Making Firewood Bundles. How Much Money Can You Make?

I just started a firewood bundle business. I am working on my first order bundling firewood with a homemade bundler I built. I am doing this test to see how quickly I can make bundles and how profitable it will be. From the results of my test, I will discuss how much money I am making per hour bundling firewood versus selling it in bulk by the cord.

[@RickFlenker]

I like the vid.That's exactly how I roll at Bennet Spring Campground. Cut, split, and bundle. Great little side hustle for me..

[@jimputnam2044]

My sister and her husband live near Hope BC. The road they live on leads into the provincial park. They have a road side stand for bundled wood. He has to work hard to keep it stocked during the camping season....Makes lots of money off his small wood lot that way.

[@tree_carcass_mangler]

In Fall of 2022, I paid around $9 for a kiln dried bundle, at retail, in southwestern PA. Somebody made good money. Fortunately I don't have to pay that anymore.

[@marksparkplug7758]

Thanks Wilson, I sell 1 cubic ft for $5 in the northeast, I made my own bundler and use 80 gauge cast stretch wrap, 4 wraps per bundle. Take care

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks for the comment Mark. Sounds like you may have a good thing going there.

[@MsdMakingSawDust]

I think you are onto something I like the stand you came up with and best of all you don’t have a lot invested in it. Thanks for sharing. take care

[@WilsonForestLands]

Yep it’s always nice to be able to test things when you don’t have to invest much into it. I will be watching your video soon cutting those cedar logs open.

[@jeanpomerleau8416]

Great video, we just started selling bundles last year and did pretty well. I have a few ideas for this year to make it better. I just welded up a hand crank bundler, it already has made bundling a little easier, and like you said not a lot faster, but easier.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I can imagine that would make it easier, or at least less tiring. there’s definitely money in bundles. Thanks for the comment.

[@inthebackyardwithdel438]

Hey Wilson , new sub here . Just found your channel . I made a bundler like you have and I mounted it on an old push mower frame so it is easy to move around .

[@WilsonForestLands]

That sounds like a clever idea. Welcome to the channel, thanks for subscribing and commenting.

[@joeyrector934]

If there's a way to make money. That's a good way

[@albertstory5114]

Very good

[@outdoorsnevada4138]

we use to sell 5 cords for $500. Then prices of fuel, chainsaws, etc kept going up. Prices change. But this is nice for people to have when they just want to enjoy the occasional evening camping.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I remember the days when it was close to $100 a cord. Those of us who have a lot of wood it seems ridiculous to pay that much for a bundle. But for those who want just one evening, it makes sense to pay eight dollars or $10 for a bundle, instead of $300 for a cord they won’t use.

[@BrentT1964]

Thanks for showing us u dah man😎👍

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks for commenting Brent.

[@knottwworking]

Just found your channel and enjoyed the video. Terry

[@WilsonForestLands]

I am glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@mrMacGoover]

I've noticed many of the guys doing these bundles usually split their pieces smaller diameter to make bundling easier though this doesn't necessarily give the customer a very long burn time. I guess that would definitely have them running back to the firewood stand to buy more wood though.

[@amandadavis9726]

You actually get more wood per cubic feet when you split them smaller. It’s because they utilize more of the air gaps within the bundle.

[@johncpaine]

I just found your channel and enjoy watching your videos, comical and informative at the same time. Just watched your video from a year ago about bundling wood. I like your stand you made, would you share the dimensions with me?

[@southernadirondackoutdoors]

Good video. Need to factor in the time and other stuff that went into your getting the wood in the position to bundle it, ie felling, bucking, splitting etc. Around here (southern edge of the Adirondacks in NY) the price for a face cord averages about $75 and that is for dry hardwood. I see bundles in roadside stands ranging from 5 to 10 bucks.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I figured the cost of getting wood into the position to bundle it is built into the $300 per cord I subtracted that we would get here selling it by the cord. After that the figures are just for the bundling. But yeah people do forget to factor in a lot of things. including depreciation on vehicles, their new tractors, their new excavators etc.

