Thanks Pete. Yep everybody want to do backyard fires with all this social distancing so the firewood sales are up

Thanks Dave! Part of being an accountant is not being able to turn off the numbers side of my brain haha. I’m always trying to think of ways to maximize return in investment

That’s a great idea

Thanks Fred. Always good to hear from you. Take care!

Thanks Richard

Yep I’ve been takin it easy. Waiting for cooler weather to catch up on production

Thanks Wayne. Good to hear from you!

It is a fun machine to run. Have you been getting into any new projects with the Kioti?

Right now all I been doing is mowing. My wife wanted some chickens so I been building a coop. However I'm gonna be out of commission for a couple weeks from what I hear. Just found out Friday I have a detached retina and having surgery on it tomorrow. Have no idea how it happened but I hear it's a fragile procedure that takes a long recuperation period.

jason cline oh man that’s horrible. Hoping for a speedy recovery and that you can get back to tractoring quickly

I just make sure to grind off any burrs and sharp spots

Glad you enjoy them. That’s why I do it. Actually just bought a bigger truck. Not a 3/4 ton though

If you’re just going to be cutting and splitting for yourself I’d say any regular hydraulic splitter from Lowe’s or Home Depot would serve you well but if you really want to produce a good bit of wood then I would recommend getting a commercial unit. If you’re rounds are big and heavy you’re definitely going to want something with a log lift

Have you seen any issues with the honor system?

@@HometownAcres no not really to be honest, I sell each bundle for $5. There was one time someone bought 5 bundles and left $23, but it's all good. I try and empty the box every couple hours if possible too

Where did you get the bagging tray?

@@glennmaynard7233 it was a craiglist find, it is a palax packer 35

Yeah I was surprised how hard ash gets once it’s dry

@@HometownAcres I was selling ash exclusively a couple years ago because of the emerald ash borer. It was hard to get rid despite it being a good burning wood. I had a couple people tell me that it was not a hardwood. They make baseball bats out of it, so it must be pretty hard.

@@HometownAcres ash is about the hardest wood there is, once it is dry!

Thanks man. Having the log lift on the Eastonmade really helps with the big rounds. Most people wouldn’t bother with them because they are too heavy but they are my favorite with this splitter because they usually have the best wood in them

Thanks Dave!

They sure do

Yeah. More hands make less work. I need more hands. I’m starting to get behind on the processing. Spending too much time collecting logs

Hahaha a problem all 3 of us have., Soo much wood and not enough of me (you guys) to go around to deal with it..

It's bundler fever!

Hey Finn good to hear from you. Thanks for the comment

I got it to test it out and see how it performs. Gonna do a comparison video between it and the real 372xp

I usually will collect the kindling for myself but there is more than what I would need for a winter. I probably could make kindling bundles too

Thanks for the tip

Yeah and more sails will bring in the boats too!!!

It is. I’ll be doing a separate video on it once it gets broken in. I didn’t mention it. Wanted to see how many people would notice haha

It’s a fun hobby and you can make a nice little supplemental income doing it

We burned wood growing up, it’s not a hobby it work but it’s good healthy work. Thanks for the reply.

I work a desk job so for me it’s therapy to get outside and work with firewood

Leave it back in the woods for the wildlife to use as cover and make a home in

If you don’t think the 12-22 is big enough they make a 22-28 that i think is a 37 ton. I think you could put a block of wood in there sideways and it would cross cut the grain.

I wholesale to my distributors for $4/ bundle. They then sell it for $6-$6.50

@@HometownAcres thanks

Just have a John Deere D140. 48” deck. That’s a pretty steep hill or else I’d like to get a good zero turn. Thinking about maybe upgrading to a 4 wheel drive riding mower with a 54-60” deck

I figured it was John Deere, straight lines dead giveaway! We run the older z717a /48” their little tanks.

Thanks Fred. I may still sell to people who come here and pick it up. I just don’t want to deliver wood to homes anymore. As you’ve seen I have to stack it in the truck and then toss it out of the truck... all by hand. Selling bundles to stores is a lot less manual

I think he said previously that a buddy of his who teaches vo tech had the students make it as a project.

boat6868 Thanks

Yep that’s how it came to be. A vo tech school did it as a class project

Are there plans??

