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Put an IBC tote on each side of your splitter and when they are both full you can move them with your tractor forks and replace them with 2 empty ones. Rinse and repeat, the key to firewood is don’t handle it more than you have to.

@creatednordestroyed5339

6 ай бұрын

Big facts

@AATreeService

6 ай бұрын

I agree 100%

@johngreydanus2033

6 ай бұрын

You watched Sawing with Sandy didn't you

@liquidrockaquatics3900

19 күн бұрын

But is there a way to align and stack it together for bundles? I ask not in a smart ass fashion, but more in the way that they wrap bundles of recyclable cardboard in factories with wire “ties” in thousand pound bundles. Hay balers do it with twine or wire.

Before moving to Texas, I had a 2400 square foot house in Indiana, entirely heated with wood. I put up a minimum of 4-1/2 cords per year. I could store 2 years worth of wood (one to use, one to dry) in a 20 X 20 dirt floor pole barn with ventilated sides. I kept the wood stacked on heavy duty pallets that I could take in and out with the skid steer. I took a whole pallet at a time to the house, which lasted about 7 to 10 days. Lot of work since I cut, split and stacked all my own wood. Good luck.

Putting the firewood directly in IBC totes from the splitter saves a lot of time and work.

In SC, most state parks don't allow firewood from more than 50 miles away unless it's been heat treated to kill any bugs. They sell permitted wood in the park for a small fortune and some grocery chains in the area sell bundles (in plastic bagging) at a premium that's a little more reasonable than the park itself. I don't know how long a sterilization cycle takes in your kiln (which is obviously going to make more money drying actual lumber), but if you have similar restrictions in your area and you can figure out the logistics, that could be a pretty profitable use for your extra firewood.

That splitter is a great addition to the arsenal Nathan, from the profitability perspective I wouldinvestigate partnering with the BBQ/Smokehouse businesses in your area to be their primary supplier of smoking wood, here in Texas, a lot of the bigger BBQ places like to buy their smoke wood green and season it on site. Best wishes for the Elloit family over the coming holiday season!

I'm living vicariously through you now that I'm bedfast. You're doing what I had wanted to do when I retired ( but on a smaller scale ) , THANK YOU from Johnson City !

Great video, Nathan. I agree that log splitting - no matter how you do it - is therapeutic.

@OutoftheWoods0623

7 ай бұрын

Totally agree!

@lobsterbisque7567

7 ай бұрын

@rickgovek2715 I agree! Sometimes I watch log splitting videos to relax. I hope someday soon to get a high quality offset smoker so I'll have a reason to buy a log splitter. Since I live in Northern CA., Logs of almond trees are abundant, which is a great hardwood for smoking meat

A woodshed would be a great compliment to the pole barn backside.

Just because it ain't shiny and new don't mean it don't work well, it just means that is time tested and proven its worth.

I like pallets with side walls on them to store firewood. You can incorporate a tarp to keep the elements away but mostly air drying is preferred especially in your mild climate.

I follow a man in France who is restoring a chateau in France. He has a friend come help him on occasion. He has a splitter that cuts logs to the right size, splits, then tosses into a trailer. Never seen anything like it.

Pete, over at Just a Few Acres, cross-stacks the ends of his log pile and loose-stacks everything in the middle.

You have the perfect setup for a water wood stove. Build a shed and stack wood on one side. You can have the water wood stove on the other side. You can trench the water lines to a heat exchange to keep the house warm all winter. I did this years ago and it keeps the smoke/ashes out of the house. It also gives constant heat. One other thing I did was have 100" of flexible copper tubing in the water tank. I used it to "preheat" the water before going into the domestic water heater. It was a great setup to heat both the house and domestic water with one external wood water heater.

Hey Nathan, only a 6 mins into this video and I see a feature I would want added to the log lifter part of the splitter and that is some sort of side stop (like a small edge) on the side of that lifter, especially the side with the ignition switch. I can see a big log being lifted up and sliding off and hitting that ignition switch. Just some food for thought.

I worked for a guy that sold wood Mizer sawmills in the early 90's it's nice to see they have added so many more quality build support equipment.

That splitter is pretty slick. I especially like the double-acting feature. Looks like a big time saver, but then you have to collect wood from both sides. Your dump trailer worked well but I can see how a larger capacity setup would be nice.

The log splitter was fantastic. Using one is therapeutic. Where you stacked the firewood I assume was just temporary. I would be afraid of damaging the kiln. As far as where I stored the firewood would definitely be a shed of some type. Hey it’s just another project to build an inexpensive storage shed. The two way splitter is fantastic. A fall day, kind of cool outside, drinking a cup of coffee and using your splitter. What more could you want.

