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@charlesmckinley29

3 жыл бұрын

You have time on your side look at the solar kilns for a lower cost to build and operate and fit your needs.

@utubestalker.dotcom

2 жыл бұрын

great story

@JasonSmith-gd2un

Жыл бұрын

I live west of Nashville about 30 minutes. Totes are going for $60 up to $ 150 . Interesting video I enjoyed watching it . Thanks

At 19:04 he finally talks about the totes. You're welcome.

@shayanshahriar7882

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@howtogetoutofbabylon8978

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!

@jomckeag4482

3 жыл бұрын

The title of the video is misleading.

@howtogetoutofbabylon8978

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly... and thanks Shayan for the 19:04 note!!!

@davidsawyer1599

3 жыл бұрын

Most videos could be less then five minutes. Why they drag these out is beyond me. Thanks.

Cut the bladder at a 45 from corner to corner to make free roofs that keep your wood out of the rain

@johnroney3556

3 жыл бұрын

Dang that's a great idea.

Was just talking to my wife who is a nurse and I’m a pharmacist who said wow we are jealous of this guy who just walked away from the rat race and went with wood processing. I think a lot of people are looking at their lives at 35-45 years old who say they are tired of working their corporate jobs and want to scale back to the simple life and enjoy their time. Thanks for the great video Adam!

@HometownAcres

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think people who work for themselves get the most satisfaction out of their jobs for sure

@mtadams2009

3 жыл бұрын

My wife is an attorney who works on Wall Street and I am independent contractor working in automation repair. She worked on her own for four years then went back to the corporate rat race. Why you may ask one is healthcare. We were paying over 18 thousand per year in premiums. Corporate jobs have a lot of benefits that working on your own does not have, matching 401K, paid vacations, disability insurance, etc. She was always concerned where the next client-contract was coming from. Without her insurance I could not do what I do as the healthcare insurance is a big issue. Whatever you are paying now double it in your own. I love being out of the corporate world but in reality I still am, if that makes sense. I wish you the best if you take the leap. I myself could never sit at a desk all day or be inside. Working for yourself has many benefits but healthcare is not one of them.

@mikeshobbyhomestead8917

3 жыл бұрын

Scott Gibson very true on the healthcare part. One person in the family has to maintain benefits. The 401k part is nice as well, as long as the Stockmarket stays high. There are many pluses and minuses of both jobs. Just have to hit that lotto one day......hahaha

@marcuswhite3628

3 жыл бұрын

Scott Gibson maybe look at Medishare...

@mtadams2009

3 жыл бұрын

@@marcuswhite3628 We were on the healthcare exchange for two years which helped a great deal. We payed about 11,000 a year which was a big savings. Now we are back on big corporate healthcare. Healthcare is a huge issue for many. I know a lot of people who needed to wait to retire because of insurance. I don't miss my corporate job but during this pandemic I have, work has been slow. My old job people are still working every day, fortunately I have savings and things are picking up. My neighbor has a cord wood business and has lost his full time job and the wood business has saved him. He does about 600 cord a year plus tree work in my rural town. Its always good to have a side gig. Take care

it amazes me that there are so many interesting people and interesting stories on KZread. This one checked both boxes.

@HometownAcres

3 жыл бұрын

I’m glad you enjoyed it. KZread is a great platform. Thanks for watching!

Both of you are an example of American talent & ingenuity. Bless you both!!

I find it interesting that a guy would own his own business in high school, get a college degree, start a career and then return to what he was doing in high school out of a passion for that type of work. Good for him and his private American dream. I really appreciate his company motto about nothing going to waste and then having his business live that motto. Selling the IBC totes to roll the cash back into his business is just one more example. Most people think buying IBC totes are too expensive, but they are buying them off of a reseller, you went straight to the source. Great video.

@corymartin810

3 жыл бұрын

work smarter not harder...love what you do and you will never work a hard in your life.

