To the newbies watching this to learn stuff . . . Remember that this guy has cut a bazillion logs and has a really good feel and control of the saw and how it is contacting the wood. One thing he's doing that would be dangerous for new cutters is cutting the logs right where they lie in the stacks, with other logs right behind them. 100x more efficient this way compared to pulling each log out separately, but potentially dangerous because of risk of kickback. The tip to remember (literally) is the TIP of the saw that is BEYOND the log you're focused on. If that comes into contact with the log behind it, you could suddenly get a fully revved up chainsaw flying at your face. Just be very mindful of your tip.
My neighbours are crap with a saw, and they do this in shorts and flipflops, with no hearing or eye protecting. I avoid the front of our house when it happens so that I don't witness anything horrendous. I've tried to guide them (I've been an arborist for over 15 years), but they laugh at me and continue. At least my conscious is clean knowing that I said my part to try and help 😅.
Thanks Brian! I appreciate your comments and watching my videos! You have over 200 videos to get caught up on and a new one every morning while you are having your coffee or morning, well you know, private time.
I live in Butler Pennsylvania. I used to have a tree service and shut it down in March. firewood is a side hobby for me. Have about 30 cords split ready to go for next year so far. I went to a store that we have here called rural king. They had about 200 pairs of your pigskin kinco gloves. I picked up a pair to give them a try. Love your videos keep it up. Thank you for all the information that you share.
Help always makes things nice, too bad i can rarely find any. Just one delivery for me today then out in the woods dropping and cutting ash. Thanks for the video!
Just wanted to let you know that I tried the sharpening stone with my dremel, I thought I was in heaven. I was filling and just couldn’t get the teeth sharp ( more practice) the chain cut better than when I first used it. Thank you sir!!! JT
This is the first year I bought actual logs for the outdoor wood boiler. I got 45 25' logs for $450. Most were larger that what you had at 2:10 , one I had to cut from both sides with my 18" Stihl. I had to get a 20' log chain and drag the top ones off with the ATV... but I'm getting there.
In evaluating what I find most enjoyable in your vids Chris, It's like I find I am actually the one doing the work. For example, when you are bucking the logs I find myself thinking to myself "I wonder why he chose to cut that particular piece at that moment when it was supporting the one above it" type questions. Or, maybe think when splitting "if that piece had been just a tad smaller it wouldn't have shaven off that wasteful small piece requiring wheeling off to waste pile " As always, thanks for all your great content and great camera angles and great audio matching levels. I find it a little strange that many of the ASMR popular vids streams are relaxing/quiet feeds while I find a loud chainsaw entertaining
@@InTheWoodyard Query: Why do you have an adjustable wedge if you never use it? - It looks like if the crosspieces were a little lower, you'd make less kindling and save a stroke for most of those rounds. One more, if I cut for an hour like you and Buckin' do, I couldn't work 'til dark,....or the next day. Not to mention handling every piece of wood 5 and 6 times. How the heck do you do that? Like a Superman incognito? Do you use ladders or stilts to stack 7 or 8 feet tall stacks? Maybe Superpower to hover up there? One other minor thing, in all the videos I've watched, even 'successful firewood business', you've not mentioned the money involved to buy truckloads of those nice 8 ft logs. How come?
@@heymakerphd1982 Yes, I have tried several heights and the one I am at now seems to be the best overall height for that size or wood. I have tiyed a bunch of different heights.
Chris you’re missing out on free advertising with either a small truck wrap or magnetic signs on your truck and /or trailer that just read “FIREWOOD” in large letters and your large telephone number. Also get some yard signs printed up and put them out every Friday(so they will at least stay up until Monday).
