How Much Money Can We Make Splitting Firewood? (48 hour challenge)
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2024
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Love watching you guys always so energetic and positive... 🎉 Courtney always great job editing 🎉
50 years ago I used to split wood as a kid using a Maul. Probably replaced the wooden handle at least a dozen times. And I still have it today. :)
I have never seen a channel make boring thing such as firewood procesing look fun. I mean you guys are amazing.
That boy is so lucky having parents like you he is going to learn so much from you both he is 1 lucky boy 🇬🇧👍
For the shavings, rabbits aren't a bad idea. Excellent, abundant food source for off-grid. Another thought would be to buy some parafin wax with some of your firewood proceeds, and a bunch of cardboard egg cartons. Mix the wax and shavings and pour into the egg cartons and let cool, and you have some fire starters.
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Yes. Great idea.. I’ve also seen woodmen melt down the pitch with saw dust as fire starters.
For some sawmills Suspension burners are the best tech for sawdust burning.
They achieve that intricate suspension and create a vortex with a cyclone type burner.
Sawdust burners were well used in the past.
Seems easy enough if you have a constant supply and processer for all the waste .
Riley can make a compressed log jig, a good winter project. Something an engineer could have fun designing and building himself.
Riley, very responsible. You're one of the few US RUclipsrs I follow wearing protective gear while chainsawing.👍
You can thank Courtney for that. 🤣
Such a satisfying process! You guys are moviestars (only not corrupt like they are)😊
Yep, not childless cat ladies that don't defend women in sports
I look forward to seeing your videos every Sunday. I'm amazed at the things you two come up with!
I am currently working on next year's wood here in Montana...Just an old Kubota, Stihl saw, and a 27-ton splitter. It's slow but it gets the job done. I must say that processer looks fun
Ahhhh...memories! Grew up one county north of you. Winter firewood: 20 cords for heating, 4 cords for cooking. By hand. Every fall. One year, parents got the idea we would sell firewood. Loaded trims from the local mill. Was about 12 at the time. Chainsaw, axe and hours of hard work: 65 cords of crap firewood nobody wanted (trims were mostly spruce/whitewood full of pitch). Three years of wood cut, but all that crappy firewood meant weekly chimney fires and yucky smoke in the house. Love what you are doing! Keep it up!
Hey Riley, get a sawdust compression machine and either make logs or pellets out of all that sawdust.
I think later in life, with Courtney youre passion for machines, and Oliver in the working machine with his dad, Oliver is gonna be a big fan of machines.
Love the picture with Oliver in the cab of the excavator. I have those same memories with my Kids ! Keep it up Go Mustangs!
Riley I worked for a company in Florida that produced firewood on an industrial level. They had several machines exactly like yours. You mentioned how big the firewood chunks were. Those big chunks won't fit in A LOT of wood stoves. That company offers optional splitting dies. Rather than 6 pieces, you could split into 8-12 pieces. This would be more convenient to some customers. They have to take split firewood and attack again with an axe. Firewood heats 5 times. When you cut it, when you split it, when you stack it ,when you haul it inside, and finally when you burn it. Observing what an excellent fabricator you are, you could create these dies yourself
You can mix sawdust, bee's wax, and a bit of paraffin and make fire starters. Paper egg crates, cardboard cores (TP or paper towel etc.) or paper muffin cups work. Check the price of those at the store and there's a little more $$$ in your side hustle 🗿👽🗿👽🗿
Almost looked like fun ,well almost .Oliver will learn from the best😊
The fish and sulphuric acid may be for preserving fish for pig food. A book on raising pigs said that the big producers raise their pigs on waste fish parts, preserved with acids. They can save food costs by using that byproduct. About a month before slaughter, they change to corn and grains to stop the pork from tasting like fish. The old timer’s let the pigs grow in the forest, eating acorns, etc, then changed to corn at harvest/ slaughter time.
You 2 Always come up with fun topics. Love the video. And we say, hook the chain the way it will work!
Great video, nice to see Oliver getting in on the action haha
Man, you guys are the BEST!
That's a lot of fire wood and fun.
Thanks for all the facts and figures!
That's pretty cool. There are some benefits you have that were not calculated in the processing cost. You own the equipment that you use to move the logs. It's hard work, but in my opinion, it's well worth it having the dry heat that you don't pay for. Great job, guys. Thanks again for sharing.
.... on the other hand, you had enaugh lumber to build a log house! Greetings from Germany, Chris
Bravo for donating your excess. There are always people worse off and firewood is truly useful
You guys are just too cool!
