I’m 75 years old living about one mile from Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I heat with firewood that I harvest myself. Having a pro saw is definitely the best way to go. I have a Stihl pro saw, tons of power and powers through anything I put it into. I can see the time coming when I will have to switch to my smaller Husqvarna saw. My log splitter is powerful and slow but I work by myself and only process wood for my self, 5 to 6 cords a year, about 2 years ahead right now. All good advice aimed mostly at people wanting to get into the firewood business. Do what you can and match tour tools to your ability. By the time I hit 80 lighter and slower equipment may be necessary, will I to see what the Gods have in store for me!!! Either way I will cut my own firewood till’ till I am unable to put my feet on the floor in the morning!!!!!
Good morning Chris, I mainly produce firewood for myself, for friends and for where I work. My vertical splitter works on a compact tractor with a 10T ram and cycles in around 5 seconds. The wedge on it was a poor design so I replaced it with a single knife ( kept very sharp ) I made from hardened steel. It eats wood for fun and I've not found anything it can't split. It's accurate enough to safely make kindling with too.! Like you say, huge power isn't always needed, speed and efficiency wins👍🇬🇧
Takes spending money to make money bro… you may have to borrow some money up front to make it on the back end. I don’t own a splitter (I rent) and just actually got a tractor with loader n grapple but before I bought one I rented one couple times a year on big jobs. I’m not doing this for a living though. And don’t plan to
@jeremyfortune7274 I agree you will have to spend money to make money, but don't go out and go hog wild buying stuff you could possibly wait till your business could support it later.
All good points, Chris. I went from a 32cc to a 75cc saw. When i started, I was boring my Dad's f350, then got an F150, and figured out it wasn't enough. Now i have an F250, and for me, it's perfect. No dump trailer, but i do have a trailer based off of a 90 F250, and it's been the best trailer for me.😉👍
I have a Timberwolf TW-1 with a 4 way wedge and it is wonderful and only costs $4000. I do 50 cords a year. It is a 5 1/2 hp I would like a bigger one, but this has done all I have asked of it. I have always used 50 cc pro saws but since watching you, i have gone to a 70cc and you are right. It really speeds up cutting speed. I wish i had a log lift. Great advice and video. They need to know their market. I now live in an area far from a high population and everyone here has and sells wood. If I want to sell wood now, I have to drive 45-60 miles
@@InTheWoodyard I was thinking the other day, if you put those rubber billboard signs on the ground before you put the pallets down for your bins, would that help them last longer and give you a good moisture barrier?
Best advice ever Chris ... and get busy ..work when its cooler ...you are more productive. Go into a partnership ... I have a partner who has a pine plantation and a big tractor with a grapple grabber ... I brought the forestry skills .. big box splitter ..elevator .. 6 cube tipper trailer ... I drop and buck the trees ... he picks them up and stacks them ... 2 x Stihl 880's cut them ... into a big barn for the middle of next winter when prices are higher and no one has wood ... Get this all done in the spring early summer ...
@@InTheWoodyard My Ford F 250 Highboy 4x4 only needed oil changes a couple batteries and gas. Oh I did have to change the sparkplugs a few times and get a couple break jobs done. This Truck was a tank. Nothing would stop it. Had Granny low in it. I worked that truck and it seems the more I worked it the better it was running. U hauled dirt Gravel logs campers 2 1/2 miles up a MT in Kingsfield Maine called deer farm campground. I can not tell you how many cars I had to pull out of the snow. The clutch was right on the money and the shift was just right so when you was in 2nd and 4th the shift would rest on the seat. I had to pull my Friends Dodge 2500 4x4 out of a lake it was sinking in the muck . I hooked up to it put it in Granny low popped the clutch and got out of the truck and watched it pull that truck out like it was not even there..
I agree with the pickup 3/4 ton but I can't say anything bad about the older chevy s-10 I pulled a lot with it like a old john deere 45 combine. I built my own splitter it works good but I am going to put a bigger pump and engine on it this winter
when i got my first pro saw changed things up for me. but the single most game changer for me and i wish figured it out when i was 16 and not 45-48. get a long heavy duty snatch strap with some xtra clevis and then some heavy duty bull ropes. i dont touch brush anymore for the most part. i dont carry pieces through briars anymore. i save my time and i save my body. i need a trailer that i can carry my skid loader back and pick and fill a trailer. i want to be able to tip a trailer and split right out of the back end. my commercial grade box store splitter was a great investment. i should of done it sooner. i'm only at 5 years now. i could of saved my body sooner. but get some good ropes/straps and mabe a rope puller.
