New Firewood Product Turns Heads

[@AllenFamilyFirewood]

If everyone is heading a certain way in the firewood business going a different direction is usually the most profitable. That’s some top notch advise joe . No roses growing around here so so I gota get back to work . Maybe this summer I will plant a few rose bushes in the Woodyard so I can take some time off .

[@ohiowoodburner]

haha... Not much growing here either except the depth of the water puddles. haha. Happy New Year to both you guys. I hope you have a GREAT 2025

[@TheRuralWorld24]

Great video! A lot of valuable information as usual. Appreciate it. Watched a couple videos from other creators that covered The International Firewood Expo. Looked like a great show, hoping to make it this year. Happy New Year!

[@ohiowoodburner]

Would love to have you there. I will be doing a vid updating the event shortly

[@TheRuralWorld24]

👍Sounds Good Thank You👍

[@fricknjeep]

.Best to all and have a Happy New Year ,Thank You ,John

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year John! Thanks for watching.

[@thebradleysoncatbirdhill6849]

Happy New Year to...."The World's Greatest Firewood Salesman"!

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year, thanks for the kind words!

[@BuckCountryWoodyard]

Ha - enjoyed your microscopic wood (wait... that sounds bad, but you know what I meant). Glad to see the wood yard filling up. Keep up the good work!

[@cowboyjoyandtheRoughCuts]

Awesome Joe!!! Thank you for the tour, and I too believe there is growth in my firewood operation as well. Happi New year! Great things coming 25' ~ Keith aka Cowboy Joy

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year Keith! Great to hear from you, thanks for watching.

[@MadsBjallerbkPedersen]

Happy new year Joe. You mention value adding to your products, and as you have talked about restaurants running out of firewood in the last couple of videos, it made me think of a possible value add. I don't know how far your customers is from your home or yard, and how much firewood they use, but would a "subscription model" make sense ? They pay x amount each month and then you make sure they don't need to remember to order and fill up before they run out. It could be done weekly, bi-weekly or monthly what ever makes sense in that regard.

[@daviddulin2601]

Great video Joe. Would love to see just how you and your helper stacks the firewood. Those rows look good.

[@ohiowoodburner]

I will try to do a vid one day Dave

[@ronaldjohnson7449]

end of the year inventory ... charting a direction for the new year ... happy new year

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks for watching Ron! Happy new year to you my friend.

[@Beachwriter]

Funny opening, Joe. When everyone else hears horses, you hear zebras.

[@ohiowoodburner]

haha That is an old expression I heard about Occam's Razor. Something like, if you are hearing hoof beats, think horse, not zebra! Happy New Yr Dr. Beachy!

[@OhioHillTopsHobbyFarm]

Happy New Year Joe, May 2025 bring you the best! This fall I started marketing kindling and short log length splits and it has done really well. For me and minimal volumes of inventory I have, this has helped me increase profits and reach a different customer base! Take care and keep on keepin on :)

[@ohiowoodburner]

Great to hear Dave! Hope you are staying warm down there. Stop by and visit sometime

[@cutNdryfirewood]

Happy new year Joe 😊👍 Learning a lot from watching you .

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks for watching buddy. Have a great 2025

[@Zeke-yv3nw]

So happy you had a great year and look forward to tagging along on an even better 2025!

[@ohiowoodburner]

thanks Zeke! Happy New Year

[@elainereid5833]

First 20 seconds of OWB 2025…Baahaaha. 😂😂 Great way to start a new year. Elaine from Canada here thanks for taking the time to show and post . Have a great day, week, month and year! 🥂

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks Elaine! Happy New Year to you!

[@toddpacheco4748]

Joe,Happy New Year to you and your family,friends,also Log Hauler Jessie and his family 😮😊❤🍾🎈🪅

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks Todd! Happy New Year

[@kennethblack3485]

happy new year to you and all your family

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy new year ken!

[@bobfitch607]

Happy new year Joe I hope all woodhounds have a safe and prosperous new year 🪵👍

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year to you too buddy! Thanks Bob!

