Do you use IBC totes for FIREWOOD?

[@Mainelywork]

🤘That is an awesome connection for totes!

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup!

[@jameschandler2776]

Bert never ceases to amaze me with his touch on the tractor and skid steer. I can only get 4 at a time on my little trailer.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, he is a good operator!

[@Andrew_From_NB]

Awesome vid that day Chris! 🔥💯👍. See you soon! Andrew from NB :)

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks! You too!

[@curtcarlson96]

How about cutting the bladder at least in half, maybe just cut the bottom with the valve off. Now you have a cover to put over your wood! Could drill a couple holes in each corner to zip tie it to the tote. Just a thought. I'm looking to get some totes myself and that is what I am going to do! I truely enjoy your vids!!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, good ideas! Thanks!

[@briannelson4493]

I like the price , I had to buy mine. Many years of happy cutting to you guys. Keep on cutting

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks Brian!

[@davidedwards3734]

Good Morning Sir!! Beautiful photography at tge beginning and end!! Totes are quite the great commodity at the Bob Barker price!! I found some for $10 each!!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day

[@InTheWoodyard]

Good morning!

[@SuperJELCO]

Yes we have around 800 ibc totes, here in holland is the price not right😅 now they cost around 35 euro each. When i started i could get em for 13 euro delivered at my company. When it’s in the tote i dont have to touch it again that’s why we choosed the totes😄👍🏻

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, you must have a good system!

[@toddpacheco4748]

Ut oh,Chris more kittens 😮😊❤

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup.....

[@amandadavis9726]

Nothing wrong with free stuff!! I picked up a load of 26 275 gal totes yesterday for $15/piece. It’s not free,…but it sure beats the $50-$80 prices I’ve found online. What’s nice is that I have access to an unlimited amount of them. Can’t wait to pick up another load next week. Keep the videos coming. I enjoy watching them.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Good score!

[@yveslabreche5919]

Chis you should use the IBC bladder to put you sawdust and debris in it. Would keep the yard clean.When you get about 10 of them you can bring them at the disposal site or a place that do mulching.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Maybe so.

[@crazyman3157]

I can sense Bert thinking of a way to make some sort of articulating forks… I used to work in injection molding and we had large boxes (Gaylord’s) of plastic. Had a dumper that would dump the box full into a flow threw bin that we then moved around to the point of need. Obviously different with fire wood but the concept could work. Planting “thought seeds.” Lol. I drive my wife nuts at times, I always am thinking of solutions to problems. Worse yet is I worked in a lumber yard and now I am a welder, 20 years after going to college for the trade. Jack of many trades, master of none. Great video Chris and a great load of totes Bert. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks Mr. Man!

[@dennisconlon5810]

Your wife should be happy most men don’t do anything around the house.

[@zacharyhuberty3986]

Chris, here in Wyoming I was able to sell the intact bladders (no cracks) for $30 a piece. I paid an oil field worker $30 per tote. Made my money back and kept the cages!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Nice score!!

[@coreyriley7160]

G’morning Chris ! Totes Magoats !! That’s a good hoard. GoodNightIrene

[@InTheWoodyard]

Good morning!

[@firewoodathome]

I have a few IBCs, they work great with the bladder roof. I would like to utilize them more, but my equipment isn't big enough to move loaded crates.

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup, that is an issue!

[@peewee.3138]

Tanks a lot for the video! GNI!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Good one!

[@davidn1369]

Who’d think I’d enjoy watching Bert forking around 😊

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, he is good at it!

[@disenfranchisedcitizen1432]