I often wonder if there’s something wrong with me that I dream of just having and working in a woodyard which is actually way more work and more difficult work than my dead end service job lol
Sorry. Chris. but here in Norway, getting a cheap simple wood processor is by far the best buy i ever made. i spent 4000 dollars and i make 0.6 to 1 cord an hour.
In the splitter choice between a glacier box store splitter and an Eastonmade Ultra, there sits the new Split Fire 1165V. It is a vertical splitter with 3.5 second cycle time. It is Canadian made and worth checking out.
A truck is the biggest thing I need to get next. I’ve been doing all my firewood with a suburban, which sorta works but it’s like 9 extra steps over just throwing rounds in the bed of a truck. It has the technical capacity but it’s not the same thing at all. In the past if I wanted to get serious I had to use a trailer; having a real truck bed would be a game changer.
That also reminds me, Easton made called me back after I inquired on their website but I was busy so I let it go to voicemail, I need to send them some of my doubloons for an ultra. It’s spendy as heck for my use case but better than what I can get from the local equipment rental place.
Sorry about that, check your setting on youtube and on your device it might be off balance also. It was fine on mine and the editing I did with it...so???
Usually a 27-28 ton box store splitter is 20-22 ton, based on actual pump psi and the bore size of the cylinder. Took me a while to calculate the tonnage, but that's what it is. Which is why a commercial grade 28 ton splitter smokes a box store splitter of the same tonnage.
Has anyone on here gotten the cutoff slabs from a mill for firewood? Several people around me have them for sale extremely cheap but I’m wondering if they’d be too much bark?
All wood burns, cutoff slabs have their own drawbacks bark being one, random lengths sliding moving while trying to cut and a few more really comes down to cost and your set up for processing them. I did not have a good process for dealing with them I could buy them for appx 1/5 the cost of buying full cords and I stuck with buying full cords YMMV.
@@InTheWoodyard I'm still wanting to go bigger. But it's gonna take time. I got a 98 Dodge ram 1500 that has the 5.9 Magnum. It has no problem pulling a big load of wood
I returned my 22 ton to buy a bigger splitter shoulda kept the 22 ton it was 3-4 seconds faster cycle time then the 37 ton I got now. I'm getting a wolf ridge next year
Get a bigger truck, keep your Tundra as a backup. (that Tundra, will probably go many more thousands of miles) Also, newer isn't always better, these "newer" pickups seem to have "electrical issues" after a while.
That was a Nice Explanation of things you need in FireWood Production, You missed an Excavator Fire Wood Bundler, A Hopper Feeder, if you Get a chance check OUT Allen Family Firewood he bought Hopper Feeder for his channel, to increase his Fire Wood Production, he has the EastonMade Axis and the STK 24 CONVEYOR,
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I’m 75 years old living about one mile from Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I heat with firewood that I harvest myself. Having a pro saw is definitely the best way to go. I have a Stihl pro saw, tons of power and powers through anything I put it into. I can see the time coming when I will have to switch to my smaller Husqvarna saw. My log splitter is powerful and slow but I work by myself and only process wood for my self, 5 to 6 cords a year, about 2 years ahead right now. All good advice aimed mostly at people wanting to get into the firewood business. Do what you can and match tour tools to your ability. By the time I hit 80 lighter and slower equipment may be necessary, will I to see what the Gods have in store for me!!! Either way I will cut my own firewood till’ till I am unable to put my feet on the floor in the morning!!!!!
Mike, that is great! Keep cuttin'!!
A tractor was the biggest game changer for me, specifically when I got my oversized bucket. It's an amazing combination
Yup, very much a couple labor and time saving things!
Good morning Chris,
I mainly produce firewood for myself, for friends and for where I work.