[@johnellis8480]

Happy New Year Joe and thanks for another interesting and educational year of OWB!

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks for coming along on the ride John

[@Mike-bj1jj]

First video I watched of the New Year! Happy New Year Joe!

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks for your support Mike! Happy New Year!

[@DaveDunehew-e1f]

Joe, another great video. You bring a lot to your channel from humor to business sense. I never get bored watching OWB . Happy New Year. As you always say, Have a great day.👍 Dave from Maine.

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks Dave! Happy New Year

[@Threegreenacresfirewood]

Happy New Year Joe! Your last video you talk about you give firewood to family please expand on that. Thanks Joe👍🇺🇸

[@ohiowoodburner]

Fortunately I have a very small family! This is not a non profit organization!!! LOL Happy New Year 3GAF

[@Gus1966-c9o]

Joes new side hustle , making matches ! Happy new year Joe 🎉

[@ohiowoodburner]

Sales are on fire Gus!

[@tmack2090]

Thanks for the video Joe . Happy new year to you and your family .

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks, Happy New Year to you as well!

[@dalehammonds9494]

Happy new year Joe hope you do good in the new year

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks Dale. Same to you buddy

[@jeffschaefer4579]

Had to resubscribe, might want to mention for people to double check.

[@ohiowoodburner]

Interesting. Wonder how that happened? Thanks Jeff

[@Frankzeien]

Happy new year Joe and family.

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year Frank

[@davidedwards3734]

Happy New Year Joe!! Wishing you a Great 2025!! Stay Hydrated and Have a Safe Day

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks Dave! Happy new year

[@derek8838]

Happy New Year Joe & to your family. Same to trucker Jessie & family. I sure hope Santa was good to Jessie with a replacement seat for his boom crane. 👍🎉🎉🎉

[@ohiowoodburner]

haha I will have to check in on him to see. thanks Derek

[@geezerindawoods]

No Roses this time of year....Happy New year! Live Long and Prosper.

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks geezy! Happy New Year

[@Riverguide33]

Joe…have a great year! 🎉👍👍

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks dave!!! Happy New Year

[@mrbumblehill4596]

Happy New Year, thanks for the videos. Thanks for your content.

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year to you MrB

[@michaelfreehling1914]

Joe they put all kinds of different products on the commodity market you should get that done for firewood. Then with your insider trader info you could make lots of $$$$. Y'all have a 👍 day

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks for watching and happy new year Mike

[@ElizabethMorrah]

Joe, happy new year from down under in NZ!

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks so much for watching from N Zed! I hope to visit there one day! Please subscribe if you haven't yet Elizabeth!

[@TrevorCriste]

“The Ohio toothpick producer” 😂😂

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks for the complement Trevor.

[@BW35bucket]

Happy new year Joe. I agree Ohio weather has been crazy. Last week we had a home generator installed. Great video.

[@ohiowoodburner]

I made an off-grid solar system for my house. Love it. Our power goes out all the time here in the farmland

[@BW35bucket]

Joe that’s super cool. Same here on power outages living out in the country has its disadvantages at times. A dream would be to be able to add solar energy with efficient battery backup. I installed Generac 24 KW on a mechanical pad I built. Can you do videos on your system??????? Have a great 2025

[@johncollins500]

Happy New Year Joe!!

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks so much and Happy New Year to you JC!

[@pamrakes474]

Happy New Year enjoy watching your videos

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks! Happy New Year to you Pam!

[@tjt4036]

Hey Joe have a great 2025👍.

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year tjt

[@LindaMackinder]

If there is a way Joe that you can manufacturer barkless firewood it seems to be catching on you could certainly sell at an absolute premium Happy New Year to y'all as always extremely nice looking wood yard

[@ohiowoodburner]

probably but I don't know if I would ever do it. I get some debarked logs from time to time and the splits that come off the center of a log have no bark but I don't think there is a market for that here...at least that I would want to deal with

[@ericgebhart5775]

Happy New Year

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year Eric

[@WadeCaudill]

Well, Joe, you're not the only one I've been to the grocery store, already. Getting ready to start fixing New Year's lunch ham potato salad. Hang candy ams. And I haven't decided anything else yet. Well, Happy New Year to you and enjoy your vision. This past year and hope to enjoy them this year in 2025.