I’ve been watching your channel for over a month now and every video I think, how could he handle the split pieces just one less time to make things easier. So here’s my idea. You can purchase sections of “roller conveyor” online. Buy 5’ or 100’, whatever the budget can handle. At the beginning of the roller conveyor, you set up a jig to hold a stack of firewood the same width and height as it would be if stacked in the trailer in a single row. Before you stack it and fill the jig, you place a custom home made pallet on the rollers between the jig. On the sides of the pallet you put an eye bolt in the center on each side. This will be used to attach a ratchet strap. So you stack your wood in the jig on the pallet, secure it to the pallet with the ratchet strap, then shove it out the back of the jig down the roller conveyor. You could make bumpers to line the entire conveyor with so the pallets don’t slide left or right. You do this several times and you have half a dozen of these pallets on the conveyor. How do get them in the trailer? At the other end of the conveyor, you dig a ramp down in the ground like you’d see at the warehouse loading docks, so you can back your trailer up to the conveyor, making your trailer deck the same height as the conveyor. To transfer the pallets off the conveyor, you have the same rollers mounted in the bottom of the trailer. Back up the trailer, slide the pallets into the trailer, close the doors, and you’ve only handled the split pieces one time instead of 3-5. And to make unloading easier on you so you don’t have to pick up the pallets after dumping the trailer, you could secure eye bolts in the trailer at the same position as the eye bolts used for the ratchet straps, and hook the pallets to the trailer. Then when you dump the wood, your pallets would stay in place as the wood slides off. Also, when you put these pallets of wood together in the jig, once the conveyor fills up, you could use a tractor with forks to move the ready to go pallet somewhere else for later use. So you’d have 2 options, load with the conveyor or load with the tractor. Either way, you’d always be handling the split wood only once by hand. And make the beginning of the conveyor the area where you split the rounds and you’d split and stack into the jig. Just an idea. Of course you don’t deliver green wood so instead of loading the trailer you’d probably just move the loaded pallets somewhere to dry. You could set up sections of roller conveyor wherever you want and slide the pallets out of the trailer to store on your property. That way you wouldn’t need a tractor. Just an idea. You’re a very hard worker, just trying to find a way to save your back later down the road. Take care, I enjoy the videos.
WOW! David, you have put a lot of thought into that! My first and second solutions are a tractor and a wood processor! Then maybe an elevator ! Your idea is good but sounds like a lot of work to set up. And yes, the wood still needs to dry for a year so I would have 600-700 individual pallets of wood spread out all over the property.
@@InTheWoodyard once it’s set up though, might be worth it. The number of pallets you just mentioned made me think of doubling the size of the jig and pallet to two rows instead of one so you’d have half as many pallets. Just need a tractor capable of handling the weight. I love bouncing ideas around. Just about anything can be perfected when enough people put their ideas together. I retire from my regular job in about 20 years, lol, and this firewood is something I love to do with my grandad. I’d like to have a plan and maybe do some small time firewood business to stay in shape after retirement. Not so much to make money, but to just be doing something instead of sitting around.
Chris I see you’re still using those twisty ties for measuring your cuts. What brand are they? I like how thick they are and how they stay firm to your saw. I’d like to do the same for cutting firewood. Keep up the great work! Maine viewer.
My delivery was only 22 miles round trip, but, stacked 6 face cord with double retaining walls; took me about 3 hours. I don't even want to be near any wood now...until tomorrow. I get lots of helpers that show up but all they want to do is eat the buds off the tops.
That's a nicely sharpened chain! Diggin' in perfectly even without getting into the dogs. Nice setup :) BTW, is this a different site to where you film your more recent videos?
Was that delivery 40 miles round trip or each way? Would you say how much of a delivery charge was added on. He must know that you have "the good stuff".
Each way. Yes, the people who are from a ways down the road usually have had bad wood before, can't find anyone to deliver or are a referral from another customer.
I have to figure out how to get a bigger faster saw. You make it look like way more fun with the right equipment. I did laugh at the dump because I heat my small house with a wood stove. I laughed because I just broke into my 4th face cord to heat s 1200 square foot house in western New York. Have a great day.
I remember watching my family cutting firewood as a kid, of course we were told to stay as far as possible from the log pile. 3 uncles with chainsaws and the rest chucking everything outta the way. I remember everyone running away like ants when things started rolling 😭
@@InTheWoodyard Thanks, I'm enjoying your videos. Recently sold my cows and needed something to supplement my income and keep me busy when I'm not at my full time job. Cutting trees while fixing broken fences made me realize I enjoy cutting wood so figured I'd try to make a dollar. Learning a lot from you about fire wood. Thanks for taking that step to make these videos.