If there are I don’t have them. I just sent them a video of what I was looking for and they designed it and made it

No these were cheap ones on amazon

Don’t be cheap buy the good ones. Stihl chain saw chaps, they are full rap-around chaps. Beware of Chinese knock offs. Good PPE is your friend, you will pay less using good equipment than your co-pay to go to the emergency room . I had a event this spring where one of my saws was being stubborn on restart. With the brake on during startup it came off of my tailgate in odd way and got my leg. The good PPE stopped it, the decompression release was on, but it it kicked back knocking the saw off of the tailgate. It must have hit the chain-brake on way down and with the engine set for high idle and it got me. This whole event took maybe 7-10 seconds, now I have had to do this style startup only a few times. 98% of the time the 372XP I can get running on the ground with my foot in the handle and a hand on the handle on a hot restart. This thing had to be vapor locked , it had not started on the first pull as always. Long and the short those Stihl chaps saved the day. This is not something I am proud of, my last event was 40 years ago I had no chaps at the time. I only lost a pair of jeans and my pride, just a small cut and just deep enough to draw blood. My Dad was horrified when he saw the saw kick back. The moral of the story is spend the money on good PPE, it’s a better friend than your Dog. Don’t buy the Chinese PPE!

It is not. I had a local welding class build it for me as a class project

I had a local vo tech school weld it for me as a class project

If I’m bundling straight from the splitter it’s always ash as it’s usually dead and already seasoned. If I’m bundling from my wood piles that have been split and stacked for a year it’s a mix of maple, cherry and oak

Yep. Wanted to see how many people would notice without me mentioning it. Good eye. Just put out a video on it today

I’ve never heard of them

They are all-terrain tires

Haha that’ll be the next video. Wanted to see if anybody noticed

I noticed.

THAT'S NOT A BIG BOY CHAINSAW. IS A CHINESE CLONE ONE. 🤣😂 IS NOT THE SAME TO THE REAL DEAL.

I would like to know when you do the comparison if you go up against a non EPA 372xp or the newer EPA saw. You will find the EPA version has a blue choke leaver and the decompression release is on the top of the saw. I have both saws and there’s a difference in where they perform. The firewood bins are a game changer!

I should, sometimes if I’m just splitting for a half hour or so I get lazy and just throw on an old pair of sneakers

I charge $4/bundle so they make $2 per bundle for unloading me and having a good location

Hometown Acres sounds like a good split for you and them. They have the sales area and staffing charges and you make the money on your own time. I use the red firewood bags but I have the ibc totes I may load in the truck and deliver this way as well. I think my area might get more money per bag. Lowe’s sells bags at $7.99 per bag here in CT.

You could put the Firewood basket in the truck empty and then stack the bundles in it once it’s in the truck.

Yep. Convenience stores here want $8 for bundles of 6 medium sized logs.

If you sell them across stare lines they have to be kiln dried

I sell it for $4/bundle.

@@HometownAcres Did a quick calculation and I was going to guess $ 3.90 per lol

Ask them if they’ve ever considered selling firewood. Tell them how much I would charge them and how much they could sell it for and tell them they can make so many dollars per bundle with no extra effort on their part

Hometown Acres did you create a contract to make sure you get paid or is it just off their word ? And also did you need some type of license or permit ?

No they pay me up front for it. It is their wood as soon as I leave. If they sell it for $5 or $100 /bundle it doesn’t affect me at all. I have already been paid

$4

@@HometownAcres now that's the ticket that extra dollar means alot!!! Keep up the great work love the channel!!

Some of them yes. Some we get from a tree service

@@HometownAcres free from tree service, or paid logger?

This was ash

Absolutely. For most it’s just a convenience thing. They might only burn a couple fires a year and it’s not worth it to them to have a chainsaw and worry about mixing 2 cycle oil or having gas go bad.

Yeah I bought a new saw. Wanted to experiment and see how many people would notice. I just out out a new video on the new saw