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks Wade. SOunds like you are going to have a nice party!

[@cliffjenkins6419]

Happy new year Joe and family. Looking forward to 2025 myself. Good to know you're on top of things and can take a breather. Even if it is a short one. Looking forward to seeing your buisness developing over this year. Say hi to Log Hauler Jesse for me if you see him please. Cheers from HB NZ

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks and Happy New Year Cliffy. LHJ was just at the yard on Monday and he is doing well. I hope to get him on a vid soon

[@RobbieTrimm]

awsome video. happy new year to your family

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy new year robbie!

[@DanielAtkinsFirewood]

I am also looking into different directions as well. My 1 question for myself is, do i want to be even busier than what i already am?🤔 Happy New Year to you and your family. May God keep the blessings going into 2025😉👍

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year Dan!

[@DavidMott-c1y]

First time seeing the Woodyard as wet as that. What an improvement over the old location and it was good publicity for folks to see those long rows of wood, dry to the tops of the pallets, which creates a very pleasing line for the eyes to follow. Count your blessings, reap your rewards, and have a great day! P.S. if you have done a video on stacking that includes little tricks about row leveling and bracing I wish you would let me know.

[@ohiowoodburner]

I just did some straightening yesterday but didn't film it LOL. It was stacked in the snow so after it melted the row started tilting. Next time I do that will film it buddy. Thanks Dave!

[@Northwestlogger]

You sure have a lot of stacked firewood Joe, but I never see any video of you doing any stacking, must be the late night “wood elves” helping you out. I always enjoy your bits of sarcasm Joe and maybe someday you will put your firewood into bins and then you can fire the “wood stacking elves” and then they can go to Allen Family Firewood and help out poor Karen, Phil really overworks her. Happy New Year to everyone🎉😅😅

[@ohiowoodburner]

If I ever feel like making less money I will start piling my wood. My stackers make us more money than the Japa!!! Happy nee year NWL

[@AllenFamilyFirewood]

@@Northwestlogger Karen’s tougher than an ole pair of woodpecker lips . She enjoys the Woodyard a lot more than an office setting.

[@stangarnett1531]

Happy New Year to you!

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year stan!

[@NormanStrobel]

Happy New Year Joe 2025 Have a productive year

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year to you, Thanks Norm

[@hondacrm306]

HNY Joe and to all who watch the channel

[@fulwoodphantom]

Happy new year to you! From sheffield England

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year Honda!

[@johnhaug5527]

Joe, if you have trouble with your stacks falling over use Chris' (In The Woodyard) method of keeping the rows upright. Place poles, slats or old handles between the rows. This tends to stabilize the rows. Happy New Year!

[@ohiowoodburner]

We haven't had a row fall over in 5 years. It is hammered into everyone's head who stacks here!

[@outdoorswithlarryrobin]

Happy new year Joe👍🇺🇸

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy new year to you both! Hope your back is getting better. Wishing you both a Great 2025

[@ronbrooks6681]

Joe and Family at OWB, A very HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE. Hopefully Joe come Spring Time I am going to sell Some kinda Wood for the Local Campground area. Just a little Clean-up in the Yard today. Rest of Day, Chainsaw Maintenance. Stay Safe Joe and see you at the next Video. Ron from the Woodyard in Duanesburg NY

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks Ron. Stay well and hope you have a great 2025

[@mvblitzyo]

Those rows are amazing looking

[@ohiowoodburner]

thanks! They are good to look at and functional!

