Firewood business?

[bigblue12v]

That you in the video? Some really cool pictures and love the tandem one ton Chevy! I still have no clue how the cable loader works lol need an action video... Do appreciate your efforts though.

 

[bigblue12v]

Some other ideas... I think this one would best be used in the field if it were set up on a truck with ramps off the rear. I've had a similar idea before but finally found a video like it.

This one is interesting too. [/URL] Log Lifting Arch: [/URL]

Right now with the wet spring weather I can not put a heavy truck or truck and trailer on someone's lawn nor can I get either one into the woods. There are no flat woods here all hilly. You people with plenty to cut on your own land and tractors with loaders have no idea how good you got it made lol

 

[muddstopper]

That you in the video? Some really cool pictures and love the tandem one ton Chevy! I still have no clue how the cable loader works lol need an action video... Do appreciate your efforts though.

No, thats not me, I'm better looking than that

A cable loader is just what its says. You have a pto driven winch mounted at the base of the loader. Ours would hold 200ft of 3/8 cable. The cable runs up thru the boom and you drag the cable to the log, hook it up and winch it back to the truck. The boom is mounted up high so you can winch the log up in the air to swing onto the bed of the truck. Bigstick used a couple of cylinders with a big cable wrapped around the base of the boom to make it swing. Kennimer used a hydraulic motor with chains and sprockets to turn their booms. A lot of the homemade loaders used a tilt system where the boom would tilt down just enough so that it had a natural tendancy to swing to the back of the truck. Worked great except when the truck wasnt level and the boom didnt want to swing toward the truck bed. Then you had to man handle the log onto the truck.

At one time we had a Bigstick pulp wood loader, a Kennimer log loader and a old tilt loader. In the video, you can see a pulpwood loader on the small chevy truck with the two racks. The larger truck has a log loader for log length wood. The log loader would handle a 4ft dia whitepine log about 12-14 ft long. You could load even bigger wood but you usually had to load one end at a time

 

[motorman1]

I'm kind of in the same boat as the OP, in that I sell firewood "part time". I have sold my wood by the truckload for $100 and started with only a couple of chainsaws, small trailer, Toyota truck and a Troybuilt splitter from Lowes. I originally bought this set up just to cut wood for my cabin, but ended up getting regular offers of free oak wood from neighbors. The wood began piling up around the yard etc... so I put some in the back of my truck, took a picture and posted it online. 20 minutes later i was delivering it for cash money. Got home and did that 8 more times over the next week. No stacking, just dumped in the street, or in their driveway using a gravel rake to assist in getting it all out. Over the past 6 years, this is how I've paid for all my out of state deer / antelope tags for our annual Wyoming hunt. I already have 4+ cords of green oak cut and split for next season (2016) and another 3+ dry for this September's sale to pay for this years tags. I wouldn't want to do this for a living, as it is hard work and actually low pay for all the effort. My "business" is strictly cash, tax free and more of an exercise hobby that I use to pay for extras like hunting tags. I'm having a fun time with it, but it sure hurts the next day or so after all the bending during splitting and stacking.

 

[bigblue12v]

I only stack it in the truck if I'm trying to fit a lot in. At home it gets piled. I'm not ocd enough about it to waste time and effort stacking it. Relatively pointless to me.... I want a conveyor....