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New Account for DH today

April 7th, 2006 at 03:16 pm

We are going to open a new business account for DHs wood business today. I suggested this to him a couple of days ago and I guess he has gotten pretty excited about it....cause he double checked with me on it last night...(too cute)

DH actually started processing wood about 10 years ago to get us through the winter. He trucked it from the woods himself. (We purchased permits to salvage wood from the forest from trees that have fallen or been cut for safety reasons)

Then, this last year we started buying log-truck loads of wood salvaged from clearings...(most of it is wood that would have been burned on the site...what a waste!) The truck loads are expensive- about $800 each...but we sale enough to pay for the load and make appx $800-1000. Right now we are using any profit to offset my being home to care for my parents.

We are starting to turn a profit now...and by spreading the word, DH now has two jobs set up with private owners to actually go and clear property for their homes...which means FREE wood...to process and sale.

This is very manual labor...he cuts, I split...but it is time spent growing a new business- One that we hope will give us a little more for our retirement years.

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4 Responses to “New Account for DH today”

  1. Ima saver Says:
    April 7th, 2006 at 03:22 pm 1144423350
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    That is great Ray, being in the home building business, we could use someone like you. We have to take a lot of trees down to open up the view. Do you sell most of it for firewood? We use to buy a lot of firewood when we had a buck stove! With the price of propane, I wish we had a wood burning fireplace again.

  2. boomeyers Says:
    April 7th, 2006 at 03:31 pm 1144423863
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    That is super you can do this together! Be careful though! It sounds so labor intensive! Good for keeping in shape! :-)

  3. Thrifty Ray Says:
    April 7th, 2006 at 03:43 pm 1144424585
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    Yes, we sell the wood as firewood. We advertised in the paper this year and now have a customer base to pull from for next year...It is so much fun to watch a business grow....and to have satisfied, happy customers.

  4. Thrifty Ray Says:
    April 7th, 2006 at 03:43 pm 1144424631
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    and yes boomeyer, it is great exercise!!

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