About Firewood.com

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Firewood.com is the web connection for Paul's Fireplace Wood in Little Falls, MN. This family run business now involves wife Sharon Wilczek as well as several children.

If you could only say one thing about Paul Wilczek, it would have to be this - Paul knows firewood.

Wilczek gravitated to the firewood business 22 years ago. Always active and outdoorsy, he didn't balk at the chance to clear his own land of trees to build his first home with wife Sharon. "It was kinda fun," he said. "It matched me with the outdoors and being physical."

The experience also left him with a surplus of felled trees, which Wilczek cut into pieces and sold for firewood. The venture planted a seed in his entrepreneurial brain, and soon Paul's Fireplace Wood was born.

For most people, the concept of the firewood business conjures the wholly unspectacular vision of a couple of local guys in an old pickup truck dropping a load of residential firewood at the back door.

 

Wilczek's version of the firewood business is decidedly more...visionary. With eight full time employees and his wife and four kids helping, Wilczek currently heads a thriving residential and commercial firewood business that boasts customers throughout the Midwest and from coast to coast.

Wilczek's commercial clients, including national restaurants such as Famous Dave's Barbecue, Filio's,  come to Wilczek for premium specialty woods, consistent products and dependable service. He also ships semi-loads of wood to campgrounds, whose forests and trees are often protected from tourists and campers.

"Years ago you could go to a campsite and pick up branches," Wilczek said. "As the trees disappear and people damage the trees, you do not cut a branch off a state park tree. You can go to jail for it." Wilczek added that the firewood he sells is a renewable resource, harvested in accord with good forest management principles.