Can’t wait to see what you bought in Michigan
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You guys weren’t joking about cutting a lot of fire wood!!!
I never miss an episode
Cut 3/4 inch foam pipe wrap and zip ties saves the need for bandagesfor your totes. works for us.
Those machines are pretty cool. They make hard work easy. Fun to watch thanks guys.
Keep the extra wood to season longer, then next year get some bartered labor to do stacking for you in exchange for a tote full of wood some weekend in future.
Try cutting totes with a.short length leftover so you can squish it flat and bend that around something like rebar so it leaves a rounded off end so no one gets cut. No grinder needed either...
Seems like you've made the case for buying one of these units if it was shared by a few homesteads in area, you've got the means to move it, make everybody buy their own chainsaws and extra chains, totes etc... Schedule a month or so apiece every 3 or 4 months of fair weather seasons out of 9 useful months excepting winter ?
Now it's Courtney's turn to be a kid in a candy store with her new toy!!!
It is nice to see you in realizing your resources.
Hey, wait a minute, that first run was done cold 4 minutes 30 seconds.
So what happens when you get your groove on?
Be careful when you’re working fast. There’s a RUclips channel in PA that had a split piece bind up either in the splitter or just after it. There’s a lot of force and when something gets stuck, it can release violently. His father in law? Ended up in the hospital
Could always check out ' Outdoors With The Morgans' , they split a lot of firewood etc.
Love the wood processor!! Unfortunately our trees in Illinois are not as straight as your telephone poles you grow in Idaho.😁
Great job , I guessed you would donate ( like last time ) . Nice to give back to those who might not be able to split or have the wood .
Bring that machine to WESTERN NC! Thousands of trees down from Helene. Thousands of people could use it as firewood!
Donating the rest???!?!?!? You guys just get better and better. Keep up the great work you 2!!!
you should convert the sawdust into ultra compressed starter logs. you can make a TON off of those.
I think that sign means the liquid originally stored in the tote would kill trees/plants and fish if spilled in the wilderness basically.
If y’all seriously considering doing this at a large scale, I’d consider a open pole barn on a slab, to ease handling, speed seasoning, prevent losses and mess from rot, and resulting infestations.
Chips / saw dust might be viable for pressing into wood pellets…
Your commenters are the best.
Maybe you should investigate buying a sawmill and mill the lumber for the house build...just a thought but it would be cool to build a house out of lumber you milled...also a lot cheaper...
you also need to factory in 3 peoples labor plus wear and tear or your equipment and fuel thats probably the other 1900
personally could see running those logs through a sawmill with long bed trim 2 sides so all are same thickness and build a log house or barn or other outbuilding structures
Another great video of watching you guys work together as a team. Each one finding out where you best fit in the team and doing it.
Excellent job.
Hey, where'd you get those totes? We're just south of you and could possibly use some for our firewood.
Thanks.
I’ve got all my wood for 3 years , some still need to be split. Very satisfying situation to be in though
Better to randomly fill the baskets than to stack as the stacked logs can easily pool water on the horizontal bits.
Hi riley, I am also in north idaho and I was wondering who you used to purchase your ibc crates
Curious to know if you cut those trees from your own property or had them brought in? If so, what did that load cost? If I watch to the end you just might answer these questions. Cheers!
I hope you split a lot of oak also, because burning mostly or exclusively pine in a fireplace will cause quick "creasote" build up and can eventually lead to a dangerous chimney fire without regular chimney sweeping.
Oak?, have you ever been to the nw?
as long as the pine is dry enough it's not a big issue
@@chosonnow630😂 somebody from back east
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And the burning process, combustion tech. helps
Stove Catalytic elements converts creosote to heat before it in condensates on chimney.
Of course an insulated chimney also helps..
single, layered uninsulated stove pipe used to be a recipe for creosote fires.
Not much oak in a pine forest. Not just true in the NW, but here in the SW. Not a deciduous tree in sight.
You guys are remarkable.
Nice tease about Michigan... what's next!? 🤔
Fun stuff. My cousin has been looking into a similar machine but the wood he is working with i am not sure is conducive. He has a fairly unlimited supply of mesquite. Those trees do not grow straight.