@bf2fool

3 жыл бұрын

College education isn't for everyone.. The country needs less student debt.

Came for the Totes, stayed for the wholesome conversation and honest living. Wish the best two both of you. To bad its long ways away for me. But at least I know where to look locally now.!

Stories like this are awesome it gives the normal person hope that they can do something other than the normal 9-5. Fire wood might not be your thing but you can find your thing and run with it

@guyxmas7519

3 жыл бұрын

It would probably be kimda hard to run with firewood

Thanks Adam for taking us along. What a cool way your friend got tired of being inside all day to going back outside where he is happy..

Love seeing the small guys use the old sawmill equipment! Such a small chipper but perfect for what he's using!

Great video! My friend works as a mechanic at a place eerily similar to that here in CT, I buy the IBC totes from him after the mulch dye is emptied for the same price of $25. I actually then resell just the tank itself without the cage to people for various uses and recoup about 90% of the cost!

Cool operation and tour Adam! The Kiln Drying set-up was interesting! ...then sounds like the best way to process premium firewood and a happy customer.

I went to see Matt yesterday 10-5-2020 and bought 20 totes from him. What a great guy and an impressive business. My brother and I talked with him for a while was just a joy to chat with. Beautiful country side and a very nice drive down there. Wish him all the best. Adam...thanks for this video and take care as well.

@HometownAcres

3 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome. Glad I could help. Looks like I’ll have to wait til spring to buy anymore from him haha

@paulbencal7002

3 жыл бұрын

Hometown Acres I think I left you two

Great video Adam, Yet another example of someone who had a side gig they were passionate about who eventually realized it was their calling. He does indeed have an amazing setup. It’s great to see products being recycled for other uses. BTW.....my high school used a heating system using chips and that was back in the 80’s on the east coast of Canada. I think a lot of the schools eventually switched over to that heating method. Keep up the great content and stay safe.

@HometownAcres

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed the video!

Great deal! In my area 330 gallon ibc totes are going anywhere from $50-$120… and $30-$90 for the 275 gallon. Love the videos! Keep up the great work!

That was a really cool operation to see.. wish I could do that as a career. Great video Adam!

I know it’s been a while since this video was posted but got me looking for them myself. I’m picking them up locally for $10 a basket. Just picked up 14 today. Genius idea!

I guess what really gets me excited about this video is he started out selling firewood for $45 and it just grew. That my friends is America🇺🇸

It’s great to see a business from my homeland

I love the way you clap your hands together at the beginning of every video, that's what a real man looks like.

We use those to store wood in our sugar shack. If you have a pallet jack and concrete it makes life so much easier. In the end, you have to weigh out how many times you want to move the wood before you burn it. The cost of the crate can be weighed against the cost of a chiropractor. If you have a set forks on a tractor it's nice to just go get a skid instead of reloading the shit a thousand times over.

Ahhh you got the pilgrims workin for ya,, IBC totes around the burgh are like gold !

What an informational video... I feel smarter just watching this... Thanks for sharing...and I was just looking for a place to get some IBC totes.

Talk about flashbacks. That guys operation brought back memories of working in a mill 20+ years ago. Add a debarker and a decent saw and he is making lumber too!

I like these totes for firewood. When I angle grind (cut) the side panel , I leave the top round on for extra strength. I rarely reach in to move pieces around, but bending over and 'ducking' inside isn't too much of a problem. I talked to a farm chemical distributor -- and these totes are rarely recycled -- which is a huge shame, the HDPE plastic is very useful, easily processed and re-used. Be safe!

Great video!!! I use wood every day and rarely think about all the work that goes into getting my firewood ready for use

that was very interesting thanks for the tour of the mill your buddy has his ducks in a row smart young man thanks for sharing Happy New Year's to you and your family

A fantastic operation. I appreciate the tour.

Great vid. Thanks for sharing. Here,[ east of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, ] they are $100 for one that you can put drinking water in, [ potable ], and $80 for the other ones. Rick.

