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All-Purpose OWF Discussions => Fire Wood => Topic started by: jborden3 on February 09, 2013, 10:37:29 AM

Title: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: jborden3 on February 09, 2013, 10:37:29 AM: 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.
Title: Re: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: Scott7m on February 09, 2013, 10:54:05 AM: Hardwood slabs are awesome, there usually free, when you put them in stack them in there like boards in rows
Title: Re: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: jborden3 on February 09, 2013, 11:07:51 AM: 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?
Title: Re: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: Scott7m on February 09, 2013, 12:17:39 PM: 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...
Title: Re: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: coolidge on February 09, 2013, 03:19:37 PM: I get them from my brother for free also, all softwood, boy do they burn good in the 250.
Title: Re: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: jborden3 on February 09, 2013, 05:29:06 PM: Went and got 2 truck loads of them today i think i will just keep burning them till i get him cleaned out
Title: Re: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: jnicol6600 on February 10, 2013, 08:15:28 PM: 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.
Title: Re: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: hoardac on February 22, 2013, 12:09:10 AM: 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.
Title: Re: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: coolidge on February 22, 2013, 06:15:12 PM: 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
Title: Re: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: HandyMark on February 24, 2013, 07:19:36 AM: $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.
Title: Re: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: coolidge on February 24, 2013, 07:30:42 AM: 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.
Title: Re: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: Scott7m on February 28, 2013, 03:09:35 PM: Slabs around my area are free, as many as you want
Title: Re: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: d conover on March 01, 2013, 06:23:38 AM: Quote from: Scott7m on February 28, 2013, 03:09:35 PM
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
Title: Re: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: RSI on March 01, 2013, 07:59:28 AM: Slabs around here are fairly expensive (1/2 to 3/4 cost of logs) but they are usually debarked.
Title: Re: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: Scott7m on March 01, 2013, 01:15:30 PM: Quote from: RSI on March 01, 2013, 07:59:28 AM
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
Title: Re: dose any one burn slabs.
Post by: willieG on March 01, 2013, 01:23:42 PM: pay for them here as well not sure how much, but they have value. i would guess about half of mixed hardwood.
Title: wanted free or low cost hard wood slab wood
Post by: happycamper on March 13, 2013, 08:16:01 PM: wanted free or low cost hard wood slab wood
near lebanon,pa area
K_boltz2@comcast.net

could use several bundles