My vertical splitter works on a compact tractor with a 10T ram and cycles in around 5 seconds. The wedge on it was a poor design so I replaced it with a single knife ( kept very sharp ) I made from hardened steel. It eats wood for fun and I've not found anything it can't split.
It's accurate enough to safely make kindling with too.!
Like you say, huge power isn't always needed, speed and efficiency wins👍🇬🇧
Yup, thanks!
Great advice!! But don't put yourself in debt!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day
Takes spending money to make money bro… you may have to borrow some money up front to make it on the back end. I don’t own a splitter (I rent) and just actually got a tractor with loader n grapple but before I bought one I rented one couple times a year on big jobs. I’m not doing this for a living though. And don’t plan to
@jeremyfortune7274 I agree you will have to spend money to make money, but don't go out and go hog wild buying stuff you could possibly wait till your business could support it later.
Very true!
Paying the bank and working for them is a bad way to start any small personal business....Inventory and sales are most important.
Yes YEs and YES!
All good points, Chris. I went from a 32cc to a 75cc saw. When i started, I was boring my Dad's f350, then got an F150, and figured out it wasn't enough. Now i have an F250, and for me, it's perfect. No dump trailer, but i do have a trailer based off of a 90 F250, and it's been the best trailer for me.😉👍
Nice!
Thanks Chris ,I can't wait until I've caught up and traded up,I apriciate the vid
Thanks!!
I have a Timberwolf TW-1 with a 4 way wedge and it is wonderful and only costs $4000. I do 50 cords a year. It is a 5 1/2 hp I would like a bigger one, but this has done all I have asked of it. I have always used 50 cc pro saws but since watching you, i have gone to a 70cc and you are right. It really speeds up cutting speed. I wish i had a log lift. Great advice and video. They need to know their market. I now live in an area far from a high population and everyone here has and sells wood. If I want to sell wood now, I have to drive 45-60 miles
Thanks fr the input James....see ya soon!
@@InTheWoodyard I was thinking the other day, if you put those rubber billboard signs on the ground before you put the pallets down for your bins, would that help them last longer and give you a good moisture barrier?
Great information from your learning experience.
Thanks!!!
Excellent video Chris,I need professional wood splitter hopefully soon.thank Chris
Order one now...you will be glad you did!
Happy to hear the speed over power line. I like my 6/7 second 18 ton machine. Can’t beat it for the price I paid
Yup, speed is good!
Nice run-through Chris. And hey - Bonus Tips included. LOL! Cheers!
Hey, thanks Mr.P!
Great points all the way through!! #1 being a pro chainsaw is spot on!!
Thanks as always for the great advice!!
I always enjoy your videos!! 👊🏻🇺🇸
Thanks 👍
Ive done it in the exact way as you everything paid for
Yup...debt is dumb!
G’morning Chris. I am on board with 100 % of your words ! I just ain’t gots the room for a tractor. Yet. Thanks.
GoodNightIrene
Make some room!!!
Chris,great advice for anyone who is looking to start any business 👍😮😊❤
Glad you think so!
Excellent video Chris!
Thanks!
Great video Chris. 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks 👍
Chris makes/sells firewood. Chris has most of the toys/tools to do that. Anxious to see what you choose for the new truck. GNI
Me too??
Very good advice on all 7.
Thanks!!!
Awesome video Chris, we have a 2013 Tundra and it is a hoss. And my stump grinding business fuels my firewood addiction..😁
Thanks, nice!
I have the Fiskars axe, just a few more bits to get like this.
Save your pennies!
Best advice ever Chris ... and get busy ..work when its cooler ...you are more productive.
Go into a partnership ... I have a partner who has a pine plantation and a big tractor with a grapple grabber ... I brought the forestry skills .. big box splitter ..elevator .. 6 cube tipper trailer ... I drop and buck the trees ... he picks them up and stacks them ... 2 x Stihl 880's cut them ... into a big barn for the middle of next winter when prices are higher and no one has wood ... Get this all done in the spring early summer ...
Yup, most people fear work! I like it too!
Very good points Chris a dump trailer is on my to do list, let’s see if prices come down a little. Keep on cutting
The prices will never come down...they hold their value well...just get one and be happier!
