Sawmill skins or blocks

Yes that is primarily what I am burning this year.

Most of the time it is called slabwood or slabs, and I think blocks are also called cutoffs on here. Search in the Wood Shed and you'll see a bunch of recent threads about them.

In '79 I had a guy who worked at a saw mill and would leave me a pick up load of oak cut offs,slabs etc for $10.

Great burning wood.

Used a few of the longer pieces to make a tailgate for my Willys pick up.

Slabs . . . yeah . . . I've burned some from time to time . . . mostly in the shoulder season when all you need is a hot, quick fire to take the chill out of the air. I also like them for chopping up into kindling. They're also usually pretty cheap . . . sometimes free if you know the right people.

Some folks find cutting them to stove length can be tedius (I don't find it all that bad) . . . and depending on the mill and the day you may end up with some nice hardwood slabs that are quite thick or around here in Maine you are more likely to end up with a bunch of softwood slabs.

We burned a lot of slabs in a cookstove. We used a buzzsaw to buck them up.

Ya, a buzz saw works great for slabwood.

They're called cutoffs,I starting burning them in 2004 when I got my first woodstove.Mine came from a pallet factory owned by the Amish,in 2004 they charged 15 for as much as you could hand stack in a small pickup,they steadily increased in price now they're 50 a load,they can keep em.But they were clean and burned well.My brother in law is an executive with one of the largest tree cutting services in the country,Davey Tree,he hooks me up.

You read my mind. Just saw this on the local CL and have been trying to get in touch with him. Free slabwood and it's right in my hometown.
http://charlotte.craigslist.org/zip/2794731432.html

75% of the wood I have this year are blocks from the sawmill. Alot of oak and Walnut. The local sawmill charges me $21 for as much as I can hand stack in the bed of my F250. For that price, I cant pass it up. By the time you figure time, fuel, oil, maint on the saws and splitter, risk of injury, etc..... its just hard to beat. Another benefit is the blocks are less messy, barkless. I usually get between 7-8 loads a year starting in March-April.

Here is a previous post of mine: https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/79327/