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Try a year of the business before you live it.

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It runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent.

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Sell by the face cord / rick or by the full cord.

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Switch, and your price and amounts convert. The plan stays the same.

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Then your piece length and your price.

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Buy log loads or cut your own. It counts what you make.

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Profit in a normal year, after every cost.

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Machines count as wear, spread over the years you use them.

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Cash in year one, cash after, and what you earn an hour.

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How many face cords you must sell to cover your costs.

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Price down 10%? Slide it and watch the profit.

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Each machine: its price and the years you will use it.

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How much it does in an hour, and how many people it takes.

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Say you grow to 20 loads a year.

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More wood means help: the splitter now takes you and two helpers.

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At $20 an hour, that is 453 helper hours a year.

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Paid help is now the biggest cost after wood.

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Turn on the tax estimate for Canada or the US.

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Add your other income, so it shows what the business adds.

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Tax and CPP, then profit after tax.

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Each machine is written off by its CCA class.

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Five years of profit, write-offs, tax and cash.

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Could a processor do better than paid helpers?

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Setup B starts as a copy of A. Change only what differs.

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A $40,000 processor: 9 face cords an hour, run by you alone.

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Fuel at $35 an hour, upkeep, and what it is worth in 10 years.

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It cuts and splits, so the chainsaw comes off.

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Paid help goes from $9,067 a year to $0.

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After its wear and fuel, profit is still $2,972 higher.

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And it gives you back 321 hours a year.

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Above about 365 face cords a year, the processor comes out ahead.

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Below that, helpers cost less. Volume decides.

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Count your own hour at $25 and it pays from about 162.

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Borrowing for it? Interest is a cost, payments come out of cash.

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Year one cash, with the loan.

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Every tax rate is read on its official source, cited on the page.