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Not crazy perfect day. I share your passion. Awesome that you are acting on your soul goals. From Virginia.

Had to come watch some old videos... to get my outdoors with the Morgan’s fix LOL

That is a perfect day. I have been doing that with my father since I was 14 years old and now I am 57 and I am still doing it. I am like my father in that If it is stormy and I can't get to the woods for several days I get annoyed. I am semi retired.. I went from riches to rags but now I work a bit at a large corporation and cut firewood and blow snow most of the time. Not a lot of money in it but I am happy.

You and I share the same idea on the "Perfect Day" . The only thing you forgot to mention is Melissa dropping by with a hot cup of coffee as you work:) Best of luck Mike with the new business idea, keep the firewood videos coming.

I also enjoy cutting and splitting wood. I recently got two big Maple trees from a neighbor that didn't want them any more. I have about four and a half cords . I have a wood burner in my garage "Man cave" as the neighbors call it. That is how I heat it in the winter. I live in Michigan. Thanks for the great videos and the know how. Keep up the good work and looking forward to seeing the next video.

Love the firewood videos, those are what brought me here originally

I’ll be working up a sweat watching your firewood cutting videos, done did my share back in 70’s-2005. Got it out of my system though until a storm hits then I help where I can. Thanks for sharing your videos with us.

That does sound like a Perfect day! Nothing like being in the woods all day, no matter what your doing!

Not first, but still watching! From about day one! Mike does what he does. Old reliable. Love the videos.

You're not crazy Mike, you're a firewood legend. Keep on cutting.

i agree. I love cutting wood, stacking it, watching the fire. and feeling the warmth

100% correct, gratification, exercise, satisfaction. Although it is a hard work, I love cutting/splitting wood also.

Got a LogOx for Father’s Day this year. Love it! Heavy duty and works well.

Mike, I'm with you. I LOVE cutting, splitting, stacking and burning firewood. It's a great job for an introvert plus I'm saving my family money.

Yea! Yippee...more firewood videos! They’re very relaxing and greatly enjoyed 🧚🏻‍♀️

I love cutting wood to and dont really know why either..I did look back a generation and did see that my Washingtonian Uncles and granpas used to build log cabins.. So maybe its in the genes

can,t wait log cutting is one of my favorite things

Glad you two had a nice vacation but for me I’m glad your back to the basics.

We share the same passion for wood. I’ve just retired and recently added a Wood-Mizer mill to sell rough-cut lumber on top of firewood, wishing you great success with your firewood business.

Good luck. You inspired me to start a firewood business with one of your videos last year. I live 20 min south of Pittsburgh. Already making some pretty good profit in my first year. And I love being outside and splitting wood

I wish you much success in your firewood business! I like your perfect day.

Best of luck in your new venture!! You have all the necessary equipment and then some that's for sure.

Glad to see you finally got some chaps. It only takes once. 👍

That's my perfect day too!

Good luck on the firewood. Me and 2 friends do about 30 cords a year. We log them out in 10-12' lenghts on homemade log trailer with boom, put in cribs then when seasoned split and stack in 1 cord crates we fab. Haul these to house with a tow behind pallet trailer. All for the fun and our use only.

I have a "Home made Acc-U-Mark " I attached a 16" piece of 1/4" Pex to a neodymium magnet. Instead of placing the device near the tip of the bar, I center the magnet on the base of the bar (against the saw motor) (18" bar). So if I'm cutting anything smaller than 18" I just line up the end of my pex with the end of the wood, and go. This eliminates the extra step of marking the entire tree first.

I am looking forward to upcoming firewood videos and can resonate with Mike's vision of a perfect day.

Great news Mike! I like all your videos but the firewood ones have always been my favorite! Wish you the best of luck on your business :) take care!

I’m a western PA resident as well. Thanks and good luck to you friend!

That's the plan and it sounds like a great plan to me.Look forward to seeing how it all goes this winter but i think you will do very well and as you said you already have the tools so why not make money and have some fun while doing it and the best part is we get to see it all unfold .Thanks for sharing.

Yesss!!!! Firewood and chainsaws! :)

I think you are successful at whatever you put your efforts into!!👍👊

Sounds like my perfect day to👍🏼looking forward to firewood videos

Good for you Mike - during the winter of 88, our log cabin required 28 chords of firewood to stay toasty - I was my best & only customer that year.

I love your firewood videos! Gets me in the mood!

