How Much Firewood Will This Make? Now We Know
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- I had to know how much firewood a full dump trailer load of logs would make so we decided to cut split and stack one and see what the results said
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Thanks. Great video Adam. Enjoy the show this coming weekend.
Definitely more wood than I thought was there. Have fun at Bunyan!
That's actually a pretty decent price. Here in Latvia we probably have half the price but our wages are like 1000$ a month 😅😂
TENT good idea !!!
Great video. I must have missed the last video. When I calculate how much is in a trailer. I just figure out the cubic feet then divide by 180 because it is log form. It comes out plus minus 4%. Another way is to weigh the load. If you know what your tare is you can cross reference the species chart.
Adam, it is good to see that you are not afraid to put in the work necessary to prove that you are selling people firewood at a bargain. It is always a good thing for people to have options on how they spend their money. Stay safe and healthy. Bill H from Cranberry Township
82 is too hot? Lol. I'm from Pittsburgh but live in Arizona. 82 is cold to me now.
Told ya so! 😂
Adam, what camera are you using for first person?
What do you think of adding one or two more logs to the load and advertising it as two full cords for $300 or $325 might be a sweeter deal for a quick sale of stuff you don’t want to deal with?
Now we know, I will definitely sleep better tonight.
Why wouldn’t you make lumber or slabs out of those logs?
I had no doubt that dump trailer was 1.5 cords. Thanks for proving the naysayers wrong.
I've asked b4 but what are the buildings along your driveway? Do you have any plans for them?
The driveway is right on the property line. Those are my neighbors. One is an old horse barn and another was a milking stall for dairy cattle. No longer a farm though. Now they are just his storage
Thanks Adam.
Keep up the great content.
So will you refill the trailer with unbucked logs to sell for the $300.- price, since the price seems to be fair ? Is that your sole trailer to use for all needs ? Thnx…
Yes and yes. If I need to use it for something else I can always dump the load and then put it back in with the excavator when I’m done using it for something else
A split cord delivered and seasoned in my area is typically between 2-275 dollars. I had a guy bring me about a cord and a half for the price of one and I think I paid him 225 per load so 450 bucks for about 2.5-3 cords of real nice firewood. 4-500 for a cord of wood split is crazy. But different markets I guess. I’m in southern central area of NY btw.
Where I am, you're lucky to get 3/4's of a cord listed as a full cord for $400. I wish local firewood guys were as honest as these folks running these channels.
Box blade to push rounds cuz you have the forks on…that’s a move I’ll be stealing.
I'm so glad you went through the trouble of processing that trailer load! I have a 14' dump trailer also, and I would have put money on that being less than 1.5 cords. Science!!! 😁👍
Good morning Adam, nice episode, this experiment allows us to see the work involved in creating baskets of firewood from logs that are less than perfect for optimal processing. It seems like a lot of work for a less than optimal profit for the value added time spent. It also allows you to diversify and broaden your customer base and supply what some customers are interested in, with confidence of knowing the value you are offering to them. It all comes down to know your customers/market/ your product offerings. Smart business decision.☺️👍👍👍
Hello guys from Australia 🇦🇺
Also from Oz
I guesstimated 1.75 cords from the thumbnail , pretty close I guess. Up here on Vancouver Island that pile you have would be worth about $500 US. Do you do free delivery? 😎
Do your thing Hometown. Life is a learning process. Have fun and enjoy what you're doing. That is THE most important thing. Thank you for all your content, imo, you're doing just fine. Signed...Old man.
Whoop whoop, Hometown Acres 🙌💃🙌 That machine does a good job!! It's tough to pick up those heavy logs!! Love the "told you so" 😉👍 God bless you and your family! Thanks for your videos!! 👍🌟❤️🙏
excellent video
Adam, did you throw us in an easter egg? Anyone else spot the LS Tractor hat? New partnership coming, maybe?
Well done Adam. Fantastic log splitter , health and safety don't allow machines like that here in the UK , all splitters have to be two handed operation !! Crazy rules. Have a great show.
If you disagree with this rule being crazy, lift your right hand with the remaining 4 fingers...
No one would have introduced safety switches and stuff if it wouldn't be for the better of people who underestimate the dangers.
you mean people on youtube question everything we do? lol keep grinding buddy! always enjoy your content.
Good video, not allot of folks use the canopys makes allot of sense. I might reccomend you check out a firewood processor video on my channel of a home made unit I made, its not pretty but it gets the job done with much less effort. And zero bending and picking. No one ever thinks it will happen to them, then one day you wake up and your old...lol stuff starts to hurt.
