California Firewood? Is that LEGAL? - Midwest Firewood Frenzy 2022

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  • At the Midwest Firewood Frenzy talking to Kevin about Firewood in California.
    More on the Midwest Firewood Frenzy here:
    www.back40wood...

Komentáře • 148

  • @matthewnasci2646
    @matthewnasci2646 Před 2 lety +12

    Kevin was a very good guest speaker in the woodyard. Nice to see new people. I was thinking, you only have to wait 6-12 months to sell your product. Imagine selling whiskey. Aged 10 years plus?

  • @obiorah1
    @obiorah1 Před 2 lety +4

    Nice Interview with that Gentleman from California, It’s nice to you sharing information with another person who is in the firewood industry,

  • @toddsoutsideagain
    @toddsoutsideagain Před 2 lety +3

    Nice talk with Kevin. 👍🏻👍🏻GNI

  • @whatsthebuzz1
    @whatsthebuzz1 Před 2 lety +4

    Awesome video!!!!! I really enjoyed meeting you, Kenny, and Tony. Next step will be making a trip and seeing that awesome wood yard of yours.
    Thanks Kevin

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety +2

      For sure!! Thanks Bee Man!

    • @thefirewooddoctor
      @thefirewooddoctor Před 2 lety

      The camera makes Chris's woodyard look huge. But the frosting on the cake is the scenery of the creek behind it. That alone makes the trip worthwhile to the woodyard.

    • @TonysCoolTools
      @TonysCoolTools Před 2 lety +1

      Hi Kevin You really did a great job, you're a natural, between you and your wife I think you would kill it on CZcams. Get busy and pump some video's out. Good luck.

    • @whatsthebuzz1
      @whatsthebuzz1 Před 2 lety

      @@TonysCoolTools Thanks Tony. That’s the plan! 👍

  • @andrewviperpingel9565
    @andrewviperpingel9565 Před 2 lety +2

    Love it so many people you get to meet through this journey on CZcams. I enjoy seeing a bit of a change from the usual thing from time to time. It also brings new ideas and perspectives on things. Great video. 👍

  • @miketanner1920
    @miketanner1920 Před 2 lety +3

    Seems like nice people
    I'm glad he migrated back to America 😁😁😁👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
    Can't wait to see his CZcams channel
    Have a good one
    God bless
    Just saying

  • @thefirewooddoctor
    @thefirewooddoctor Před 2 lety +4

    Good call on his part to build inventory first before selling. Wish I had done that. Didn't think in my wildest dreams that I would sell 25 cords my first year. That's the best firewood business tip I've heard and should've thought of when I got started.

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety +1

      Yup, only 2 things matter good inventory and customers.

  • @geezerindawoods
    @geezerindawoods Před 2 lety +1

    Cool, another Escapee from the West Coast! Welcome!!

  • @aldiminico6513
    @aldiminico6513 Před 2 lety +2

    Morning Chris. Great interview. It’s nice to hear how the other guys are doing in the firewood business.

  • @canvasman2307
    @canvasman2307 Před 2 lety +2

    Thanks fellas! Very interesting to hear another firewood fanatics background and plans for building his business.

  • @redeagle6842
    @redeagle6842 Před 2 lety +4

    I sell firewood in the Sacramento California area. It’s all tree service wood. Mostly people heating with wood and a lot of fire pit sales also. One person operation. Wife thinks I’m crazy. Drive truck Monday through Friday come home and work on firewood all weekend. Keeps me out of trouble.

  • @knottwworking
    @knottwworking Před 2 lety +2

    Enjoyed the talk, nice to hear what other people are doing with firewood.

  • @EFTTappingwithHeatherAmbler

    Great video, guys! Thanks for all the info. I love burning almond, and also walnut. However, these two are heavily sprayed with heavy duty pesticides, so after I handle it (which is about 10 times a day, because I heat my home exclusively with my wood stove), I always wash my hands. For this reason, I prefer conifers over these two hard woods. Plus, I love the smell of them, especially pine! In my opinion, oak is the best. However, up here in the mountains of California, all that grows is conifers (and a few aspens), so hard woods are not as readily available. And Chris, though it's true that most of California doesn't really get cold, in the mountains, it surely does. Right now it's January 24, and since early November I've gotten 21 feet of snow at my house. Yes, feet :)

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před rokem +1

      Nice it sounds like you are in a great place! And yes....pine is fine!