[@lyleharkness-rv5vf]

Good video and nice year end review 👍 I'm looking forward to seeing what 2025 brings for you 😊 Happy New Year 🎊

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks Lyle! Happy New Year

[@fullcirclefarm]

Happy new year Joe

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year FCF

[@tomcrockettsr]

Joe: Happy New Year from Castalia ,Ohio! I have always been surprised that the wind doesn't blow over your neatly stacked rows! May your Hickory pile grow !!! Looks like you could use a little gravel between your rows...

[@ohiowoodburner]

We haven't had a row fall over in 5 years LOL. Happy New Year Tom

[@kennyp507]

Happy new year!!! I hope Oakville getting over populated

[@ohiowoodburner]

I have to get busy on my oak. Ugh

[@gagerawluk2949]

Happy New Year, nice looking rows. Your phone should be busy next couple months.

[@ohiowoodburner]

It has been ringing all year LOL. Happy new year Gage

[@stevepatrick8606]

Happy New Year! We'll sell every bit of wood we produce! And now we're in for a cold January!!👍

[@ohiowoodburner]

Bring some up here to me steve

[@RobertVogelgesang]

Happy New Year Joe

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year Bob!

[@NeighborlyHomestead]

Happy New Year Joe! I hear ya on how wet everything is lately. We've got a foot of snow coming starting today. Ole Lake erie is still wide open and ready to produce some white stuff!

[@ohiowoodburner]

That is always the risk. I saw my smoke from my Hardy this morn and it could be coming! Happy New Year

[@theyorkwoods]

Best of luck in 2025. Hoping to make it up to “The Land” for the Expo this year.

[@ohiowoodburner]

That would be awesome if you could make it!

[@arnecarlsson9740]

Happy New Year, Joe! Thinking about coming to the Expo but over 800 miles. 🤔🤔🤔

[@ohiowoodburner]

Sounds like a nice extended trip for you Arne. A lot to see up here on the North Shore!

[@GPOutdoors]

HNY Joe - All the best of success for 2025!

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks so much Gord. Same to you my friend

[@1970sRacing]

Happy New Year Great Channel

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year to you as well!

[@timphillips9594]

HAPPY NEW YEAR JOE

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks Tim! Happy New Year

[@MKHighCountryFirewood]

Vepak USA 🇺🇸 30-33 cm chamber in ur future??! Custom bags and boxes for High end residential and restaurants!! Uber of micro firewood 🪵 Happy New Year!! 🎊🎆🎈

[@ohiowoodburner]

That would be a big development for sure Kyle! Happy New Year

[@foreverbrownsfan]

Happy Prosperous New Year, Joe! - 2025 will be the Browns year! 🤔🤷‍♂️

[@ohiowoodburner]

Had too much to drink last night? hahaha Happy New Year

[@outdoorsinthe608]

Happy New Year Joe!👍🎇👍

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year

[@RobertLivingstone-n4g]

happy new year here we going other great video for 2025 you go joe

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks bob! Happy New Year to you buddy

[@samsdoinstuff]

Happy New Year Joe!!! Always think outside the box 🤠👍

[@ohiowoodburner]

haha. Thanks Sam! stop up and visit sometime

[@samsdoinstuff]

@ohiowoodburner Absolutely! School starts back up on Monday. 🤠👍

[@arthurford2293]

Beautiful yard and congrats on the big year. Why stack the wood instead of making large piles you keep off the ground?

[@ohiowoodburner]

Piling wood is lazy and doesn't maximize the $$ of your efforts. Here is a recent vid I made to discuss. Thanks for watching Art. Please subscribe if you haven't yet! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4HLfnqIq7NlqKM

[@arthurford2293]

@ohiowoodburner ahhhh, I understand. Thank you for the direction and video. It is far more beautiful to rank firewood, absolutely. My market is different I believe. People who are buying from me don't need bone dry wood, just seasoned wood to burn for heat. There's also a lost of impoverished buyers. Through the grace of Our Lord, I have 110 acres of hardwood, storage space and old logging equipment to feed my processor / vertically integrate my operation, so my calculus is different. Really appreciate the perspective! Have a blessed day and good hunting!

