I’m a 66 year old women and lost my husband 11 years ago. But I heat my home with wood and love cutting splitting and stacking it. I burn about 9 to 10 full cords a year and always stay warm! I have a Stihl MS 361c professional smaller saw with a 20” bar. And I have a timber Wolf TW- 1 that I have severely modified. I have installed a log lift and a very large table that helps a lot. I love watching you cut and process as I love doing it myself. It is not a chore to me it is something that I love doing. 💃🔥🪵🪵
Just like old times... Chris with the single wedge on the Ultra, bustin' some Assssh!💪 Our local family owned lumberyard/Ace Hardware has always used the "Wood is Good" slogan on their marketing stuff!👍
Glad you're safe Chris, was nice watching the little avalanche of wood. Just now starting to upload my own videos, so thanks for being part of the inspiration. Have a great day!
Love your videos, and you take on life and firewood, I split around 5 to 8 cords a year by hand/axe and wouldn't change it until I'm old and senile. Thanks
You need the exercise or tom’s might catch up with ya 🤣 good work Chris. So many people want to take all the labor out of firewood. Firewood is work! Don’t like manual labor, don’t do firewood. Have a great safe day!
Goodmorning Chris !!! Your like lots of us old school with good work ethics. I'm in my late 70s and i can still split by hand .Have a blessed day brother.
I had forgotten how much I enjoyed watching the splitter at work. I have just two words about the avalanche POTATO RAKE. Your videos are so much fun to watch I use them as a staple of daily watching.
Awesome and fun vid today Chris! Great job on the deliveries and busting through those big rounds. Awesome time watching the Ultra working the single wedge! 🔥💯👍. Enjoyed the video as always! My favourite channel on your UA-cam! See you tomorrow! Andrew from NB :)
You pull from the pile like i do. I have guys who will run to the farest corner of the top of the pile and work down and around. Drives me crazy. I just have to let them do there thing. They wont change. Adult adhd is real.
Chris I thought there was going to be rock climbing up the face of mount Carlson with a clip of rocky dancing at the top. Just kidding, keep on cutting
I use a rake or shovel to push over the tip of mountain of firewood. Just a suggestion. I know it is fun climbing the wood mtn but you could get hurt. Then who is going to make these cool videos? Got an ultra coming in April. Can't wait. Thanks Chris
😮 I don't know if it would work.🤔 But why not run a loop around the woodpile.. Hook it to your trailer, and pull it through. I think a rope would work best. Well just an idea..💡👀
For causing a controlled fall/avalanche, for next time I would recommend using the forks on the tractor and push/lift on the pile to get stuff to move around. I know you like the exercise, but being out of the squish zone completely is probably even better for your health :D
No, it never had one so no. And I have used log lift splitters and they are mostly used as tables for rounds, so until I get to be over 80 I do not think I will need one.
We all need some type of exercise to keep us going. I know we by equipment to help make our jobs easier, but, we need to keep moving!!! Go for the juggler!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣 Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
I had a great delivery weekend. Upped my price from $100/face last year to $125/face this year and folks are buying. Thats $500 every 4 face cords. I’m rich!!!
The angle that a pile of material creates when it is at rest is called the Angle of Repose. When you violate said angle, events like avalanches happen. Your old new best friend, Cool Tool Tony, might have a tool to help you calculate the angle of repose for loose stacked firewood. By the way, the only thing that splits easier than green wood is frozen green wood. At least thst has been my experience. As for that 10 pounds, it is a function of distance. The further you get from your original date of birth, the more the pounds add on. Don't blame me... I'm just the messenger... 😂
First frost of the year here in NWPA this morning and wishing I had another 10 cords to sell, now getting texts and calls from people who bought from me in August and September to see if I have more wood.
Nice shirt. 👍🏻. I’ve been told that wood that has frost in it splits easy. Is this true? I kinda figured you were not getting the same amount of exercise as you did a few years ago. Have a good day.
Hi Chris!!😀😀 I thought it looked like you have put on a little weight in the last year. I've been pretty lucky that I haven't gained much weight in the last year even though I haven't been able to work at all. Take care my friend!! See you later today!! 😀😀 Logger Al
I would like to see you get dressed up in full football gear including helmet and run as fast as you can into the firewood mound. See if that would get the wood to fall down.