@@InTheWoodyard I used chainsaw lots too, but the real production was the real saw. Smaller diameter, standing dead from previously flooded areas was the best. Cut 5 cords straight off the trailer while the wife made a bite to eat, then get a second load. 2 good days did wood for a Sask winter.
@@InTheWoodyard have you seen some of the thing that they do? It’s neat to see. And I’m learning things from the videos I watch. I appreciate the time people put in to the videos they do. I just like being out in the woods and able to use my saws
@@InTheWoodyard 🤣 something my dad always said, his version of bright eyed and bushy tailed. I just consider it a beard reference now! The looks my wife and kids give me before I hit it with a comb are priceless.
To the newbies watching this to learn stuff . . . Remember that this guy has cut a bazillion logs and has a really good feel and control of the saw and how it is contacting the wood. One thing he's doing that would be dangerous for new cutters is cutting the logs right where they lie in the stacks, with other logs right behind them. 100x more efficient this way compared to pulling each log out separately, but potentially dangerous because of risk of kickback. The tip to remember (literally) is the TIP of the saw that is BEYOND the log you're focused on. If that comes into contact with the log behind it, you could suddenly get a fully revved up chainsaw flying at your face. Just be very mindful of your tip.
Yup, you are exactly correct.
My neighbours are crap with a saw, and they do this in shorts and flipflops, with no hearing or eye protecting. I avoid the front of our house when it happens so that I don't witness anything horrendous. I've tried to guide them (I've been an arborist for over 15 years), but they laugh at me and continue. At least my conscious is clean knowing that I said my part to try and help 😅.
@@williammorris7895I laughed out load when I read that you "avoid the front of our houses" 😂😂😂😂😂
I appreciate your cutting style. No wasted motion, letting the saw do the work. You obviously have well maintained and sharpened saws. New subscriber.
Thanks Brian! I appreciate your comments and watching my videos! You have over 200 videos to get caught up on and a new one every morning while you are having your coffee or morning, well you know, private time.
You guys flew through those logs! Great work. That load of red oak is amazing! You're a hard worker. I doubt I could keep up.
Thanks Mr. Purple!
This is good inspiration for what I have in my near future! I've got several log piles calling my name in my woodyard. Good video, Chris!
That is awesome Glen! You just gotta show up and get at it!
I almost spit my coffee out when you said, "oooh I almost died there!" lol Good video Chris!
That happens a lot! I am getting closer to it!
I live in Butler Pennsylvania. I used to have a tree service and shut it down in March. firewood is a side hobby for me. Have about 30 cords split ready to go for next year so far. I went to a store that we have here called rural king. They had about 200 pairs of your pigskin kinco gloves. I picked up a pair to give them a try. Love your videos keep it up. Thank you for all the information that you share.
Thanks A aron! Yur guna like em!
Help always makes things nice, too bad i can rarely find any. Just one delivery for me today then out in the woods dropping and cutting ash. Thanks for the video!
From what I can tell you are a hard worker! Cool!
Good morning, Mr Splitter
I'll be here tomorrow. Great video, free labor is the best kind!
Mr Grower
Good morning Mr. Grower! Free labor is as good as free wood!
Just wanted to let you know that I tried the sharpening stone with my dremel, I thought I was in heaven. I was filling and just couldn’t get the teeth sharp ( more practice) the chain cut better than when I first used it. Thank you sir!!!
JT
Wonderful! Get cuttin!
Nice job In The Woodyard that day! Nicely done on crushing the rest of the pile with the saws! Andrew from NB :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
I noticed you use oragon bars on you're husqvarna . Are they lighter ? And do you have to modify them to fit? Cheers from northern indiana usa
Nope, just cheaper from a show I went to..I prefer the actual light bars.
This is the first year I bought actual logs for the outdoor wood boiler. I got 45 25' logs for $450. Most were larger that what you had at 2:10 , one I had to cut from both sides with my 18" Stihl. I had to get a 20' log chain and drag the top ones off with the ATV... but I'm getting there.
That sounds like a lot of fun!