What is it about firewood ? Those of us who love it still can't quite put our finger on it, but the love is there. It's funny, I love being in the woods but when I look at the trees I'm looking at the standing dead ones like a kid looking at an ice cream cone. The whole process from falling to splitting and stacking is like a tonic for me. Your perfect day is right on. Couldn't agree more, hurry up sunup, so I can get at it ! 😄 ✌

My dad heats his body shop with wood. They have a fireplace in the house too but haven't used it in years. Used to go through a lot more wood but since they come south to my house in Myrtle Beach in the winter plus we go to our other house in Gulf Shores they just aren't up there as much to be burning and the guys that work for dad only come in a time or 2 a week through the winter because we don't do hardly any customer work we have been building mostly hotrods the past few years so there always seems to be a bit of wood left each year. I probably cut and split up 3-8 face cords a year for them out there and there is always a bit left. We had a tree company come take out some trees last year when I was up there and after I cut it up I still haven't finished splitting it lol. It was only 11 trees but those maples were huge. One was so big they had to cut it up for me I didn't have enough saw at the time for the job, I do now didn't then so they at least cut it up to pieces small enough I could move it. I know a few people who heat with wood think I might sell them some of what is left over so the wood doesn't rot before we actually burn it. See triaxle loads for $450 advertised in the Erie, PA area. Been thinking I might order a couple. The people I know already buy wood they don't cut their own so they might as well buy it from me. Could pay for the 4 saws I have bought in the past couple weeks lol. Seems everybody wants $50-$75 for a face there but I see people advertising cherry only and wanting double what mixed hardwood goes for. Bout all I cut is maple, ash, cherry, ironwood every now and then hickory and oak. Always enough trees come down on their own for me to cut for our personal use.

I like your style.

get yourself a firewood processor; your back will thank you. you do have a grapple to load a processor. oh yea, I'm still smiling about that sheep video from out west!

Haha, I bet Melissa is happy about the venture you're going into. Maybe she'll get her pool! 😄😄😄 I'm pulling for you Melissa 👍👍👍

I’m the same way, the perfect day out in the woods with the tractor ,saw cutting firewood ! It’s just a good feeling at the end of the day looking at a nice pile of firewood ! My wife thinks it’s a little weird but oh well , ha

This is great 👍

Love the firewood business idea! Goodluck with it and cant wait to see all the firewood videos

Love firewood videos, Mike. I wish I could be cool like you.

Good luck on the selling mike! Can’t wait to see more woodcutting vids!

I love your perfect day idea!!!!!!!!

Great ideas. You could make 2 x 4 dunnage/pallets with blocks at the end so the logs don’t roll off

Looking forward to your firewood videos! I enjoy it myself. Love the fall and winter! I really do enjoy your video's a bunch!

thanks mike, i would love to had a stack of firewood to put into your competion but now my sister is on heating oil she hardly ever lights up the log burner these winters. i would like to wish all those that enter the best of luck and enjoy. love the channel, best regards, Jakob....

I thought this video would give me an idea on how to start a firewood business as the title says. What I saw instead was about $50,000 worth of specialized equipment. If your goal was to discourage competition from entering the market, good job :) Many good ideas though, thanks.

Gosh Mike, I’m glad you’ve decided to something with all the extra time you have on you hands. Starting a firewood business... why not? Doesn’t seem like you’re busy doing anything else!!! LOL Good luck!!!

No sir, we don’t mind firewood videos a bit.

A friend that I cut with said that his price for his firewood goes up the more times he has to touch it. He drops splits it and it goes straight into the dump trailer then straight to the customer. He splits around 250-300 cord a year by hand and is 63. Keeps him young.

When I do firewood on my property I liked decking out the logs in different locations so I could buck, split and stack all at the same location rather than bucking, and then moving the rounds to be split and stacked. The small decks were good for keeping the bar out of the dirt too.

I love splitting wood. Ideal day sounded awesome. I'll take it, trade bowl of chili for a cup of coffee

I would love to do that for a living too

Hi Mike i think your going to be a very busy man and i do wish you the very best of luck with your new venture

Save your back. You could rent a firewood processor for $200-$300 a day. You can process 20 plus cord a day with one as long as you have the logs stacked up ready to go.

Great video. I could not agree with you more about a perfect day. Firewood heats you twice 🔥🌲

Best of luck to you! Id love to sell off some of mine but after 3 years im finally caught up for my outdoor wood broiler supply so maybe years down the line!

Loved the video Mike, Last year I think I told you about my customer had 5 red oaks blown over by a storm. It was all green and I sold every bit of it, made $2340 and that’s how I purchase my grapple. Looking to sell a lot this year. Good luck and sell the green also. People and myself like to mix green and dry.

Equipment is what makes it fun.

While I am not quite so obsessive about the stacking as you are are, I share your passion for cutting and splitting wood. It's very satisfying to step back and look at that nice stack of firewood and see the fruits of your labors. And i have been using the Log Ox for about six months now and love it. Very well designed and built tool.

Braving this excessive heat. I can't get myself to cut any wood until it cools off some.

I’d have to add dragging a nice buck out of the woods to the perfect day. Thumbs up for more wood cutting videos. I’ll be selling my first few loads of wood early next week.