Hey Adam you are probably already aware of this, but I've seen a guy cut those plastic inserts diagonally then use them for little roofs over the firewood in the tote when you're storing it in the weather. Worked pretty slick. Cheers

Watching your newer videos and glad this one was suggested too. Only an hour south of me, thanks!!

Very informative! I enjoy watch all of your videos.

If you took note of the price for lumber these days, you would convert the firewood business into a lumber mill.

@NPAMike

3 жыл бұрын

if you did that and invested thousands of dollars into a saw mill and training and 1 year from now prices fall and then your out of money because you tried to chase the price of lumber.

@daveklein2826

2 жыл бұрын

Not all logs are hardwood quality

Very informational video…I love touring any kind of production facilities. Thx!

What a wonderful treat and great video.

I just loved watching this video, thanks for posting.

Wow that is an absolutely great setup. I'm getting into some firewood on the side.....very very small scale more like as a past time that puts a bit of cash in my pocket. This would be a dream of mine to ever get to that level

Great idea. Here in California we have an abundance of steel and wood and plastic picking bins cheap, been using them for years. Lot of totes here too but 30 to 50$ and up.

A couple years ago a big concrete company bought out the home town concrete company and gave all the empty 275 gal totes away. I took two to make a electrolysis rust removal tank and several 55 gal blue plastic barrels

That young man has an amazing set up!

I have found some farmers that get diesel additive in them for their tractors. I picked up 10 for $10each. But mostly find them for $25-$75. Depending on the quality. I’m in Illinois near St. Louis, Missouri. Great video

@HometownAcres

3 жыл бұрын

$10 is incredible. If you do firewood it would be worth buying as many as you can haha

Thank you for the information and I love every one of your videos keep up the good work bless you

Great interview! Great content.

wow this was so great to watch!

Really cool and interesting operation

Great video, Adam. Thanks Matt!

Wow that’s great 😃 the totes lots info Tks stay safe y’all from Toronto Canada 🇨🇦

Great operation, and well laid out.. The tote cages are available locally for $35 each.

@tompowell6723

3 жыл бұрын

Where?

That's a great operation adam. They are $45 canadian up here in most places. But you can find lots of places just trying to get rid of them like you said

the answer will suprise you because it comes at 19:10 at the earliest and 20:08 at the latest

Great video, lots of ideas went into that whole set up but every urban center needs two or three feeding products into it. What would you think about a twenty foot shipping container as a kiln? Add some fans for circulation and a chimney throughout to get all the heat available? Build the fire at one end, load and unload at the other. Totes are handy to have for many purposes.

Enjoyed the vid, great info 👍

@HometownAcres

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Doug, how’re you likin that Eastonmade?

@jomckeag4482

3 жыл бұрын

Hated the video, no relevant information

That was an awesome tour, really interesting, greatly appreciated! Inspirational really :D Maybe you can get crafty and build a small size kiln yourself?

The fire wood trip. Well it was so informative , that was one hell of a system. Hard work. Thankyou for showing us what goes into all the workings of what one tree can do.

Have you looked into building a solar kiln. They are easy to make, take a little longer to dry the wood but can get the moisture content down to around 6% in about two to three weeks with good sun. We use them in Louisiana and east Texas for our off grid building projects when away from modern convinces. I have a friend that used one to dry the wood he cut from his own land over in east Texas. He had an Alaskan sawmill, twenty acres of good pine and about a year later had a beautiful home for him, his wife and three kids. You can build the solar kiln in just about any size and they work great. I don't see why they couldn't be used to dry firewood. I wouldn't use them for commercial use but for personnel use I think they would be a good way to dry your wood to cut costs for areas with higher cost for dried firewood.

@MrEunderwood

3 жыл бұрын

You talking about a Cajun microwave?

Great video! Extremely interesting! Thanks I did a quick research on craigslist. The totes are going for $50-$75 each. That is from the St Louis Mo. Craigslist!

