[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Extreme Firewood Processing (Page 1 of 2)
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I cant even imagine the amount you'd have to sell to make that profitable Theres no $ in firewood around here anymore. Everybody and their brother with a saw and splitter sells it now I'd bet in densely populated new england towns they sell the hell out of it at the grocery stores. |
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I cant even imagine the amount you'd have to sell to make that profitable Theres no $ in firewood around here anymore. Everybody and their brother with a saw and splitter sells it now Even where I live grocery stores and gas stations often sell bundles of just barely enough wood for two small fires for $4. There's apparently a decent demand for it. |
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I'd bet in densely populated new england towns they sell the hell out of it at the grocery stores. Quoted:
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I cant even imagine the amount you'd have to sell to make that profitable Theres no $ in firewood around here anymore. Everybody and their brother with a saw and splitter sells it now I'd bet in densely populated new england towns they sell the hell out of it at the grocery stores. Yeah if you can sell small bundles to gas stations or campgrounds you can get $400-500 a cord. getting all the contracts is the hard part. |
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That looked like a lot of moving parts that had to coordinate perfectly to work right. I wonder what the maintenance is like to keep it that way or what it looks like after five years.
Firewood can be some squirrelly stuff and I could see that thing getting beaten up and thrown out of sync pretty easily. |
I like the Bobcat version:
 Wood Cutting & Splitting Attachment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdXzaGFkWfU |
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My chainsaw and wood splitter and give me a guy that wants to work and I would put that thing to shame profit wise Yea, maybe for a day or two. But fatigue takes a toll on the body. This machine keeps spitting out processed wood day after day without being fed Motrin, Tylenol or filling out workers comp forms. Think long term. 
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Yea, maybe for a day or two. But fatigue takes a toll on the body. This machine keeps spitting out processed wood day after day without being fed Motrin, Tylenol or filling out workers comp forms. Think long term. Quoted:
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My chainsaw and wood splitter and give me a guy that wants to work and I would put that thing to shame profit wise Yea, maybe for a day or two. But fatigue takes a toll on the body. This machine keeps spitting out processed wood day after day without being fed Motrin, Tylenol or filling out workers comp forms. Think long term. Yep, when was the last time commercial farmers harvested wheat by hand? |
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One of the neighbors has a big processor, larger than the second one in the video, way smaller than the first.
A company brings one to Mount Pleasant every year that loads a tractor trailer with the split wood. I like that packaging idea, it allows the seller to market a reliably known volume of wood; everyone knows what is sold, and everyone knows what was bought. No bullshit available in the process. |
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3 times Cutting it Splitting it Burning it I think the saying goes, "Man who heats house with wood warms self MANY times." I harvest my own so it goes: Cutting tree down & chunking to size Collecting & delivering to house Splitting Stacking Moving into house Heat |
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I cant even imagine the amount you'd have to sell to make that profitable Theres no $ in firewood around here anymore. Everybody and their brother with a saw and splitter sells it now I agree with this and was thinking the same thing. The initial investment for the equipment and the cost of manpower to run it ? they must be selling a lot of firewood. |
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Yea, maybe for a day or two. But fatigue takes a toll on the body. This machine keeps spitting out processed wood day after day without being fed Motrin, Tylenol or filling out workers comp forms. Think long term. Yep. John Henry beat that steam drill... Once. |
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I wonder how many cuts the chain saw can make before it needs sharpening? I was wondering that - or to be replaced. I was also wondering what designates this wood as firewood vs being used for other products such as furniture or whatever. Quality, or is this type of tree not suited for other products? Lastly I'm also wondering... I've seen alternative fuels in the stores now - like pressed coffee grounds. Kinda makes me wonder what I could use for "firewood" if I had a good hydraulic press.
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Yeah if you can sell small bundles to gas stations or campgrounds you can get $400-500 a cord. getting all the contracts is the hard part. There was a small time local guy selling to some restaurants that had wood fired grills. He said they wanted oak, cherry and hickory and he happened to have a good supply. He said he makes three times what he used to and cuts half the amount. |
Redneck, slightly less safe version
 Diy firewood processor |
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That's pretty cool and all and I love seeing intuitiveness like that, but it seems like overall it'd be more work than cutting it on the ground and lifting the rounds onto the splitter, especially for the size of round he's working with. If that was a 24" diameter tree he may be on to something, but what he is doing is inefficient IMO. |
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We have so much wood piled up from Mathew I wonder if any enterprising people have taken the opportunity to process and sale the wood. Maybe it's because they're thinking of it as "trash" and not "firewood"? On one of my old message boards a member posted about having to cut a tree down & hired a company to do the work. IIRC a lot of the wood was going to end up landing on the neighbor's yard, so they called and asked if it was OK. The neighbor refused. Then the company called the neighbor and asked, "Would you like some free fire wood?" The neighbor happily accepted the offer, and the wood in question landed in their yard as originally planned. 
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Yea, maybe for a day or two. But fatigue takes a toll on the body. This machine keeps spitting out processed wood day after day without being fed Motrin, Tylenol or filling out workers comp forms. Think long term. The neighborhood pub/carry out will also hate it. I miss that smell from autumn in the bar in the woods. |