I do miss my F 250 4x4 Highboy.
I had a couple furds..both where Found On Road Dead several times...getting rid of them was heaven.
Mazda could be the same way.
Just all depends on how used and abused it was before you.😉👍
@@InTheWoodyard My Ford F 250 Highboy 4x4 only needed oil changes a couple batteries and gas. Oh I did have to change the sparkplugs a few times and get a couple break jobs done. This Truck was a tank. Nothing would stop it. Had Granny low in it. I worked that truck and it seems the more I worked it the better it was running. U hauled dirt Gravel logs campers 2 1/2 miles up a MT in Kingsfield Maine called deer farm campground. I can not tell you how many cars I had to pull out of the snow. The clutch was right on the money and the shift was just right so when you was in 2nd and 4th the shift would rest on the seat. I had to pull my Friends Dodge 2500 4x4 out of a lake it was sinking in the muck . I hooked up to it put it in Granny low popped the clutch and got out of the truck and watched it pull that truck out like it was not even there..
I agree with the pickup 3/4 ton but I can't say anything bad about the older chevy s-10 I pulled a lot with it like a old john deere 45 combine. I built my own splitter it works good but I am going to put a bigger pump and engine on it this winter
Bigger is good most of the time.
Excellent video, so I'm needing a bigger saw and a dump trailer. Just have to convince the finance department. 😉 Cheers 😊🌴🍻🇨🇦🇺🇸
Tell your "finance department" that you are a big boy and you are wearing the pants! Haaa!
@@InTheWoodyard yeah I tried that once, lol. Have a great week. 👍🏼🌴
Number eight is Drive. You can not purchase Drive, but it is essential for success.
You are a very smart cookie...I concur!
when i got my first pro saw changed things up for me. but the single most game changer for me and i wish figured it out when i was 16 and not 45-48. get a long heavy duty snatch strap with some xtra clevis and then some heavy duty bull ropes. i dont touch brush anymore for the most part. i dont carry pieces through briars anymore. i save my time and i save my body. i need a trailer that i can carry my skid loader back and pick and fill a trailer. i want to be able to tip a trailer and split right out of the back end. my commercial grade box store splitter was a great investment. i should of done it sooner. i'm only at 5 years now. i could of saved my body sooner. but get some good ropes/straps and mabe a rope puller.
Yup, good tools are great investments!
I often wonder if there’s something wrong with me that I dream of just having and working in a woodyard which is actually way more work and more difficult work than my dead end service job lol
You my friend are in your right mind!
Sorry. Chris. but here in Norway, getting a cheap simple wood processor is by far the best buy i ever made. i spent 4000 dollars and i make 0.6 to 1 cord an hour.
Awesome! Keep cuttin'!
Processor did it for me paired with an Ultra. However I couldn’t have done it without the skid steer and the dump truck.
Yup, good equipment is nice!
Good stuff Sir Chris!👍🏻👍🏻GNI
Well thank you kindly Sir Toddeth!!
In the splitter choice between a glacier box store splitter and an Eastonmade Ultra, there sits the new Split Fire 1165V. It is a vertical splitter with 3.5 second cycle time. It is Canadian made and worth checking out.
Yup, sounds nice!
Ever think about gettin a mason dump truck? Like an F450 or 550..load height is not ideal though.
Nope. Not for me.
More cats❤
Good one. Thanks.
Thanks for the watching!
A truck is the biggest thing I need to get next. I’ve been doing all my firewood with a suburban, which sorta works but it’s like 9 extra steps over just throwing rounds in the bed of a truck. It has the technical capacity but it’s not the same thing at all.
In the past if I wanted to get serious I had to use a trailer; having a real truck bed would be a game changer.
That also reminds me, Easton made called me back after I inquired on their website but I was busy so I let it go to voicemail, I need to send them some of my doubloons for an ultra. It’s spendy as heck for my use case but better than what I can get from the local equipment rental place.
Yup, it is a giant wheel barrow!
Get one ...you will love it and it will save you time and make you money..they hold their value well!
Jeez here in New Zealand we are paying about $80 bucks a tonne for the firewood logs.
A ton of oak here is about $180ish???
Good morning all!
Yup!