We only use IBC cages to store the firewood that we use to refill the slots for our firewood stand or for friends and family to come to the property to get some of the ugly wood we don't sell. It makes it easy to move bulk wood around to where we need it. We cut the top 16" off of the bladder and zip tie it to the top of the cage with 3/4" heavy duty zip ties. We then use a jigsaw to cut the face of the plastic bladder out so it allows for stacking firewood in the cage above the top of the cage and protects the wood from rain and snow. We also reinstall the top metal supports after removing the bladder. We also cut the a section of the front of the cage out. Enough for us to reach in and stack or retrieve wood from the cage. Now as far as face cords go, we use pallets that we get for free and palletize each face cord. If a pallet is 36" (3') x 42" (3.5') we tightly stack firewood on the pallet making sure every nook and cranny is stuffed with very little gaps at a height of 49" (4.1') from the top of the pallet to get (3'x3.5'x4.1'=43.05 cubic feet which is a smidge over a face cord of 42.6 cubic feet. We adjust the height of each palletized face cord by the dimensions of the pallet to get the correct cubic feet. If a pallet has smaller dimensions, the height will increase, if the pallet has wider dimensions the finished pallet won't be as tall all to get the 42.6 cubic feet. We then draw out 6' of heavy 4 mil plastic from the 6' wide roll and cut it. We lay the 6' by 6' plastic sheet over the top of the palletized face cord and use our hammer stapler to fold and secure the four corners like wrapping a present typically about a foot below the top of the wood stack. We then grab the 2' wide roll of black stretch wrap that we get from Uline, and staple the end to one of the corner pieces of wood. We then wrap from the top of the stack to the bottom of the palletized face cord in order to keep it rigid for transport. We then use a razor knife to cut about a dozen horizontal slits on each of all four sides of the face cord and on the top sheet of plastic for airflow and venting. We then use a paint marker on the top of the plastic to identify the species, and the date it was split. This has worked out very well for us. A customer arrives, and we just use our L4060 pallet forks to put the entire pallet into their pickup bed in 5 minutes. Once, a guy came with a trailer and wanted 4 face cords. We loaded one pallet into his pickup bed, and put three pallets on his small flat bed trailer, he strapped the palletized face cords down in 10 minutes and he left. If a customer wants a cord of wood delivered, we load 3 pallets into the dump trailer, drive to their property, and just dump the palletized face cords onto the ground. If they have a tractor with forks, we can just take our deckover with the palletized face cords to their property where they can unload them and place them where they want them. The overall benefit to this method is that we are only touching the finished split wood twice. Splitting it into the conveyor which feeds it into the dump trailer, then once the dump trailer is full, raising the dump trailer to make it easy to pull pieces from the pile at waist height and tightly stacking it onto the pallets to the calculated height to get 43 cubic feet. I thought that maybe doing it this was would trap moisture and cause the wood to mold. It had quite the opposite effect. The black plastic in the sun heats the air space inside up and the slits allow moisture vapor to escape and essentially dried the wood faster. It also keeps our smaller property nice and organized with the clean look of palletized face cords in nice rows like soldiers ready to deploy.

[@InTheWoodyard]

It sounds like a good system for you and a smaller space BUT it also sounds like a lot of extra work too. Keep cuttin'!

[@Suburban-Homestead]

Hey Citizen! I’d love to know more about how you pack these and even a picture would be great.

[@BertsCustomCuts]

Video is fitting its tote day again.

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup!

[@keithrepace118]

In NJ the totes range from $40- $150, I wish I can get them for your price. Great videos thank you

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, they are not free many places!

[@edkennard72]

Chris if you were to run those platters through your wood chipper and load them into a trailer plastic you can get good money for recycle plastic

[@InTheWoodyard]

ok!

[@teddybear4020]

the platic can b opened and used too i wish i could show up but i a m up here in dunkirk . near buffalo along lake shore ERIE . yes there r many awesome uses 4 them for sure

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup.

[@juniorflores7555]

Good morning the best word of the day FREE cant beat that

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup.

[@larryvankirk7423]

Nice video guys. I don't use totes for my personal firewood, but some of my free/barter customers do. I can borrow a neighbors skid loader to move/load them. How many do you need? ALL OF THEM. Tote corral idea with pallet floor in the corral has potential I think. GNI

[@InTheWoodyard]

Maybe so!

[@DanielAtkinsFirewood]

For those who don't have a way in moving totes, they make good end caps for stacking wood..

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup, like movable posts!!

[@danshouseofsmokeandoutdoor7119]

That’s definitely a deal on them. I was wondering why leave cross bars on when filling I guess makes it better for stacking.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, yup.

[@smorefirewood]

That’s a very nice trailer too.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Does Mr. Trailerman have trailer envy toiday?

[@carldean6795]

I use bladders for water storage

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup, they work good for that!

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Nice fine on the totes

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Morning

[@InTheWoodyard]

Hello!

[@user-oz5ke3qt8n]

Good Chris and Burt I like good deal have a good day (tyRon)

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks Ron!

[@dcrosco1458]

the IBC totes are a good Idea for some of you people that just want a fire outside. YOu deliver the ibc totes and when empty you fill it up for them. THey dont have to stack and it is cleaner for the customer. It is a win win for you and you people.

[@CRC717]

Was thinking the same thing. Deliver an empty tote on top of the wood strapped down in the dump trailer 🤠

[@InTheWoodyard]

Maybe, but from what I can tell they might actually make more work for me and take more time.

[@InTheWoodyard]

maybe

[@CRC717]

@@InTheWoodyard Seems like a fork in the road problem. The system you have for firewood now is great. Putting the wood in piles to season without covering, using pallets to hold the piles together and permit air flow from the bottom up for better seasoning. I know in my experience sometimes the Bob Barker special deal can also mess up a good system because you are trying to add more gears to an already great system. Maybe the answer is continue with the firewood system you have and start a separate tote business. Seems Bert has the room out there for storage. Since you do face cord deliveries from your pickup you will always have the hands on work with firewood so maybe the idea of a total hands off the wood business is not feasible for your operation. Might be what your spirit is telling you 🤠

[@bekaerttrio2231]

👍👍👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks!!!

