I started cutting wood last year this year just in the month of November of 23 I sold 15 cords in a single week. Turned around bought a log splitter I have reached out and become friends with all the arborist and foresters in the hampton roads area they bring me logs and drop it on my property. Best choice I made was starting a firewood and lumber business plus my wife has been helping and learning because I am active duty military she has been pushing for machines ie log splitter and wood processor when I am gone. My 10 year old and 6 year old have been helping stack cords of wood. My daughter told me yesterday she wants to try selling bundles of wood and wants to be responsible for them I said okay. Little does she know I am going to let her keep all the money from her bundles and start teaching them how to be financially successful in life. Had a guy tell me that burning pine in a house will cause the whole city to burn down needless to say I don't do business with him. I love that I have customers already asking for wood for next year. Your videos have helped us alot understand what we are doing

First of all, that video quality is AWESOME! And you’re right, whatever widget you’re selling…quality product, good customer service, location…should lead to success as long as you are pricing it correctly. Great video bud! GI!

The part about keeping in touch with your clients is so important. I had a lawn service for 35 years also did snow removal and sold some firewood too. When I went to look at a lawn job. And I showed up to give them an estimate. Over half the people were so glad you just showed up they were estatic. They said I called five people this week and your the only one that showed up. I don’t know how some people stay in business. Keep the good videos coming. Good nite Irene.

Photography expertise sets you apart from every other youtuber! Nice work.

Love the quality of this video and the info is great THANK YOU!! Thanks for your time Chris!!

Good info Chris.. I have my prices 25bucks lower than the top guys on Craigslist. That part seems to be working for me.. I have 3 that want wood, a whole heating session ahead, and I have a lot that want for,this current year for heating so,its got to be ready now. Thw best component i have gotten was from a lady in her mid 80 telling me " it's nice to finally meet a young man that is not on something" Happy father's day Chris..😊👍

Very good information Chris. You do a great job of explaining how to make money selling firewood. I really appreciate you insight!

G’morning Chris. As always, you have a great way of presenting your wealth of knowledge ! Great tips. Thank you for all you do. GoodNightIrene

Love the format of the video Christ, you're a natural on camera!! You should have a podcast on firewood kinda like Dan and joe 👍 anyway keep up the good work much love from Quebec Canada 🤙

Great video. Thanks for all the advice of being to be the best to your customer and make the most. Have a Safe Day

Great stuff 👏 Thanks for sharing Chris 👍

Beard game looking 💪 Chris! Great vid

Seriously, awesome video! Thanks

Really good quality video today. Just looked much better than normal.

Like KNL firewood said amazing quality video . Good of not been said better words spoken from a man of wisdom in the firewood business. Cheers Chris outstanding! 👌🏻🔥🇨🇦

Chris could you do a video on how you keep split wood dry on the yard and the pallets you use for bottoms ?

Wow, Chris! You are an absolute wealth of information Even though I'm in process of starting a different type of business Princaply things are same same Thanks for always taking the time to respond Grazie Amico 🇮🇹

Man you are good. You present well in the yard, on location, and now in the "studio". We've got people at our quad city news stations that are not half as good as you in front of the camera. Between your comfort level in front of the camera, your content and preparedness I am consistently impressed . Great on you. And! You do your own blocking, makeup, lighting, editing and copy . Did you attend broadcasting school? Very good video. Exemplary production. Hope your father's day is a great one.

Happy Father’s Day Chris, good content great presentation. I burn what I produce, I could sell in St Paul Mn and Red Wing Mn but there is good competition here in western Wi. A lot of wood available, that’s why we can buy log’s cheaper than what you pay or cut our own . Keep on cutting

Great info Chris! My area in Oregon seems to have more sellers. We shall see when I try to sell bundles after the wood seasons. Looks like rain will finally take a break for summer here starting tomorrow! I like the cool weather, but the rain has lasted too long this year. Oh, and Happy Father's Day to you and all the Firewood Fathers!

You are a true pro. I was in video production for a local abc station. Keep up the good work. Help Tony out. lol. Still enjoy his content.

Great product Great service that's the way to go

Chris's firewood business class. Best job you ever had. GNI

Good video, but I think a few things are missed here, specifically with supply and demand. Focusing on the supply of trees is actually not the main concern. The main concern is the supply of alternate sources of heating. You can have an unlimited amount of trees in an area, but if most people have access to natural gas heating, burning wood won't make as much sense (the cost to produce the wood is cost prohibitive compared to the alternative source). This source (supply) of alternate forms of heat (in this example) is what dictates the price of the wood, not the supply of the wood itself (secondary concern.) This ties in directly with demand to give you the price equilibrium of the heat source. To wrap up, most people who heat their homes with wood, aren't doing so because of how much wood is available or not available, it's because there is a shortage or abundance of other viable heating alternatives (like gas). Electric heat is one of the least efficient ways to heat a home, which is why in certain areas, wood heating is viable. Cheers!

Great information Chris

Great video Chris.

nice introduction very well explained,

Wow! Fantastic camera. Thought for a minute I was watching a professional. But great content Chris.

