Making Bank Selling Firewood! Here is How I'm Going to do it 

Mike, your enthusiasm is contagious! I have to hand it to you, you come up with a plan and it is well thought out. Can't wait to see this all happen!

Mike I picked up wood from a yard this week that had been cut and split with a processor. 100 cords in 5 hours. Fellow has $300,000 (CDN) processor fed with logs from 3 logging operations. Minimal muscle power with logs fed, cut, split, and piled all by machine. Don't go this big though. Part of the attraction is watching you doing a multitude of things. 👍

Buy this time next year, sounds like quite a plan. I cut 12 to 15 cord a year. It can be alot of work but like you I enjoy it. Thanks for ideas and tool ideas you have shared over the years.

Up here in Maine, the Falmouth Lion's sold out of our 24 cords a month ago. We are just a small operation with volunteers. Our 2024 firewood is in the yard all processed and we will be starting on our 2025 firewood. 24 cords is our comfort level and we process another 5 cords for our 2 firepit wood stands. Got a surprise from Allen Family Firewood yesterday. They donated and delivered us 1+ cord of red oak that was bucked and split. Kudo's to Karen and Phil. The biggest hurdle in the firewood business is return on investment. For us, it is easy fundraising, no labor costs and I own the land and equipment. Good content on your channel.

Good Saturday morning Morgan family! Tropical storm Ophelia coming through SE PA this weekend. Hope your weekend is dry. Have a day!

Great to hear that you are considering the firewood as a "bank" type asset. You have all of those downed trees to salvage and all of the poles in the two places. You spoke of quality and selling dry, hardwoods, but when the need arises, any kind of wood will burn. Sure, you can charge less for the high moisture content stuff, but at least it does not lay around rotting in the woodlot. When customers want firewood and need it desperately, they will buy what is available. You could sell a lot of "chunk" firewood without the cost of splitting. let the customer dry and split the rounds. However you cut it, the wood will always have a buyer.

Good morning Morgan's from the a sunny but dry Gulf Coast . Mike it looks you need a crew ,but you manage to do all the cutting and machinery operation because you have a plan .Levi is a hard worker as well as Melissa . Ya'll are a great team and it shows in what Ya'll do. Keep up the great work!

Ill give u advice as a guy who sells 300 to 600cord a year .don't do the 12inch wood .when u start doing custom orders its a pain ,if the guy backs out then you can be stuck with that order .keep it at 16 inches

Good morning Morgans and friends. Have a blessed day and make many memories. 🙏 😊

Sounds like a good plan Mike! Hello to all! Take care and stay safe! God bless! ✝️🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Thanks for sharing, Mike and Melissa !! God Bless !!

Along the same line of your snake story. Some years back, I had a turkey jump up from behind a log I was getting ready to step up on. They can move pretty fast. So can I, I discovered. Have a wonderful weekend! Jason from Indiana.

This is exciting news. Looking forward to this project and the road build. Love watching. Thanks for sharing.

So Mike when is your wood processor showing up. Just asking.

Excellent video ! I am empressed the way you care for your heard . Also found the info on Rice production most informative .

Looking forward to see your progress in the yard

Hey Mike! you're probably already doing this, but up here in my neck of the woods (Canada) our firewood suppliers have 2 prices, a price delivered and a price if we pick it up. Kinda makes up for the time you lose while delivering. Is that how you do it?

Can’t wait to see how this turns out. We are getting rained out in Harrisburg PA this weekend. No firewood cutting here.

Just a thought... you may want to carry a small selection of related products as well... firewood racks, fireplace tools/accessories... grill tools/accessories... etc. We used to collect our firewood with sort of a firewood duffle... kind of like the newspaper satchel but made out of leathery stuff ... it fit into our fireplace rack by our fireplace and we always had 2 of them... one to hold and one to go collect more. Diversifying a little just might provide another revenue stream.

Thanks for sharing firewood business winter new customers

Can't wait to see all the new projects in the clearing!

Awesome video as always Mike, you’re on top of everything with a great plan. I love the way you think. I’m in Western NC, where we have rattlesnakes and copperheads. I have 28 acres, and was hiking one Fall, in new crispy Leaves. I took a step and heard fast rattles in front of Me. I froze and Looked down, it was a large black snake….shaking the tip of its tail as a warning sign… in the leaves. Just wanted people to be aware, they can let you know…just like a rattlesnake.. if they have some crisp leaves. I don’t mind snakes like you, but almost stepped on it. Thank God it wasn’t a rattlesnake. Keep up the great videos, I love watching all of them.💯👍

Here in the midlands of South Carolina we have plenty of copperheads. Over the last year we have worked to clear land, a lot by hand. The only copperhead I came across was this past March, and it was at the end of the excavator bucket.

