Treevet firewood stuff

treevet

Here s some picts of my stuff. Best entity on the lot is the 25 year old man in some of the pictures. 6'2" 220 lbs of stud employee. We operate in limited space so I only do 40 cords a year. Was sold out in Nov. 250$ cord delivered and dumped, never any stacking or moving. Also heat my house w wood from this maybe 6 cords last year, saved thousands.

TW 5 will pick up 600 lb piece onto rail. We halve it then put on 4 way split, then 6 way split. Splits go onto tray then into bin. Bin goes into corner and later into dump trailer pictured or sometimes straight in. Just disconnect hookup shown on front and pick up rear w crane and it dumps. Would like to have conveyer but too tight space. Advantage with location even though limited space is usually less than a mile to max usually 5 miles traveling time. Lots of tree companies would like this spot. Tree guy owned it before me. He was working when tired and cut top out of tree he was tied to, then tried to cut rope off with saw and put it into his chest. They didn t know what killed him. RIP John Magrino

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hoot gibson

nice pictures treevet .

treevet

Hoot

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treevet

Thanks, Bill
It is a system that works. A bin will hold a cord with a few pieces thrown in (measured in past) and we sell 1 or 2 cords only. Not much money made but it keeps cash in pocket through winter and my house warm and my gm busy and making money. Not as hard as it could be for him either and that is important to me too. Plus he gets practice with out much chance of hurting anything, using truck crane so when he picks when I am in tree or BT he is used to it.

shaggs

Cool pics Treevet.
Those TW5's certainly look the goods.

treevet

Thanks Shannon, I thought I should get the tw6 but glad I didn t this ones got plenty of ass.

treevet

here's the latest addition to my shit. 24' timberwolf with hydraulic drive and it makes splitting a whole lot easier to get the product out of the way. it runs at an idle and i think uses a tank in about an 8 hour day. u can turn it up and it moves fast and will be good for loading for delivery.

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Eric Frei

Nice, little factory you got running there.

It's coming into burning season, $ $ $'s

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treevet

Yeah, the splitter paid off in less than 2 seasons and with the price I am getting for firewood this year, the conveyor will do the same. I financed the conveyor at a low int. and put some bucks down on it. What we make will be way more money than the monthly payments and in a short time we will own it and have satisfied and accumulated a much large clientelle than before. Keep us busy in the real cold weather and heat my house exclusively on wood.

Plus it is fun buying stuff.

Gunslinger

I'm curious as to the type of fuel you wold be using if you weren't burning wood? Oil, propane? I can heat my entire house for about $1000/ year using natural gas. For me buying and humping multiple cords of firewood would seem like a waste of time and money.

newguy18

It all depends how much wood is in your area,around here i can get a chord of wood,split stacked and delievered for 125.00.But i rent and have a heat pump.That big 30" dimeter limb i cleaned up in jasper,it split and stacked that,came out to a chord and a half and i sold it to a friend for 20 bucks.

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treevet

People will be paying from $250. to $350 delivered and dumped per cord around here and last year I sold out before Christmas. Even at this price they tell me they have substantial savings with wood. I will take their word on it and keep selling it to them. I will likely sell around 50 cords this year and my goal is 100 per year. I do plenty of tree work in the winter too. It doesn't take much work with the equipment I have and the burning part at my house is easy also the way I am set up. It is actually therapeutic IMO.

I am not sure what it costs to heat my house on heating oil, but probably around 3 to 4 k. What matters is it doesn't cost me anything, I don't have to be conservative with the thermostat and whatever wood I sell or burn is wood I do not have to pay dump fees to get rid of.

I am guessing you will be paying more than 1k this year or you have a very small house?

Gunslinger

Last season it cost me about a thousand. This year maybe more. Last winter wasn't very cold.

Average size house ~2000+ sq ft., High efficiency boiler, set back T-stat, E-glass windows, extra insulation.

treevet

Gas prices should be higher this year also, but it sounds like you have a very efficient set up. I know some people hate burning wood. Once I had a lady call me up and said "you sold me firewood and it won't burn" I said that is unlikely but I will be right over. When I got there she had a big split chunk in her fire place and held a match to it and said...."look....told you it won't burn".

Here's a couple of picts of my woodburners. Not sure I can get both on this post correctly but....

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treevet

gotta figure how to do multiples. I think you can put up to 13. Anyway, it is a Vermont Castings Winter Warm airtight, cast iron insert, and a Clayton furnace with a humidifier into the forced air ducts. Both can get up to 12 plus hour burn but generally the insert is used when electric goes out or for atmosphere with company

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Eric Frei

Nice looking place ya got there Dave, some day I might visit, can see me ass parked up infront of that fire with some nice port talking trees.

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treevet

You're welcome anytime and bring the family. We got the room. Kids are all out and on their own for the most part.

Garry Brockley

if your into producing firewood this is the same as the kit we've been useing for the last 5 years it's rapid and you can really turn a proffit on quick turn arounds we stacked them on pallets in a barn three pallets high four deep and twenty five along the three hundred cubic meters dried really quickly not bad for a part time firewood stack mmm good profit.
i sold this setup this month to pay for other thngs up and coming, they really do the job well i thought you would like to see one running

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Steve Tipton

Looks good.
I don't know how it would handle our Ironbark and Grey Box etc. though.

