You seem to be talking real time. You can make 8000/hr. just chopping wood. Not real exciting, though.

Doing the unlimited dark brotherhood quests will get you around 15-20 thousand in an hour.

Some of those quests won't be offered to you at all until you reach a certain level, and with some of them (the bounty quests given by the jarls come to mind) the amount of your payout is dependent on your level as well. As a level 1 character you may only get 100 gold for wiping out a Bandit nest; pick up that quest at an higher level, though, and your reward will be several times that.

My characters start out by looting almost everything they can stagger away with, but they quickly get pickier about what they take as their levels increase. By the time they've hit Level 10 or so, just about the only things they're taking are gold, gems, potions, soul gems, alchemy ingredients, smithing items and such. Of course, if they find a weapon or a robe or a piece of armor that's better than what they have they'll grab that, and any enchanted or unique items get grabbed as well. They usually have enough money to buy Breezehome after 4 or 5 hours in the game.

It's a little boring, but you can literally make gold with the transmute spell. Turn the gold into amulets, enchant the amulet, sell for money.

Chug a magicka regen potion first and you can easily make far more than 1000 g per hour. It's just a matter then of buying iron.

Or mining it - there's a lot of iron veins out there.