Hi Mike, Millisa, once again I have suggested this to you in several comments. Consider putting in a second wood bunker, in the wood yard. Wright next to the wood bunker that you all ready have. And it may be time to get a wood processor. Create more wood faster, and easier. My best to you and your family, Joe Capo

Another well thought out endeavor. Looking forward to see it materialize. Foxfire Projects has a unique drying shed or barn. No stacking involved. Also check how He delivers His firewood.

Those totes are great if the person you are delivering to has a way to handle them, otherwise they're pretty useless. The only use I'd have for one is if I cut them down to about 1/2 their height, and used them to hold kindling, or put them on the back patio and filled them up...my tractor won't lift the full size ones when they're loaded, I doubt it would even handle one that's cut in half when its loaded up. But, if you use them as storage for easy access off a covered patio, or deck, or use directly out of them, it ain't so bad, moving them on the other hand requires some pretty large equipment that many people don't have. I have some 55 gallon drums cut in half that I use to keep my kindling in, 4 of them on a pallet and the light weight of the kindling my little tractor has no problem lifting that, so I have 2 pallets with 4 of the 1/2 drums on them full of kindling and stacked in the back of the other side of my wood shed...makes storing the stuff nice and easy. My tractor might pickup a tote if its been cut in half if I just filled it with kindling, but to pickup a 1/2 tote of firewood, I have serious doubts LOL.

That customer you delivered to has a nice Dodge Cummins diesel. Your business plan is great. Looking forward to the videos showing your progress of the plan. Stay safe.

Good Day from Montana- Morgan Family- Have a Wonderful and Blessed Day 🤠

Sounds like a good plan. It depends on how you view your firewood. For me and my woodworking hobby it became more of a "job" when trying to produce and took the fun out of it.

Mike, I think the next step for you to seriously increase production is a processor. Especially since you can consistently get nice firewood poles. I have the same dilemma. But there’s really no way I can make more faster. I’m a one man operation with my 28c.

👍👍👍👍👍👌I am sure it will be a first class set up in keeping with the “Morgan Brand” All good stuff will be exciting to see you develop your business plan!

I'm in agreement with others that a Wood Processor is the Win Win Ticket to go with for increase production. May be Wood Ridge has one in development that You can Showcase for them🤔. I didn't think that little Green Tractor could pick up those Totes. Boy was I Surprised 😮‼‼‼

Love the country side videos! Reminds me of home

Mike, happy to hear you say variety, including the solo mini's. Just a thought, could you get another retailer or 2 to sell the product ? I would just continue exercising good judgment as you've been doing regarding strangers on your property. Much respect for you n Missy ,greetings to Hunter😮

Morning Morgans, looks like its gonna be a rainy one here in central Pa today. Fall is here and winter is just around the corner, man that was a fast summer. If you were a tad closer I would consider purchasing firewood from you, actually if i had a little blue trailer like you just got I could easily go grab my own wood. Good luck with your plans to size up the firewood operation, lots of work but I know you will be successful. Have a day!! Jay from central Pa.

You're a man of vision. Go for it!

Mike, Maybe a firewood processor would be a good idea. I know you have a lot of crooked trees, but the ones that would go thru a processor would make a big difference in time.

Oh & happy fall ya'all

Look forward to see what your wood shed will look like

Mike there is a lot of people selling out of firewood and I believe if you going to sell firewood yes it is going to take time to get a bigger stock pile then what you got now but it be worth it. Hope to see videos soon of you building the new road to your clearing. Hello Hunter. Have a great day be safe.

Great video Mike. It sounds like you’ve got a neat plan worked out. Take care and have a good one!👍❤️

Good Thinking, Having a flexible working Plan is a Good first step! HEY HUNTER!

Mike, I think you are ready for the next level of firewood processing. Check out the Japa 405 Firewood processor (Ohio Wood Burner Ltd). You could crank out all the firewood you would ever need. Jonathan Unnasch Tuff Excavation 50 miles east of Austin TX

That’s funny you’re bringing up snakes had to re-pile, a bush cord in behind the house today and there was a den of gardener snakes in the pile one was 3 feet long 6 in total.

Hey Mike just facebook marketplace will sell all the wood you want. I do 60 full cords a year and usually sell out by January. I have lots of repeat customers and then always get lots of new ones also. I only use facebook no craigslist or other ads. Keep up the good work and stay healthy.

Morning, So I invision that in the next 2 years you will have a processor that you feed 20 , 30 ft. logs with circular cutoff , multi split head and trash pickup. Conveyor sloped to horizontal with deflectors to drop into totes or trailer . Multiple drops allowing continuous operation and no stacking in the totes . Continuing the pavilion to keep it all under roof. My dream of the Morgan evolution. Lol !

