well the good thing is that I already own the machinery except a high production splitter which is why I started this thread about. My biggest limitation on how much wood I can sell is time and my back. I physically cant deliver and stack more that 4 cords before it gets dark or my back starts to give out. I thought using a pallet system would allow me to deliver more wood to more people per day. It may not, thats why I asked the experts on this forum. I have sold wood since I was 14 and Im now almost 40, and yet I have had more great ideas from this forum than anywhere else. I was guess what I was wondering if anyone else found an efficient way to deliver wood using pallets. There has to be a better way to do this than to pick up each piece so many times.
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This goes back to reinventing the wheel,
Stacking for the buyer has to be eliminated unless you charge extra.
The only way you will become more efficient is to sell the fire wood by the
ton or by the thrown cord in bulk using a conveyor without stacking or using pallets.
I strongly suggest to you that you contact redprospector via PM and talk to him about his chomper
firewood processor and what he does with it.
The chomper has a six second cycle time for 12 inch long blocks the Timberwolf TW5 (now
a manual machine) is slower.
The chomper shears the firewood and it dries faster than split wood.
You are at the point where you get bigger or get out.
you neeed to add a brush grapple attachment for your tractors loader to pick up the dumped splits
or to simply move the logs to a chomper if you go that route.
You need a much bigger scoop bucket to gather the splits
this is why I suggested the grapple bucket attachment you will have ot add a third valve attachment to use one.
Using your dump trailer and loading with a small firewood conveyor off the chomper will be much more efficient
even using the basic simplex 14 gas powered model.
I would rather see you sell the firewood in bulk by the ton or the thrown cord which eliminates stacking period
a throw cord is considered 165 cubic feet.
YOU have to examine this using a decision tree to make the decision.
I am trying to help you succceed not fail
You have to eliminate the labor as much as possible and the chomper and a
firewood conveyor eliminates much of the labor for you