  • @thefirewooddoctor
    @thefirewooddoctor Před 2 lety +3

    If I remember correctly, Kenny's baby tractor is built by Yanmar. By the way, the CZcamsr "The Log Father" uses a John Deere 2025R for his firewood and sawmill business and he runs a Range-Road firewood processor with live deck. Any big logs either gets resplit or goes onto the sawmill. The small/tiny logs goes onto the processor. He does a lot with his sawmill and small processor. For what I spent on my Wolfe Ridge I could've bought the Range-Road EcoPro300 processor with log lift and not need a tractor. Ohio Wood Burner got by without a tractor but had a processor for a few years because the processor had a log lift and just moved the processor. And for viewers new to Chris's channel, he spent years building his business before getting a tractor. It can be done, but is a lot of work without a tractor.

  • @louiegorilla
    @louiegorilla Před 2 lety +2

    I’m 2 hours from the Oregon border on the coast of California. A lot of people up here do heat with wood. The winters are mild and I usually start heating with wood around Halloween through March.

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety

      Sounds like a great place, I assume away from the cities.

  • @NJUSA36
    @NJUSA36 Před 2 lety +2

    I love seeing so many like-minded people!!
    We need to keep the dream going in this country!
    Live free

  • @peterh9927
    @peterh9927 Před 2 lety +2

    Great talk today Chris. Always fun to listen to firewood guys. Good advice for him to order his Eastonmade splitter now !

    • @thefirewooddoctor
      @thefirewooddoctor Před 2 lety +2

      Wolfe Ridge just raised prices again because the cost of steel went up again. Best to buy now if you can to avoid another price increase.

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety +1

      Yup! Thanks!

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety +1

      YES!!!!!

  • @davidedwards3734
    @davidedwards3734 Před 2 lety +3

    Great video of another woodyards view!! His goal sounds like yours!!! Have a Safe Day

  • @grantsinclair4278
    @grantsinclair4278 Před 2 lety +3

    This is a pretty long text, but worth the read.
    Kevin is a great young man with a good future in the firewood business. He seems to be personable and outgoing from the interview.
    Ok here we go.
    I have a large 2 acre lot on the corner of a very busy intersection in a rual area with 30 acres of pasture behind me. I buy and sell all kinds of used off road vehicles, boats, ect. at the lot and some days are slow so I set up my log splitter on the lot and started splitting wood for my wife's fireplace out of sheer boredom. She has a fire every evening from the first 50° morning of September until mid April!
    People would see me setting there with my "Glacier Special" Ariens splitter, from the intersection, and pull in and ask for firewood. This started on the first day I set it up. There are several campgrounds in Hot Springs Ar. and hundreds of gated retirement communities. I wound up selling the 12 "Ricks" (face cords) I had cut for my wife and had to start hustling dead standing timber to replace it. People were buying green wood as well to store up. I could not believe the incredible appetite for firewood in this place. I started watching utube for tips and tricks to speed my process up.
    That's when I came across "In the Woodyard" with Chris. Thanks to the many videos Chris already had posted I learned most everything I needed to know to get things really rolling.
    I'm 65 and the most important thing to remember is that you are never too old to learn!
    The 3 most important things Chris's videos taught me were...
    Efficency
    Attaching Zipties to my chainsaw for fast measuring of firewood lenghts.
    And using the dremel bits to sharpen my saws.
    Those 3 things have saved me countless hrs. since I applied them to my system.
    This all started 1 year ago last June. I weighed 240 lbs. I'm now at 185 lbs. and in the best physical shape of my Golden years!
    I now have 4 Tree companies bringing me free wood because the landfill charges $35.00 per ton to dump it. I just take the best stuff and cannot keep up. Wish I had ordered an Axis when I started but who knew?
    The Summers are pretty brutal here. Been 104° and 90% humidity for several days now and due to being at the Woodyard every single day I have adjusted to the temps and can do 10- 12 hrs. easily.
    I appreciate Chris more than he will ever know for the info he has provided, and working on movie sets, in my early years, and having my own recording studio, I can appreciate the time it takes to record and edit his efforts.
    Well, I didn't mean to write a book this morning but felt this needed to be said to the audience.
    Now off to the Woodyard.
    One more word of advice!
    If you intend to cut and split your own firewood, be very careful! It is more adictive than cold beer, Turkey hunting, and Cocaine combined!
    Don't ask how I know that. Lol
    My hats off to you Chris and I'm sure your hat is off too, due to swelling of the head after reading this!
    Keep pushing!!!

