How we make over 50,000 cubic metres per year at City Firewood

[@frankthechemist]

We made 7000 face cords one year with a very good firewood processor. We were three persons, on 2 shifts, 6 days a week, almost all year. 50000 cubic meters is roughly 42 000 face cords, so 6 times more. That's A LOT of firewood! Good job!

[@SkidderKev]

That is one helluva operation! No messing around there!

[@johnlshilling1446]

I think the word 'industrious' was created to describe the man that started and built this business..., I can't imagine the amount of work that went into the planning, alone. BTW, who said that you can't find good help these days? Without GREAT help, this business would have been a flop years and years ago. MUCH RESPECT!

[@sureflamefirewood4174]

Holy crap what a set up you guys have

[@DanielAtkinsFirewood]

I am on the brink of a massive 45 cords for 2021.. Your operation makes me look Extremely small, Saying this with a smile. 😁👍 Nice operation you have going for you guys. From Eatonville Washington USA..

[@cityfirewood9770]

Nice one! 45 cord still no small feat. Then go for 100 in 2022!

[@ohiowoodburner]

Dan you and me both need that three wheeled grapple machine. That thing looks awesome.

[@offroadlife05]

@@ohiowoodburner my god I agree lol seeing this operation reminds me how small guys like us are lol

[@tmach58]

You guys aren't messing around 1 bit great video I love seeing operations

[@JoeCubicle]

Awesome operation! I'd like to see that standing water taken care of.

[@samskeeter1]

Great video. nice to get an inside look after driving past so many times. I do find it ironical that you kiln dry your wood.

[@Alan_Hans__]

Thankyou so much for the video. I'm absolutely blown away by the amount of wood you have there, the amount of wood you process and the number of different processors. I'm also blown away by that cute 3 wheel loader. I've never seen anything like it before.

[@cityfirewood9770]

You're welcome Alan!

[@garethtaylor7991]

I agree with Alan, this is an awesome set up! What are the little three wheelers with a timber crane and where can I get one? I need one for my yard :-)

[@cityfirewood9770]

@@garethtaylor7991 they are called Bell Loggers. Manufactured in South Africa

[@garlandremingtoniii1338]

You must be using Multitek processors. If I had to take a guess I would guess you’re using the model 2040. That’s what we use and we have 3 of them here at our family owned operation. Here in NW Montana. We do strictly wholesale and ship it over to Spokane and to the west coast of Oregon and Washington state by tractor trailer.

[@sureflamefirewood4174]

Holy crap.. 50 000 cubic meters here works out to 5 million dollars in sales

[@audisfour20]

That’s 1 hell of an operation

[@TakeNoneForTheTeam]

No question that is awesome! Thank you.

[@johnbrooks5485]

European wood always cracks me up. 10-12 inch pieces for smaller stoves. US pieces start at 16" usually ang go up to 24" for indoor stoves. Boiler wood is even larger. You guys are putting out a lot of wood either way.

[@cityfirewood9770]

This is generally to do with air quality and efficiency as a higher standard of these can be achieved with smaller pieces and therefore a smaller stove. I suspect USA doesn't regulate as much on stove emissions which is why larger stoves are sold. We are in New Zealand by the way which is not in Europe :)

[@patrickd9551]

@@cityfirewood9770 since when does USA regulate anything environmentally? To start look at them fuel guzzling penis enlargers, ancient inefficient power plants or even the average power consumption per capita. In Europe we don't NEED those large pieces, simply because our homes are more efficient and generally smaller too. Heck I know a farmer nearby that heats his house, two barns, hottub and boiler on just 6 cords a year. He does have a highly efficient wood gasifier (90%+) which he only needs to fill once a day. He takes pride in properly insulating his property and tuning his system for maximum efficiency.

[@pinchface]

@@patrickd9551 and in England we have houses made of stone with insulation, not some little wooden houses that get blown away in the first little tornado! i heat my very thick stone walled house with a 8kw clearview log burner, and that takes 15" wood!

[@andygroeschl]

Smaller wood dries quicker. I’m in WI and we’re producing all smaller split 16” wood. Can split in spring and burn that fall around 20% moisture. Big wood takes two years to get that dry

[@brucema38]

It's all relative I guess. The place you live dictacts most of what occurs there. I'm guessing you don't need much cooling in England, but here in S.W. America we need plenty of it. That is, unless you drive 20 miles and change elevation.then cooling isn't needed. The loads on heating are the same. What works in Phoenix AZ 6 hours away don't work here at all. 90 to 100 percent of efficiency comes from your local, not from some fancy machine. You might gain 10 to 20 percent effective gain when you compare apples to apples within your local. Age of equipment is also a big factor, along with the fuel source.