I had to stack 5 facecords of maple and oak in sept. And 6 facecords at a campsite in summer. Took me 2 hrs by myself at each one. Its a pain in your back especially when people are home but are too lazy to come help you. Even at $20/ facecord it seems like u are wasting alot of your day. When it could be dumped off in 1 minute and I'm on my way home to do other deliveries or split more wood. Id rather be cutting and splitting more firewood at home than be in some garage stacking other people's firewood that they are able to do themselves. Palletized firewood loaded on a trailer with a gas powered pallet mover would be nice but most people don't want garage space taken up or want to pay more for firewood stacked and wrapped neatly on pallets.
@@iffykidmn8170 yeah ik . $ is $ but I'd rather be splitting more firewood to sell than be stacking peoples firewood. When u split hundreds of facecords every year it gets old restacking wood u previously stacked and thrown In the trailer already piece by piece. Chris would agree. Less touches is better when selling wood
Next time, Chris take them over to the processor and send them thru the wedge on it. You can load them up in the bucket of the tractor or trailer, drop the gate where the cutoff pcs come out, and load them there. Alot faster.
Hey, Chris, II don't know if it was a video when you're a rap Bunny and you're going to bun in or whatever. I thought you'd mentioned that your side's wiped in your truck. Just wondering if that's something that we're gonna see on. See that you appear to have your truck back. Or was that a few years ago?
I dont know When I was 35 I was a runner Training for marathons for over 5 yrs and I had a heart attack . SO exericise can kill you and harm you. If you look there is a lot of people that are running having heart attacks that have trained for yrs. SO never say that exericise will never hurt you. I am proof of that
@@InTheWoodyard lol thanks for the comment but will disagree with that uneducated comment. TO just let you know MY doctor said I stressed my heart out from all the running and hard training. SO genetics HELL NO but thanks
Sing the elevator?? Do you mean use it for loading my truck....why would I? I can toss the wood into the truck just as easy as on the elevator and don't have to set it all up. Just chuck it in!
I bet you get really tired of all the free "advice" everyone gives you. (including me) I truly want to help, but also know I get really tired of people giving me advice I do not seek from them.
Nope, I make a video EVERY day and have for over 1200 days now. I was there, I remember it, I shot it, edited it, made the thumbnail , uploaded it and now I am answering all the comments just like every day for the last 3 1/2 years.
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cutting and splitting firewood is a joy for my retirement years not work. but good exercise and in the woods I go after the harder stuff to get and split, just for the extra exercise. I got neighbors don't understand my desire to cut firewood. But they are the ones that think because I'm 70 I should be doing nothing. I'm right there with you "best job I ever had"
Yup, just keep moving!
🤘two of my favorites. Deliveries and watching the Ultra work!
Mine too!
Making money is a reward of your hard work, the sound of dry wood falling nice sound thanks Chris for sharing
Yup, wood is good and so is work, my favorite 4 letter words!
I can't be alone here feeling happy seeing the wood leave the wood yard. All the time and effort going into making the firewood, it's awesome to see the payoff of not only the money but the happy customers. Awesome video Chris and well done!!!
Yup! Thanks Patrick!
The efficiencies you have added to your operations have caused less physical effort to achieve greater productivity. When I was in my mid to late 60s, I was felling trees from sunrise to sunset, 6 days a week. Of course, this will take its toll. My cardiologist told me to listen to my body and to pace myself accordingly. Twenty years later , I am still kicking but not as high or often. Lol 😊 Keep enjoying what you're doing .
At 70yrs old I know what you are talking about stay well
Yup, you gotta keep moving because gravity and time never stop fighting you!
yup!
I’m a 66 year old women and lost my husband 11 years ago. But I heat my home with wood and love cutting splitting and stacking it. I burn about 9 to 10 full cords a year and always stay warm! I have a Stihl MS 361c professional smaller saw with a 20” bar. And I have a timber Wolf TW- 1 that I have severely modified. I have installed a log lift and a very large table that helps a lot. I love watching you cut and process as I love doing it myself. It is not a chore to me it is something that I love doing. 💃🔥🪵🪵
@@lyndseymarieburke1834holy crap you kick ass, good for you, that’s a lot of work keep cutting ❤
Just like old times...
Chris with the single wedge on the Ultra, bustin' some Assssh!💪
Our local family owned lumberyard/Ace Hardware has always used the "Wood is Good" slogan on their marketing stuff!👍
Yup, just another day in paradise!
@@InTheWoodyard It looked like Paradise to me!
Get er’ done Chris!👍💪👍
I will try! Thanks!
Glad you're safe Chris, was nice watching the little avalanche of wood. Just now starting to upload my own videos, so thanks for being part of the inspiration. Have a great day!