    • @pyroman6000
      @pyroman6000 Před 2 lety +3

      So true!! I went from having a small pile- maybe a 1/4 facecord on my porch, and having the occasional campfire (and grilling over wood) to buying more than a full cord last year. Then I got my own chainsaw... I now have wood coming out my ears- and I burn every night I'm home and never seem to put a dent in my supply. I'm at least 2+ years ahead- more than 3 with grill wood- and it just keeps coming, lol.
      With a saw, I can now process and use all the tree service style logs and chunks that get dumped out behind the neighborhood or over by the maintenance shed. That bumped my self cut volume up by orders of magnitude... Mainly Sugar and Silver Maple, Honey Locust, and some Spruce. Sometimes they'll knock down one of the many dead Ash trees and throw that back there. (that's the big prize- I love that stuff!) My firewood guy thinks I don't like him any more, because I never call, lol. ( I'll still need to call him sometime- I have no free source for Cherry Hickory, or Oak for the grill, and my access to Ash is spotty.) My friends tell me I have a problem- no, just a hobby. If there's no wood to get or process, or I'm maxxed out on storage, and need to pause for a bit, I hardly know what to do with myself, lol!
      I haven't seen a weight loss like yours, but my jeans definitely fit looser now, and I have way more get up and go. And I sleep like a rock, now.

    • @m9ovich785
      @m9ovich785 Před 2 lety +2

      MY God... So very well Written, Thanks.
      Mike M.
      P.s. I live near Chris. He's a cool Dude in person....

    • @grantsinclair4278
      @grantsinclair4278 Před 2 lety +2

      @@pyroman6000
      Well stated my Brother in wood.

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety +3

      Thanks so much for the kind words Grant!

  • @taylormccallum
    @taylormccallum Před rokem +1

    Im in the center of CA too, but im just barely south of yosemite in the mountains. Snows here and theres a bunch of little towns in the mountains

  • @billybobswood8153
    @billybobswood8153 Před 2 lety +1

    nice to see younger guys carrying on in firewood! i wish him the best!! GNI!!!

  • @Deutschehordenelite
    @Deutschehordenelite Před 2 lety +2

    Nice talk!

  • @Frank-db6oj
    @Frank-db6oj Před 2 lety +2

    Thanks Chris Great stuff 👍

  • @jeanvaljohn3921
    @jeanvaljohn3921 Před 2 lety +3

    California for nine years was great to go experience but I was glad I left when I did.
    Nice fella.
    Now!
    Those splits are not going to stack themselves
    (Whip crack)
    Back to work
    :)

  • @stevepreston7030
    @stevepreston7030 Před 2 lety +2

    Chris, we just drove down I-5 to Disneyland and back to Oregon. I could not believe all the piles of almond and other trees pushed over and left to rot because of the drought (and political mismanagement of water). So much good firewood. I saw a sign while driving, actually several signs, that said "growing food is not wasting water". Growing salmon also takes water! As a firewood guy and a salmon fisherman, I wish the reservoirs were not drawn down so much in fall for "flood control", because that's where the water disappears.

    • @dethmaul
      @dethmaul Před 2 lety +2

      Inefficient food growing isn't better, when there are better options. Are there more fitting options for almond areas?

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety +2

      Lots of people in one place fighting over water sounds like a very warm place down below!

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety +2

      Probably fewer people! I am not for that, just saying!

    • @Bondo771
      @Bondo771 Před rokem

      The trees are not left to rot. They are ground up and tilled back into the ground. It’s called “whole orchard recycling “.

  • @justinsantapole7507
    @justinsantapole7507 Před 2 lety +1

    I live In California up near Truckee kind of you got a lot of oaks and Cedar there is also a lot of Fur and pine though

  • @annmariekowalski7505
    @annmariekowalski7505 Před 2 lety

    Very nice chat.

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety

      Yes it was, thanks Mrs. K!

    • @annmariekowalski7505
      @annmariekowalski7505 Před 2 lety

      The Millenial Farmer did a video on his trip to an almond farm in CA.
      I never knew almonds grow on trees or even that CA is a major player in the almond industry.
      This video expanded on the firewood side of the industry.

  • @Bravadosjebsimbahsm
    @Bravadosjebsimbahsm Před 2 lety +1

    That orchard cutting sounds so amazing

  • @leovogelgesang4398
    @leovogelgesang4398 Před 2 lety +1

    Welcome to America Kevin.
    Good luck with your business

  • @travisswetkovich522
    @travisswetkovich522 Před 2 lety +1

    That’s funny this just popped up since were getting ready to take 70 acres of almonds out which is about 9k trees.

