Nice setup you got there.
Also how did you get all those landscaping accounts?
You must advertise alot.
Thanks, I don't advertise as much, just a small add in the paper for a month or two, but most of them are word of mouth. The best type of advertisement!
I would have expected to see a huge pile of chips, bark and wood debris in a pile by your splitter since you're moving that much firewood. However it looks incredibly clean.
Yea, all the junk stays when it gets split. I split, all the junk is on the floor, gets thrown into the trailer, then trailered to another location about 20 minutes away to dry and gets dumped there. So it pretty much has 2 places for the junk to seperate.
Petr, Hows the dump work out for you. Been seriously thinking about a dump trailer and an elevator. Does the trailer lift high enough to clear all the wood out? In you picture it seems to.
Its a great investment! It makes work so much easier. Like the other poster said, its more of a semi-tall pile (depending how high your walls are) and longer because its lower to the ground. His explination is better. You have to lift all the way up, and drive forward a bit to get all of it out.
You need to use the insert image button. (The little mountain one in the post reply.) copy the web address from the picture and paste it when you press the mountain/image icon. You will get the web address when you right click and see view image.
Thanks, but in the past i was able to shrink the image to a certain percentage and it would post.
Good looking, nice and clean appearance.
One suggestion though, on the trailer sides, have the verticals on the outside of your posts, structurally it'll be more secure, and the load will slide out even easier.
Right now, the load is pushing against your wood screws, and the chance of a board coming off is possible.
Using carriage bolts with nylock nuts and flat washers through both pieces of wood would be another way to go. Have the bolt head on the inside of the trailer to retain a smooth surface.
20-30 cord?, and getting more orders. Where do you get your wood supply?
What is your most common amount request?
Yea, i figured it would look nicer to have the boards on the outside, so thats why it went like that. Either way the wood comes out nicely. Its more for looks. My wood gets dropped off in my driveway, cut up, for free. Most people either order a cord, which they think is alot of wood when i show up, or a half cord.
To the OP... It looks like really nice and new equipment, barely even used! Be careful about spending to much on equipment when you're first starting out (well, unless you're still living with your parents and have no bills). It's easy to ring up a lot of debt, but it takes a lot of wood/work to pay for all of that stuff, but since you're already doing 20-30 cors a year I'm sure I don't have to tell you that. Luckily, it sounds like you have a lot of LS accounts that should cover everything, but still be careful when it comes to buying all that new stuff as it can come back to bite you in the butt...
Looking forward to seeing more pics with everything loaded!
Yea, thats my thing. I almost allways buy new. Its just a personal prefference. You get the warrenty, and the satisfaction that no one else used it like an idiot before you. Ever hear the expression, "its a rental"? I see how people use things that aren't theirs, or just dont care. I've been doing this for a good 4-5 years. Everything is paid for except the red and blue truck. The blue one will be paid for by March, which will leave me only the red truck which isn't a problem at all. I also have a ton of equipment, another enclosed trailer, a 3rd truck, and a car thats all paid for too. I'm lucky to have a well established business that generates me enough money to have the toys to make my life easier. I'll post up more pics when i get a chance.
good job you work aholic you......wish i had been raised that way back then...
