Hi love the mod and the idea and it works great for vanilla however I want to use it as a way to get easily automated wood for the early game in pyanadons mods and was wondering if there was any way for me to make the burner sawmill a starting tech

well, the cheat way is to download the mod, and go into the .zip file, and edit the "recipes.lua" file, and change enabled=true (that means you don't need to research it, because it's enabled by default). You'll obviously have to re-do this change every time a new version is downloaded
I'll add a config option to my list of to-do's