  • @stannelson2582
    @stannelson2582 Před 2 lety +1

    Nice job. Playing a role in feeding the crazies that like firewood! Have a good day!

  • @aldredske6197
    @aldredske6197 Před 2 lety +1

    Good morning Chris!!😀😀👍💚

  • @dethmaul
    @dethmaul Před 2 lety +2

    He reminded me of landing in germany after coming back from the middle east. I look out the airplane windows, and good GOD EVERYTHING IS GREEN! GREEN EVERYWHERE UP, DOWN, LEFT, AND RIGHT!
    After four months straight of white and bright tan sand and rocks blinding me every day.

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety +1

      Yup, escaping hell is a good thing!

    • @dethmaul
      @dethmaul Před 2 lety

      Damn skippy! It was heavenly to see it!

  • @JesseLJohnson
    @JesseLJohnson Před 2 lety +3

    I don't know there is some real whackos in MN and WI too lol. Madison seems to be one city that has about the same ideas as CA think that its getting that way in most bigger cities now though

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety

      Yes, it seems every state has an area the wackos congregate!

  • @m9ovich785
    @m9ovich785 Před 2 lety +1

    You recorded this a the Frenzy ?
    It looked like "green Screen" at 1st but could hear the Back ground noises.
    Thanks Chris, Great interview.
    Mike M.

  • @danahasson2892
    @danahasson2892 Před 2 lety +1

    Central California definitely the rural areas it's about the almond wood. In Southern California and Central Coast it's all about the eucalyptus

  • @neilmeyers5519
    @neilmeyers5519 Před 2 lety +2

    California produces and ships 75-80% of the world's almonds so they have plenty of trees for firewood. Of course, in LA firewood isn't a hot commodity (pun). I've driven by some of the orchards many times and the rows go on and on and on along highways. From the ground it's hard to see where they stop.

  • @bentwedgestanleybrand5818

    Good morning everyone.

  • @DanielAtkinsFirewood
    @DanielAtkinsFirewood Před 2 lety +1

    I have lots of Mazda customers around the Los Angeles area.a few have told me,your back yard firepits are not allowed but you can have natural gass or propane..

  • @rickthelian2215
    @rickthelian2215 Před 2 lety +1

    Hi Kevin and Chris...👋
    Don’t forget the In The Wood Yard Momento...

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety +1

      That was a at the firewood frenzy!

    • @rickthelian2215
      @rickthelian2215 Před 2 lety +1

      @@InTheWoodyard Tony made a small blunder on his blog yesterday reviewing the Kindle Splitter, he said it was made in Austria instead oF Australia😀
      It was a wonderful story, the inventor is a New Zealander whom suffers from a neurological disease hence the creativity of her mind.

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety +1

      @@rickthelian2215 Yup, I think he corrected it in the description!

  • @davdsonoftheeagerbeaver8619

    Good morning Chris,

  • @JetSettingBotanist
    @JetSettingBotanist Před 2 lety +1

    In more southern parts of California they also use avocado wood quite frequently. During my camping trip there last year we burned a lot of eucalyptus, a GREAT firewood. Most of California receives 80% of its yearly precipitation in the winter months. Summers are extremely dry and by July grass is browning up just like he said, trees are the only green you get in mid summer. Some trees like the California buckeye have evolved to handle this by acting backwards to what most deciduous trees do. They will drop their leaves in mid summer and then leaf out in February. Seems backwards to our trees in the east but is fascinating nonetheless.

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety

      Thanks so much for the info Brad, interesting!

    • @davezanin1863
      @davezanin1863 Před rokem

      Yup a ton of orchards around Temecula, Escondido, fallbrook areas use to haul a bunch of avocado from there, eucalyptus is a great wood but such a pain to process down, gives me more trouble then oak, citrus is another wood that’s abundant in orchards that you can get. I’ve been getting a lot of cedar, fir, and oak from big bear though past years, has been so much easier

  • @larryhronesz5693
    @larryhronesz5693 Před 2 lety +2

    Interesting what goes on in other parts of the country hood video

  • @mikethomas1009
    @mikethomas1009 Před 2 lety +1

    My native SF Bay Area requires homeowners to call a 1-800 number to check if fires are allowed that day/night by the Bay Area Air Management Board. Would never move back. I would never live where the government tells you when to burn…….

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety

      Less government is what we all need!

    • @mikethomas1009
      @mikethomas1009 Před 2 lety +1

      Amen Chris, love your channel. Have watched almost all, some 3 or 4 times. Very therapeutic for me, forgetting all the hassles in life.

