Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => Fire Wood => Topic started by: piper on January 13, 2010, 07:21:49 PM
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has any one used slabs from a saw mill in there stoves how did it work , supose you would go through a lot. my brother uses them in his tobacco barn talk about smoke but that is what he wants. he also covers them with saw dust.
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my father has an ncb175. a friend of his has a saw mill and was giving these away. we took about 5 truckload of them off of him to see how they burn. they burn nice, but quickly. their large surface area allows them to burn very quickly and there is a kindling effect that produces alot of quick heat.... in order to burn them exclusively... you would be loading often...plus when the line up wrong or flat they can snuff out a bottom forced draft. we use them now as some extra to toss in to fill some gaps when we want to really stuff the firebox.
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My brother burned them last year and said he wouldn't do it again unless they were free. He paid 50.00 for a whole bunch but they burned so quickly he didn't like them.
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I have found that they are easy to load and handle, but they burn fairly fast. They also make a ton of smoke at first. Being what they are, they have a lot of bark on them and the bark causes the smoke. They are nice for early and late in the season though.
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one of the main reasons i built my furnace was to burn up all my slab waste from my sawmill . i generate 2-3 cords of slab . per year. i generally burn slabs on weekends when im around the yard. if you can get it for free , OK but i would'nt buy it. burns like everyone said