@@InTheWoodyard How do you eat an elephant? .... One bite at a time!! LOL
In evaluating what I find most enjoyable in your vids Chris, It's like I find I am actually the one doing the work. For example, when you are bucking the logs I find myself thinking to myself "I wonder why he chose to cut that particular piece at that moment when it was supporting the one above it" type questions. Or, maybe think when splitting "if that piece had been just a tad smaller it wouldn't have shaven off that wasteful small piece requiring wheeling off to waste pile " As always, thanks for all your great content and great camera angles and great audio matching levels. I find it a little strange that many of the ASMR popular vids streams are relaxing/quiet feeds while I find a loud chainsaw entertaining
Thanks Dal. When I edit my footage I am doing the same thing! Always analyzing my work!
@@InTheWoodyard Query: Why do you have an adjustable wedge if you never use it? - It looks like if the crosspieces were a little lower, you'd make less kindling and save a stroke for most of those rounds. One more, if I cut for an hour like you and Buckin' do, I couldn't work 'til dark,....or the next day. Not to mention handling every piece of wood 5 and 6 times. How the heck do you do that? Like a Superman incognito? Do you use ladders or stilts to stack 7 or 8 feet tall stacks? Maybe Superpower to hover up there? One other minor thing, in all the videos I've watched, even 'successful firewood business', you've not mentioned the money involved to buy truckloads of those nice 8 ft logs. How come?
@@heymakerphd1982 Yes, I have tried several heights and the one I am at now seems to be the best overall height for that size or wood. I have tiyed a bunch of different heights.
Chris you’re missing out on free advertising with either a small truck wrap or magnetic signs on your truck and /or trailer that just read “FIREWOOD” in large letters and your large telephone number. Also get some yard signs printed up and put them out every Friday(so they will at least stay up until Monday).
I have thought about that but I have sold out every year so far I have only done a Craigslist ad!
I have thought about that as well.. But like Chris I sell out of everything. Early to late fall and I only advertised on Craigslist.
I’ve been watching your channel for over a month now and every video I think, how could he handle the split pieces just one less time to make things easier. So here’s my idea.
You can purchase sections of “roller conveyor” online. Buy 5’ or 100’, whatever the budget can handle. At the beginning of the roller conveyor, you set up a jig to hold a stack of firewood the same width and height as it would be if stacked in the trailer in a single row. Before you stack it and fill the jig, you place a custom home made pallet on the rollers between the jig. On the sides of the pallet you put an eye bolt in the center on each side. This will be used to attach a ratchet strap.
So you stack your wood in the jig on the pallet, secure it to the pallet with the ratchet strap, then shove it out the back of the jig down the roller conveyor. You could make bumpers to line the entire conveyor with so the pallets don’t slide left or right.
You do this several times and you have half a dozen of these pallets on the conveyor. How do get them in the trailer? At the other end of the conveyor, you dig a ramp down in the ground like you’d see at the warehouse loading docks, so you can back your trailer up to the conveyor, making your trailer deck the same height as the conveyor. To transfer the pallets off the conveyor, you have the same rollers mounted in the bottom of the trailer. Back up the trailer, slide the pallets into the trailer, close the doors, and you’ve only handled the split pieces one time instead of 3-5. And to make unloading easier on you so you don’t have to pick up the pallets after dumping the trailer, you could secure eye bolts in the trailer at the same position as the eye bolts used for the ratchet straps, and hook the pallets to the trailer. Then when you dump the wood, your pallets would stay in place as the wood slides off. Also, when you put these pallets of wood together in the jig, once the conveyor fills up, you could use a tractor with forks to move the ready to go pallet somewhere else for later use. So you’d have 2 options, load with the conveyor or load with the tractor. Either way, you’d always be handling the split wood only once by hand. And make the beginning of the conveyor the area where you split the rounds and you’d split and stack into the jig. Just an idea. Of course you don’t deliver green wood so instead of loading the trailer you’d probably just move the loaded pallets somewhere to dry. You could set up sections of roller conveyor wherever you want and slide the pallets out of the trailer to store on your property. That way you wouldn’t need a tractor. Just an idea. You’re a very hard worker, just trying to find a way to save your back later down the road. Take care, I enjoy the videos.
