WinonaRail's Wood Yard

Got home from work yesterday to find that all my loose stacks of smoking wood had been purchased. I got to work filling the roadside stand, starting with mixed hardwood. I got the cherry, oak and sugar maple refilled before daylight ran out. Looks like another good week in the making. Moderate temps have helped.

I also got my first CashApp payment. I put the QR code up over the weekend. A customer grabbed a couple bundles last night and scanned the code. We'll see how that works out. I've been using Venmo for about a year. Anybody else using electronic payment?

 

We use Venmo for my son's stand and it now makes up around 50% of all sales.

 

Interesting. Venmo is probably 5% of my business. I like cash better because there's no (electronic) paper trail...but I also want to give options to the customer.

 

Interestingly, I went home for lunch, saw one of my stacks had sold and found the customer paid with Venmo. I think it helps having a number of payment options.

 

Got some maple and cottonwood bucked today and then flipped the splitter to break up some oak and maple. I'll get a tote of wood split before I'm done today.

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Another delivery from the tree service that supplies most of my wood. I need to find time to get it cut up.

Yesterday I got a message from a guy that has a BBQ business. He's selling his house and moving and has a large pile of cherry and hickory rounds. We agreed that I would come next weekend to re-home it. I'll give an update when it happens.

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Things are shaping up to be another busy week for the roadside stand. I made a quick trip home at lunch time to find all 3 stacks of campfire wood, 4 stacks of smoking wood and 13 bundles sold in a 6 hour period. I have my work cut out for me tonight!

 

Had a super busy morning. A BBQ guy is selling his house and moving out of state. He had a stockpile of cherry he had been splitting. He needed to get rid of it to show the property and asked me if I would be interested. How could I say no?

We brought home 3 trailers full plus a load in my truck. I'll be splitting for a long time but I won't run out of cherry anytime soon. Some of it is small but I can use most of it.

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Haven't posted much activity lately. About all I've had time for is keeping the roadside stand full. Today I got a message asking for a bundle delivery. I dropped off 8 bundles to a new customer at a lake house rental. Venmo payment received before I even made the bundles. We stopped for ice cream on the way home. It was a good trip!

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I've gotten a few things done this week, with mostly cooperative weather. One of which was working on the huge pile of rounds in the wood yard. I stacked a rack full of hickory rounds and split this cherry. You can't even tell the difference but I'll keep chipping away at it.

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Looking good out there, my friend.

 

How's business at the roadside stand?

 

Thanks! I've definitely fallen behind in production so I have a lot of catching up to do.

 

It's slowed quite a bit the last couple of week but still holding above last year's sales. I'm around $550 for the month so far. Hopefully I'll have a good weekend to bump that up. If I could knock out about a cord of production for inventory, I'd be happy.

 

I got about half a rack of wood bucked this morning before being attacked by a swarm of bees. Fortunately they only stung my head so nothing important was affected...

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Yikes! Thats scary but funny. You find a nest? Yellow jackets?

I lifted a tarp at storage yesterday to drain a puddle and thought of bees. I usually find a snake.

 

Funny now. Not so much in that moment. I never saw the nest but there were a bunch flying around when I went back out. I've avoided the area since. I believe they were honey bees.

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I bought a trailer load of wood and had it delivered yesterday. Mixed with a good bit of hackberry. Pretty nice stuff overall. Most will be resplit to the smaller size my customers are used to. It filled another half tote that I didn't take a picture of. It's fairly dry so I should be in good shape for the next several weeks without getting into what I already have in storage.

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Yesterday while working at my wood shed build i was pulling texture 1-11 off the back of the old one to increase air flow and got stung by a bumblebee. First for me. I couple other buzzing around and i could hear a faint buzz in the stack inside. Mental note take as i left after that.

How did the finger heal up? Full use or tingling?

 

I'd definitely avoid that stack unless you have a can of bee and wasp spray in your hand.

Finger feels good most of the time. Still don't have full range of motion but it's enough to get me by.

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