They make logging tape measures that you can use to estimate the cordage of a log. It measures circumference and length. Pretty cool. Also those logs with weird grain and stuff have more BTU/cord so I'd say the trailer full isn't a bad deal.
The also have a magnetic 'ruler' you attach to the chainsaw bar and it indicates where to cut. That would save time.
Having cut and split firewood, it is interesting to watch the guess of how much firewood is in a pile grow and shrink through the steps. A round looks a lot smaller than the pile of split wood it makes
Thanks for the video
You gotta split a cord with an axe sometime just appreciate all of your equipment (would be a good episode too). I do it myself to stay in shape during the winter (just the easy stuff like dead white ash). I have a tractor / splitter for most of my firewood, but always love to go back to the ol axe a couple times a year.
That’s a great idea. Maybe just a third of a cord
ok, now do it like 20 more times to make it statistically significant and let's average the results. 👺👺
Glad you were able to prove the trailer load of logs can yield that much in split wood..
Should help you move more trailer loads for sure 👍
Awesome vid. Its been a while sense iv been on here. But awesome vid as always. Also you got me into fire wood and now I run a side biussnes with my school and job. Thank you so much.
Holy crap lol I can get a cord split seasoned and delivered for 190$ crazy how much prices change based on location
Most people that burn that much firewood and are willing to split it themselves are resourceful enough to procure their own logs. If you got money to buy logs at that price you may as well pay someone else to split it and dry it on their land in my opinion.
That was a good demonstration though.
Some people don't want to go out and get logs and would prefer to get them delivered. Like my dad is in his mid-60s. He used to get tree service wood, but that's getting too hard for him, so he's gonna start getting logs delivered when he needs more wood burner fuel.
Depends of stove. Going by that load I believe month if lucky
No kidding. Logs have NEGATIVE value if not at a sawmill. He should be Paying people to take that crap away, not them paying him, but stupid is as stupid does. Tree services will deliever for FREE, rounds of ~firewood and if you ONLY want branches etc that have gone through a chipper, heck that crap is ~free as well. A bit harder to burn in a fireplace, but with a little work, it works just fine.
@@w8stral those days are over, wood prices have gone up immensely in the past years, world wide, and certainly in the US . nobody is giving away wood anymore (unless you are in the middle of WoodLand County where everybody lives amid a million trees i guess) But not in most places....
You have a very nice woodcutter. However, having 5 containers, which were made with a volume of exactly 1 m3 for a reason, you still continue to suffer with small numbers, calculating fractions, although having in front of your nose 5 whole units of measurement, which are simple and visual.
Cutting firewood most my life never seen someone buck up logs with a tape measure. I do use my cutting chain bar. Place a mark on your bar, face off the size just before you cut the log..
Very cool. I wondered how much a load would make. It looks like you were right on the money! Thanks for sharing.
Right on the money after spending.....?
@@TruckingCarsL48 no I meant that he was right at what he thought a trailer load of logs was going to make as far as the number of baskets or cords.
@@TheHobbyShop1 I get that, but now he has to add money to his price for all he spent...So it's wasn't worth his original price to the buyer.
A chord of wood in the form of 8 large logs is not worth the same price as a chord of wood... cut/split/stacked
Reality:
8 logs on side of road - $100 to $150
8 logs cut/split/stacked $350
Funny part is when I grew up a chord was $60 so it's hard to write $350
I guessed a Cord and a Half before i watched the whole thing. Great Job Adam. Its great that you educate people on Measurements. A well educated Customer is a Happy Customer. And it was great meeting you at the Bunyan Show.
I would have bought that trailer of wood for $300. Good price and good wood.
1/3 cord is a Face Cord
You can't measure 38 inches when your cutting 16inches
Did you keep track of your costs, time, fuel, oil, etc? It would be interesting to know the true cost of producing a cord of wood.
He has done that in a past video
I'm entirely not surprised that the guy who makes a living selling firewood, knows better than armchair warriors. Lmao.
i have not watched the video yet. it's not worth $300.00 unless delivery is included. it's about 1.5 cord split. hard wood i can get for 200./cord locally SPLIT. delivered is an additional $50 (45 min from the yard).
period. i; ve been selling firewood for over 30 years (and have been pricing it nationally for all that time too)
sorry, not sorry, your unprocessed log: NOT WORTH IT.
I wish I could get that much wood as log for 300$ locally around here. Granted I can get wood for free I just have to fell it myself but being able to get that much wood for 300$ is very reasonable considering people are selling truck loads of wood not trailer loads for around 800$ up here. So I cut my own and split my own.
