Wanted to get some thoughts on an idea I came up with this past weekend from those who currently process wood and sell it.
We just cleared out or last bunch of chickens out of the chicken houses down to the farm and all the manure has been removed and now we are down to the clay floors (smell will be gone soon), wondering what to do with an empty chicken house.
I was thinking about getting into the wood processing business and storing the wood in the chicken houses to season, they have a ton of ventilation with fans on one end to create a wind tunnel, I was thinking this might speed up the seasoning processing (albeit at the cost of electricity). The chicken houses are 30 ft x 330 ft, plenty of space.
I scoured CL and looked at what "Seasoned" wood is going for around here and $200/cord seems to be going price for Oak, I am thinking I would have to get around $300/cord to make this viable.
Are any of you guys getting that kind of pricing for truly seasoned wood?
I would have to buy wood by the grapple load as we do not have enough oak on the farm to support the volume, is this a deal breaker?
Picture is not actual chicken house, just a sample of the type of fans it has.
We just cleared out or last bunch of chickens out of the chicken houses down to the farm and all the manure has been removed and now we are down to the clay floors (smell will be gone soon), wondering what to do with an empty chicken house.
I was thinking about getting into the wood processing business and storing the wood in the chicken houses to season, they have a ton of ventilation with fans on one end to create a wind tunnel, I was thinking this might speed up the seasoning processing (albeit at the cost of electricity). The chicken houses are 30 ft x 330 ft, plenty of space.
I scoured CL and looked at what "Seasoned" wood is going for around here and $200/cord seems to be going price for Oak, I am thinking I would have to get around $300/cord to make this viable.
Are any of you guys getting that kind of pricing for truly seasoned wood?
I would have to buy wood by the grapple load as we do not have enough oak on the farm to support the volume, is this a deal breaker?
Picture is not actual chicken house, just a sample of the type of fans it has.