Thanks 👍
Love your videos, and you take on life and firewood, I split around 5 to 8 cords a year by hand/axe and wouldn't change it until I'm old and senile. Thanks
Thanks, keep cuttin'!
Chris,excellent job and video all the hard work that went into the firewood is now paying off 😮😊❤
Thanks 👍
You need the exercise or tom’s might catch up with ya 🤣 good work Chris. So many people want to take all the labor out of firewood. Firewood is work! Don’t like manual labor, don’t do firewood. Have a great safe day!
So true!!!
Goodmorning Chris !!! Your like lots of us old school with good work ethics. I'm in my late 70s and i can still split by hand .Have a blessed day brother.
Right on!
Chris you built a house of cards! Good Night Irene.
Yup!
That's the best type of fan!
Yup!
I had forgotten how much I enjoyed watching the splitter at work. I have just two words about the avalanche POTATO RAKE. Your videos are so much fun to watch I use them as a staple of daily watching.
A rake or pickaroon would work but that would take out all the fun and excitement for me and you all!
Awesome and fun vid today Chris! Great job on the deliveries and busting through those big rounds. Awesome time watching the Ultra working the single wedge! 🔥💯👍. Enjoyed the video as always! My favourite channel on your UA-cam! See you tomorrow! Andrew from NB :)
Thanks again!
Got a few extra mousers to spare, I'll take them. I'm running low on them. Have a good one wood dude. Take care..
Come and get some! Thanks!
G’morning Chris. Nice episode today. Don’t get crushed, I can’t handle more upsetting news. Thanks for alllllll you do ! GoodNightIrene
Thanks a bunch my good man!
Agreed, exercise is good. If you rest, you rust.
Yup, and rust leads to death!
These vids never get boring to watch... 😉
Thanks!
I wish there was someone in my area that sold wood like you do
I do deliver!!!
Crown Royal 😋 you are a good Man. 🥃 👍
I try, thanks.
You pull from the pile like i do. I have guys who will run to the farest corner of the top of the pile and work down and around. Drives me crazy. I just have to let them do there thing. They wont change. Adult adhd is real.
Chris I thought there was going to be rock climbing up the face of mount Carlson with a clip of rocky dancing at the top. Just kidding, keep on cutting
Haa!!! Thanks!
Get those Benjamin’s!!👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Yup, all of them!
Good morning, Chris. You need a rake to drag the top layer easily.😊
Maybe but what fun would that be??? Haaa!
@@InTheWoodyard true!😂
I use a rake or shovel to push over the tip of mountain of firewood. Just a suggestion. I know it is fun climbing the wood mtn but you could get hurt. Then who is going to make these cool videos? Got an ultra coming in April. Can't wait. Thanks Chris
Great idea but not as dramatic, this is Hollywood !!
Baby Woodcats are the best thing ever to start a Monday
Thanks!
It's fair to say that tree service wood is all profit because you would need to spend time and fuel on any logs that you need to process.
Yup, that is true!
😮 I don't know if it would work.🤔
But why not run a loop around the woodpile..
Hook it to your trailer, and pull it through.
I think a rope would work best.
Well just an idea..💡👀
Not as fun!
Hey Chris how are you doing I'm good great video and what u saying is very true
I am doing great! Thanks Robert!
I can't believe how tough that ash is to split.l!! Dang I better get on my ash pile before it ends up like that!!!
Yup, as rounds dry they get very stubborn!
Sometimes, i try to guess what you will split again. Today, you threw me off. Watch your videos every day.
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching!
👍👍👍
Thanks!!!
Good Morning wood yard😊
Hello Lyndsey!
I like your message on work and exercise. Getting hit in the chins is the worst.
Thanks, yup, shins and falling collisions wood hurt!
For causing a controlled fall/avalanche, for next time I would recommend using the forks on the tractor and push/lift on the pile to get stuff to move around. I know you like the exercise, but being out of the squish zone completely is probably even better for your health :D
That would take all the fun out of it. And it would be boring.
Do you miss not having a log lift for the Ultra? Good video, good advice, nice to see some quality customer service in action.
No, it never had one so no. And I have used log lift splitters and they are mostly used as tables for rounds, so until I get to be over 80 I do not think I will need one.
🤘
Thanks!
Chris - Click Bate😊
Cat’s & Kittens❤
Did you watch? If so it worked. Thanks for watching!
@@InTheWoodyard yes and saw kitty cars ar end😀
Good morning
Morning!!!
Go out doing what you love haha
Yup!
Happy wallet and Happy cats
Yup!
May have been safer tearing down the wood mountain with the Ruby Red Slippers.
