Variation on a side hustle...

[Jolly]

[Ozarks Tom]

I see those little bundles at the grocery stores, and tried to do the math compared to a cord price. Never could figure it out, but it has to be around $500+/cord.

Back when I used to go on motorcycle tours, camping out in state parks, I carried a break-down cross-cut saw for cutting up camp firewood from fallen limbs. It never occurred to me to buy a little bundle.

[Jolly]

I posted another firewood video a year or two back, where a different guy used a pallet shed and honor system like the guy in the above video, but he'd sectioned pallet off into bundle section and a quarter rick section. If memory serves, he made sure the economics favored the quarter rick.

Surprisingly, he sold both at a pretty good clip.

[Ozarks Tom]

With my luck they'd steal the money box, the wood, and the shed.

[fixitguy]

I tried that about 10 years ago with not much luck, we are on a state hwy with tons of camper traffic on the weekends.
Now, 40 miles north they have a 4x4 jamboree and other young adult things going on all summer. I talked to one guy selling wood from the back of his truck like corn. He said he sells 3 truck loads per day on memorial weekend to kids.

[paisley2]

This has been the norm down here as city folk and vacationers buy wood for camping...it is very $$$ as it is normally one log split, with packing paper wrapped around the split pieces a tuck in a book of matches wrap with plastic wrap a round the "kit" with a rope handle stapeled on to carry. $6.00 to $6.99

[joebill]

Apr 9, 2023 22:00:23 GMT Ozarks Tom said:

With my luck they'd steal the money box, the wood, and the shed.

when I was making the boxes, some folks used to put one in the wood pile with a cherry bomb inside. Stopped firewood theft in one easy lesson.


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