There is a KZreadr called Donn Dyi that has made a few log processing machines that you could look into. That being said, I agree with just getting IBC totes. They are cheap or free and you already have the equipment to move them.

You are very good at finding great gadgets. I admire that talent.

For long term storage and drying take a page from Criss in the wood yard with the pallet bins. And there is a market for firewood in Tennessee I would regularly sell 80 to 100 full cords here in Central Florida every year. An elevator would be nice but I never had one and did firewood for over 40 years.

I have an FS500. When you want the resplit the 4 by 7 pieces try instead to send it through again with piece 4 inch side against the deck. You can line up about 4 pieces side by side. I like IBC totes and wood pallet stackers. If you have forks, then pallets or IBC totes make a lot of sense

@OutoftheWoods0623

6 ай бұрын

👍👍

I have outside drying and a woodsheds for storage. I am from New Hampshire originally so I believe in woodsheds. Having moved to Florida I still believe in woodsheds to keep dried wood dry and from rotting. We also have bugs so I only bring in enough to reload the firebox and to give the 2am restoking..... the rest of the time require shoes. From what I see about your weather and the wood you keep out in the open....you do not NEED a woodshed to prevent rot or to keep the snow and ice buildup on the wood in the winter from getting inside the house.

I put down two 2x4 and stack my wood on top of that. Then put a cover over the top, old rubber roofing held down by a few extra pieces of wood.

Maybe an option would be to get two firewood/rock buckets and place them under the out feed tables. Then move them to a seasoning pile when full

Hi Nathan, I store my firewood on pallets under a lean-to, I let the wood dry for at least a year so it burns nicely. Australian hardwoods are very heavy so I use strong pallets. You can make totes out of pallets, just screw them together to create a box.

if i might make an suggestion wit the splitter put chocks under the wheels as added security against it moving.

Awesome finally the big reveal we been waiting. So awesome tat two way function what a great design. Looking forward to the 4/5 way knives to see even more efficiency from that push. Awesome 🤠🇺🇸

@OutoftheWoods0623

7 ай бұрын

Right on!

With the litle trailer on one side, park the bit tractor bucket under the ramp on the other side to catch the material heading in that direction. You don't have to bend over to pick. it up that way. :)

Cool splitter, haven't seen one like that before with the double action. The view you have in the background is awesome!

Don't back the trailer in. Drive forward with the trailer at 90° to the splitter off load ramp (like a letter T.) Move the splitter to a better location if you need to.

Everyone needs a good 6x8 or an 8x10 wood shed set up so its out of the weather, but also gets a little flow thru air to dry the wood. Good luck, and good job!

With a wood shed you have to handle the wood 3 times. Once when it’s split, then into the shed, then into an IBC or trailer to sell it. If you use the IBC from the outset, you cut your workload by100%

Quick suggestion, put your biggest bucket on skidsteer and put it on the other end and let it drop in there, then take it where you want it

You learn to ‘flop’ the round over the top of the ram when it starts to rise over the knives. Yup, makes a lot of kindling. We spilt a lot of hardwoods that aren’t straight grained. Crotches and knots don’t split well on this box splitter. My boss at the tree service I work for has owned one for two years. We have tweaked our process and it’s pretty productive now. We drop the split wood into empty IBC frames and take the plastic totes and screw them to pallets and use them for catch tubs as well. With three guys we can buck, split and move 2 ricks per hour without killing ourselves. I would love to split a day’s worth of straight grained rounds. This machine would really shine.

Got a combination plus some regular pallets i put together and make some sidings on - also with pallets. Have to store my wood in 3-4 different locations.

Use a couple of IBF totes that are fitted with mesh bag liners that fit over the top edges and have tie strings - much like trash can liner bags. They sell them. When they are full, use the tractor to lift them out of the totes for storage under an open air storage shed.. The idea is to minimize the handling and stacking. Sell the wood by the tote bag full.

Theres nothing better than a wood shed

Thats a nice splitter. Seems like you could weld some steel bars to the top of that push block that go up, over and back down just high enough to clear the top of your wedges so that you can split 2 rounds of wood at a time and those bars would keep pulling the rounds back and forth for ya

I never really liked that wood processor until I seen This clip. Thankyou.

Back years ago when we lived in the country, I had a three side shed to store firewood in. But when I installed a boiler I was able to put three foot chunks of wood but I still stored my three foot log out of the weather. We heated our home for twenty years and when the boiler was operating we heated our water also. We lived in southern Illinois and in my spare time I cleaned fence rolls.

