Log in or Sign up. Buy the saw, buy another as backup, repair saw, replace chain and bar, furnish truck to beat the crap outa, repair truck as necessary, gas and oil for truck and saw, buy wedges, mauls, sledges etc. Have tractor to drag logs out of the firewoo. Then furnish a place to stack and store wood while it drys. Then there’s the labor, cut the wood, split the wood, haul it in and stack it, and cover it then when dry, load it up, haul it and firewoof it. Pay for insurance and property taxes. Bear in mind the unemployed guy down the street needs money so he’s out cutting and selling firewood, undercutting sellong prices. Then your supposed to keep track of your sales and pay the state its share of sales taxes and timber taxes. All this and just hope you don’t have an accident and get hurt. I own 20 acres of alder, ash, maple, fir which I rarely cutand hemlock right in my backyard.