[@stevezickefoose8563]

The music killed your otherwise good video

[@FredMiller]

Agreed! Turned the sound off after 30 seconds..

[@Jimo225]

Just curious if y ou make a prifit. If you have to buy the logs and with all that overhead looks like hard to make a good profit unless y our getting a premium price for the firewood.

[@cityfirewood9770]

Yes we are a for profit company and have been running for 38 years :)

[@philippadilla9207]

Great operation

[@sureflamefirewood4174]

Wow I'll get there some day

[@mikeduffy8229]

impressive

[@Frontireadventures]

Imagine living next-door to this..day n night.

[@ClaytonHartin]

How do you guys charge by using a loader? By using a scale? Drive on/drive off scale?

[@cityfirewood9770]

Per volume of loose firewood. Our bucket is 0.5m3 and we sell in increments of that.

[@davidcrosby2750]

Wanted to watch this but the music killed it, sounds of the machines would have been so much better!

[@cityfirewood9770]

You can hear them purr in our other videos on our channel 😃

[@fit8645]

for real. it is repetitive and quickly escalates to fuggin obnoxious very quickly.

[@jimmyrup]

Can you tell me who is the manufacturer of the disc cleaner/ elevator?

[@cityfirewood9770]

Rabaud

[@jimmyrup]

Thank you They have some very impressive equipment.

[@atomicwedgie8176]

R u next to, City Wok?

[@cityfirewood9770]

Nope

[@ronaldwilkins6056]

LOL! How about City Kickboxing?

[@robwar2288]

Why don’t you have more then 1 900 Pezzolato? I have a 3040 m Tech and would love a 900 Pezz anything you don’t like or recommend?

[@cityfirewood9770]

Tb900 is a great machine. We would look at another one (or tb1200 ) in the future but it's best suited it you have mostly large diameter wood (500mm and above), we have a range of sizes below that so it's best for us to have a range of machines to suit those sizes.

[@robwar2288]

@@cityfirewood9770 how are they on price compared to Multitech? A new 3040 is like $150,000 usa

[@cityfirewood9770]

@@robwar2288 less for just tb900 without cutting station, more if you want TM cutting machine. Would expect 50% more than Multitek for whole setup. Much more versitle and easy to use than Multitek though unless you have good control over log size you purchase.

[@robwar2288]

@@cityfirewood9770 we do Land Clearing. So most of the Logs are bigger then 20inch.

[@fit8645]

so your pulling upwards of 3.5 million dollars before taxes and expenses are paid?

[@scottcurrie3934]

You need a trailer behind that loader

[@cityfirewood9770]

Have considered it!

[@marcjoseph8300]

Wow!

[@ВладимирРуденко-ъ7д]

Кто все это покупает,и для чего?!!

[@RJM1011]

Pity there banning firewood in the UK I have already burned more than £20,000.00 to waste in 2020 ! :(

[@pinchface]

They're not banning fire wood in the UK

[@TheYowling]

UK's Drax thermal power plant is wood fired, it earns massive carbon credits because burning wood is good for the environment

[@RJM1011]

@@TheYowling Well you need to tell others as I am being fucked and burning my wood to waste !

[@donchristie420]

I wood hate working there and listening to this gawd awful music all day long😂

[@jerrypelletier2328]

That's my kind of operation, no handling the firewood by hand....

[@scottparsons2031]

I will never understand why people destroy their videos with stupid background noise

[@leafbone1]

"Our firewood is recovered from the forest and rather than decaying and releasing it's carbon, we intercept the process and allow it to be used for useful, carbon zero, renewable energy" How is this claim possible?, I burn a shed (25T) load each year heating the workshop and house, heat by releasing the carbon in the wood by burning. or am I missing something. Otherwise nice vid and set up (except the music) but I can turn that off.

[@cityfirewood9770]

The carbon is released in both scenarios - either in the forest through decay, or in the fireplace through combustion. The carbon is absorbed either way, through the regrowth of the rotation (sustainable) plantation forest. Both examples have net zero carbon change over the life cycle of the harvest. By intercepting the waste logs, we make little net difference to atmospheric carbon, except we make the material useful by using it for heat. The heat is therefore carbon neutral, and the house may have otherwise relied on a fossil fuel or fossil fuel derivative (i.e. gas, or electricity generated from coal or gas).

[@JimWhitaker]

What a waste of time this video is. Just because you have a drone; it is not necessarily the key to informative and interesting video.

[@stephenc2296]

Shame that there is no one talking about the business… just the stupid music.