I don’t burn firewood anymore, I did for 30 years at our home in Oregon. The idea was be at least one year ahead so that the wood was seasoned. I burnt mostly alder, maple, fir and some hemlock. Our home had a wraparound covered porch that I would stack almost a years worth of wood on. This was great because it would save me from handling each piece one less time. My woodshed would hold six cord but then I would have to bring wheelbarrow loads to the porch meaning handling each piece one more time. Loved the warmth of wood heat but considering the labor and the mess it makes on the porch and in the house I was ready to give it up. Looks like a great wood splitter, hope it works out for you.

you might look at northwest sawer , he uses his saw mill and chain saw to make fire wood lots of it fast

That is one hell of wood splitter

There was one of theses at the state fair. It had arms on the ram that would drag the log back and you could do 2 at a time. The rep from woodmizer said a guy could do 5 ricks an hour. Thats a lot of wood to stack

@redoakridgefarm4612

7 ай бұрын

I agree it definitely needs 2 arms wouldn't have to handle the wood once it was loaded

When I heated with wood in a previous house I built a covered 10' x 20' lean-to. I leaned pallets against the wood stack to protect from rain/snow yet allowed lots of air movement for drying. Learning how to stack took a while, but worked very well for us. One thing to look at is how your local property tax will view a structure. That's where totes would be a plus.

And I chopped firewood by hand for 40 years 😮 this machine is absolutely amazing 😮.

My complaint with the “firewood” I’ve bought at various stores over the years is it’s not been dried correctly and kept dry. It will have visible mold growing on it and not burn well due to too high a moisture content. I think, if one were to go into the firewood business, and one gets those two details correct, dried precisely correct and kept dry so no mold grows on it, I think one might possibly could come out okay. At least pay for your equipment. Those are my two cents on this subject.🤓

Wood shed is what my father in law uses

That logsplitter is a real beauty! Great purchase! I can see it'll surely increase your output.

Ah.. welcome back to your “ signature” tune at the beginning Nathan , I find it very relaxing . That splitters gonna be a great addition to the farm ✊ 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

brilliant idea machine, one way is faster than the other because of area inside the hyd. cylinder.

I think I would stack the wood on the end of the kiln,where rain wouldn't run on

I swear if woodmizer isn't an official sponsor yet or giving you very big discounts on things.. because I bought my lt15 because of you and now Ive been wanting a splitter for years and now I'm strongly considering it because of you

I really like that splinter

Great video as always, love that you ‘keep it real’.

Getting it done.

Great episode! The new splitter is a beast! The advice is spot on! Classic OTW!

@OutoftheWoods0623

7 ай бұрын

Appreciate it!

Cool new equipment Thx for sharing this, had no idea woodmizer made a log splitter

The Wood-Mizer line of wood splitters were originaly built be Tempest.

Nice splitter Nathan! Looks like it will do the job Just Fine.Well there were times that Dad would take me to the Wood shed but we both outgrew that. It was nice to keep it stacked and ready to go.

I burn all winter here in Minnesota to heat my shop and occasionally a decorative fire in the house. I prefer stacking my wood in a traditional holzhausen. You can store a lot of wood without the need for a wood shed, and it looks awesome when its finished. The completed stacks look like beehives and are actually a decorative feature rather than having yet another structure in your yard or making it look like you are a metal recycling yard with all those IBC totes laying about.

Thanks Nathan, good video as usual, I used to stack our firewood in long lines, a bit like Mike Morgan, just not anywhere near as tidy, which worked well, if I had to do it again a wood shed would be what I would go for, particularly if I didn’t have to deliver, I would also like to see the videos of the build!

Awesome machine, congrats Wood shed

G’day from Down Under. Wood sheds / shelters are the way to go. All kept dry and ready to go whenever you need it.

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Trac loader bucket under one end and tractor bucket under the other. Then just drive it to where your going to stack it.

I used to burn about five cords of wood a year. I built a shed for the wood and loved it. Out of the weather was probably the biggest advantage.

Another great video Nathan. Your conveyor belt idea sounds like a good one. Is there any way you can build a narrow pit and pass the conveyor belt below the wood splitter so that it carries all of the wood out to one side and into the dump trailer? We store 6 cords of hardwood inside up here in Nova Scotia and that is all we heat our home with. Got to love wood heat! There's nothing better than coming in on a cold day and sticking your behind towards a hot wood stove. LOL Keep up the great videos! Thanks. Doug in Nova Scotia

Maybe put a lean too on to the side of your timber frame or just beside it or a feet away with blocks or some way to keep the wood up off the ground.

the advantage of a wood shed is its expandable

My dad has just invested in a splitter (not as big as this one) after me, him and my brother have battled away with chainsaws and axes for years! Looking forward to playing with it😅

With the splitter, like you mentioned about a lot of logs being rotted inthe middle or having other issues, you can possibly generate additional income with your cutoffs, as well and insome areas, people even take the pine for campfires and hunting camps.

