2 Years & Pine is Ready

[NordicSplitter]

Roughly 2 seasons ago I got in my first log log of Pine. A mix of White, Yellow and Red Pine along with some Scotch Pine. Cut, Split and Stacked it all. Well, I moved some over on Friday and it was coming in at 10-14% on the moisture meter. Put some in this morning to take out the chill. Great stuff. Have a log load of Poplar (11 logs) and Scotch Pine (7 logs) sitting on my front lawn just waiting for spring. Can't beat it for $150 a load.

 

[Wood Duck]

Dry pine is great. I warm weather like we have been experiencing this winter, pine is great for quick heat. In cold weather when I push the stove to stay hot all the time, I use pine to burn down the accumulation of coals while still putting out lots of heat. I have two cords of scots pine getting ready for next year.

 

[FTG-05]

I love pine. It's far better than poplar, which I have a ton of.

I'm burning it now. Easy to split, easy to season, starts quickly, burns hot. The only downsides are that it doesn't last long or leave good coals.

 

[heavy hammer]

With a winter like this pine is great. I've been burning cedar on these cool days plus burns the coals down of the other stuff. Save the hardwoods for the real cold.

 

[NordicSplitter]

I love pine. It's far better than poplar, which I have a ton of.

I'm burning it now. Easy to split, easy to season, starts quickly, burns hot. The only downsides are that it doesn't last long or leave good coals.

One reason I lean towards Polar just a little is there is no Sap compared to Pine. Both are fine for me.

 

[Pennsyltucky Chris]

I don't know the BTU's, but I think Scotch pine is right up there with some of the lesser hardwoods. If not, definitely up there with soft maple. I've been burning a lot of it for the past few years. Sometimes I've over done it with that stuff. Be prepared. It burns fast and hot.

 

[jatoxico]

Have virtually no shoulder season type wood this year. Doing fine on my strict hardwood diet but wish I had some pine or cedar in the shed.

 

[billb3]

Cancel the gym membership, all the running back and forth to the wood pile trying to keep the stove full is gonna burn off all those holiday meals !


Been there, done that. Pine splits sure beat pine pallet pieces.

 

[zig]

We cut a pine in the front yard; not sure what kind it was, split stacked for 16 mo. dry as could be. Loaded up the stove and it looked like I was burning coal with all the black smoke so it was reserved for camping wood. End of the season and mostly empty campground, the ranger came tearing in. he said he thought we were burning tires.

 

[NordicSplitter]

I don't know the BTU's, but I think Scotch pine is right up there with some of the lesser hardwoods. If not, definitely up there with soft maple. I've been burning a lot of it for the past few years. Sometimes I've over done it with that stuff. Be prepared. It burns fast and hot.

Your right there. Higher than Silver Maple, Cherry and most Birch. Great stuff to have. Absolute pain to split.

 

[BigFir]

We cut a pine in the front yard; not sure what kind it was, split stacked for 16 mo. dry as could be. Loaded up the stove and it looked like I was burning coal with all the black smoke so it was reserved for camping wood. End of the season and mostly empty campground, the ranger came tearing in. he said he thought we were burning tires.

What did you feed that pine? lol. Never heard a complaint like that before......

 

[zig]

What did you feed that pine? lol. Never heard a complaint like that before......

It's so pitchy even dry that it's hard to split cleanly. I split it up in thin pieces to start the stove with. 3 or 4 thin splits only and they start with a match. Strange stuff.

 

[firefighterjake]

What did you feed that pine? lol. Never heard a complaint like that before......

I actually had some pine (eastern white) that burned like that -- pretty intense fire and very black smoke. However, in my case I think it was due to what I did to it before hand. In my pre-woodstove burning days I had felled a large pine and burned most of it up in a bonfire, but pieces of the trunk in the fire were too large and just charred on the outside. I rolled those large pieces on to the side of my property where they sat for a few years before I started burning wood . . . and one day I decided to split those rounds up, season them and burn them . . . and they had the aforementioned results.

My theory is that by charring the outside of those rounds I may have slowed down the natural seasoning process and perhaps allowed the pine resins to dry more slowly and build up in the wood . . . that's my theory anyways. I've burned pine before and after and never had the same intense burn and thick, black smoke like I did with that particular pine.

 

[Seanm]

Im burning some fir and lodgepole pine that was standing dead that I c,s,s two springs ago. I never got around to using it all up last winter but Im into it now. It sure gets going a lot quicker than the standing dead that I c,s,s this spring. All of it was below 20% but the old stuff ignites like you wouldn't believe!

 

[Kenster]

Wish I had some pine. All I have on our land is oak and hickory.