Very informative Chris thank you👍👍

Great advice.

Good video and what you said is right on the money. I live in the middle of the Allegheny National Forest about 500.000 thousand acres I am in Mckean county Penn. You can get a permit to cut wood for home heating at the ranger station for 50 bucks that keeps the price down on a cord of wood a face cord goes for 60 bucks half of what you get. I dont do that as to time consuming i have it trucked in and buy about 60 tri axle loads per year and that give me about 22 to 24 face cords per truck load. Like you I deliver 95% of all my wood with the dump trailer I can move a lot of wood in a day and I made 1 of my pick up trucks dump like a dump truck for smaller loads what a time saver been doing wood for 22 years now. P.S. the Mr scuba 1 comes from back in the day when I did rescue diving and a lot of recreational diving friends started calling me Mr scuba or just scuba

Great info of typs of wood I live in SE Pa love the red oak but what I’ve experienced is that even standing dead red oak takes a good while after cutting spitting to be good seasoned wood . Here in Pa we had the Ash bore come through and kill 90% of our ash it’s a killer to cut have to be careful when cutting down ! One tree we do have a lot of in my area is black birch which everything I’ve researched is a great wood for BTU but the standing dead or one that hits the ground punks out really weird as opposed to other hardwoods. Wondering if you’ve experienced that?

All good reminders.

Gets me thinking of it in different ways

Where I live in NE Ohio, I mainly have access to Tulip poplar. What are your thoughts on burning tulip, do you get much of that in Wisconsin? I like this new video format, keep up the good work!

Wow never knew you were a fellow wisconsinite. Im i. South central around I90 &I43 exchange i enjoy the vids and learn a lot thanks

Good advice Mirrors my operation in S Wales 👍

Kiln dried firewood like oak takes @ least a week @ 160° Fahrenheit per face cord with a con X box type kiln. Look at outdoors with the Morgan’s for the kiln firewood drying video.

When I was training at a plant that builds cnc machines in Fondulac Wisconsin, the trainer recommended a steak house that has the most amazing steak I've ever had in my entire life. It's called Schwarz supper club in New Holstein which it looks like about 34 miles from Appleton.. so if you like steak, definitely worth the drive!

Very informative.

Chris your videos are very informative and I have bin watching for about a year now. I heat with wood and have bin thinking about selling. How much Seasond inventory should some one have before trying to start selling firewood? Thanks again for all your knowledge much appreciate.

Lots of good business advice here even if you aren't in the firewood business.

Happy Fathers Day Chris!

Great video Chris yes I live in Michigan and live in a small town but live very close to a lot bigger town and sell bundles to gas stations and convient stores and was getting 3 dollars a bundle but with inflation I can get 3.25 now.

Hello again, I get wood from a farm near me, it helps them keep the place tidy and helps me because its free, we had a bad storm last November here in the UK, storm Arwin, so I have a lot of hardwood cut and split, Ash, Oak, Beech, Birch, and a bit Pine, as all of the timber I have was blown down in November and was dormant because it was winter time, could you advise, do you dry your wood uncovered for a while, or is it left uncovered for a period then covered to finish it off.

Happy PaPa's Day, Chris! I wonder with fuel prices like they are and logistics. If it makes more sense to move wood in log form or processed form? Nice job on the video today! Will we be seeing the processor in studio soon also?!?!

I have been selling mostly birch and maple here in central Ontario canada. I have alot of birch and pine and bit of maple and elm here on my farm i can always cut too.

Well said Sir Chris. 👍🏻👍🏻GNI

Another thing with selling green wood is chimney fires due to green wood . Knew a guy who got sued for selling it green . I don’t think he ended up being liable but I know he gives receipts with some explanation that they have inspected and except the product as is . Something that protects him somewhat . Even seasoned wood creates sut over time . Idea for you to do a video maybe . Chimney maintenance . 😉

helpful info

Sound is only on the left channel. Thanks for all the tips. To bad I do not have the room, the supply or the market or the health to do a firewood business of my own, otherwise I would have loved to apply it all. LOL🤣😂🤣😂

Morning Chris, cool, slick production! Hope you enjoy Fathers Day, maybe the kids will stack?Take care

Happy Fathers Day Mr. Chris

thanks

Hey that new camera makes you look 6 months younger. Great video!

You mentioned Apple, do you ever deal in Apple? I've been curious about this for a while. I am surrounded by orchards and wondered about if you get any

Man that is a clear camera!

Nice job Chris. What camera are you using??

Much as i would love to add this business to my other businesses I don't think its possible just 1000 feet behind my house is a tree service with 22 acres I just looked him up he said he has 75 cords on hand. So he is a principle competitor. And he gets the wood for free. Then you have my landscaping yard where I dump my grass and leaves and stick they also sell mulch and soil and because they take all the wood from the entire areas tree services 100s of them. They also make fire wood and how can you compete with that.

Has a customer ever requested sawn but not split rounds ? They wanted to split it themselves. Have you ever offered that. Do you ever offer to provide V.F.W. or American Legions with firewood at a reduced price? Either they pick it up or you deliver it For mention in their monthly need letter.

in wisconcin do shools still use the paddle

And how do you prevent half of your new competition from even getting started? Only record on one audio channel!

