Hoosier Firewood Hysteria 2026! Thank You Veterans! Recap!

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]All right, we're out here at Hoosier Firewood Hysteria. They got the saws ripping.

[00:00:06]But I got to get out the real saw so I can show them how it's done.

[00:00:10]Little rainy today, going to be on and off.

[00:00:13]Hopefully not too big of storms. We got the ported 395 done by Iowa Performance Saws. Then we got the stock Husqvarna 564 XP.

[00:00:27]Let me get my chaps and my tool here.

[00:00:32]Talking to me?

[00:00:33]No, I ain't talking to you, girl.

[00:00:35]Talking to my camera.

[00:00:38]Got the hardworking woman here.

[00:00:41]Marlon Twin Rivers Wood Products. Got Jennings 765 guys. Allen Timber Cutter Patriot.

[00:01:02]All right, here it is. Hoosier Firewood Hysteria 2026.

[00:01:07]We got Marlon and Emily Twin Rivers Wood Products.

[00:01:11]They brought the Halverson. They brought the 2014.

[00:01:14]Got the conveyor on the 2014. We got an ax here running into the conveyor.

[00:01:19]Over here we got the hardworking woman.

[00:01:21]We got Timber Cutter Patriot.

[00:01:24]Got Green Bean.

[00:01:26]Got the dump truck.

[00:01:28]Conveyor.

[00:01:30]1222 and All Wood Burt.

[00:01:34]Dump truck over there. That's Jennings 765 guys. He's got his mini excavator here.

[00:01:41]Here we got a rental mini ax doing some cleanup.

[00:01:45]Guys, we're almost done.

[00:01:55]Kicking out the firewood.

[00:01:57]WolfRidge splitters and conveyor.

[00:02:01]Kicking back, taking a little break.

[00:02:03]Beautiful day, windy. Windy is all hacked.

[00:02:06]That's all the logs we got left. Eric Kennedy running them through the processor over there.

[00:02:18]We had one casualty. We had a splitter go down. Heath Medford's splitter broke.

[00:02:25]All part of the game. He tried to push too much through it.

[00:02:29]Had the power.

[00:02:31]I'll show you up here. The wedge just gave up on him.

[00:02:34]But, he's handy around a welder. He's going to get that fixed up.

[00:02:42]Everybody pitching in, getting it done.

[00:02:44]These guys are about out of their wood.

[00:02:46]12-22 WolfRidge conveyor. Here's the casualty.

[00:02:51]At it, boss. Big old nasty cottonwood going through an eight-way, six-way, six-way wedge there.

[00:03:00]Luckily, we got plenty of splitters to keep it going.

[00:03:05]And we're all going to hang out, have a cold drink, a nice lunch. They got smoked brisket for us.

[00:03:12]Thank you so much to all the veterans.

[00:03:14]That's who we're here doing this for.

[00:03:16]The reason we can do stuff like this is because of you.

[00:03:22]Who's your firewood hysteria? This is our fourth year here.

[00:03:25]We come every year.

[00:03:28]Last year, cold, wet rain, but we still got it done. This year, some hit-and-miss showers, some wind, threats of thunderstorms, but it's not stopping anybody.

[00:03:41]We got some hand splitting going on over here.

[00:03:47]Some of the little pea trees out here just swinging them axes. It's impressive. He's been out here running that axe for hours.

[00:03:55]He says he does it all day. He's running the U32.

[00:04:00]He had the X27 he was swinging. I said, "You want to try one that's a little bit shorter?"

[00:04:05]Look at him go.

[00:04:07]All day long.

[00:04:12]Boom.

[00:04:13]This kid's got some good accuracy and stamina.

[00:04:19]Marilyn here with baby Hazel chilling out, getting getting Marilyn's hair.

[00:04:31]Got Dell.

[00:04:33]Got Jay, Iowa premier tree surgeon.

[00:04:48]You know Dell, he's here, he's working.

[00:04:51]A veteran himself, putting in work.

[00:04:54]This what it's all about, guys.

[00:05:06]We're running out of wood, folks. They can't keep up with us.

[00:05:09]You team up the hardworking woman with Timber Cutter Patriot, they can't make wood fast enough.

[00:05:15]Got Twin River Wood Products here helping out everything, everybody.

[00:05:27]We're on the 401 and 395 and the 564.

[00:05:31]We got Allen, 592, Green Bean's 500i.

[00:05:38]Yeah, it is.

[00:05:39]Who's your firewood this area? 2026.

[00:05:45]Well, yeah, Orange Wolf Ridge and the conveyor there, they got some bad fuel, had some water in the gas.

[00:05:53]They got the conveyor running now. They had to siphon it and put fresh gas in.

[00:05:57]Here we're relocating some log piles to the log lift side for TimberKutter Patriot.

[00:06:06]I got to get one of them. Mini actual with a thumb, so useful in the wood yard.

[00:06:11]Grab it.

[00:06:12]Swing it.

[00:06:15]Drop it.

[00:06:17]Split it. Pile it.

[00:06:31]They're filling her up.

[00:06:36]Think we're at capacity.

[00:07:17]You overfilled.

[00:07:19]You over You going to have to write you a ticket.

[00:07:28]Going to hit you for an unsecure load there.

[00:07:35]Nah, we'll let you slide on that one.

[00:07:39]Yeah.

[00:07:40]All right, we'll get a tarp on her.

[00:07:50]Big bone, baby.

[00:08:04]And this is what we did in one day from all logs to split firewood.

[00:08:15]I guess 2 days. They did some work yesterday, so one weekend worth of wood right here.

[00:08:27]All for the veterans. I sell this throughout the year to fund the campground.

[00:08:33]It's all veterans who camp here and who run it.

[00:08:39]And this is what they used to do over the course of a year.

[00:08:45]Well, not this much, but they used to make their wood with box or splitters and volunteer help.

[00:08:51]And now the firewood community comes together and does this for them every year.

[00:08:56]This wood is what they have left from last year.

[00:09:02]So, that's all dry, ready to go.

[00:09:05]And the wood that we just split will be over here for next year and we'll and we'll do it all over.

[00:09:15]Pretty impressive what you can do when you come together as a community.

[00:09:20]Again, huge thank you to the veterans.

[00:09:23]You guys thank us, but we thank you.

[00:09:25]Who's your firewood hysteria 2026?

[00:09:28]That's a wrap.