I get the larger totes, usually used food grade ones. Their dimensions are 48" x 46" x 56"= 123,648 cubic inches . a half cord being 48 x 48 x 48 = 110,592 cubic inches. I know I wont fit a proper 3rd row of 16" split wood in 46" but I fill the whole cage and stack up to 60" high and call it a half cord cause it should be damned close at that point. I keep 4 of these in my backyard behind my woodshed and have 3 small wood sheds that hold 1.5 , 2 and 2.66 full cords each.
First... The more you split the quicker it burns... Lets see, mini excavator, tractor and log splitter,
$50,000 +, your time, diesel and gasoline cost and wear and tear on the equipment... How much does, an actual cord of wood cost, in your area. From what I could see, this was mixed woods, not just oak...
The math isn't adding up. 16" wood by 2 rows doesn't count as 36". 1.33 (16") x 3.5 (42") x 3.83 (46") = 17.83 cu ft x 2 rows = 35.66 cu ft. Good test though to see how much wood was on the trailer.
Looking at the marks, those are about 11-12 foot logs. So lets assume that's a 12'x4'x2' trailer, piled up to about 3'. That's 144 cubic feet of logs, assuming it's full, given there are some 11's in there... call it 130 cubic feet. Just on that, alone, you know it's more than a cord. Unless those logs are MASSIVELY twisted, there's no way they are accounting for more air than would be in a split cord. generally, splitting wood makes it take up more room, not less. Now, I've seen more trailers that are actually 5' wide than 4', but purely for basic cord math, it's a easy assumption to work with.
So you're starting out with more than a full cord of log. Anyone saying you're under a cord for that just doesn't understand how any of this works to begin with.
You have a tractor, presumably with a bucket. Why aren't filling the bucket, on the ground, with the rounds, then setting it up next to the splitter? That way you're not lifting and carrying rounds to the splitter, saving your back. Work Smarter, Not Harder!
Seems like you could get more for that. If you are delivering and stacking, you really ought to jack the price. Everybody else is doing the same. Try $400, that is some damn fine red oak.
It's funny, because I was ridiculed for saying I would pay $300 for it. 1st I am getting clean wood and you pick good logs. 2nd - the wood was cured and ready to burn. 3rd and foremost - I knew it would be more than a full cord. Major savings and you stated you would deliver it -come on! I have a saw and log splitter - so I would be good to go. Of course, I know delivery to Michigan is out of the question - LOL! Great video - it was kind of cool to see you processing it old school again. Fun! Another - thing - it is your fault that I went out and bought a splitter. Watching your channel, I just had to get out and experience the fun of it all! Thanks! LOL!
Is it still fun when you have done 50 logs?
Steal of a deal Adam....been 10 years since I bought a cord but given this cruddy economy, I say thats a great price cut/stacked.
Great job Adam, what was the size of your dump trailer. Looking for the length of your logs.
Sorry if I missed it, but what is the size of your dump trailer. I have a 5’ x 10’ and wanted to know for comparison- thanks for posting (I am not a fan of the heat either!)
I don't know much about firewood but obviously, the value of a cord of red oak has a different value than a cord of beech with the value depending on the heat content (BTU's) of each cord. Do you take that into account when pricing your firewood?
I think you were being a little optimistic with your tape measure readings. You didn't fill the space between the two rows in the baskets, and you were measuring the baskets not the stacked wood. The 46" dimension you showed looked like 43" in the vid.. Just saying... All in all, I'd say you have an honest 1.25 -1.33 cord there. Regardless, I enjoyed the video, thanks for showing.
Cool. An accountant proved his math to be correct.
Have you split Ash? I'd like to see a 15 ton electric kinetic splitter being used.
Since there are 1536 board feet of wood in a cord of firewood. You could have scaled the logs and come up with a number without all that work.. and because all logs are inherently different the next load you put up for sale will have a different amount in it.. learn how to scale logs, and you’ll know how much is on the trailer.. 😂
Never understood why people buy firewood, but also I’ve never paid anyone to cut my grass… I own a landscaping business so we just sell firewood lol.
Get free loads of logs and resell for 250 a cord unseasoned
Anyone who looked at that pile and said no way it's a cord never split much wood. I just got 27 nice pieces of red oak from a 44-inch round. It adds up fast.
Damn, you have a very nice setup and system. You barely do any lifting, everything is mechanized.
I use sidewalk chalk for marking, I’m kinda cheap
Measure your logs volume. Figure 90 cu ft will make 128 cut and split
Dude it's like 250 a cord for presplit hardwood.. not even remotely worth it.