[@THE_MAAAAAD_LIFE]

Hey Chris! I see theres a bin truck in the shed! Lets see how many cubic meters (cords in your measurements) you can process into that!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, some day we will do a video with the old dump truck.

[@jackpinesavageadventures3142]

👍🏻👏🚜

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks!

[@outdoorsinthe608]

That’s awesome your getting them for FREE!👍👍

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup.

[@donnairn3419]

I have seen the bladders used for a septic tank. 2 in series will work.

[@InTheWoodyard]

interesting!

[@oleberg4196]

I do use totes. I stack right off my splitter into them. I only sell if I get to far ahead of what I can burn myself. I will probably sell about 10 cord this year.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Cool, I think for personal use they are fine, but for major production???

[@GregPrince-io1cb]

Totes and their bladders are like wood..... Can't ever have enough, many many uses around the farm!!

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup

[@annmariekowalski7505]

No totes here. Even our garbage cans have to be hidden behind decorative bushes or a fence that you need a permit to put up to hide the containers you need to buy from the village. I take our trash to the dump. No permit, no 65 dollar garbage can abs no bushes or fence.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, city livin' and they will get you one way or another!

[@andystampfli9127]

Don't have a tractor so ibc totes are wasted if in my yard... Although a 200 gal above ground pond has crossed my mind.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, they are not great for everyone!

[@GregPrince-io1cb]

Good Morning Woodhounds!!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Good morning!

[@rickthelian2215]

Hi Bert & Chris, lots of IBC’s. Mama and her kittens cute❤😊

[@InTheWoodyard]

Hello Rick!

[@TwinCityFirewood]

I get them for free also, but not nearly as many as y’all!! Good for y’all!

[@InTheWoodyard]

nice!

[@chandlercrews6203]

I use them, and the only good way I have found to use them is to stack and cut the fronts out.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, and that is a lot of work on a big scale.

[@chandlercrews6203]

@@InTheWoodyard Very true.

[@Suburban-Homestead]

Hey Chris. What model KIOTI tractor do you have? I’m thinking I need something bigger for firewood and unsure how big.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Bigger is better. Mine is a DK 4710 hst . I would recommend at least a 40 hp but 50-60 would be better. Compare the lift capacity, that makes a big difference and some makers are......weaker.

[@Suburban-Homestead]

I’m using a lot of your videos to help me get started! I’m trying to figure out how I want to store the firewood…stacking or bins as you’re using now. I still have to be concerned about neighbors as I’m suburban.

[@Suburban-Homestead]

I’m using a lot of your videos to help me get started! I’m trying to figure out how I want to store the firewood…stacking or bins as you’re using now. I still have to be concerned about neighbors as I’m suburban.

[@rossnolan2883]

Awesome 😎

[@InTheWoodyard]

Thanks 🤗

[@rossnolan2883]

@@InTheWoodyard 😎😎😎😎

[@kurtloftfield4537]

Good morning all!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Good morning!

[@teddybear4020]

be really cool if some place gave u a large shedder to do a review on . grinding alll scrap stuff .

[@InTheWoodyard]

You could be that some one!

[@teddybear4020]

Ya .. I would need a van trailer and truck 4 sure . So I would nor have 2 worrie about tie down or problems from DoT. In Michigan or Ohio.. I am at Dunkirk. Ny along The I 90

[@compostjohn]

You'll need a swivel tipper for the forklift.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, they are $7000-8000 so.....

[@dennisconlon5810]

How does Tony wheel and deal when he wants them for FREE.🤔

[@InTheWoodyard]

Ha! He is Polish, it is in his DNA!!!

[@noelstractors-firewood57]

Quite a thing to get for free. 👍🏻

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup!

[@michaelfits6530]

I'm interested in some bladders. Where is this located?

[@InTheWoodyard]

Appleton Wisconsin, if that is in you area email me and we can set up a time to pick some up. [e-mail]

[@michaelfits6530]

Oh! Crapp, I live near Cleveland Ohio. Thanks for your reply though.

[@royceabbottsexcavation3709]

Yes I use them!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Cool!

[@inthewilderness2023]

Anything free is worth saving up for.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, and you usually get what you paid for them, what ever it is...

[@carldean6795]

Yes, only got 2

[@InTheWoodyard]

Keep looking!

[@squirrelrelocator]

Does this mean you have figured out a good way to unload them for customer deliveries?

[@InTheWoodyard]

We are working on it and Bert is selling a bunch of them.