Excellent video, I learned a lot. Thank you.

Just a suggestion, if you cut about a foot of the side of the plastic, then make a slice up the corners it will make a nice top for the firewood in the basket. I have about a dozen of these basket that I was able to pick free or cheap over the years - they make a great firewood set up for me.

Hey Adam, just an FYI.....went by a place yesterday that uses totes for firewood. Instead of removing the whole bladder they left the top of it in to keep the wood dry.....pretty smart idea so I thought I'd share!!

Now that's an operation wow.

this was a super fun video - that dude is super smart

Awesome video. Love to see what people can accomplish with knowledge and hard work. I did have to laugh because when you pulled in there, I said to myself I bet he had some amish guys working for him, and sure enough. I would have loved to hear his perspective on getting good employees and keeping them, because even with "all the unemployment " we hear about I know it's tough to fill these types of jobs, you know, the ones where you actually have to get your hands dirty. Again thanks for the interesting video and the info on where I can get some more totes when I need them.

Wow, that was really neat! Thanks!

Look into a tobacco drying unit. Kooks very similar to what was pictured in the video. In tobacco growing regions you can find used units at many auctions. A very good and informative video. Thank you

Henry Farmers CO-OP in far western KY sells those baskets for $ 20-25 each. Used by area farmers for liquid chemicals, so plenty available. Good job; interesting video, & interesting use for firewood.

Came for the totes heard the story was happy to hear it but now I ran out of time got to go hopefully I can come back to hear about those totes

I heard about your videos from Outdoors with the Morgan's. This was a very informative video and thank you for making all your videos.

The first time watching you. You seem like a good guy

@HometownAcres

3 жыл бұрын

I try to be about as honest and fair as I can. Hopefully that comes through on camera

Wow!! Very interesting video and great content, too! Thanks 👍

Very informative, new information to me. Thank you.

Great video thanks for sharing.

Hi Adam,very interesting documentary.Do some more ,now i know you can!

Great video Adam. Those IBC totes are listed on Craigslist in my area (Rochester, NY) for around $125.

very interesting, loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What an excellent business!

Thanks for you and Matt to take the time to show us around. Not sure if i like the dyed mulch.

Very cool!! Thank You!!

Great info! I had no idea you were located so near me in northwest PA. And I had no idea I could get totes there. Excellent info! Thanks for sharing.

Found some here in SE Michigan for $20 in the smaller of the two sizes but that was just one seller. Most of the 275 gallon totes were in the $50 or above range. So your buddy has got a pretty smoking deal going.

I ALMOST skipped the latter half of the video because you didn't mention the totes.. But the tour was VERY interesting. I suggested something similar to this to a local hardwood sawmill about 20 years ago. I even suggested a partnership on the separate slab drying/ firewood side of the operation that I would run. No telling how much money they threw away. Dyed mulch wasn''t a thing around here back then. Now I have to go find a mulch dying operation near me.....

very cool video . just saw you on Joe on ohio firewood. this was a great video to learn something

Very interesting! Thanks.

Really interesting set up. You should look up woodmizer solar kiln plans.

in Finland every home and buisness has a hot and cold water line supplied to the by each city, they have no land fills at all, the goverment tells you when you have to cut your land of all the under brush and dead falls, they send in a machine that cutsa and bales it all, and it is trucked off to the closesed city boiler. and the city pays you by the ton for it, witch more then covers paying tor the company that cut your under brush, what cant be recycled or composted from trash is burned in these half mile long boilers that heat your home and demestic hot water, avarage cost a month for your city hot water for heating and domestic is 20Eu, all your glass an all plastics, you take to a shopping mall were they have a wall lined up with machines that look like huge ATM'S you put your glass and plastic in and the machine kicks out cash for you, same with tin cans in another unit, these huge city boiler burn so clean, there is no smelll or smoke, hot water lines under streets and side walks melts snow and ice

@18twilliams

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing that, very instructive!