I love seeing this on your channel. I'm not a fan of the burn pile, as I have always lived fugally. Effectiveness, elegance, quality, with economy being the cornerstone have been great ethics in business.

Nice log splitter. Your right about checking what type of market is out there before you start any type of business. I have seen that type of splitter on a channel that shows wood splitting and wood chippers. Like anything it takes time to get the hang of things.

I saw another youruber a while back that was in the firewood business and he used IBC totes to handle firewood storage / drying.

A temp solution on catching the split wood might be the Kato or one of your tractors with a bucket on the other side from the trailer.

Put an IBC tote on each end and when they fill; up, move them with forks on the tractor.

@OutoftheWoods0623

7 ай бұрын

Good idea

This is a really unique log splitter and the double action hydraulics make it very efficient. Very little risk to the operator, but suited for a two person operation, so production could be commercial. IMHO this log splitter should be raised up so that the totes could handle a higher volume of logs. What is the maximum length of the logs that can fit into this log splitter ? I have a large residential fireplace, so I cut my logs to 24 inches long.

I know exactly what you mean about trailers - I had no problem when backing up the Pershing II launcher with the missile on it while I was in the Army, but an eight-foot trailer about the same size as yours gives me all kinds of trouble.

Take the thin “slices” and bundle them for campfire wood. Wrap them with stretch wrap, and they’re worth $6.00/bundle retail. Think about getting a wholesale buyer for the small pieces that would make wholesale runs to campgrounds. Let them wrap the bundles. Pure wholesale in IBC totes.

Wood shed for sure! But anything that keeps the wood dry!

That’s a really good engine but keep the oil changed and put a hour meter on it, change the oil and filter every 50/75

I just stack my firewood on a concrete square I set behind my shed/workshop and cover it with metal half hoops and tarpaulins, I then have a small brickbuilt wood box close to my back door.

IBC totes, we burn approx 5 cords a year I split and stack right into the tote and cover. I have 30 totes full at most times and when I need one I grab it with the tractor and place it into the garage. Limit the touches on the fire wood

Clever design on that splitter, once you get the log on the lifter its easy peasy lemon squeezy. I'm always impressed with the low light capability of those cameras. Great video Nathan thumbs up.

Maybe look at build bins for each end of the splitter that you can stuck up

All right , Great video!

I love this because the scraps (flakes and splinters) it makes are excellent tinder for starting a fire.

Looks good!

A very smart wood splitter, I must say

I used to burn 6+ cords a winter. The IBC tote thing would have been garbage for me. I had it racked on a double row of pallets and covered with heavy plastic, which was OK, but a wood shed would have been a way bette solution. If I had planned to live in that house for a longer time, I would have built a wood shed.

Definitely you can see the need for some new knives. Double handling quite a bit of that. Overall, looks like it does a pretty good job.

If the splitter will not be stored under cover or inside you would benefit from having flat pavers under the legs feet so that they do not sink into the ground when you receive rain. Also, spraying the legs and their feet with a light coat of WD40 or other light lubricant will do much for their longevity and function. You have a compelling site, a good voice and a face made for radio or a sidekick in a John Wayne western. I do enjoy your work.

We enjoy your channel we like our woodshed! You would too so go ahead and build it. Only need 3 sides and a roof

Genius splitter right there

Looks awesome.

Woodmiser, if smart, would offer a OTW edition of the FS-500. It would feature a coffee maker, integral .🗽🇺🇸👌

@OutoftheWoods0623

7 ай бұрын

Agree

We have a firewood market even in hot southern Arizona, but it you also need to look at saturation of the market, sellers here include 2-3 cord wood operations, a few custom sawmills and quite a few landscape companies selling various species or mixes. Here a cord of mesquite (4000 lbs green ~ 28 million BTU/cord) sells between $300-500 plus delivery market is limited to mostly older homes, backyard burners, campers, cabins in the mountains etc and its a declining market. Also firewood season is short, a cord might last the average consumer in the low valleys 2-3 years as its still 70-80 degrees daily, and nights are just starting to cool into the 40's. The IBC tote, pallet crate or a palleted gaylord box could work for sales or storage.

I truly enjoy your videos Nathan