Don't tar and feather me for this.

[Magicman]

And more efficient doing the task that it was designed for.

[5quarter]

I use my saw to quarter elm logs. 2 saw cuts and 6-8 cuts with a chainsaw right there on the saw deck. I load the chunks and dump them on the wood pile. Takes about 15 or 20 minutes. the ones that are still too big can now be handled by my wood splitter. all gets tossed in the same split pile...no issues drying. sawmill reduces to minutes what otherwise would take hours. ;) ;D

[kelLOGg]

I've done it occasionally on stuff that's too knotty to split, but am not proud of it. :laugh:  Seems like a waste/ misuse of equipment but I will most likely do it again. ;D
Bob

[stavebuyer]

I cut 4 slabs and a tie out of logs a couple years back. Cut and split the resulting heavy slabs to stove length(16") and stacked them neatly on pallets. Handled in that manner the wood will rot before it dries. I am burning some this year; had to pull the bark off and re-stack it cross stacked where air could get to it. The smooth sawn faces close the pores and stack too tightly. May have done better thrown in a pile. Its like trying to dry 12/4 lumber without stickers.

[catskillpond]

We cut most of our firewood on the mill cut a pass half way through the log wrap a few times on each end with duct tape rotate quarter cut again roll on fork lift bring over the wood shed slice and stack

[Jim H]

I never thought of using the mill that way until a customer hired me to cut some ugly 16-20 inch oak logs. He would set one on the loader arms with his backhoe, I'd load it cut it into 4 or 6 pieces depending on the size. By that time he had another log on the loader arms and had the backhoe forks in position to take off the pieces. I was surprised at how efficient it was, in about three hours we probably ran through a couple of dumptruck loads of logs. He was going to buck the pieces and split them further with his hydraulic splitter but didn't want to lift rounds that big onto his splitter by hand. For feeding an owb the sizes I cut would work fine. I've since done some of this for myself but I'm working alone so it takes more time going from mill to tractor and back.

[Ocklawahaboy]

I've planned to do it but I make enough side slabs while sawing boards for my firewood uses so I've never needed to.  Also the occasional board that doesn't dry right becomes firewood. I would also be pretty upset if I ruined a blade on a nail when cutting firewood.