Cheap. I pay for 1m3 70€. Hardwood .sitting at the road in the forrest. 👍👍🇩🇪
I’ll take a trailer load at that price Adam! Do you deliver? I’m only 3616 miles away as the crow flies 😂
Man ime from Uk and have no idea what your talking about with cords etc but loved your video. Thanks.
Not a wood cutter, so may be guessing here, but don't guys measure the length of a log to cut by measuring the length of the chainsaw blade or something like that? I noticed you measuring and spraypainting.
N.E. Ohio a chord split and delivered is about $280. Great video, thanks. Cheers
Smart man wearing chaps, guy showed me his leg a few months by not wearing them NASTY
Personally I still think $300 for that is a little high most people don't have the equipment or tools to process all that wood and a cord of split and seasoned wood around me is about $300
I hope you make way more than $300 from google on this video! Awesome stuff!
Numbers guy that you are how different would the result be if you would have just stacked the rounds in the baskets without the split?
Holy cow Adam! That was a boat load more than I thought it would turn out to be. Once you cut those logs up, I was like, yup that's well worth the 300 bucks. I'd take 2 loads, if I wasn't 700 plus miles away. Your going to sell the heck out of trailer loads now, just wait. Have a good time at the Paul Bunyan show. Wish I could make it this year, hopefully next year I'll have this cancer whooped, and the my wife and I can make the trip up there.
I doubt it!
Anyone that pays $300 for that load of loafs is a fool!!! Tree company’s will GIVE it to you!!!
@@wallacesmith865 not everybody lives in free or cheap wood areas, it depends per state
There are actual calculators to answer the question will you sip on your coffee.
I guess it would not make for an interesting video.
I'm too old to do all the extra work, those logs are nice. I buy green split for 225 a cord and re-split it and sell bundles. I bought a load of tree service wood damn near killer me and I'm no stranger to hard work.
ADAM, forgot to add the time into your equation.
Just so people can see if it's worth the time for them to split it. Still a good value for those that want to put in the work.
I know you’re correct about 4 totes being a cord but a cord is 4x4x8 ft long , that looks like more than that to me.
Great Video. So nice to have that grapple bucket to hold and move the wood around brother.
Shame you didn't have an attachment on the thumb of the excavator to split them would save you handling the logs so much
I pay from 500 to 700 for a full log truck load and its about 7 cords when cut split and stacked
"And now I know the answer, the price is more than $300..."
#valueadded
Time to find someone else selling firewood and make them a bulk deal? They would be able to put in the wand still make a few bucks.
Hi guys from Sweden. 🇸🇪
In my neck of the woods I’d call that two and half pickup loads myself witch anyone that burns a lot of wood does there own wood so we look at it crazy to buy a load of wood of someone but good job and nice set up you got
better off saying its approx 1.5 cords than 1.66. better to under promise and over deliver to make for a happier customer.
Darn I couldn’t find neighbor Dug in this video!
And gets gets to practice his golf swing with a PV. Genius.
Instead of spray paint i use a bingo dabber to mark the length of the firewood
Good job, some people have to be shown.
Um, letting the trailer sit full of logs may not be good for the suspension.
Just saying l
What saw model is that?
You made me laugh about the heat. Starting in mid-June of this year, we had a bunch of severe Thunderstorms. It seemed like they were coming every 18 hours for a couple of weeks. So naturally, there was oak laying everywhere. For weeks I'd drive around my town with my saw and load my truck. (I also helped several old folks clean up their tarps in the process.) Then I rented a splitter in July and split it all over s weekend. June and July in Mississippi. Air Temps in the 90s with heat indexes of over 110°. I would be so sweaty that none of my clothes would be dry exactly like I had jumped in a pond. So I feel you.
Anyway, this is a great video from a production standpoint. Your use of time-lapse, camera angles, background music, but also suspense makes for something quite entertaining.
Thank you I appreciate that
You are getting very good at your job. I figure that you would be good at what did no matter what it was.
And that was stacked,tossed in or off a conveyor you would have got one or two more totes. Excellent video, very instructive. Cheers from H.B. NZ
God Adam...you have a great setup no matter how you do your wood...I want your life haha...but I'm too old and crippled up to be doing that kind of work now...I can just hope to be reincarnated to hometown acres 😂...take care ...thanks for the video👍
Cord of wood
4 x4 x 8 feet two 8 foot pick up truck loads humped to make up for the wheel wells !
There is no a 1/3 of a cord in one rack a 1/3 of cord is 4 ft hi and 8 ft long and you need 3 of them to make a cord sir
I totally would have bought that for $300.
I think there are 4 baskets of split firewood.
It pisses me off to no extent when people try to have people pay for logs or trees they want cut down