Happy for you Phil. I seen your appearance on a couple of other channels with wood yard visits in the Wisconsin area and then I seen Adam commented. You have the connections and the experience and are driven. I am along for the journey as a viewer and ready to see what happens along the way. Rooting for you Phil. 👍🏻👍🏻
Last year was my first year selling firewood. It was a side hustle. I sold about 9 cords. I now have 21 cords split and ready to go and 3 truckloads awaiting cooler weather lol.
I’m a hobbyist that sells a few cords and I’m keeping it hobby. I love every second of all of it and want to keep loving it so I will not turn it into a job, got one of those. BUT, I will upgrade from box store to a minor league pro splitter that has a wolf on it.👍Congratulations on your leap into the big time.
Funny thing i was thinking about this a few months ago. Currently, I am happy with what i am producing and can keep up with it, so i will stick with it. So go forth with the next level, and let's see how things open up for you and your family.😉👍
its working out pretty good. My only regret is not putting it where I could hardwire it for electric so I could run high power fans 24/7. I bet it would take a week off the dry time
Very interesting. I've been wondering about your homemade kiln - is there condensation that gets created on the inside of all your glass when the air temperature changes?
Ok so it took me a while but I finally made my way over to this channel. Subbed! Excited to see the content. I’m one of those who consider it a side hustle but I’m on the fence on whether to commit more time to make it a legit buisness? Look forward to see your informative vids. Take care Phil👊🏻
Thanks for stopping by. Its all about what you want to do with it. My feeling is that calling it a side hustle is an excuse to hold back, to not work on the hot days, to just take the easy sales, to not come up with additional products, etc. If I'm calling it a real business and I've set goals, there can be no more excuses.
I’m excited for you Phil! I’m still working on scaling the hobby into a business. Looking forward to future videos of yours to see what I can pick up. Are you thinking about staying with the totes or are you going to be switching over to piles of wood? Curious… I have about 45 totes and thinking of getting more, I really like how portable the wood is.
Best wishes and i will be following closely. I would like to make the jump from side hustle as well. I'm seriously considering building a kiln very soon. I have a plan for it just working to plan the funding
Once you get that itch… you can’t help but to scratch it. My friends think I’m crazy but I’m happiest outside in my woodyard running saws and splitters…. Not so much stacking though 😂 look forward to the future. Awesome kiln. Did you used to be flat creek outdoors or am I crazy. I’ve been following you for a long time but I swear I don’t recall this RU-vid channel!
hi - yes I had the Flat Creek Outdoors channel. I thought it was clever to keep firewood content on that channel and all other farm work on this channel, but i felt like it was too much to keep up with. This was my original channel we started when we started our christmas tree farm. I just post everything here now.
I sold for a friend of mine who owned a , tree company he has a processor for wood 3 splitter a double up and down plus other splitter at other lot so had product and split it has a big splitter to split 8 feet around stuff so no waste plus a steam firewood heater for shop and office they. Make out ok pay me good to sit on my butt and sell it year round summer time for camping firewood pits are getting ready for winter a plus for me free smoking wood for smoking met a lot of good people doing it still need to take picture of big log splitter told Chris in the woodyard i would but had open heart surgery set me back can't even sell the wood take care and good luck on next adventure i think once you have the wood bud in your system hard to get out my neighbors who take down a few little trees ask my advice about how the best way if to dangerous tell them call my friend but they are busy 4 crews plus a guy or two picking up logs there work is there referral cause they do great work 8:36
As you have found with others debt, is a killer. . Other then equipment, probably the next biggest underestimation is the amount of space needed for doing several hundred cords a year. It really does take a good bit of land to do it all. Then let alone mud control, thats another overlooked problem. I average around 6 foot of rain a year in a western coastal area. And mud is a big deal..
@@WoodsTreeFarm i have 120. But not flat, and little sun. Maybe a year round average of 3 hours per 24 hour day, ((at best)). . I just know to start small, and take it one step at a time.
We're already covered there. We're in a general ag zone where ag, forestry and logging are the primary commercial activity so pretty much anything goes.
