Mr Good Wood
ArboristSite Member
I have been reading the threads on firewood processors and I am debating on building one that combines the best of the cord king and multiteck processor. My question is if I build it what is the market like for people that would like to have their logs processed. I know of one guy in my area (Northwest, Oh) that has a Timer wolf processor and he is charging $100 an hour and putting out 1.5 cords of wood and hour and half of it need split again. If you were a firewood guy would you pay that? I know I would not. But I am thinking of I building one because I need it for myself and I am thinking I could run it for other people too. Aside from the number above can anyone give me the going rate that they know of if you were to have someone come out and run a processor on an hourly basis. I'm thinking if you charge 100 an hr and can process at least 3 full cord and hr people would pay. It takes me about 3 hrs to cut/ split a cord so at 3 cord an hr that's $33 a cord. if you had to hire someone for $10 hr at 3 hr per cord well.. Plus the faster you process it the more dry time, the better. I would appreciate anyone's thoughts seeing that there is no true and exact way to test the market.