WOW! David, you have put a lot of thought into that! My first and second solutions are a tractor and a wood processor! Then maybe an elevator ! Your idea is good but sounds like a lot of work to set up. And yes, the wood still needs to dry for a year so I would have 600-700 individual pallets of wood spread out all over the property.
@@InTheWoodyard once it’s set up though, might be worth it. The number of pallets you just mentioned made me think of doubling the size of the jig and pallet to two rows instead of one so you’d have half as many pallets. Just need a tractor capable of handling the weight. I love bouncing ideas around. Just about anything can be perfected when enough people put their ideas together. I retire from my regular job in about 20 years, lol, and this firewood is something I love to do with my grandad. I’d like to have a plan and maybe do some small time firewood business to stay in shape after retirement. Not so much to make money, but to just be doing something instead of sitting around.
@@bigdaddy060710 You can do both. Now!
Chris I see you’re still using those twisty ties for measuring your cuts. What brand are they? I like how thick they are and how they stay firm to your saw. I’d like to do the same for cutting firewood. Keep up the great work! Maine viewer.
I just did a new video with an improvement on them it will be out soon! They work great!
Do you think It’s necessary to carry a general liability policy for selling firewood?
Ya, it is a good idea. I have an umbrella policy.
@@InTheWoodyard thanks ! Expensive to get covered for that operation?
Morning! Good progress today. Then top it off with some Benjamin’s to close it out. That’s a good day. 👍🏻👍🏻 GNI
Morning Todd! yes, every day is a good day when your vertical and outside working!
@@InTheWoodyard Amen to that! I’m outside stacking wood in the rain. It’s still a good day.
My delivery was only 22 miles round trip, but, stacked 6 face cord with double retaining walls; took me about 3 hours. I don't even want to be near any wood now...until tomorrow.
I get lots of helpers that show up but all they want to do is eat the buds off the tops.
HA! Ya, sometimes you need a little break!
Good morning Chris!!😀😀
Yes it is Al! I hope you have a good one!!!!
Great day at the woodyard and a delivery to top it off. The saws are Rockin.
You got that right just like Stevie Ray Vaughan!
@@InTheWoodyard when the house is rockin don't bother knockin
That's a nicely sharpened chain! Diggin' in perfectly even without getting into the dogs. Nice setup :)
BTW, is this a different site to where you film your more recent videos?
Yup, sharp chains cut well. Yup, it is a new place.
Was that delivery 40 miles round trip or each way? Would you say how much of a delivery charge was added on. He must know that you have "the good stuff".
Each way. Yes, the people who are from a ways down the road usually have had bad wood before, can't find anyone to deliver or are a referral from another customer.
Nice to have friends willing to use the WoodYard as an outdoor workout Facility! 👍😉
You got that right, I should sell memberships!
Can you do a video on how you sharpen your chains?
Yes! I already did and it will be on the channel next week on either Tuesday or Wednesday.
@@InTheWoodyard hell yeah. Im looking forward to it 😁
The free labor definitely speeds up the cutting process! Sometimes its hard to find the free labor haha
I offer free labor to people all the time but they always want money instead!
I have to figure out how to get a bigger faster saw. You make it look like way more fun with the right equipment. I did laugh at the dump because I heat my small house with a wood stove. I laughed because I just broke into my 4th face cord to heat s 1200 square foot house in western New York. Have a great day.
Yes big houses cost a lot to heat!!! Bigger saws can cut faster! I just shot videos of my brothers 395xp! It is a beast!
Have you thought of getting a processor and small skid steer or mini tractor?
EVERY DAY!!!!! Yes, it will happen eventually, but it will need to be paid for!
I APPRECIATE the fact you STACKED the wood in the bed instead of just throwing it in there!!
Thanks!
Nice to have Help! 👍🏼🇱🇷
Yes it is!
That's quite the helper you have there. Laine
Ha! Ya, he does okay for an old guy! I'm looking for his son to show up and show him how to pick up the pace! Thanks for watching!
Chris's out door gym, limited equipment but free membership.
HA! That is true but each round is a piece of equipment!
Man that’s a lot of work , you must be extremely fit .
No, I just like to work! A lot! Thanks Gus!
I remember watching my family cutting firewood as a kid, of course we were told to stay as far as possible from the log pile. 3 uncles with chainsaws and the rest chucking everything outta the way. I remember everyone running away like ants when things started rolling 😭
Yup, it can happen!
