The firewood market is the most underestimated and underserved market in my opinion. Every year most sell out and people end up having to buy form the box stores @ 4x the price. All price cutting and competition only serves to change who sells out first!!
If is warm enough, aka in the 20s for highs next weekend, am thinking of coming up next weekend to help with splitting if you have any left. Gotta pay you back somehow for the boost your channel gave me. I've been watching K&L Firewood from time to time.
@@InTheWoodyard, maybe next Saturday if I can can ride along and help you with deliveries if you have stacking deliveries. Will see what the weather is doing.
Very informative video, guys! Really enjoyed the discussion about all the factors to consider with a firewood business. Just getting into it as a hobby now and doing firewood stand sales at the end of our driveway. So far so good, almost 40 bundles sold in less than 3 weeks!
Fun video today guy's. With your social club you've got going on there, maybe it's time for a burner barrel to talk around, and make good use of that stuff you rake up and dump out back. lol
Tony makes me feel like I'm there, part of the conversation. You know, we're the strong, silent type!! Hardly ever say anything! You know me, it's just the way I am! - Really enjoyed it. Good on all us firewooders! - In all the fairy tales for kids, it's always the woodcutter that's the hero...Shucks ma'am, tweren't nothing.
Congratulations on a great year, Chris. I listened to the video at least 10 times and cannot decipher the name of Mike’s channel. Will you put a link in the comments. Thanks. Looking forward to a new year in the Woodyard. Steve
Hi Chris - it's Big Rodders in Ireland. A very enjoyable video in gloriously clear weather. You were a bit of a meanie with your star quests - no seats, no woodfire, no coffee and not even a glass of water. I hope their appearance money made up for it!
Tony has a NEW BEST Friend. Geese are bad near the Airport. How funny Tony shows up and all the Geese and Ducks fly over and he has a sweat shirt on with Geese. Just at my local Lowes stores and they had small bundles and about 8 to 10 pc. for $10.00. I'm Polish and there are only two kinds of people in the world. Polish people and those who want to be Polish. 🤣🤣K&L Firewood, Back the Blue.
I haven't BEEN to saudi, but I've been to kuwait and qatar. Close enough lol. It gets frigid in the winter at night. And winter was the rainy season too! RELATIVELY frigid, mind you. Maybe 45 if I remember right? But the fact that the bare desert has no heat blanket effect, and coupled with 70 degrees during the day, makes night feel worse.
Chris, with so much *Ash wood* "in the woodyard", when loading the trailer or the pick-up. Don't make a mistake when 'selecting' the wood, or you could make an *Ash* of yourself!! LOL😂
Suggest Mike might use a CRM database such as Markate or Jobber, or Responsibid for keeping track of customers and send automatic reminder emails for return customers and getting 5star reviews. Goodnight Irene
Nice video Chris. Firewood Brotherhood-novel concept. Those Stihl saws look too pretty to be working saws. Glad you got at least one sharp. Yup, I sneak peeked KNL. GNI
My friend is a small engine mechanic and he swears the Husqvarna is garbage. But I see chris having no trouble with his, and now I'm wondering lol. Maybe he thinks they're garbage because idiots break them way more than other ones?
Lots of honkers headed south. That’s what I should be doing. Looks like your set to run out of wood. Haven’t seen to much processing for last couple months. Have good day Chris.
Good morning Chris!!😀😀 Kinda have to watch out when looking up at that many geese when they are flying over. You might get something undesirable in your eye. LOL!!🤣🤣 Take care my friend!!😀😀 Logger Al
Here in Michigan Eastern UP there are guys selling maple beech and ash face cords for $ 75 delivered and stacked. I just do bundles because I can't compete at $ 75
All depends on location. In rural area of western ny to move any volume need to be in 70 to 80 a facecord delivered. Hard to compete with prosser guys calling there fresh cut logs seasoned. Highest advertised price I have seen is 90 delivered. Nobody does as nice a job as Chris. I am trying. I stacked every thing this year.
The one thing I can't understand is the volume problem every YT'er seems to face. KNL's 20 cords is only $6k without expenses, and that's probably the threshold where more becomes extreme work. Your 200 cords is still only $40k-$60k before buying the truckloads. Not every piece is from that supply, but enough. Back to the topic of this being a business versus hobby, you now throw in maintenance, depreciation, fuel, etc. and this is a gym membership at best, but rarely a livelihood. I simply can't see a way in which firewood is more than enjoyment for side money. It's not profitable at scale unless you quickly migrate from commercial grade splitting to processing. If someone is looking for a 45-50 hour per week job, making a living, then commercial splitting (non-processor) isn't suitable. I understand this isn't you, but for many outsiders looking in (20,000 viewers per day now), they might not readily see the economics of the firewood industry. Would love this topic as a video.
Yeah if you're getting truckloads you already spent a hundred per cord that you sell for 300, so your profit is strangled and depends on everything else running perfectly. BUT if you're bucking the wood for free out of the forest, you're not getting enough volume to even compete with a part time job. And if you injure yourself, you're done for a while. You don't have the supply lines and connections already built up to just switch to truckloads on the spot. You'd have to have a huge yard, a meaty processor, and if you're working alone, 50 hour weeks at least to make a living. You'd have to have commercial contracts, the volume and price makes that more efficient. At least a very sizeable market snagged all to yourself, and a loyal one bred with great product. If you can afford an employee, it would probably be wise to invest in a kiln so you can finish-dry the already good wood and have him bundle it up. Bundles HAVE to be dry to compete.
I love pine, it just does not put out as many BTUs as most hardwoods do. It burns faster so people who heat with wood want slow burning long lasting wood overnight.