[@GregPrince-io1cb]

38°F and 92% humidity here in Ashville Ohio this morning!! High up to 70's they say.. Ya'll have a Great Day!

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup, another great day to be alive, just like all the others.

[@crperformancetucker5065]

Wish we could get free or reasonable priced totes in our area. People think there worth gold

[@InTheWoodyard]

They are expensive to buy new...like $600-700 so ya, they are not free most of the time.

[@LeBlancfirewood]

I want some

[@InTheWoodyard]

They are for sale!

[@LeBlancfirewood]

@@InTheWoodyard I want the free ones

[@homersimpson5668]

In my area they go for $50 each (empty!)

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup! New they are $700ish

[@ChrisLascari]

Good morning

[@InTheWoodyard]

Morning

[@carldean6795]

Cant find just cage

[@InTheWoodyard]

ok

[@timothywilmarth5775]

Where are you located

[@InTheWoodyard]

Appleton, Wisconsin

[@utbutch13]

What comes in the totes originally?

[@InTheWoodyard]

oil, def, and other chemicals

[@smorefirewood]

We would use them but the price isn’t right. $75-$125 each.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, that is NOT Bob Barker price.

[@billobermeyer660]

Just like firewood, you can never have enough totes...GNI

[@InTheWoodyard]

Maybe so!

[@megamike4357]

I don't have any equipment to use the totes. For me they are pointless. I don't see the benefits to them actually? Have to do a fair amount of work to make them useful, the stack every bin. The only convenience is they are mobile if you have the eequipment equipment.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yup, I agree with that!

[@timrydman-mr5hp]

You will find a way to use those totes to save labor. And time.

[@InTheWoodyard]

maybe???

[@leevalencourt1824]

The music is a distraction. Yak or music, not both.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yes sir.

[@mathew00]

I don't have a lot of experience with this kind of stuff but it just seems inefficient and expensive.

[@InTheWoodyard]

Maybe so but free is not very expensive.

[@mathew00]

Oh nice! I was just responding to the video title before I watched it :)@@InTheWoodyard

[@amandadavis9726]

This is why people use them for firewood storage. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5-1ioSBfsmirsksi=vws0HhuAevtsWToZ

[@MicrogreenGems]

BOB BARKER PRICE!!!!!!

[@InTheWoodyard]

THE PRICE IS RIGHT!

[@jacquelynhull2261]

I think you are taking advantage of Bert and his land.

[@InTheWoodyard]

That is funny right there. Bert got $4000 worth of free gravel for his drive way from me. He gets free firewood to heat his house. He gets to use all the equipment I have including the tractor, processor, splitter, chainsaws, trailer, all the new stuff vendors send me, free drink, free food sometimes, I pay his son for helping, paid events and lodging when we go PLUS he will probably take over the business when I retire some day so......

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

Get a tree service friend come over and run them bladders through one of them big giant chippers into a dump trailer

[@InTheWoodyard]

I am guessing that the chipper might develop some problems doing that???

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

@@InTheWoodyard long as you take the valve off especially if it's metal your good. I seen it on KZbin a few weeks ago. After he get so many and no use for them he would call his buddy they grind them into a dump trailer.. like his buddy said if it will grind trees it will grind totes and he's happy to do it because he saves him quite alot of money in dump fees every time he takes a load of wood.

[@joycesmith1105]

I didn’t believe you are showing this it is a repeat

[@GregPrince-io1cb]

Different totes, added to the woodyard?? Can't have enough totes

[@BertsCustomCuts]

I get a load every 2 weeks.

[@InTheWoodyard]

nope, Bert gets a load about every 2 weeks or so.

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup

[@GregPrince-io1cb]

Hey Chris.... I thought you didn’t need any stinking forks for your tractor??? They sure are nice tho ... aint they?? Pullin your string hoss,, Boomer sarcasm!!

[@iffykidmn8170]

Burts forks work pretty good on Chris's tractor.

[@GregPrince-io1cb]

They now need a set of forks that spin and dump for Berts loader... don't think Chris's tractor big nuff

[@InTheWoodyard]

The reason I did not need any stinking forks is because BERT has them! Ha!

[@InTheWoodyard]

yup, they sure do and it helps that Bert is really good at using them!

[@InTheWoodyard]

That is an issue we have been discussing, articulating forks are $7000-8000 also so????

[@robertblacksmith4355]

I would use them if I had as much space that you have & they were "Free"!

[@InTheWoodyard]

Yes but they have to save work and time and for me, they might not do that???

[@robertblacksmith4355]

Bert seems to like them!@@InTheWoodyard

[@outdoorswithlarryrobin]

You lucky Dude! $60-125 here now, crazy prices 🪵👍🏼🇺🇸

[@InTheWoodyard]

Oh wow! Bob Barker must have not set the price down there!!