Good morning from the Twin Cities, MN.
Morning Mr. Clements!
It's Michael, my business account is the premium one so I don't have to watch ads.
Do you ever leave any small rounds in your wood?
Yes, if you mean limb wood? The log loads I buy don't have any but the trees I cut in the woods or free wood does have small limb wood in it.
@@InTheWoodyard Thanks, I'm enjoying your videos. Recently sold my cows and needed something to supplement my income and keep me busy when I'm not at my full time job. Cutting trees while fixing broken fences made me realize I enjoy cutting wood so figured I'd try to make a dollar. Learning a lot from you about fire wood. Thanks for taking that step to make these videos.
@@othalee Thanks for watching, get cuttin!
What is the size of your trailer and the tonnage - thank you
10'X 6'X 3' 7,000 full 1850 empty $4300 new, now 4 years old and rusty!
Nice work ! How’s the trap line ?
It got buried in snow! At last count I was up to 23 critters.
Smooth like cutting butter!
Sure is! Thanks Unk!
Just curious as to what a load like goes for up there??
A load is usually 12-15 pulp cords 4x4x8 logs and each cord goes for $100-$110 each.
@@InTheWoodyard That's pretty decent.
Does the Tundra handle the fully loaded dump trailer pretty well?
It was made for towing! Yes it is great!
Which saw do you like best?
The one with the sharpest chain! All the saws I have are very similar.
Its funny how bad firewood looks when its getting cut, then you split and stack and its a thing of beauty
Yup, it can be made to look pretty.
If you slip and die on us who else are we going to watch we all know Irene will be ok as she has grandkids to take care of.. Lol😂😂
HA! Ya, I do slip a lot in the wood yard. Thanks t-shirt man!
Your getting a lot help lately. Guess you don't need a tractor after all !
I don't need a tractor but I do want one!
Have you ever used a buzz saw,or mandrel saw?
nope
@@InTheWoodyard I used chainsaw lots too, but the real production was the real saw. Smaller diameter, standing dead from previously flooded areas was the best. Cut 5 cords straight off the trailer while the wife made a bite to eat, then get a second load. 2 good days did wood for a Sask winter.
Good morning. Nice friend. It's not work, it's hanging out!
Morning Michael! Yes that is true!
Chris whats the gvw on that trailer?
7,000 full 1850 empty I can get 1 1/3 cords in it
You work hard for your money, bud. A lesser man would cry.😂
I only cry if I spill my drink!
Some day I'll have me a Truck. Until then, super jeep and trailer! I mean, its paid for at least
You are right, paid for is the most important part!
Have you ever delivered 5 face cords in one trip?
Yes a few of times, it is a very big load!
Very nice load of red oak.
Yes it was, I like the dead stuff!
So the secret to quickly cutting up a log pile is to bring a friend?
Yup, that is a good one!
👍 not enough hours in a day Chris?
No! that dang sleep takes up to much of my 24 hours!
Hey check out guilty of treeson your opening music is the same. Didn`t know if that
Ya, I noticed that about a month or so into making my videos too. It's free music from IMOVIE.
@@InTheWoodyard have you seen some of the thing that they do? It’s neat to see. And I’m learning things from the videos I watch. I appreciate the time people put in to the videos they do. I just like being out in the woods and able to use my saws
@@brianholk6712 Yes, they are real pros no doubt!
Bright and fuzzy
Bright is good but I am not sure about fuzzy! HA!
@@InTheWoodyard 🤣 something my dad always said, his version of bright eyed and bushy tailed. I just consider it a beard reference now! The looks my wife and kids give me before I hit it with a comb are priceless.
I mean props for getting it done.
Might be better to title the video watch me cut up wood rather than how to.
Okay, thanks!
That was alot of wood there
Ya, I get some big loads! Thanks Matt!
🤝👍
Thanks a bunch ARNI!
@@InTheWoodyard Eys!
🤟
Thanks Jeff!
Thunder
Thanks for watching!
Looks like of a horrible day. Mud and slush
Not horrible, just a little wetness. Thanks for watching Ed!