Greg from northern Michigan Up here, we have snow snakes year round. They are white in color and deadly. The only cure for their bite is peppermint snapps. That's why we have five seasons here ... spring, summer, fall, winter, and still winter. 😊

Bank could be blow downs all over your land more help getting it might be the ticket .Also check out the Halverson skid steer wood machine especially for the boilerwood big long and heavy peices

Sounds like a winner to me Mike. Your right there may be quite a few folks that want to come get some cherry wood for BBQing and cookouts, cherry wood has a great flavor. your plan , to me, sounds like a great business plan, which may increase your cash flow quite a bit. Lumber sales probably would pick up as well, while increasing your customer base.. TY For sharing. :)

Good morning Mike & family!!

Loved the scare the pan'ts off you story, (snake and deer) what a way to really wake up . Wild life will do that, when not expecting. Looking forward to your new 4 season road through the woods. Just like Little Red Riding Hood Story. Wishing you a safe Time felling trees in your road project.

Mike Morgan’s 15 minute MBA. Love it.

You really should grab a 40’ shipping container and build a kiln with a couple used chicken house fans and a little firebox underneath the container… appears that you can dig a little pit and block out the center underneath the container… add some vents… I’ve got an old American eagle or something like that cast iron twin door wood stove and you wouldn’t need more heat and humidity elimination then that… could circulatory fans going for the 10 days or whatever and it’s just ready to sell !!! You have a trailer load every two weeks not even counting the lumber you would be able to process over the year!!! All my local tree guys love to give the big tree’s away for free just to have a place to unload the monster wood. If you have any newer communities or development’s around you they are solid gold… that tote is a 1/3 cord and I was getting $150 to refill the totes we had in the clients garage’s a little electric blower clean up and you usually have several per trip… it’s $450 per cord for your mixed hardwood… smaller split’s and very clean wood so you get a premium! Often times we’d never see one empty! 😉👍. More often then not you would be delivering a 1/4 cord… sometimes folks would be around 1/2 way empty so you might get 1/6th of the cord unloaded…. It’s a little bit more handling to fill up the tote neatly and blow out a garage but you would often get handed a pretty good tip or 2 bills for your 20 minute fill up! Out of 64 homes we had 34 of them as clients firewood-turf maintenance and landscaping work… I remember that video where the guy was visiting you because he had started watching your channel and it cost him $500,000k or something because he moved to a property so he could sell wood? Can’t remember his channel name but he was buying the ibc totes from the Pa fella who has a kiln made for the 40’ container! A little inspection and a Q and A on what he would do differently and I can’t imagine that it would take more then a couple days and a couple grand to toss it together and be drying the firewood… kiln dry firewood fetches a premium and it’s a two week turn over not a two year deal so you don’t need to use that 10 acres for drying out your inventory!!!! You start kiln drying some beams for construction or mantle pieces and custom wood projects and you’re definitely making some decent bank! We don’t have the huge property anymore so I’m really really thinking about building one and doing more firewood and lumber sales…. Still busy with the tree removal work so maybe in a couple more years???? Hey… I’m 20 miles west of Philadelphia so I’m definitely interested in going to look at that fellas kiln he built with the 40’ box trailer shipping container dude.,. Where your buddy was going to buy the totes over there… It’s just crazy not to have a couple of those things going full time and have quick firewood business supply and the sawmill lumber being kiln dried is definitely a huge deal and some great revenue stream! I’m 53 and have been working in the landscaping and tree removal work for most of my life and I just hate to see these fantastic hardwood trees going into the grinder and I’m paying to dump them instead of selling them all as lumber??? Seem’s crazy to not have a wood scrap fired kiln running. Those box floor’s are pretty solid so a little fire to get the internals up to the 180? For 14-18 days or whatever seems pretty simple actually???

Thanks for sharing Mike, have fun getting the firewood business moving to the next level. Stay safe and keep up the good videos. Fred.

Mike you have it nailed. Your plan is putting a whole lot of work your way but I think it will really wirk

"Firewood and visitors Center" ..I can see it now...Merch shop as well...Good thinkin Lincoln...Blessings

Sounds like a good plan Mike. Best wishes.

Good morning from Pleasant Hills,PA. I really enjoy watching your RU-vid videos. 🇺🇸

Sounds like a good plan for building up the firewood business Mike. Hope to see you at Paul Bunyan!

Atta boy, Mike !! Another great update, my friend !!

Hey Mike, your drone shot of the GMC and trailer reminded me of something. I have the 2020 version (gas) and have noticed that if I leave my dump trailer plugged in and parked for a day or two, the battery dies. I noticed the taillights will flash every few seconds for some reason, causing a draw. Just something to check out.

Mike always thinking and improving, got to love it.

When you do it you do it big that’s what they say and you are taking it to that level Big hope everything works out for you god bless

Duane from Loretto, ON, Canada Watch most of your videos. Keep up the good work.

