Four more face cords down the road tomorrow. That will make 15 for the first five days of the month. Crazy busy.
Taking a two week break and taking the wife to Paris, Florence and Rome. The last sixteen days have paid for the trip (18 ricks the first five days of Nov). Following are pictures of my day which have been typical since late September. Oh, some FHC members feel I charge too much for my firewood. My typical customers aren't on the poor side. My last customer of the day said to just pile it since he had a rack on the way, so didn't take a picture of the hickory.
Nice stacks. Have fun on your trip. I want to clarify something, we really don't care what you charge, if they're rich, fine. What gets old, is the excessive, insistent bragging about how much you make. Glad your market will support what you charge...we sell a good bit, charge more than some, less than others, but in the FHC spirit, if someone is in need, we would help them out... Never forget that in the blink of an eye, that person could be you... Thank GOD for each day you wake up and return home safe...
I get it and will back off. This segment of forums is called “The Wood Market.” I am a follower of Joe known as the Ohio Wood Burn on YouTube. He runs his operation as a business and sole source of income. There are practices in the firewood business that can allow one to be successful in the firewood business and I implement those I have learned from others and my own experiences as I grow my business. I average around 60-70 hrs a week producing and selling firewood. So this isn’t a hobby or side hustle for me.
Lot of firewood producers on YouTube. Think of some that produce a couple thousand cords a year...that's big time... Anyway, good luck with your business...
60-70 hours a week is a big commitment. Kudos for logging those kind of hours. I love producing firewood but I think I would tire of it with hours like that.
Delivery season is almost exclusively when school is in so it's Friday afternoon and weekends. A typical weekend this time of year has me at it 16-20 hours from Friday to Sunday. During summer, I probably average 30-40 hours a week cutting and splitting. And then winter and spring, I have college kids who are on break and looking to work so I'm cutting when I can and that adds up to 10-20 hours a week depending on weather and how much work they get done.
I had four sales in the last month from repeat customers...people that hadn't bought from me in two or more years. One was almost four years ago.
Busy morning after working 7PM-7AM shift. Friend came over and loaded this tote with 3yr old chunks from a plastic pallet bin we made. We delivered it about 3/4 mile to his house, kinda refreshing on a 29° day with open station tractor... Then we came back, loaded 3 more deliveries on the trailer, took them 10-15 miles to town. All were stacked, all homeowners helped... 73 yr old lady got the back 2 totes, they are the 330 gal size...
Most of the time, helps keep wood from falling out. If we take roofs off, we run a strap over stacks of wood.
Have a few cutting and clearing jobs I am trying to keep up with. However, puts me behind on deliveries. Four FCs going out tomorrow since I didn’t deliver today. And have the Lopi cranking hard this evening.
I happened to find the picture when I built the plastic bin and filled it with that oak...Oct '19...so 5 yrs old...
Don't normally like to work on Sundays, but got 2 calls late Saturday evening, with cold temp for the first of the week/working 7AM-7PM shift this week. Loaded up 2 more 1/3 cord totes... Trailer had 18" splits, which we stacked...we had her racks full end of last winter, they had been burning in firepit since then... We will cut green to fill other side. Load on the truck is 14" splits for a family with wood heat only. We just tossed it off.
We're behind also...still have hickory, white and red oak to finish on 2 places and start on a big pine clearing job... And this is my Dec work schedule, along with a church project mixed in too... Wanna trade???
