--- title: Turning Wood Waste Into a Firewood Business | Halverson description: Stop paying wood waste disposal fees for logging slash and turn it into a profitable firewood business that keeps loggers and arborists employed year-round. image: https://info.halversonwoodproducts.com/hubfs/HalversonBlog.jpg --- [Skip to content](https://info.halversonwoodproducts.com/blog/turning-logging-slash-into-firewood-revenue/#primary) [My Account](https://www.halversonwoodproducts.com/my-account/) [Search](https://www.halversonwoodproducts.com/?s) [Call (218) 587-2065](tel:(218)%20587-2065) [Email sales@halversonwp.com](mailto:sales@halversonwp.com) [Cart](https://www.halversonwoodproducts.com/cart/) [Learn More](https://www.halversonwoodproducts.com/learn-more/) [![Halverson Wood Products, Inc.](https://info.halversonwoodproducts.com/hs-fs/hubfs/raw_assets/public/HWP_2024/images/HWP%20Logo.png?width=158&height=119&name=HWP%20Logo.png "Halverson Wood Products, Inc.")](https://www.halversonwoodproducts.com) - 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What happens to that wood waste next is either an expense or income. For most operations, it's an expense; not because anyone decided it should be, it's just where the truck happens to go. Here's what that wood waste disposal trip is actually costing you, and what it takes to send the truck the other direction instead. ## **The Real Cost of Getting Rid of Wood Waste** Tipping fees at most landfills and transfer stations run [$75 to $250 per load](https://homeguide.com/costs/tree-debris-removal-cost), or $30 to $100 per ton if you're charged by weight. Some sites add a separate surcharge on top of that for any scrap wood disposal over a certain diameter or length, which matters if you're hauling full-length logs instead of chipped brush. That cost adds up to a line on your fuel and disposal budget every week, plus the cost of running a crew. They’re paid to get rid of material that, split and stacked, sells for more than it costs you to haul away to the drop-off site. ## **What Your Byproduct Is Worth, and What Doesn't Qualify** Tops, limbs, cull logs, [storm-damaged trunks](https://info.halversonwoodproducts.com/blog/are-you-ready-for-storm-season): Call it what you want, but it’s not waste, it's just inventory that hasn't been processed yet. The job isn't finished producing value just because the saw log was shipped or the cleanup contract was closed. Not everything in the load qualifies, though. Rotted or diseased wood doesn't belong in a firewood pile, and neither does anything painted or pressure-treated. Sort it at the landing for proper wood waste disposal before it's split and stacked, not after. ![HalversonBlogPic](https://info.halversonwoodproducts.com/hs-fs/hubfs/HalversonBlogPic.png?width=807&height=539&name=HalversonBlogPic.png) ## **One Person, One Machine, Without Pulling Someone Off a Job** The usual objection to processing your own wood is labor. Somebody has to run it, and every hour they spend on it is an hour off a billable job. That assumes the job means a crew splitting logs by hand. Most logging or arborist operations aren't trying to avoid hiring; they're trying to keep good people employed through a slow season without laying anyone off. [Firewood production](https://info.halversonwoodproducts.com/blog/how-to-start-a-firewood-business) is the standard answer to that problem, but handing a skilled operator a maul for eight hours a day isn't a great use of their time, and it isn't the kind of work that keeps someone around in the long term. A Halverson commercial firewood processor changes what that job looks like. One person loads, cuts and splits an entire log without leaving the seat. That's One Person, One Machine: working from the safety and comfort of your skid steer, tractor, front loader or excavator, not standing next to a splitter swinging steel all day. ## **The Math: Dump Fee vs. Firewood Value** Halverson customers routinely process about 1.5 logger's cords an hour with a single operator. In Minnesota, where Halverson is based, a full cord retails for $325 to $375. Run the numbers on one load: skip a $150 dump run and process that same wood into two loggers’ cords instead, and you're looking at roughly $650 to $750 in value from material that used to cost you money to get rid of. Do that once a week during a slow season, and your firewood business stops being a side project and becomes a line on the books. That's the shift a processor makes possible: More Output, Less Time, Less Labor, on wood you already own. ## **What to Do With It Next** Stage the load before you start. Pull anything rotted, diseased or treated, and sort roughly by diameter if the pile allows (mixed loads slow the processor down more than any one species does). Halverson processors handle logs from 5 to 12 feet long and cut firewood from 15 to 24 inches in diameter, so most of what comes off a normal job fits without extra prep. A grapple or skid steer stages the log deck; the operator never has to get out to reposition anything by hand. ## **Keep Your Crew Working and Keep the Value** The wood is already yours. The only question is whether it leaves as an expense or comes back as income. A Halverson processor runs on one idea: One Person, One Machine, from the cab, turning what used to be a dump run into a second revenue stream and a firewood business of its own. 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