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Thanks so much for ordering a shirt! 🙌
Excellent video as always. Reminded me of this skid steer log splitter attachment I saw recently: It has a large tube attached to the splitting mechanism, you drive over to a trailer of long logs and capture one in the tube, which is then hoisted vertically. A single hydraulic ram powers the splitting mechanism which both cuts and splits the log from the bottom. As the split pieces are pushed out the side hole in the bottom, the log drops down and the process is repeated leaving behind a pile of split wood. It averages about 5 minutes for an entire split tree of wood. Definitely the best design I've seen
You’re wearing clothes for cold weather… I’m just a wee bit jealous because it’s still quite hot here in central Texas. It’s getting to 97 degrees today.
Looks like a great side business.
If you can figure out how to make money from saw dust, that will be the million dollar idea. Make sure to patent it before you make the video!
Oliver claimed all of the sawdust as his new sand box. 😂
There are plenty of people around thats heating with sawdust and simalar materials (a friend is heating with "waste" grain and saw dust). Simple explanation is that you need a fan to acelerate airflow and a screw of some sort to transport the material in to the burn cabin. I bit of logic (there are prodcuts out there if you don't want to build it yourself) since the feed should only be run for a second or 2 every minute.
Only you guys could make a video of splitting wood interesting.
you forgot the fact in your money calculations the logs🤣 and the time it takes to grow them of buying them
The sign on the tote is called a Pictogram created by OSHA to designate a hazardous material that could harm the environment.
LOVE the purple shirt,,,, MAY think about picking up ADVERTISEMENT for Cloths company,,, then you'd be sty'len for Winter.
I would have built an extension for the end. Of how much not sure {{ 10 ft out and 15 ft } but to have it work for said task. A large metal saw stand with X braces.
4:28 to do one log? Chuck Norris could do it in half the time just using his hands 😅😅
Need to adjust the solar array to winter tilt. Shadows are getting low.
the fish placard is a Marine Pollutant placard.
just think how much more you get done if you just made fire wood without taking time stacking
suggestion used use large cement blocks making a holding bin and fill with split firewood check out Out Doors with the Morgans
Wouldn’t these logs be worth more if milled and processed for building material?
I was thinking the same. I love in northern NV where there aren't a lot of trees. 40' logs would be worth a lot here. I think they have plenty of trees there they can harvest though.
Better environmental choice too. I am guessing these logs are not good enough quality for milling?
Will you have any firewood left weekend of October 25th? That’s when I will be back in town getting ready for Winter
300.00 a cord of wood that is crazy when i was a kid my dad would buy a cord for 75.00 dollars. Then we would split it and stack it all on a Saturday He would buy 3-5 cords a winter.. Me and my brother would have contests to see who could chop or stack the fastest. I wonder if you switched over to a pellet stove if it would reduce your costs.
Riley if you put the echoflow in the splitter you may be one sponsor less!!
I stack the first row in my totes and dump the rest in.
Courtney's happy dance for winning the competition needs an episode of it's own!
It looked like you got two out of three rows of wood when you restacked it in the container.
That sounds like the way to go unless storage costs you alot and labor is doesn't.
Courtney - Miss Firewood 😄😊
Winter is coming, doors for the MTR yet?
You get more done in 48 hours than I do in 48 years
Should have had the logs dropped on sleepers to keep sand/gravel from the saw.
What about making fire starters with bees wax or coconut oil?
You can make more money making fire starters with the saw dust.
Sure beats axle and mall. How I know. Easy busting wood.
Omg where is the child?
Hi guys , who’s is the new guy helping you . He is very handsome 😊
You should build some doors for the truck. Or get with someone to build them.
Doors would be nice, especially in winter!
@@AmbitionStrikes you can modify the armored doors if that’s all you have.
@@justinmize4316 The military removed the doors before they sold it. 😢
I hurd that is best to not stack your fire wood in the totes it dries better? Now we know how much more if you stack it. Question is does it dry better not stacked? 🤔
So, did you happen to have a mostly continuous video of the effort? The would be great video to have on the channel, just a lot of firewood and some background music... I would put it on play and get to working. I know I am weird, but there enough weird people like me that have some reason that they would enjoy it. I personally just need something to drown out distractions... plus having other people working motivates me to not be lazy.
You should literally make this into a business
I was wondering what headphones with a mic you use for hearing protection?
Great video but what about the $875 for the 25 cages?
Hard to believe Courtney is "Miss Efficient" with long hair like that.
From Rexless Riley to Rexless Coutney!😁
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WOW that what AWESOME! Always love watching your channel!
Good.job! What happened with the rental house?
40' logs that would have made a perfect log cabin, turned into firewood?.....hmm
Good morning
Pet shop just might want your sawdust🤷