Tenderfoot
ArboristSite Guru
I am feeling really grateful that I have firewood as a side business and I can heat the house. This August I got a new job after not working for three months. I had $400 in the bank and just had my tools and my wits. I trucked home all the wood I could get and started splitting. I spent my last $400 on gas, mix oil, chains, and diesel while fuel was $2.15 a gallon for the truck. It worked out pretty well, Id say. I made a few hundred dollars at work and started saving $100 every week since then. I have worked hard enough that I can go back to school full time next year if things keep up and get a good degree.
Ive been so busy I have sold out of wood twice(!), and this being my first 'real' season I am already getting referrals. Apparently I sell the biggest cords around, and I am happy to say that. Thankfully, my old boss is an arborist so I get two or three cords a week of standing dead trees dry enough to sell. Firewood really did turn things around for me. Always liked running saws and driving trucks, so it works. Not getting rich by any means, but I am making more then I was and I am fed and the house is warm. The dog has a good bed and I may be able to help out my parents some too, they have been having trouble too. I have a growing savings account for the first time in years and cannot remember a time I was this happy. Its hard, grueling work but being able to hold cash in hand I really earned is a special feeling. I can look out my window and see the results of my work. I took a real risk and it paid off. If it did not I really have no idea what I would be doing.
Ive been so busy I have sold out of wood twice(!), and this being my first 'real' season I am already getting referrals. Apparently I sell the biggest cords around, and I am happy to say that. Thankfully, my old boss is an arborist so I get two or three cords a week of standing dead trees dry enough to sell. Firewood really did turn things around for me. Always liked running saws and driving trucks, so it works. Not getting rich by any means, but I am making more then I was and I am fed and the house is warm. The dog has a good bed and I may be able to help out my parents some too, they have been having trouble too. I have a growing savings account for the first time in years and cannot remember a time I was this happy. Its hard, grueling work but being able to hold cash in hand I really earned is a special feeling. I can look out my window and see the results of my work. I took a real risk and it paid off. If it did not I really have no idea what I would be doing.