Ha! Maybe so!
Lol think fab a long pickeroon to pull pieces out of tall stack to make your avalanche
This was more fun!
Great shirt Chris !!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦
Thanks!
I do love a Rye by the fire on the rocks. The purple bags were a common thing to store stuff in growing up.
👍👍😊
Thanks!
Using your pickaroon would make it less dangerous to pull out the key sticks
Yup, but not as much fun!
The ultra hanging in there. Lots of miles on it, but with care it will keep going. Nice video. Later.
That's the plan!
Everyone needs exercise and it is nice if the exercise pays off. (money and better health)
Yes and yes!
Good morning Chris we used 16footwith Pike Pole went work on block pile it "s was 4 Foot wood 20 Feet high ( ty Ron )
That is probably a good idea!
Lot of bigger pieces of the splitting ash rounds, cause you know the wood is already dry/seasoned ? Thnx…
Yup, exactly!
Never seen ash split so hard
When a knotty round dries before splitting they can be tough!
I noticed you split them bigger than normal is that going to be going to a customer that heats with wood?
I knew this wood was mostly ash (mostly dry) and that it would have almost a year to dry so I did not split it as small.
We all need some type of exercise to keep us going. I know we by equipment to help make our jobs easier, but, we need to keep moving!!! Go for the juggler!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣 Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Absolutely!!
yup, chuckem
Thanks!
Good Morning Chris, maybe a little less caffeine before filming, 😂 stay Happy my Friend 🪵👍🏼🇺🇸
I would agree he is making us all look slow..🤣🤣
I did not know there was such a thing as to much caffeine!!!
Slow is my middle name!
Hi Chris,
I’ve been watching but haven’t commented for a while. That’s a good day of deliveries. Glad you weren’t crush in a firewood avalanche! LOL
Thanks Mark!
I noticed you where splitting some of the big ash rounds in bigger pieces. Just wondering..
Yup, I do have some bigger stuff, I ask my customers if they want small or medium size pieces and deliver what they want most of the time.
I had a great delivery weekend. Upped my price from $100/face last year to $125/face this year and folks are buying. Thats $500 every 4 face cords. I’m rich!!!
Yup, good to hear!
Work safe 🙂
yup!
The angle that a pile of material creates when it is at rest is called the Angle of Repose. When you violate said angle, events like avalanches happen.
Your old new best friend, Cool Tool Tony, might have a tool to help you calculate the angle of repose for loose stacked firewood.
By the way, the only thing that splits easier than green wood is frozen green wood. At least thst has been my experience.
As for that 10 pounds, it is a function of distance. The further you get from your original date of birth, the more the pounds add on.
Don't blame me... I'm just the messenger... 😂
Yup, good stuff!
First frost of the year here in NWPA this morning and wishing I had another 10 cords to sell, now getting texts and calls from people who bought from me in August and September to see if I have more wood.
Yup, I always say...you can't have to much wood!! More is better!
Good morning all!
Good morning!
Nice shirt. 👍🏻. I’ve been told that wood that has frost in it splits easy. Is this true?
I kinda figured you were not getting the same amount of exercise as you did a few years ago.
Have a good day.
That is correct!
I burn dry wood a couple years ago bought a stove with a cat plugged my chimney in a half a season went back to a none cat lopi
I am not sure what you are trying to say??
@@InTheWoodyard woodstove with a catalyst sucks
5 or 6 years before my retirement I'm going to start doing this..this will be my retirement hustle
DO NOT WAIT! Start now, you will be glad you did!
@@InTheWoodyard ok..thanks for the advice..i watch your videos every morning and every evening before bed
FYI: Love your advice of the day - go for the jugular. Might work for your kitties, but not a mountain lion
Great tip! I will remember that just in case I see one!
Nice video Chris. Avalanche dash and splitting ash. GNI
Thanks Larry!
30°F and Frosty here in Ashville Ohio!! 55°F high tday.... Brrrrrr
Best time of the year!! Rees are a poppin and the beans n corn are gettin cut!!
Yup, best days of the year ...now!
Hi Chris!!😀😀
I thought it looked like you have put on a little weight in the last year.
I've been pretty lucky that I haven't gained much weight in the last year even though I haven't been able to work at all.
Take care my friend!!
See you later today!! 😀😀
Logger Al
Thanks, you too Al! Enjoy the cats!
@@InTheWoodyard so far they seem to be making their self's right to home.
I would like to see you get dressed up in full football gear including helmet and run as fast as you can into the firewood mound. See if that would get the wood to fall down.