[@southernadirondackoutdoors]

@@WilsonForestLands As they used to say on a game show...Good Answer, Good Answer! 🤣

[@WilsonForestLands]

As Elvis used to say, thank you, thank you very much. I always appreciate your comments.

[@stephenwells9698]

My friend, you are on the road to becoming a millionaire soon.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Maybe so but probably not with firewood. That would be a lot of bundles.

[@MsLori62]

How are the bundle sales going?

[@Skooty68]

Just imagine the time you'd save,and make more per hour if you picked 2 or 3 pieces of wood up at once :o)

[@WilsonForestLands]

I will save that for when I am not trying to do a video at the same time. Some people have a hard time walking and chewing gum at the same time. I have a hard time talking and picking up more than one piece at the same time.

[@a72036279]

@@WilsonForestLands 😂

[@Timberbeartrail]

Where are you at

[@carldean6795]

how much is the weight per bundle? cost of bundle? and cost of supplies?

[@WilsonForestLands]

That was a year ago, I don’t think I weighed them. I didn’t run out of the wrap I bought so didn’t figure out the exact cost per bundle. The way I was doing it, it was minimal. $40 worth of wrap produced over $2000 worth of bundles. In that area bundles are selling for 6 to 7 dollars each.

[@thekiltedsawyer]

Your good at math 😅, better than me. Guessing your at 16" peaces??

[@WilsonForestLands]

Yes, approximately 16 inch. I am not sure if you are getting notified of my replies. I sent a couple replies with a link to the tractor incident. Not sure if you got them.

[@thekiltedsawyer]

I might have to have my wife help me look, keep you posted 🧡

[@franek_izerski]

Seems a shame to have to wrap such a beautiful product into plastic to make a couple of more bucks.

[@McRemmyBaby]

Giant, $8 for a tiny bundle…. Needless to say i hustle for mee wood! Lmao BEAR NECCCCITEIES JUNGLE BIH NIHHQQQQAH

[@lesterchristiansen4658]

There's no way you made 150 in 6 hours...

[@WilsonForestLands]

Oops, I read that wrong. I made a whole lot more than that in six hours.

[@jamessanders4310]

I've never heard of $3 bundles...most all the woodhounds I watch regularly get $5-8/ bundle..long and short...raise your prices!

[@WilsonForestLands]

I wouldn’t do it for $3. When I made the video I was getting more than twice that.

[@jamessanders4310]

@@WilsonForestLands : you lost me...why did you say you were getting $3 and use that figure to calculate how much you were making?

[@WilsonForestLands]

This was over a year ago I don’t remember all the details. What I do remember saying in the video is I don’t want to say how much I am getting because I didn’t want to give my customers wholesale pricing away. But I did allude that it was in the range of the $6 I was doing a lot of the calculations in the video for. I believe I was also giving different examples of how much you would make at for example $3.

[@jamessanders4310]

@@WilsonForestLands :you need to go back and watch your own video...

[@WilsonForestLands]

I just watched it. I started out saying “IF”you were getting $3 per bundle that would mean I made a certain amount. I did not say I was getting $3 per bundle. I said “IF” not “I AM”. Right after that I said “around here they give considerably more than that” Then I said I don’t want to tell the price that I’m getting because I want to keep my customers business private. Then I started talking about how much someone would make if they were getting $6 a bundle. And started going on and on about how in this area we are on the high end because firewood is expensive here. Nowhere in this video did I say I get $3 per bundle or even say how much I get per bundle. What I did do in this video is compare what someone would make if they were getting $3 per bundle versus what they would get if they were making $6 per bundle. These are hypothetical numbers.

[@jandblawncare8570]

3 bucks a bundle...why even bother!

[@WilsonForestLands]

I wouldn’t bother at only $3. I would need it to be twice that for me to want to do it but I know others do it for 3.

[@Timberbeartrail]

You’re not keeping your neighbors business private I mean it’s public people drive by his place and they see it do you know you’re not helping anybody out here

[@WilsonForestLands]

Not sure what neighbor you are referring to or what you are saying.