[@jasonpeterson9276]

just gotta go with what sells and thsn try new stuff.. i know back in 2016 started with doing firewood chunks for smoking. than got into the pizza oven wood in 2019.. best decision i ever made.. but it takes money to make money when going from one direction to another. as for wood problems and having it.. i got way more than we can produce now and just picked up another 3200 acres of oak that is blow over trees from last summer..

[@ohiowoodburner]

Nice to here jason. Keep it going buddy

[@WilleysFirewood]

Well said and well done!

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks Russ. Happy New Year!

[@BeavertonFamilyFirewood]

Joe, I loved your skit on micro firewood. I was also wandering where this was going. The trend that goes nowhere....

[@ohiowoodburner]

I need a hyperzoom magnifying glass... I've misplaced them now i have to make more LOL

[@MillersStumpsandFirewood712]

Happy New Year Joe.

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy New Year to you guys as well!

[@haroldanderson2781]

Look at you going all hometown acres on that load!!😀

[@ohiowoodburner]

haha. Don't hold your breath. I will try to do my best however!

[@frontyardfirewood]

Lookin like oregon with that rain

[@ohiowoodburner]

Looking like the Atlantic ocean! LOL

[@ssr4656]

Happy New Year my friend!

[@ohiowoodburner]

Happy new year!

[@ronaldsamol3779]

The person that sells firewood near me, mostly bulk. He does sell to a few restaurants. He told me what he made. Soooooooooo, I would say you are doing OK!!!!

[@ohiowoodburner]

businesses like that are the type I will buy wood from and resell. Interesting how cheap people will sell their wood

[@dannymcnally6211]

Kiln kiln kiln..👍

[@ohiowoodburner]

$$$!!

[@ClellWise]

Good info Joe. Been wondering, how long has it taken you to get your setup "perfected". I can't with all honesty comment much about firewood sales in Texas. This time of year we see bundles start showing up at our most frequented supermarket. Most looks to be mixed hardwood. And I've said this ad nauseum, our winters are generally so mild, no one really needs to heat their homes with firewood. So it would appear that the sale of firewood is for the back yard firepit. But again, even in early fall, if we've been experiencing long term drought conditions, most counties will still have outdoor burn bans. Ours only recently , say three weeks ago was lifted. So I always wonder if the producer/seller of these bundles does this only seasonally? More of a hobby firewood hound. Do they harvest the wood themselves or buy from some landowner? What is their system? Split by hand? Use a big box sore splitter like from Tractor Supply? So many ? Thanks Joe, I really find this stuff interesting. The big aspect is our geographic difference in location. Alright enough rambling. HNY

[@ohiowoodburner]

Great to hear from you CW. I hear a number of users from your area but most seem to cook with it. when I was in Amarillo I noticed there weren't any trees to begin with! haha. Happy New Year

[@ClellWise]

@@ohiowoodburner That's probably very true Joe. And I'd suspect those accounts with wood using restaurants are sown up tight. Amarillo, huh? Yep not much forest land out that way. The ones that do all have a distinct lean, lol.

[@saltrock9642]

I’m flipping tooth picks for thimble sized dollhouse fire pits. Dolla Gentry has the cheapest.

[@ohiowoodburner]

Hmm... could be an idea for my next vid!

[@ralphkanagy4602]

Nice video

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks Ralph

[@jasone679]

My 2025 prediction for OWB... I think in 2025 Joe is going to have electric ran into the wood yard and he will add an office shed or trailer of some sort. Stay tuned folks, it's coming.

[@ohiowoodburner]

That would be nice. And a fridge filled with Dr Pepper!

[@tatechittim7322]

Where are you located? I am visiting in Galion ohio and amazed on what i have seen in this area.

[@ohiowoodburner]

Galion is about 2 1/2 hours from us.

[@markcorriher4718]

How do you keep it dry enough to sell like to a restaurant?