Speaking of Ken how is his new Woodward going.
Real good, we where just talking about it today!
What Chris says👏🏻👍🇺🇸
THANKS!!!
Very quiet with your mic last few videos which makes the background music too loud. Great video 👍
Sorry about that, check your setting on youtube and on your device it might be off balance also. It was fine on mine and the editing I did with it...so???
Usually a 27-28 ton box store splitter is 20-22 ton, based on actual pump psi and the bore size of the cylinder. Took me a while to calculate the tonnage, but that's what it is. Which is why a commercial grade 28 ton splitter smokes a box store splitter of the same tonnage.
Yup, I agree!
I think you already uploaded this video before
Nope, new video, similar topic.
Has anyone on here gotten the cutoff slabs from a mill for firewood? Several people around me have them for sale extremely cheap but I’m wondering if they’d be too much bark?
I bought a few bundles. Cut one up, ended up selling a couple of them.
All wood burns, cutoff slabs have their own drawbacks bark being one, random lengths sliding moving while trying to cut and a few more really comes down to cost and your set up for processing them. I did not have a good process for dealing with them I could buy them for appx 1/5 the cost of buying full cords and I stuck with buying full cords YMMV.
Yup, LOTS of bark, they are cheap for a reason.
yup, cheap for a reason!
👍👍👍
Thanks!!!
Play with the big boys😊
Yup!
I got a 65cc ms391 Stihl. And it's a big difference between the ms290
Yup, more CC's are good!
@@InTheWoodyard I'm still wanting to go bigger. But it's gonna take time. I got a 98 Dodge ram 1500 that has the 5.9 Magnum. It has no problem pulling a big load of wood
Good Morning Woodhounds(-:
Morning!
for starting out. what do you think of the kinetic splitters like super split.
I like them but I think they lack power for the nasty wood to push through the knotty stuff.
How you doing guys? I would love to get professional splitter. I would love to be 50 years younger with that splitter. Dreams are good.
We are all doing great! Get one...you can't take the Money with you!
Good morning everyone
Hello Sir Stanley!!!
I returned my 22 ton to buy a bigger splitter shoulda kept the 22 ton it was 3-4 seconds faster cycle time then the 37 ton I got now. I'm getting a wolf ridge next year
Yup, the speed will pay for itself fast!
Other than my log splitter, I could not move wood without my hookaroon.
And cats. You need cats to make firewood.
Ha!!! No, not really!
🤘
Thanks!!!
TUNDRA TO CHEVY, GET READY FOR BUYERS REMORSE
We will see, I still have not decided!
It looks wet there! It’s still bone dry fire season here, Gona end soon tho
It was damp...that was about a month ago for me now..I am ahead in my videos.
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Thanks for watching!
Get a bigger truck, keep your Tundra as a backup. (that Tundra, will probably go many more thousands of miles) Also, newer isn't always better, these "newer" pickups seem to have "electrical issues" after a while.
Good idea, and yes the new stuff is WAY over done with the tech crap.
@@InTheWoodyard I saw a YT vid with guy that had a Tundra with a million miles on it!!!!!
I've had more pickups than I can remember and I regret getting rid of every one of the ones I don't have now. 2 is1, 1 is none.
Bigger is Better arggg
More CCs are nice!
You going to Bunyan
Yes, i will be there, probably going to wear my pink party dress!
Have you forgot your don't don't spend a ton of money starting. You won't make it! Start with what you got?😮
I always mention save and buy as you can off the to get list...debt is dumb.
Hey. Chris. Baby
Hello there Sir Ralphy Baby!!!! I hope all is good for ya!
Music too damn loud, I can't hear you...
Check you balance on your device. It is fine on the video for mine and everyone else.
That was a Nice Explanation of things you need in FireWood Production, You missed an Excavator Fire Wood Bundler, A Hopper Feeder, if you Get a chance check OUT Allen Family Firewood he bought Hopper Feeder for his channel, to increase his Fire Wood Production, he has the EastonMade Axis and the STK 24 CONVEYOR,
Those are some nice things too, but with these 5 a person can do a lot.
#6 Find a friend that has a alot of land & do firewood on his property my place is too small!
Good one!