@datboi1026

3 жыл бұрын

That’s really cool! I really wonder who thought of that, it’s not only useful but helps with the waste issue.

@zeviono4562

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah thats the way to do it! That's what I call ORGANISATION.. every place on the planet should do that.

@elaineschwarzhoff238

3 жыл бұрын

Ppl

@rebeccapettifer6553

3 жыл бұрын

That is unbelievably fantastic! You must be so proud of your country. It could never happen here in the US. We can't get our government officials to agree on anything! So sad!

The only thing I would add to his setup would be a metal detector before the cutoff saw... in western Montana bullets and nails/spikes (placed by tree huggers). Can damage a saw fast..

@chrisallen9154

3 жыл бұрын

You made one of the most idiotic statements of the day. You know it is not the treehuggers putting bullets in the trees.

@jessewilson8676

3 жыл бұрын

@@chrisallen9154 bullets, nails and spikes are hazards the spikes and nails are often placed by tree huggers use your head

suggestion on doing the kiln dry . why not build a double barrel wood burner with a heater exchanger tube setup in the top barrel so you can the force the air the the wood to dry ? that way like him you could use your scrap wood to heat it it to dry . just an idea :)

Very cool clip!

I think I've hit the jackpot for 330 gallon totes around my area. I paid $50/ea, and they're food grade, although that doesn't really matter since they'll be firewood baskets. The contained fruit juice that a local winery buys for distilling (or whatever it's called in the winery biz). I plan to pick up 4 more this week, and that should hold me for a while. I'm in north Georgia, and between pandemic pricing driving the cost of these up and less use of them, they're harder to find up here. Closer to Atlanta, they're more readily available, but still averaging around $100 for 275 gallon food grade and $150 for 330 gallon food grade. I heard you mention the other day in a recent video you have a secret plan to get wood ready for this winter. I think I just figured out you're buying a kiln :)

Large scale liquid fertilizer use the IBC container to fill their tucks so that could be another source for those. Awesome video.

Excellent video!

Good morning, very interesting. I found your challel through Mike Morgan. Thank you for sharing

Here in my Area in south west Germany the ibc boxes go for around 25€ (thats a brazillion of Dollar 😉🤣) My wood dries around 1 1/2 to two years, outside on the field. It gets down to 10-15%, depending on the weather 👍

Cool . I wonder if the kilns are IFB lined , Inswool blanket or modules , Insulating board , Insulating Refractory. If a person did a little research you could make a small Kiln . Getting the thermocouples and controllers would prob be the hardest part . I worked rebuilding kilns furnaces chemical tanks boilers , induction furnaces and other things for years . I liked the video

@MrEunderwood

3 жыл бұрын

I work for a company that does industrial heat treating. Think I'll have to try to get the necessary parts for a new project

Check your local refuse/recycling transfer station, especially if they service a large agriculture area. I'm a trash truck mechanic and the buy back has dozens stacked up.

Great Video, Happy New Year ! 25 is a great price.

Watch the auctions for a vacuum kiln. High efficiency. Kilning firewood in the west is pretty much unheard of. Wet winters but dry hot summers

Great video! I find all this interesting. I have the property with plenty of firewood to cut.... problem is that I live too far south to make any real money.

I used to work as a production worker for Norway Seafoods, but as I got older my health started to fail. My boss suggested that I apply for a scolarship to train for a bacherlor's degree in Economics, and so I did. After 3 years I was able to quit that job and start working full time at an accounting firm in town. I hated that job! Talk about Lone Ranger, being stuck in a PC all day, almost never seeing others except for my boss, was not a job for me in the long run, but I got to save up a lot of money and was able to retire eventually. I really wished that I had tried something else but accounting.

Around Portland, Oregon, they vary widely from $75 to $300 (each). There are companies which specialize in selling bulk containers of all sorts from 55 gallon drums to 5000 gallon stainless steel bulk processing containers. Check craigslist.