A few trees down after Feb blizzard

[billb3]

In case you haven't seen enough trees on houses - a short walk in my back yard
http://s1246.beta.photobucket.com/user/billb2520/library/Feb blizzard damage

 

[ScotO]

Wow, lot of trees down there. Look on the bright side.......lots of future firewood in your own backyard.

 

[billb3]

It's almost all white pine

considering milling some of the larger ones, but know little of milling and most of them are not easy access.
They're 7-15" DBH for the most part with the majority 7-9

Easy to cut - no one wants them, especially for firewood.
I've cut one down and stripped to a log, I need beefier toys to move these logs around
especially at 35 feet long

I don't wan to cut them to 10 feet now in a rush and wish I had done 16 later
I'm sticking to getting the oak, cherry, and maple cut, s and s first.

 

[ScotO]

You don't burn the pine at all? Makes good shoulder season wood, IMO. Before I joined this site I gave all my pine away....now I keep a good portion of it (logs for milling, smaller stuff for the evaporator and some SS wood). You may have to look into making a log drag and getting those puppies out of the woods for some milling. Maybe even build a woodshed out of the boards you end up with (that's what I'm going to do with the pine we mill later this spring)..

 

[PapaDave]

That pine will dry very quickly and burns just fine once it is dry.
I used a bunch of rough sawed pine for my shed build too. Good stuff for a variety of uses, and I'd go get it if accessible.
I've got more to get here on the property this year.
Git 'er dun!

 

[billb3]

Oh I burn pine, but good luck convincing anyone around here it's either safe or worth the effort.
I have so much pine I have a pine dump because I just can't use it all.
Now I have the time to put some effort into saving some of it.
But I couldn't sell it nor use it all for firewood. There's just too much.


I wouldn't have some of this primo 5-10 year seasoned red and white oak that burns like coal if I didn't burn some of the pine. Getting old and waking up in the middle of the night for no reason and stuffing the stove again since you're awake helps too.

 

[PapaDave]

Since I started using more Pine, Maple, and Poplar, the Oak stays in the stacks longer.
This is a good thing.
I no longer get up in the middle of the night to reload the stove (unless it's below zero),....there's a different reason to get up nowadays.