Pine is fine

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Dieselhead

Minister of Fire
Feb 21, 2011
907
NE
got to about a cord of pine today. Cleaned out the belly of the beast also. (BKK)

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got to about a cord of pine today. Cleaned out the belly of the beast also. (BKK)

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oh man, it looks so warm and sunny where you are. i just had a rush of the tingles looking at that picture. almost like being on a warm beach somewhere...:)
 
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oh man, it looks so warm and sunny where you are. i just had a rush of the tingles looking at that picture. almost like being on a warm beach somewhere...:)

It really wasn’t bad today! About 32 with 15mph gusts occasionally. NOW on the other hand it is blowing snow sideways, 50mph gusts and will be 0deg tonight with a high of 15 tomorrow. Don’t like the weather in New England? Hang around for an hour it will change!
 
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Thumbs up for the old ATC! I used to have a 250sx that was mostly used for hunting.
 
Sweet splitter rig! This is my first winter in New England and this is definitely different
 
Love the 185s!
 
got to about a cord of pine today. Cleaned out the belly of the beast also. (BKK)

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I can't believe that you had such BEAUTIFUL weather just yesterday!! We've been encased in mud and ice for what seems like years down here!

May I inquire of y'all...how long should pine wood dry before using? My hubby is "absolutely positively sure" that we can't burn pine in our burner....
I'm absolutely positively sure we can! LOL It just needs to be dry enough....but I'm unsure how long it takes to dry.
 
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I can't believe that you had such BEAUTIFUL weather just yesterday!! We've been encased in mud and ice for what seems like years down here!

May I inquire of y'all...how long should pine wood dry before using? My hubby is "absolutely positively sure" that we can't burn pine in our burner....
I'm absolutely positively sure we can! LOL It just needs to be dry enough....but I'm unsure how long it takes to dry.

Pine will be at acceptable moisture content in a season where I am. It's probably warmer where you are. If the wood is stacked well, off the ground, in the sun/wind (and I believe in top covering), then you should be fine to burn pine next winter if it's stacked this spring.
 
That thing is mint dude. What's the story with that? Where did you find that in such good shape?

Great set up
thanks, my father in law bought it new and it sat in his shed a lot until he got tired of looking at it and asked if we wanted it

I can't believe that you had such BEAUTIFUL weather just yesterday!! We've been encased in mud and ice for what seems like years down here!

May I inquire of y'all...how long should pine wood dry before using? My hubby is "absolutely positively sure" that we can't burn pine in our burner....
I'm absolutely positively sure we can! LOL It just needs to be dry enough....but I'm unsure how long it takes to dry.
gotta explain to him how a large majority burn softwoods because there aren’t a lot of other choices to be had. Just need to do it correctly, like with any other wood.
 
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I can't believe that you had such BEAUTIFUL weather just yesterday!! We've been encased in mud and ice for what seems like years down here!

May I inquire of y'all...how long should pine wood dry before using? My hubby is "absolutely positively sure" that we can't burn pine in our burner....
I'm absolutely positively sure we can! LOL It just needs to be dry enough....but I'm unsure how long it takes to dry.
He could also google pine firewood myth or something like that. Many good sources have long since concluded that it actually causes LESS creosote than hardwood. I’ve burned about about 4 cords of it over last few yrs. I sweep my chimney liner at least once a year and it always has only a minor amount of dry soot that is easily sweepable. I like pine especially for getting the fire going but will also use it in general if I’m going to be around the house to reload wood more frequently (less BTUs than hardwood). You can also find a lot of pine being thrown out bc people think of it as trash. I’m burning pine in my insert right now as I type. No worries.
 
thanks for the info @Ctwoodtick and @Dieselhead. I'll see if I can convince my very stubborn fella! LOL ;) (he's almost as stubborn as me!)
 
With the exception of my birch stash that i’ve tapped into to get a couple extra hours of heat out of a load, i burn almost exclusively jack pine. It’s everywhere up here, and is what i’ve got. I absolutely love it, and have had no issues burning it. It seasons quickly if CSS, catches super easy, and throws a lot of heat right away. No issues with build up in my chimney. The key for all wood is to season it properly to below 20% MC before you burn it. Burn the pine!!
 
With the exception of my birch stash that i’ve tapped into to get a couple extra hours of heat out of a load, i burn almost exclusively jack pine. It’s everywhere up here, and is what i’ve got. I absolutely love it, and have had no issues burning it. It seasons quickly if CSS, catches super easy, and throws a lot of heat right away. No issues with build up in my chimney. The key for all wood is to season it properly to below 20% MC before you burn it. Burn the pine!!

I'm not even sure where he heard that pine was a no-no in a wood burner...but he's held the info as gospel for y.e.a.r.s. so I'll have a hard time convincing him otherwise. We have a lot here too and I think it's just silly to not burn it. Normally his 'motto' is "if it's free, it's for me!" but pine wood doesn't seem to fall into that category.
 
You can see some future drops in the background. Those are easily 75’ probably pushing closer to 100’ should be some cord wood in them....
 
When I had the old US stove 2500 I stayed away from pine, it just burnt to vigorously and fast in that stove, now with the BK princess its a whole different animal and pine is up there with my maple, cherry and ash as far as performance.
 
So, you can burn pine..........
That's good news. Found out after buying the property had been logged recently, few hardwoods, but lots of pine.
If I can burn that, I can buy less, process more......
 
I just threw some Balsam Fir in the stove, same family as pine. It's one of the lowest BTU wood species, but it dries out very fast and lights super easy. It pops and sizzles a lot from the pitch and resin, but it's not bad for the stove or flue. For the purposes of heat production in the real world, soft woods have the same instant BTU ratings as hard woods, they just don't maintain that BTU rating as long.