Happy Father's Day Chris

This winter my price per face is going up didn't want to do it but gas isn't cheap! I was hoping not to but it has to happen.

I am going to be upping my price, i can't keep up with cutting and splitting, my wood supply is going out to fast, i have people buying it for the winter of 23/24 it's easier i can split it off the splitter it goes on the elevator and right into the dump trailer and they want green wood and I'm still getting 300 dollars a cord no stacking or reloading, saves a lot of work and time, i also sell bundles for 5 dollars and people keep telling me that is cheap but those are going out just about as fast as I can make them so I think prices are going up cost of fuel is up so much

Fantastic lesson. I am learning what woods are the best to sell to customers so I came up with a spreadsheet. woods/ BTU/splitting . Thank for the great info.

What kind of a demand do y'all have in your area for brush hunting... Thank you in advance my fine friend

More good stuff. I guess I'll stop being lazy and get out there now!

Wow! Your not just a bucket of good looks.

Most people like White Birch as it looks pretty sitting in the fireplace or stacked next to, Needs to be processed as soon as possible before the bark starts slipping and you end up with nekkid wood which looks like any other wood and is not as pretty to look at IMHO, Curios if anyone else in other parts of the country sees Yellow Birch in abundance or only interspersed in Hard maple stands?

Great lens…Chris looks 20 years younger !… 😉

Can someone pls help me understand the deferent amounts of woood

Fireplace folks really like birch. 10 -15 years ago we had tons of birch. The birch seems to have died off in our area, it’s kinda unusual to see a birch tree that’s over 8” in diameter now a days. With all the recent blow downs, I find it hard to believe anyone would pay for firewood. But people are lazy and seem quite willing to pay someone to cut storm damage trees , pay to haul the wood away. And then the same people will pay for firewood. May as well just burn money.

if schools in wisconcin still use the paddles you could makem forthem 100 each x 1000s = lots of cash

I was just in green bay

Thanks for the Ted Talk. I predict firewood is going to be a very hot commodity this fall/winter. With Bo xiden at the helm of the US titanic it’s just starting to get bad. Some are still enjoying the cruise, some are rearranging the deck chairs, I’m in one of the life boats. No support for CBDC or ESG from me, which some would say is ironic coming from a guy with a high efficiency wood boiler, 10kW PV solar, 160ft2 hot water solar, and 4 Prius’s with an annual registration of $640. More irony…each car has a $75 surcharge due to the fact they don’t burn enough gas. All electric is $100! 🙄🤦‍♂️🤬

In a nutshell be good to people. Treat them how you want to be treated. Having been on the buying end of wood, I've seen alot. Been screwed because we were desperate. We heat with wood.

The problem would be finding somebody that has a crane on 18-wheeler and delivering it to your house... Great video though

black birch in n. east is better than all oaks and malples in btu content, most customers believe oak is best here to, black birch can be intensified by the winter fresh gum aroma. white birch on the other hand is poor firewood, but looks pretty. I've also found to keep white birch logs of ground before processing as it will start to rot it seems in a matter of weeks on the ground.

ive been getting alot of his vids with no audio, anybody else?

The firewood gospel by Chris Carlson!! LOL!! Everything you said makes complete sense!! You definitely have the perfect area for selling wood and I have the perfect area for cutting firewood. I can get my wood for pretty much nothing but it costs a lot to deliver it to your area. It doesn't cost you much for delivery but it costs you quite a bit to get your wood. It all comes out about the same in the end. Take care my friend!!😀😀👍💚💚 Logger Al

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When I am marketing last year's grain. I'm small acreage. But I want to be in the top 25-33% of the highest price swings of the year and top 25% of farmers in my state. Don't under value what ever service you do. Just like it's not mine . To feed the country for less than it cost to produce it.

Дружище, у вас там правда цены подросли канкретно на электроэнергию, бензин, дрова! Сколько стоит 1 кубометр дров?

No way this is a Go Pro. This has to be one of your cameras for the "other" job right? F1.4 lens?

200 to 250 per cord in pa make lots of cash sell boxed firewood

i live in mi but if i was sell fire wood go for 65 to 90 they say it season and it grean as hell and ever one wont to burn now and bye late so bet can get 110 preface cord i wood do it it rite not it ben logs for a year or dead stand for at lest a year what ever one go bye hear it insane and most ppldont no better

I cut cedar on reservation.. not the red cedar tho.. 👍

Oh hey, research birch for smoking. I didn't believe it either... but it's a thing.

I heat with wood . With fuel as it is IAM not about to get off a cord for 200 . Just the way it is .

when its hot as hell i get swamp ass

Isn’t it the customers job to dry the wood?

volume level is almost unintelligible!

$450 a Cord here and can't keep up. People are scared. They are buying green wood and stocking up.

60 dollors a cord where I’m at

Doesn't matter were you live most people won't cut wood for them self , people are just lazy today and use the excuse they are to busy.

is it ok to sell boxes firewood in the mail