WinonaRail's Wood Yard

Most is maple. There were 5 spruce logs that were de-limbed pretty poorly so I pushed them to the back to deal with later.

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Yes. 250% smoking vs wholesale normal bundles. A tightly stacked "Brad" cord makes 175 +/- bundles so I make roughly 90% more doing bundles per cord.

Pulled these cherry heartwood splits from the stack I've been using for current bundles. They got mixed in in February. I had a lot of heartwood on hand at the time. The stack behind the litter bag is cherry heartwood from a few months ago that I separated out.

 

A first time customer from a couple months ago called and is coming for ten bundles of cherry tomorrow. My third or fourth repeat. Another guy coming for ten hickory and three cherry on Tuesday. Turns out he is on the pro BBQ circuit. Here's a pic of his smoker. Never have seen one with 4WD!

 

Guy just left who bought me out of cherry here. Ten plus bundles worth. Have to restock on it here as I don't have a single split of it on hand. Not a bad problem to have.

 

Best of luck keeping up with your species specific bundles. If this new customer passes along your contact info, you might have other similar requests.

Have a fruit wood ready to suggest if someone requests something you're out of.

 

buZZsaw BRAD
An almost truck of apple as storm came in and took out some branches

Does pin cherry count as a smoking wood?

 

Nice stuff with the apple Lyle. Have you tried selling smoker wood?

Good question on the pin cherry. IIRC it isn't but I'm not 100% sure. I know apple and crabapple are almost the same based on what I've been told on here. My current dry batch of apple is of the crab variety.

 

I have maybe 40% of a cord of cherry with bark on that are larger splits. Ill take those and split off the bark. Also have some barkless splits of cherry at bundle storage that are ready too. I keep maybe 10 -15 bundles worth of each here. Most of the bundle buyers have been 3-5 each.

 

Sell wood?! Heck no I am a wood hoarder!
that 1/2 truck load, maybe 1/4 cord, took 6 hours. All in my yard.
Why 1) there is tall grass around apple trees because branches droop and can’t be mowed often. 2) of course we did it yesterday only day in a months with rain in it. 3) wet grass on a hill with Apples hidden everywhere ya end up on your arse!!

Sell it what’s it worth? $100 dollars

I admire and you guys BUT I got Masters in Finance, been to school of hard knocks. I won’t sell; my buddy down road gots a smoker I will give him some

 

I'd some more cutting Friday evening at my new honey hole. The guy keeps getting more logs that he doesn't want and I can have all of it. I'm going to my neighbor's this afternoon to cut some dry cherry and ash.

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The pro BBQ guy came tonight to buy his load. If he likes it he'll be back. I told him to give me feedback either way. He's doing a charity BBQ in Boston this weekend. Knows a couple other pros in my state. He was driving 2.5 hrs to NY for the stuff he had been using. Drove 1.5 hours for mine.

Ive sold roughly 175 bundles of smoker wood this year. Equals about a cord.

 

That's great. So happy things are working out. Find more of that smoker wood.
Soon you'll be able to come get some PECAN...

 

Thanks Jeff.

I have enough on hand for now (I hope) I have some 4+YO white oak rounds that I could split up which I should do very soon. They ended up in an area I no longer use or access and out of sight, out of mind.

My repeat customer from the other day mentioned pecan again. I asked the guy tonight and he uses mostly oak, hickory, cherry and apple.

 

Hard to believe there's no suitable wood closer to him so hopefully he'll be back to visit you again!

I got a message from one of my local smoking wood customers. He wanted a stack of cherry (2'x4') and another of hickory and is also interested in fruit woods. I'm short on both species but I have quite a few shorter cherry splits, which he was fine with. I suggested he possibly consider honey locust and pear. He was excited about the HL so I'll add both to the overall load. He just lives 5 miles from me so it's an easy delivery.

 

That's great that you were able to get him to try some different woods.

 

Good sale. Gotta like the bigger orders. My last two were bigger as the ones before were for 3-5 bundles.
Still no pear sales though. You need to teach me your secret!

 

It's easy...offer it and they will come! Probably...

 

My pro smoker guy said he may buy some pear next time. He tried my wood as the other guy was 2/5 hours away and me 1.5. Works for me.

 

This is the smoking wood order I delivered. Total 4'x4'. Bottom left is cherry with pear on top. Bottom right is hickory with honey locust on top. Customer was happy.

He recently got back from some KC competition. He got the grand champion award and was in Gatlinburg at some big smoking shindig last weekend. He's strictly a backyard guy. He has 16 smokers. 16. Talk about a hoarder!!

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I've finally split most of the rounds in the wood yard. I still have several logs to buck. Due to some family issues, I haven't been able to get to the cutting I had planned. I'm on the hunt for cherry because I'm really running low.

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