Slab wood and the BKK

Those are some cheap btus. How far do you have to go for it? I don't have any problem getting 24 hour burn cycles out of pine. Probably dry enough that you can pick it up a few weeks before you want to burn it?

Did you just say $10 for .78 cord of pine in chunks sized for burning?

Good heavens. Given a large enough trailer, that's one worthwhile trip. And 20+ hour burn times? yeesh.

These slabs are really thin right? We're not talking firewood sized splits.

I have posted this many times. Fill er up. Whats a runnaway fire anyways. Pay more attention would ya Beetle...........sheeeeees. :cheese:

Slab wood has been burned for many, many moons by lots of folks. Naturally you take whatever they happen to be cutting at the mill. It can work out really low cost for lots of folks.


One good way of cutting slabs is to make the H frame sawbuck but make it a bit different. That is, so when you cut with the saw, you are cutting almost full length of the bar. That will tell you how wide or deep to make the H. I recall one year being at a sugar shack where they still use wood to heat the boiler and that year all they burned was slabwood. We stacked the slabwood about 3' high at least on the H sawbuck and then he started the saw and cut it all.....without moving any of the slabs until it was all cut. Yes, the bottom of the H had some saw marks but it was built heavy enough to allow for that. When he was done cutting there were a lot of slabs which kept the boiler going for hours. When he started running low, we'd pile more slabs on and he'd cut. It went quite fast but, of course, there were several folks to help throwing the slabs into a pile too.

I knew and old timer where we deer hunted in Southern IL, who couldn't buck trees anymore but could get all the slab wood he wanted for free.....lots of logging in his area. He burned nothing but slab wood for years. Seemed to work for him, and me too I guess, that's what we burned in his cabin where we stayed during deer season. Those were the days....I wonder now how we kept from burning the place down :smirk:

Theres a place fairly close to me that sells bundles of slab for $25, its a pickup truck full, maybe a little more than a half cord. Ive gone back and forth on whether to buy some but I never have. I should buy a couple bundles just to try it out. You can pack it tight so it shouldnt take up a lot of room storing.

You can also pack it tight in the BK without worrying about over fire. If I tried that in the stove at the camp, I would burn the place down.