You need an all in one wood processer .... feed the wood on moving belt into wood proceeser, adjustable cutting for different size's firewood lenghts, After cutting wood it drops into split box to get split, then is pushed onto moving Conveyor belt to storage area.... all in one machine would be wonderful!...no more handling each piece of wood!

This sounds awesome Mike!!! Your a real go getter and you get it done my friend!! 😊

Happened to me today....Cleaning out my shed and there was an old planter on the shelf. I took it out becuase I knew I was going to junk it.. Fliped the planter over and there was a 3 foot black snake. He was still cold so not very active. I was considering putting him back for the winter, but when I got back with my camera, he was gone. He'll probably work his way back into the shed. At least I do not have to worry about mice! Life in PA.

Good morning to the Morgans

Mike, will you get a 2nd cutter / processing station set up in the newly developed area so the trip from the splitter to the storage shed will be very short? If you kept the regular length firewood near the house and the specialty sizes or segregatd species at the new facility, you wouldn't have to work so hard to change sizes, keep them split into the right bin or stall, and minimize handling. Any chance that one of the colleges that have forestry or land management classes would have students looking for some part time work to help you knock out a large supply of cut & stacked wood waiting to dry out for next year?

Loved The Video!! Loved the plan!! Sounds Good!! Keep Smiling On!! 😄👊👍❤️

I love the mechanical self leveling loader on my 2038R

I have the same John Deere tractor that you delivered to Firewood, to great machine have the same loader I love it works great great video by the way

You mentioned a big black snake. There is a curve near the old castle known as black snake curve. The snake that was dispatched there stretched all the way across two lanes. Ask someone older than 70 and they will clue you in.

Good morning Mike fam! I KNEW IT! All that work for a meadow? Please! 😅 Looking forward to seeing even more progress. Really enjoy your videos.

Great news regarding the upgrade in your firewood business It sounds really interesting having such a good space down there with its own all year access It’ll be interesting seeing the roadway going in More stone then Mike 😂😂😂😂 I’m not fussed with snakes Thankfully they are very few in 🇬🇧 Adder is maybe our only one Good video guys 👍👍👍👍👍

Best road.... stay on Top of the ridge.....way better and faster than trying to build a road ... and dirt work..... might not be straight.. but better in the long run. Dad's point of view.

4 more full cords for me and i am done for the year.. i am perfectly happy with that too..

Very nice Mike... back to the firewood department.... I like those videos most. Regards from Jesper, from Denmark

Mike all I can say is you do so well in all that u do ! 😊

Sounds like a good plan Mike!.

You need the 405 firewood processor

It's nice to see you have some flat ground.

Have you thought of adding a Kiln, so you dry the wood faster?

I see a lot of stone deliveries for your new road!

Mike, what do you sell a basket of wood delivered in your area? What is a cord of wood delivered going for? Thank you and your family for all your great videos. Keep up the hard work.

I reckon you’d benefit from one of those firewood processors that you put on the front of your skid steer mike

Mike I think if you're going to increase firewood volume you're going to need one of those automatic splitters they have at the shows you go to, the one's you just drop a whole tree on it and it cuts and splits all at once. That would save you a ton of time and increase capacity. Just my 2 cents.

great job as always,,,,,quality videos,,,,quality firewood products,,,carry on MIKE and MELISSA as I enjoy your videos

Think about a concrete bunker like at the wood yard only cover it, you can scoop with the loader then

Good morning from Upstate South Carolina. I was wondering if you would ever get a firewood processor. Have another productive day.

I know you have a plan and it sounds perfect. If you ever need to throw ideas around. Have you ever heard of another RU-vid channel. Hometown Acres with Adam. He mentioned some of your same concerns. Just in case you had never heard of him.

Mike, we do have poisonous snakes in Western PA. A very good friend of mine died from a rattlesnake bite at his camp in Elk County several years ago.

Trick is to dry it fast! I built a kiln just for firewood.. trailers made out of rebar,,, and a shipping container with a wood stove at the far end, which was cut out where we had a 12x12 cement wall room with a huge wood stove... We loaded it with a skid steer.... All crappy wood... back four trailers full in... there dry in two days.... The trailers were cheep built, no springs just axle, hitch and framing kind of like you IBCs.... with rebar....

Thank you for the video

"By next time this year", you better get on that real quick Mike! 😀

Sounds like a good plan to me! KC Don 😉

HI THERE sounds like a plan , good show best to all john

Last year I picked up a Halverson 150 wood processor it made my life easier

I live close to Springfield MO and around where I live looking on Facebook market place a few people selling the totes. So of them still have the bladder in the totes so not sure how to get rid of them. The prices of the totes are pretty cheap. They would make a great place to store the wood like you do.

Hello! 🙂 I used to get my wood early but that just doesn't happen anymore.