Have you seen the splitter GP Outdoors has been using? If you don't go full on processor you should consider one of those. I haven't seen a dual splitter before it's quite ingenious.

i just love cutting firewood too, keep the updates coming great Vid

Mike, I just returned to Texas from visiting my family on our farm in Washington County, PA. I know you have had lots of rain lately. So how about a video of how the grass is growing on your new trail?

An attaboy for all the PPE you are wearing. There was another fellow I was following who thought it was too much of a bother to employ recommended safety guidelines. I quit following him, and hope nobody gets hurt by learning from him. Thanks for being a good example!

Cool venture, especially doing something you like anyway. From a process point of view, you have to pick up the same log several times: after you cut it, when you stack it, lifting it to be split, stacking it again after it is split, when you load it for delivery, and at the delivery site. I wonder how much that process could be shortened? Good luck.

My boyfriend and I are in our late 20s and early 30s already buying tools. Granted, we don't have a wood splitter or a stump grinder, but we would definitely love to cut trees down for people, take the wood, deliver it to others. We are about as green as they come, but we both got tired of our jobs keeping us from seeing each other, not paying enough, and just wanting to be outside making money and be able to move!

Amen brother

Hey Mike. Love firewood video’s. Looking forward to seeing more this fall.

I’m sure it will be a success! 👍👍

Haha Mike that sounds like a perfect day to me too, although while I am still outside I usually crack a beer or two and admire the pile.

I suspect you enjoy it because it's in nature, confused animals staring at you wondering what you are doing, fairly simple mentally but satisfying fatigue you earned at the end of the day where you can see your accomplishments.

i hope you are replanting new trees to restore what has come down for future generations

Now if you go to a processor you will take all the enjoyment out of firewood meaning the fun of is getting it out of your woods by cutting it up an messing with it.. lol Keep the vids up love it PS I see you have the OX I think I will get one.

Best of luck on the business

I've watched your Vids for a while now and am excited to see you start this new adventure, or at least broaden your horizons. I also am starting to see firewood this fall and will really get into it next year. I'll be following your journey. Enjoy it brother.

I burn 24" wood but I end up with a lot of 16"-18" rounds. Living on a busy road I think I'll make up a bunch of bundles and sell them right out front. Free money as I see it.

Yes I love cutting wood also. It is good exercise also.

A firewood processor would be great!

I put a thumb on my backhoe and use it to pick up the tree for bucking/cutting, makes life easier and safer.

Maybe consider a portable saw mill as well? I'm seriously looking at Norwood bandsaw mills on RU-vid -- they look sweet! . . . And I concur with your idea of a perfect day, too! LOL!

You must a a nice fireplace. Maybe a vid of your fireplace burning...:)

Logox rules!!! I also got a spray marker thing.

I'm interested to hear your 2 cents on the LOG-OX after you get a little use with it. My experience with a product very similar to the LOG-OX...... that thing is more of a gimmick... more fiddling around and effort than it is worth.... much easier to just buck the log into about 8 foot sections, make a bunch of cuts 2/3s way thru, and then roll the log and finish the cuts.

Hey you have all the gear, why not, especially if your like me and just love cutting wood 👍👍👍🇦🇺

Get your big blind built Mike! Just finished mine!

Think about that statement” I’ve got all the equipment”. Hahaha, if you only knew at this point what was about to happen at Camp Morgan. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

mike with the sounds of it i think a partnership with woodmiser (i think thats what its called) should be in your future. ive seen their ads before a couple of your videos. look like some neat compact firewood processors. i just picked up an older vermeer 22 ton splitter i plan to get running and hopefully put it through its paces lol. have a good one! thanks for the videos.

Great video cutting wood is a great work out you will be good and tied after your get done

Keep the firewood vids coming!!! Firewood is definitely an addiction... If I am not out cutting or picking up wood I find for free, I am splitting it. I think my wife is about to kill me because of it, but it needs to get done. I want to be at least 3 years ahead.

That Paul Bunyan show you will find a firewood processor. Ron

Good luck with the wood business. Here in Nova Scotia, it's hard to believe, but sometimes it's a challenge to get hardwood fire wood. Pulp companies cut it all and send it offshore...

Ya Mike buying truckloads of wood first maybe your best option as they will truck it right to your door (or landing spot) and being able to stack it (after you buck it up and split) close and sell it first than when there is a lull in trucked wood... go into your property and get your own wood......just a thought......but have at er and hope all goes well..... :)

Good luck Mike, hope it works. If not at least we get some great videos of you working. If you go for it and as you already have he tractors, I'd look at a timber trailer for a tractor to lift your poles onto. Then you can lift your poles straight onto a processor. Depends how much you want to earn and enjoy handling it.

Go for it Mike! Great new venture :)

I might be buying a rk24 for our house once I start working I can't wait