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NFW 2017

Completed-National Firewood Workshop-Thursday, April 27th, 2017

Statesville, North Carolina Location-Iredell County Cooperative Extension Office

Take this link for the National Firewood Workshop 2017 pdf brochure

The Wood Education and Resource Center of Princeton, West Virginia hosted together with the NCSU Wood Products Extension the National Firewood Workshop at the Cooperative Extension Office in Statesville, North Carolina on April 27th, 2017.  This one day event was a gathering of split firewood professionals that discuss all the aspects involved in operating a profitable firewood manufacturing business.

This workshop has been held twice in West Virginia at the Wood Education and Resource Center, at the Albany County Cooperative Extension Office in Voorheesville, New York, and at the Western Maryland Research and Resource Center in Keedysville, Maryland.  In the future we hope to host the National Firewood Workshop in the Great Lakes Region.

The National Firewood Workshop focuses on the important elements important to operating a profitable firewood business, including-

  • Log sourcing from rural and urban forests
  • Splitter and firewood processing equipment
  • Insect and quarantines
  • Marketing of firewood
  • Business management
  • Firewood dry kilns and seasoning methods

We typically have attendees from these groups-

  • Landowners
  • Foresters
  • Loggers
  • Firewood businesses
  • Equipment dealers and manufacturers
  • Firewood buyers and brokers
  • Education

1-Harry Watt-Firewood Business Management

2-Harry Watt-Firewood Marketing

3-Marcus Steigerwaldt, Processing Equipment, Multitek

4-Chris Terrell, Stoves, Englander Wood Stoves

5-Paul Chaloux, Insects, APHIS

Below are the links for our video taping of the classroom discussions at the 2017 National Firewood Workshop:

1-Firewood Business Session-Harry Watt, NCSU Wood Products Extension

2-Firewood Marketing Session-Harry Watt, NCSU Wood Products Extension

3-Firewood Business Owners Tell All-Multiple Firewood Business Owners

4-The Twists and Turns of an Arborist That Buys a Firewood Processor, Steven Fisher, Fisher Tree Service

5-Firewood Processors-Marcus Steigerwaldt-Multitek

6-Update of WERC Processor Review Project + Ideas for Automation of Firewood Businesses-Harry Watt

Here are the links for pdf educational handouts and newsletters regarding the NFW and the business of firewood:We had 125 attendees and offered a wide variety of equipment demonstrations of firewood production equipment.

The cost to attend was $30 per person.  Our lunch was a buffet style local pork and barbeque chicken in the North Carolina style..

Harry Watt of NCSU Wood Products Extension was the contact person-harry_watt@ncsu.edu and phone 704-880-3067.

Here are the links for five slide shows of presentations.  We will soon offer some of the presentations on YouTube.

1-Firewood Business Strategy Example

2-NFW Newsletter-April 3rd, 2017

3-Nebraska Guide Heating With Wood G1554

4-NFW 2017 Promotion Poster

5-15 Tips to Start a Business Selling Firewood By Next Weekend-by SplitSecondLogSplitter.com

6-Cord Chart

7-1980 USFS Firewood Processor Study

8-Firewood weight chart

9-2017 NFW Agenda

10-Firewood Kilns Talk by Neils Jorgensen from NFW 2012

11-Why, How, and Where is the Money, Neils Jorgensen, 2011 Sawmill Magazine article

12-Cooking Wood Discussion

Take this link for highlights of the 2016 National Firewood Workshop that was held in Maryland.  This link to the 2017 NFW in Maryland contains links of YouTube video of the speakers for this event.

WPE Priorities:

* Assist NC wood products businesses to grow sales and profitability

* Assist NC wood products businesses to develop new products and and new markets

Assist NC wood products businesses to improve competitiveness

* Assist employees of NC wood products businesses in wood knowledge and wood business skills

 

New!

Business Listing of North Carolina Veneer and Plywood Businesses

NCSU Links Link for NCSU Wood Products and Wood Science Alumni

 

Link for New GoldenLEAF Foundation Grant for Small Woodworking Shops

New Wood Education and Resource Center/NCSU WPE Workshops 2016

1-Firewood Workshop-Thursday, April 21st, near Hagerstown, MD, link to register-https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-firewood-workshop-tickets-21429848253

3-Profitable Small Sawmill Workshop, Thursday, June 2nd, WERC, Princeton, WV, link for workshop brochure with registration form

 

Best Business Practices Program (BBP) for Wood Products

New NC Forest Service/US Forest Service Secondary Wood Products Industry Online Directory Project

Upholstery Frame Workshop, Conover Library, Conover, NC

Thursday, November 7th, 2013

See Workshop Highlights-Frames

New Publication-

Business Strategies for Craft Wildlife Wood Products Businesses

Newspaper Article About

New EPA Rules Affecting

Woodstove Emissions

 

Contact: Harry W. Watt, Wood Products Specialist, cell 704-880-5034, email harry_watt@ncsu.edu

Wood Products Extension Department supports the wide variety of wood products businesses in North Carolina and assisting the Cooperative Extension network of county offices that serve the people of North Carolina.

 

Primary Wood Products

Sawmills, Pallets, Plywood and Veneer, Lumber Drying and Distribution

Secondary Wood Products

Cabinets, Casegoods Furniture, Upholstery Furniture, Institutional Furniture, Flooring, Millwork, Woodcrafts

Supporting Suppliers

and Equipment Vendors

 

Lumber, Plywood, Glues, Finishes, Hardware, Packaging, Equipment

 

NC Cooperative Extension Offices and Homeowners

Locate Your Local NC Cooperative Extension County Office

 

Best Business Practices Program for the Primary Wood Products Industry Best Business Practices Program for the Secondary Wood Products Industry NC List of Small Sawmill and Wood Drying Operations PDF-list from www.woodweb.com Collection of Helpful Wood Products Publications for Homeowners