STLfirewood
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I would check out the super splitter. I have one and the damn thing is fast. It's cheap 3k new. Light weight very good on gas(6-8 ricks of wood on a single tank) And they are very fast.
Scott
Scott
I have a tw-5 and two people can easily split a cord an hour with out rushing.
All the people who are advocating the sale of firewood by tree services, I have a question.
If a customer asked this question tell me what your answer would be..........
Will you come to my house and take down these trees?....YES!
Will You also bring your splitter and split the wood while you are here and leave it for me?..................?????????
My answer is Yes, for "X" more dollars and for "Y" dollars we will stack it nice and tight too.
How many more dollars? Same price as they going rate in your area for a cord delivered?
That is the same view that I had when I first started working in the tree industry years ago and have always found enough money in it to keep me going. A lot of the time I would only do it when I didn't have any tree jobs to keep my guys busy for a day or two here and there or if they wanted to make a little extra money on the side. Since then it has grown to a huge business for me and now we are in production year round.
Here in Texas most people burn green wood if it's cut during the winter but other than that my firewood stacks don't take up much room since I run them against fences so they are out of the way.
I was in the firewood business from 1982 to 1993 in Dallas and nobody wanted green wood then if they could get seasoned. Nobody on my street burns green wood.
What I am getting at is this, and it WASNT my idea I just like it..............
Alot of guys around here WONT split on site. Too much work to move the splitter etc etc etc.
BUT
They will take down the trees, haul the logs to their site, pay a guy to split it, pay taxes on the property while it seasons, then haul it back to that SAME site. But yet it is more of a pain to split on site?
I have found in selling firewood there are two kinds of sellers. Part time who what ever they thru the winter and then go do something else in the summer time I do it full time I am retired and I make a comfortable living. You have to market firewood for summer and winter. My wrapped wood Xmas I wrap it in green and redI just give away my wood now but it's always green. I'm thinking of selling my firewood. Does anyone else do this? I have a splitter already but not the space to age the wood. Just wondering if it's lucrative enough to be worth my time. This would be in the California Bay Area where the whether is only cold enough for about 6 months. I can't imagine there being much of a market for wood especially during the summer months.
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