[@ohiowoodburner]

Getting rained on is not a big deal. It dries off pretty quick. What I was talking about was "seasoned." That is, the moisture inside the log from when the tree was alive. that is why we stack.

[@themidnightreview]

Start making toothpicks lol. Good Video 🔥

[@ohiowoodburner]

I need to. I could be rich!!!

[@jamin500]

Best get splitting. Not much in stock 👍

[@ohiowoodburner]

I agree

[@gregorymacneil2836]

Have you thought about an ash pick-up service? Sell the firewood - let the customer reduce it to ashes - then charge a fee to take the ashes away - can ashes be repurposed in another productt? Wishing you a great New Year and prosperous 2025.

[@ohiowoodburner]

Interesting. My ash bin has been needing emptied since last weekend. I could hire myself to empty it hahaha... Happy New Year Greg

[@gregorymacneil2836]

Don't restaurants require a fire-rated ash bin for disposing of hot ashes at the end of the day? I'm sure they don't dispose of ashes in the green bin, which is a serious fire hazard. My civic green bin forbids hot ashes and every year, my fire department has to put out a green bin fire. Do you love your comment on "Not running with the herd"? Fun question for you - As a sole proprietor, my herd consists of me, myself and I. I really don't know how to leave one behind. How do you avoid running with your naturally occurring herd of egos?😂

[@jbbrown7907]

Dryer? Or more seasoned?

[@ohiowoodburner]

I don't think wood that has been rained on is a big deal. I always mean seasoned

[@HubertofLiege]

Small firewood? I’m going to start selling the firewood experience! People can pay me to procure logs, pay me to buck it(safely, with a release), split, market and deliver , the whole process. Now, for my first customer. Lulz.

[@ohiowoodburner]

Anything you can do to serve a market. The world is filled with people with different needs/wants/desires. Firewood is flexible enough to meet those needs.

[@williamkleinsLost40Lodge]

Happy 2025 Joe. Peace

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks WIlliam. Happy New Year

[@circlebmn]

I look for ways to get the most profit out of a log. Some profit comes from standard length wood, some from splitting the end cuts for short wood, and some profit is near realized by heating my home with the true junk wood. :fire:

[@ohiowoodburner]

sounds like we have a lot in common! Great minds! Happy New Year

[@WhiteZ50Won]

Hey Joe, how do i find where you're located in Ohio? Im always looking for wood connections.

[@ohiowoodburner]

NEO in Cortland

[@WhiteZ50Won]

@ohiowoodburner Looks like you are about 2 hours east from me. I doubt you deliver that far. Thanks for the response 👍

[@MannistoCay]

Hey Joe, I'm working on a processor that uses utility knife blades for a splitter. Selling them for $200000. Can I put you down for one? Cheers, hope the yard either freezes or dries out. Happy New Year!🇺🇸🇨🇦🪵🥳🎉🔥

[@ohiowoodburner]

sounds a little pricey but I will think about it! Propane prob cheaper! Happy New Year

[@larrypeavy4517]

👍👍

[@ohiowoodburner]

Thanks Larry

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

I can see the whole business of firewood going smaller like the over sea country have

[@ohiowoodburner]

I can see that too. Maybe for commercial sales but home use will prob stay long for a long time

[@adammz08]

Taking time off to smell the roses is essential. But, the big big "BUT" in the business your in, not too many folk are going to split the firewood for you (without a price ). Pumping out a few 10 hour days to get some processing done is needed from time to time. So, I putting a new year's resolution out for you:- Ohio wood burners will complete 4 x 10 hour days, per month ,just to process and get some stock on the block. It even rhymes. Sorry bro but the firewood industry excells in using the "Armstrong method".

[@ohiowoodburner]

haha... Thanks for my resolution. I think why I have been so industrious lately is bc the break in the weather. Gotta get it done when you can!

[@terrymcclure688]

how about few shipping containers converted into wood fired dry kiln

[@ohiowoodburner]

I am not sure about a kiln for me. Need more time to mull that over Terry. Happy New Year