Slabwood as firewood

[scbk]

Just wondering, does anyone on here sell slabwood from sawmills as firewood? Once processed, would you be able to sell it at the same price as "normal" firewood logs?

[Chris Sheppard]

I used to saw a bit up from time to time - dead easy to process with something like a hakki pilke eagle as the few bits that needed splitting were dead easy to do with the corkscrew. Can often get a fair bit too small to really be called a log but at the end of the day it all burns and often once sawn and split it doesn't look that different to "normal" logs anyway

[scbk]

Yeh, all I have is chainsaws and a table top type vertical splitter

 

I have been offered it in lengths at £20/tonne but it won't be weighed so probably just a "load". Haven't seen it yet so dunno how big the stuff is, I think it will all be larch/douglas fir

[Chris Sheppard]

Yeh, all I have is chainsaws and a table top type vertical splitter

 

I have been offered it in lengths at £20/tonne but it won't be weighed so probably just a "load". Haven't seen it yet so dunno how big the stuff is, I think it will all be larch/douglas fir

 

Something like one of those oregon easy cut saw horses might not be a bad thing to make if you're chainsawing it and you'd probably be as fast hand splitting as it shouldn' tbe very tough at all.

[dent]

i like it for net bags

it satcks nicely in the fuelwood trays for netbagging and makes really consistant neat bags

as opposed to the small logs that get set aside for it as they are often the last length porrly snedded out and bendy and make naff bags

[Yeti]

I use it for kindling takes no time to split by hand.

[APC]

We mix offcuts from our mill with standard loads.