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[jborden3]

I have a mill just down the street from me and i know the guy that runs it he has told me to come get all the slabs i would like so i went down there this week and got a good truck load and tried it out i dont get near the burn time out of them but they are easy cutting and handleing has any one else burned them and what has been your experience with them most of what i got was pine oak and poplar in this load.

[Scott7m]

Hardwood slabs are awesome, there usually free, when you put them in stack them in there like boards in rows

[jborden3]

I will try that scott i can get all i want free from him and he stacks them square so they can move them on a fork truck so easy cutting. Do you find they burn a little faster?

[Scott7m]

Yea they burn faster, but for free wood, who cares lol

If you stack them in there they do better though from what I've saw...

[coolidge]

I get them from my brother for free also, all softwood, boy do they burn good in the 250.

[jborden3]

Went and got 2 truck loads of them today i think i will just keep burning them till i get him cleaned out

[jnicol6600]

I've found they burn faster too. Cant beat the free wood though. I've burned alot of 2x6 and 6x6 cutoffs and they also burn up faster for some reason.

[hoardac]

Free wood is the best wood. I have burned them for a whole season but in the dead of winter in northern maine there were a lot of trips to the stove. The economy went south and my friend only cuts enough on his sawmill now for himself.

[coolidge]

Just found a guy that has alot of oak and rock maple slabs, they are green but i am going to get some. $50 buck for roughly 3/4 cord

[HandyMark]

$50 for less than a cord of slab wood seems high to me if you have to pick it up. I have seen guys talking about $100 a cord for logs delivered. That is a lot more wood and less bark. It might make a difference if they are all nice heavy slabs but much of what comes out of our mill is more than half bark.

[coolidge]

I got a bundle the other day, after cutting it up it was just about one full cord. Tree length wood delivered around here is in the 125 to 140 a cord.

[Scott7m]

Slabs around my area are free, as many as you want

[d conover]

Slabs around my area are free, as many as you want

Here also, I wouldn't want to pay for slabs.  especially if you are having to cut them up.   I have burned them. also they seem to make more ashes, I guess because they have a lot of bark   

[RSI]

Slabs around here are fairly expensive (1/2 to 3/4 cost of logs) but they are usually debarked.

[Scott7m]

Slabs around here are fairly expensive (1/2 to 3/4 cost of logs) but they are usually debarked.

Wow

There is piles of slabs here, some of them are al really thick slabs, all free

Can't imagine folks buying them