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treevet

That is just beautiful. More money than I could rationalize spending. Also that has to be fed "woods" trees. Long and straight as opposed to city trees with all different dia wood and twisted in all kind of bends being decurrent trees for the most part. My set up does kind of do the same thing w/out the auto saw and rolling debarker (I got a bark seperator on the splitter and can add one to the top of the conveyor.

Garry Brockley

for twisted trees you put cuts in the lengths to aprt straighten them, the splitter has a single blade, cross for four, star for six and a star with a circle for bigger easy wood, as with everything you get used to getting around problems by useing the equipment in a certain way to over come Knots, big wood ect
I personally like your set up it's a simple system which means less to go wrong which is always the best aproach.

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treevet

Probably way cheaper too Galb. Don't get me wrong, I'd take a trade if the deal was offered. That is very hi tech stuff. Music matches the splitting sounds, too!

PS. Mine also has the 4 way split and 6 way split drop on wedges and a hydraulic up and down on the wedge unit.

Bruce Hopf

Here is some Pictures of what I use to haul my Fire Wood with, and load it with. It is an Old Single Axel Manure Spreader, that I have removed the Rear Beaters from. I left the Unloading Apron intact, and work the same principle as a walking Floor. I put some wider, and higher racks on it to put more of a Load into it. It was able to hold a little more than a Cord of Fire Wood. I cord measures 4' x 4' x 8".
Last winter we had our Bush Logged, and over 350 Trees were taken, so I thought Selling Fire Wood, would be a good thing, to make use of some of the Tree Tops, that were left.
I did some modifications to the Old Manure Spreader. I removed the Axel, and pushed it back, and I added another Axel to the Manure Spreader, and extended the Racks Wider, and Higher again. It holds 2 Cord of Fire Wood, nicely, and is about 1 1/2 ' higher than the Racks, when loaded.
Here is a load, that was taken 45 Miles away from me. To make the load pay, I piled 3 Cords of wood on the load.
For unloading, we just pile the wood off the load, into the wood shed, or throw the wood off the Spreader, through a window into the Base Ment of the house, and Pile it later, once the load is off.
When we can't reach the Wood any more, we just put the PTO into gear, and start the Apron up, and let it bring the Wood to the rear of the Spreader, and once the wood get there, we just turn off the Apron, from the rear of the Spreader, while the PTO of the Tractor is still going. Once we cant reach the Fire Wood again, we just engage the Apron again.
If we deliver the Fire Wood, we throw off the Wood in a Pile where the Customer wants it, and once we can't reach, we engage the PTO< and Apron. Once we get almost 1/2 the load off, we keep driving the Tractor ahead, until the load is off.
If we don't throw part of the load off, there is too much weight on the Apron, and the Chain will snap, and then the whole load has to be thrown off.
For loading the Spreader, we use my Grain/Bale Elevator that is PTO Driven and throw the Fire Wood into the Elevator, and it comvayes the wood into the Spreader. If I take the Spreader into the Bush, I just load what I can with the Tractor, and Loader, until I can't dump any more Wood into the Spreader, because the Loader on the Tractor will only lift so high. Bruce.

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treevet

Nicely engineered set up Bruce. Looks like you could use some newer tires tho. You take that trailer down the road with a pick up? You getting a decent price for those 3 cords? What kind of saws are you running.

I used to live in Peterborough (Bridgenorth) Ont. Are you due north of Toronto?

Bruce Hopf

I now run Stihl Chan Saws. My Chain Saws that I ran to cut a lot of the Fire wood in the Load where McCulloch. Due to their weight, and without Anti Vibrations, I had to switch over to Stihl.
I Injured my lower Back over 7 Years ago, and running the McCulloch Chain Saws were getting a little too much for me. I picked up 3 Stihl Chain Saws that needed repair work done to them fairly cheap, from one of the Dealers, in my area.
I got an 044, that the Piston was seized, so I put new Bearings, Piston and Cylinder Kit, and a Gasket Kit in it.
An 034, that I had to put in a Ring Kit, and a Cylinder Gasket in it, and 024, that the dealer said that it needed a Crank Case Gasket, because it had an Oil Leak, but once I got it all cleaned up, I determined that the Oil Leak was coming from the Seal on the Oil Tank Cap.
I'm North East of London Ontario, just outside of Stratford, by about 10 Miles North.

treevet

If I was getting more and more into firewood and had woods around me I would probably want to have one of these....then pull trees over with the tractor after sending a larger diameter rope up:

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Bruce Hopf

The Tires on the Spreader, are not in too bad of shape. They are 10:00 X 20 Bias Ply Truck Tires, and take quite a load. They are the same size as 11R 22.5 Tires that are on the Highway Trucks Today, but with out the Inner Tubes. I just pull the Spreader with the Tractor, because there is a little too much weight for the 1/2 Tonne Pick Up, and I need the PTO to run the Spreader for unloading. Bruce.

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Hey Treevet
I was looking at your firewood set up. When we run the splitter and the elevator we generally back the splitter right up to the back of the elevator so the wood pushes its self onto the elevator... Do you all ever do that. It saves a lot of handling

Bruce Hopf

OK, Fill us in here. What in the World is that Doo Hickey, and what does it do. Thanks. Bruce.

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2- Mini Mac 35's, 1- Mac 140 with Automatic Chain Sharpener,
1- Pro Mac 10-10, 1- Mac Cat, 2- Eager Beaver
2.0's, 1- Mac 1-10
Stihl chain saws
2- 044's, 2- 034's, 2- 024's, 1- 064, 1- 084,
Strunk chain saws
1- Busy Beaver, 1- SpeeDemon Special
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