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I've quarter-sawn a bunch of sycamore. My favorite of the domestic figured woods.

I'm claustrophobic.

I had all my slabs for the owb covered this year. More than enough. Then the boiler rusted out. Now I'm scavenging anything that will burn tonight for my wood stove so I can be up every three hours and still be cold. Think it's time to build a tiny house.

I've only sawn about three elm logs that were not junk. Wouldn't know where to source a steady supply of good logs. Elms just grow up under the power lines and die or get bad haircuts by the line clearence crews.

Not just material cost, but labor, too. Those firewood bundlers are fast.

Elm is great in the owb. If small enough, I throw it in round. It's the only thing that breaks the pusher on my splitter, which I need to weld again.

I burn pine in my owb. It doesn't leave much ash. I could burn 40 cord of pine slabs and not have to clean the firebox all winter. It just takes twice the volume of hardwood. I have to get rid of the slabs from the mill, so it works out ok. I don't burn pine if I don't have to.

I have a Central 6048 Classic. They are not allowed in many places anymore. An E-Classic gasifier is also good, but you have to have good dry fuel, but you use much less. I burn a lot of wood, but my house is almost uninsulated. Last winter I burned over 40 cords of pine slabs and about four...

Definitely a nice 1st gen. There are a few around me, but I don't know their story. Either imported, or winter garage queens.