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety

      @@mikethomas1009 Thanks!!!

  • @firewoodathome
    @firewoodathome Před 2 lety +3

    👍👍

  • @mountainmanlogging2573
    @mountainmanlogging2573 Před 2 lety +2

    Im in America now lol😂😂😂

  • @garypelster9866
    @garypelster9866 Před 2 lety +1

    Hey Chris, new subscriber here. I use to live in southern commiefornia, moved up to gods country 20+years ago , believe it or not still in California about 10 miles from the Oregon border up in the redwoods, yes we do burn firewood up here , cut it, buck it , split it . I tell people sourthen commiefornia is a place to be from!

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety

      Sound like you did the right thing and got out of the madness!

  • @bradderouin5692
    @bradderouin5692 Před 2 lety +1

    Doesn’t really pertain to the video much, but my dad is looking for a tractor. I remember you said you got yours near you in Appleton. Was wondering what company you bought ur tractor from?

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety +1

      That is correct, I got mine in Waupaca at Swederskis.

    • @bradderouin5692
      @bradderouin5692 Před 2 lety +1

      Appreciate it, thanks for all the vids. Crazy how much this channel has grown from when you first started making videos.

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety

      @@bradderouin5692 Yup, all the good people like yourself watching is why!

  • @tonybunch543
    @tonybunch543 Před 2 lety +1

    👍

  • @happycamper2976
    @happycamper2976 Před 2 lety +1

    I was told firewoods is illegal in CA

  • @coreyriley7160
    @coreyriley7160 Před 2 lety +1

    G’morning Chris. Excellent guest today. No thanks to anything California related.
    Lots of good info today. Enjoyed it.
    GoodNightIrene

  • @brucearney9536
    @brucearney9536 Před 2 lety +1

    No gas saws or small engines in California ? How would you do it ?

    • @garypelster9866
      @garypelster9866 Před 2 lety +1

      Small gas engines banded in like 2023 or 4 . No chain saws anything thing else either, complete B.S. I m 10 miles from Oregon border so it still all good to buy there until they follow commiefornia? Oh but yes the prices are skyrocketing there for Stihl &Husqvarna and whatever else they can gouge you for, oh but it’s the supply chain🤮B.S.

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety

      Don't give them any ideas!!!!

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety

      Move.

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety

      Move!

    • @garypelster9866
      @garypelster9866 Před 2 lety

      Good idea moving , but I probably have you by 2 decades in years, so start a go fund me page and we can be neighbors 😉

  • @Mainelywork
    @Mainelywork Před 2 lety +1

    🤘

  • @terrencewalker2108
    @terrencewalker2108 Před 2 lety +2

    Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it. Ask for work and you'll get more than you desire.

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety +2

      That is true, but it beats sitting around waiting to die, might as well accomplish something.

    • @terrencewalker2108
      @terrencewalker2108 Před 2 lety +1

      @@InTheWoodyard That's why I drive from Texas to Florida 6 times a year (18 hours each way) to go fishing. LOL!

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety

      @@terrencewalker2108 Good for you!!! Keep it going!

  • @firecatf7333
    @firecatf7333 Před 2 lety +1

    "The axis is better built and way more powerful than the powersplit" lol..um no.

  • @anonymousdrft
    @anonymousdrft Před rokem +1

    The Central Valley of California is disgusting. Mono cropped tilled soil everywhere should be outlawed.

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před rokem

      Yup, that is what I here, maybe a big earthquake can fix it.

  • @briannelson4493
    @briannelson4493 Před 2 lety +3

    California has so many pollution regulations I’m surprised you could even light a match. Keep on cutting

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety

      Yup, that is what I hear!

    • @garypelster9866
      @garypelster9866 Před 2 lety

      You can still light a match, but you’ll need a $200.00 permit to do so.

    • @davidowens1886
      @davidowens1886 Před 2 lety +2

      Most of California is not LA or San Francisco.

    • @InTheWoodyard
      @InTheWoodyard  Před 2 lety

      @@davidowens1886 True, but for the rest of the USA, we just hear and see the nutty city stuff.

    • @garypelster9866
      @garypelster9866 Před 2 lety

      @@davidowens1886 believe it or not there’s more counties in California that aren’t of the let’s say LA& San Francisco mentally. I / we up here always crack up when “THEY” refer to San Francisco as northern commiefornia lol, we are 400 mile north of San Francisco.