Never had BL available to burn like this coming winter. It's been said the stuff is hard to get lit but once going runs real hot. Got it May 2010 and C/S/S off the ground in open rows 2 months later. It is seasoned over a year. The smaller splits, 3-4 inchers, ring like a bowling pin when dropped on the concrete floor. The bigger splits, 6 inchers, feel heavy and sound more like a 'thunk' on concrete. Our brains have built-in calculators; without knowing calculus or even math., we automatically compare the volume of a stick in our hand to its weight. The biggie splits of BL feel too heavy. Will mix it in with ash, cherry and 3-year oak. Learning curve - each diff. species burned in our stove behaves differently. A recent thread here said that "a split twice the size takes four times as long to season". Hoping the BL biggies burn better than what their weight tells me.