Firewood from sawmill waste

[orsmors]

3 hours ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

U just an end user or are trying to push it into sales ?

I would like to sell on and keep some for personal burning.

 

And how would people process this? Chainsaw and saw horse or a machine os some kind

[Peter 1955]

18 minutes ago, orsmors said:

I would like to sell on and keep some for personal burning.

 

And how would people process this? Chainsaw and saw horse or a machine os some kind

Many years ago, I used to do the same. We had a local saw mill, and I worked on a farm. I had access to tractors and forklifts, an storage area and unused shed, and a saw bench on an old trailer, driven by a combine engine. 

We used to collect ten or fifteen bundles, cut up the good stuff for logs to sell, and burn the rest ourselves. In my humble opinion, you need a chainsaw to make the pieces manageable enough to handle on the saw bench. Chainsaw and saw horse is no good for high throughput.  

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, Muddy42 said:

 

 

wouldn't long thin lengths be ideal for turning into wood chip for someones biomass boiler?  Or do you not have enough volume?

I had some bags of loggets which were sawmill slabwood that had been chunked with a branch logger and they burned well, a bit tedious feeding the fire but okay.

[Tree monkey 1682]

2 hours ago, orsmors said:

I would like to sell on and keep some for personal burning.

 

And how would people process this? Chainsaw and saw horse or a machine os some kind

Think the lads below have answered 

[Stubby]

A friend of mine gets a  small trailer load of " slab wood " or sometimes  called " scab wood " for about £40 from a local saw mill . 

[Muddy42]

The small bark stuff sounds great for lighting fires.