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processing pine? :eek: lol.

My BIL had a good sized pine that had been vertically drying since well before he bought the house last year. The offending evergreen was not only threatening his fence and garage, it posed danger to his neighbor's home as well. A good friend of mine showed up with the rigging gear so we could get this one down safely. Tree was rigged via a block anchored to a stump in the weeds and tied off to my truck with some tension on the line. After I started the back cut I set a couple wedges just for good measure and finished her off.

20" Bar on my 034AV just barely peeked out the other side of the back cut. That's my buddy's MS361 sitting on the stump in the photo.

We dropped, limbed, and split that tree Sunday afternoon. Only a little bit of yard cleanup left, mostly splitter trash and sawdust.

My BIL is a fellow burner, Avalon Olympic insert in the basement. He plans to burn this stuff in the firepit and for shoulder season. Got a whole mess of bonfire poles too! :)

Sorry about there being 4 vids, skip to #4 for the good part. ;)

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I've burned a little bit and wouldn't hesitate to burn more of it if it were readily available here.
 
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MasterMech; We use to truck the any type of pine over to the wood dump, but over a year ago I started stacking the White Pine & Hemlock for shoulder season burning.

By the time fall rolls around we will be ahead three years on the shoulder season wood.
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I burn pretty much two types of wood now.

Blow downs, and dead standing. ;) I keep looking at a few for selective cut, to make some saw logs grow better.. but I haven't really gotten into those yet.

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I took one down this year that was standing dead, put it in the campfire pile. Hate to burn my good stuff for an evening fire with friends outside so was very happy to take that one. Same guy has another one for me to take down. Also since I have started such a pile of wood all my friends think I have more than enough to supply their campfires as well. So this pine will be what they get if they ask for some.
 
this will be my first year burning pine.
i became a convert for a few reasons:
there was so much blowdown near the house
we had several monster pines dropped that were widowmakers
i learned from the folks on this site who live out west that they've been burning pines their whole lives and they seemed to have survived it;)
i was livid that i was burning 2 year seasoned hickory and locust this past march cuz that's all i had
burning up all this pine in the shoulder seasons is gonna help me to get a couple of years ahead on the primo hardwoods

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I burned about 1/3 cord of it last fall, and about the same this spring. I would have burned more, but didn't have any.:mad:
The pieces that were too gnarly to keep messing with went to the firepit stash.
I've got about 2/3 cord that's been drying since last fall in the field, and another 1/3 up front by the shed. One large W. pine across the road and the last 12' of another in the side yard that still need to be processed. I might get another cord from those.
Several Spruce all over the property that I'd like to take down.
So, yeah, but not like I'm admitting to a crime of some sort. :p
 
I burn white pine . . . and I like it. In fact, I've been eye balling some white pine on my property, but then my wife asked me to cut down two other white pine trees so the ones that were about to get the proverbial ax were spared . . . for now.

I like having some pine on hand . . . good kindling . . . good for the shoulder seasons so I am not burning up my good wood . . . and good for camping. Besides, I enjoy the snap, crackle and pop of the softwoods -- it makes burning more fun.
 
Whats great about pine is how fast it starts in the furnace, when I am in an early morning rush and I need to start a fire fast and beat feet, I top off the stack with a few pieces of pine that I know will take off right away. I actually could use more pine and I grab nice rounds whenever I run across them just for this reason as I usually mix them into my piles to always have a few pieces available.
 
I will admit I dont burn pine nor cut it. Nothing worse than a 1000.00 saw coverd in pine tar.
 
I got some Red Pine last year and split it real small for starter wood. It's easy to light and takes off fast, and I'll be keeping some on hand from now on.

Do you always make your back cut below the face cut? Never saw that before...
 
smokinj said:
I will admit I dont burn pine nor cut it. Nothing worse than a 1000.00 saw coverd in pine tar.
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I just use the 170 I stole from my SIL; Then it's just a gooey <$200 saw. ;lol
 
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Never thought too serious about wood management , shoulder wood. etc until I came to this sight................never even heard of shoulder wood.
Now anything that is dry and burns I will look at. Thinking about what lower BTU wood I will mix in with higher BTU wood when the winter comes. Wood management is all part of the game.
 
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I will admit I dont burn pine nor cut it. Nothing worse than a 1000.00 saw coverd in pine tar.
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I have cut 100's of pines and I don't think I've ever cleaned pitch off my saws.

I like processing pine. After working with oak and maple it feels light as a feather.
 
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smokinj said:
I will admit I dont burn pine nor cut it. Nothing worse than a 1000.00 saw coverd in pine tar.
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This one was standing dead for a long time and thankfully there is very little goo on the saws.

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Do you always make your back cut below the face cut? Never saw that before...
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It's actually just level with the face cut. A bit lower than I prefer but it got 'er down safe.
 
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Snotrocket said:
I have cut 100's of pines and I don't think I've ever cleaned pitch off my saws.

I like processing pine. After working with oak and maple it feels light as a feather.
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Oh ain't it the truth. One-handing 15" rounds never got old!
 
smokinj said:
I will admit I dont burn pine nor cut it. Nothing worse than a 1000.00 saw coverd in pine tar.
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If someone else cut it would you split it? Can get some pine that is cut to length and I split by hand so worse thing would be pine tar on the fiskars!
 
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If someone else cut it would you split it? Can get some pine that is cut to length and I split by hand so worse thing would be pine tar on the fiskars!
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Yes I would take it.......resize1.jpg I have cut and spit it before maybe half cord. I have a poulan I used and it was green tree so I really hope Not to do another one. (But it darn sure would be a favor for a friend to do another one)
 
Just be sure to have 2 pair of gloves when cutting up a live white pine...one for touching the wood (this pair goes in the trash when you are done)...and one for everything else.
 
There are some 115 species of Pine. Some are much more "pitchy" than others. A whole lot about one's experience in processing Pine really depends on just which species of Pine one is processing. Where I live, odds are almost overwhelming that if I'm doing anything with firewood at all (bucking, splitting, stacking, burning) I'm working with Pine (it's a fact of life in the central Oregon high desert...somehow we manage to survive). Either Lodgepole Pine (most prevalent) or Ponderosa Pine. Neither gives me any problems with pitch on saws/chains/splitting tools/gloves (Juniper, however, is another story). It's a function of where you live, because the different species are distributed geographically, as is typical with both flora and fauna. So...to ask whether or not someone processes "Pine" isn't likely to get you any "actionable intelligence". The question really needs to be stated much more specifically...like, "Who has processed ______ Pine in the _____region of the country?" Rick
 
The point of the post was more so that we safely took down a tree that was a danger to the surroundings. The reference to processing pine for firewood was intended to be more tongue in cheek than rebel without a cause.

Due to the abundance of hardwoods around here we don't pursue softwoods like white pine for firewood but being an enlightened burner I wasn't about to let my BIL waste all that wood. ;)
 
Hum.... With all the wood we have, especially the dead white ash, as I was stacking wood today I was reminded that there is some pine in the wood heap that we cut last winter. No problem here.
 
Haven't burnt pine yet, but if I admit to CSS'ing poplar and basswood, then I am no better.
 
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