Ha! That would be fun, if I lived!
That ash will be real nice burning wood.
Yes it will!
That's a Money Avalanche
Ha!!! YES!!!
A nice sharp edge on the splitting wedge I think helps in "tough" wood. (opinion) I noticed yours has got some nicks and gouges, just sayin'.
Yup, it does get a few nicks on some chunks.
I had to stack 5 facecords of maple and oak in sept. And 6 facecords at a campsite in summer. Took me 2 hrs by myself at each one. Its a pain in your back especially when people are home but are too lazy to come help you. Even at $20/ facecord it seems like u are wasting alot of your day. When it could be dumped off in 1 minute and I'm on my way home to do other deliveries or split more wood. Id rather be cutting and splitting more firewood at home than be in some garage stacking other people's firewood that they are able to do themselves. Palletized firewood loaded on a trailer with a gas powered pallet mover would be nice but most people don't want garage space taken up or want to pay more for firewood stacked and wrapped neatly on pallets.
Yup, all good points....firewood is work...period.
$20 per face cord which he averages a little less than 20 minutes per equates to a smidge over $60 per hour cash.🤔
@@iffykidmn8170 yeah ik . $ is $ but I'd rather be splitting more firewood to sell than be stacking peoples firewood. When u split hundreds of facecords every year it gets old restacking wood u previously stacked and thrown In the trailer already piece by piece. Chris would agree. Less touches is better when selling wood
@@Garrett572xpg Yes he found a cure for stacking firewood in the woodyard.
hello my friend
Hello!!
Juggler!!!! OMGeeeee coffee snort!!
Good Dad joke Chris!!
GNI
Thanks for watching!
Yep sometimes in life going single is the best option. 😁👍
Thanks for watching as always Daniel!
Why don’t you get yourself a long shafted steel grass rake for pulling down the top of the piles? Handier and safer 😜👍🇮🇪
Time to go and get it and pay for another tool I rarely use is why. And not as much fun.
@@InTheWoodyard 🤣🤣🤣
Next time, Chris take them over to the processor and send them thru the wedge on it. You can load them up in the bucket of the tractor or trailer, drop the gate where the cutoff pcs come out, and load them there. Alot faster.
No, that would take a lot more time.
How is the moisture in the center bottom?
It is awesome just like everywhere else in the pile....low! All dry no mold, no problems!
Hey, Chris, II don't know if it was a video when you're a rap Bunny and you're going to bun in or whatever. I thought you'd mentioned that your side's wiped in your truck. Just wondering if that's something that we're gonna see on. See that you appear to have your truck back. Or was that a few years ago?
It happened a few months ago, I got hit in a parking lot by a UHAUL, I just got it fixed.
I can’t believe you shook your finger at me and said I need more exercise!! I hate it when you’re right about that.
Sorry, but as my wife says, the truth hurts sometimes!
Good Morning Woodhounds !!!
Hello there!
Get yourself a pair of soccer shin guards. GNI
Maybe a football outfit too, helmet, knee pads, shoulder pads, cleats, mouth guard....
😅😅
Didn’t take long to shine up the single wedge!
I like my wedges to shine!!
I dont know When I was 35 I was a runner Training for marathons for over 5 yrs and I had a heart attack . SO exericise can kill you and harm you. If you look there is a lot of people that are running having heart attacks that have trained for yrs. SO never say that exericise will never hurt you. I am proof of that
It is usually genetics not the exercise.
@@InTheWoodyard lol thanks for the comment but will disagree with that uneducated comment. TO just let you know MY doctor said I stressed my heart out from all the running and hard training. SO genetics HELL NO but thanks
Why u aren’t sing the elevator
Sing the elevator?? Do you mean use it for loading my truck....why would I? I can toss the wood into the truck just as easy as on the elevator and don't have to set it all up. Just chuck it in!
You are a money making dynamo and a wood producing dynamo. (I am guessing one causes the other, maybe?)
Ha! Thanks!
Exercise yes, I hand spit all my wood for this very reason, not on your scale though of course.
I used to until I had to much to get done!
I bet you get really tired of all the free "advice" everyone gives you. (including me) I truly want to help, but also know I get really tired of people giving me advice I do not seek from them.
Sometimes yes, BUT there is a lot of really good ideas and suggestion too. I have learned a lot from all of the folks here!
This a repeat show
Nope, I make a video EVERY day and have for over 1200 days now. I was there, I remember it, I shot it, edited it, made the thumbnail , uploaded it and now I am answering all the comments just like every day for the last 3 1/2 years.
Good morning
Morning!