Sorry Everyone...

[HisTreeNut]

I have to apologize. I burned some pine...and not just a split or two to get the stove going, but I filled the stove. Not only was it pine, but some of it was on the punky side as well. The wood burned nice and hot and took the chill off the house. It burned for several hours and left a great coal bed...the new stove really liked it. But I did not stop there. I keep putting more in as the coals burned down.
Nothing bad has apparently happened except it seems all of my neighbors have become zombies, these 4 guys on horses keep riding through town, planes are falling from the sky, cars are crashing everywhere, the ground is constantly shaking, an energy vortex of some kind is slowly absorbing everything in sight, and my family has disappeared.
That being said, it's 42 degrees outside, I am going to toss a couple more splits in, get a cup of coffee, and go read the paper.

 

[grader]

ya that happens here all the time too, but i teach the zombies to pile wood.

 

[johneh]

So you burnt pine and
The wife left you ,the dog died ,and your
pick up won't start .
OH that's a country song
give me a minuet and I'll think of something !

 

[Shane Collins]

After being on this site for a while I learned that the pine stories were but a myth. Last year a few pines came down in a storm so I CSS them and just started burning it. It was only stacked for about 8 months and it's at 14% MC. Burned my first load the other night, not a full load. As soon as I put it in the stove I was waiting for something to happen... 12 hours later and down to a bed of coals, nothing happened. Other than my house getting nice and warm.

I must say though it lights up and takes off like nothing else I've burned. I can really see how it can "cause" a chimney fire... or at least set alight all the creosote from poor burning practices and burning unseasoned wood. I just processed another cord of it from a big pine that dropped in a recent storm. I'm not very far ahead with my firewood so I'll take all I can it seasons so fast.

 

[mass_burner]

I first heard of folks burning pine at some type of hippie coop on the cape. There's a lot of pine groves on capecod.

 

[saskwoodburner]

I'm sure I speak for the group here.....we're pretty disappointed in you. Just kidding. Seasoned pine burns great.

 

[stanleyjohn]

i too is guilty as charged! we have some pine around here and when it falls i will take for the stove but i would say at least 90% of what i burn isnt pine

 

[Babaganoosh]

Most of the pine here in my area of NJ is really sappy. It gets all over everything and is next to impossible to get off. That's the only reason I don't want to mess with it.

 

[CenterTree]

Guilty of pine burning here too. I actually (gasp) mixed some Spruce with my loads too.

 

[Poindexter]

Most of the pine here in my area of NJ is really sappy. It gets all over everything and is next to impossible to get off. That's the only reason I don't want to mess with it.

I have a complete change of clothes, long pants and a flannel shirt just for splitting, often wear my chain saw chaps too. Come spring time I soak the works in a bucket if water with some simple green it, rinse a couple times, no worries.

I do like tossing splits with baseball size globs of sap on them into hot stoves with the cat hot enough to just toss the split in, close the door and re-engage the cat. Awesome.

 

[barmstrong2]

I've split some and have it stacked for next season. My friends are already predicting my chimney fire and won't ride with me in my truck.

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

it seems all of my neighbors have become zombies

Heh.

That might explain some of my neighbors.....

Being originally from the west, where pine is mostly what is burned, I have never been afraid of it. The Eastern Pinophobia was a jaw-dropper to me when I moved here. I find it both exasperating and amusing at the same time. I'm constantly seeing CL ads for pine that say something like, "For outdoor fires ONLY"

 

[barmstrong2]

Heh.

That might explain some of my neighbors.....

Being originally from the west, where pine is mostly what is burned, I have never been afraid of it. The Eastern Pinophobia was a jaw-dropper to me when I moved here. I find it both exasperating and amusing at the same time. I'm constantly seeing CL ads for pine that say something like, "For outdoor fires ONLY"

Is what we've always been told. And poplar. Growing up, I thought it's full name was " f-ing poplar".

 

[D8Chumley]

Eastern Pinophobia lmao!! I just tossed another white pine split in my stove, I'm on pins and needles

 

[LocustPocust]

When I was 17 I was dating this really nice girl. I had met her family and they seemed like nice people and they seemed to like me too. Well one Saturday night I made plans to go pick up my girlfriend and go get some Pizza and then take her back to my house for a movie. I walked up and knocked on the door, and her father opens the door. He had a really disgusted look on his face. I said "Hey Mr. Brown is Donna here?" He replied "I've heard some things..... and I don't want you seeing my daughter anymore." I was in shock.. this was all out of the blue. He continued "We don't associate with people who burn Pine in their wood stoves."

Fiction.

 

[BrotherBart]

Heated this barn one whole winter with pine one time and another year with Tulip Poplar. Bring it on. Dried them both two years on the stacks.

 

[jrems]

Pine is Fine!

 

[rowerwet]

Guys ! Cut it out! The news will get out and all my scrounged pine will be taken!
Please stop the misinformation!
PINE WILL BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN

 

[HisTreeNut]

Guys ! Cut it out! The news will get out and all my scrounged pine will be taken!
Please stop the misinformation!
PINE WILL BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN

Ummmm, right. Pine is bad...I burned some and the universe where I live is falling apart at the seams.
Pine is bad don't burn it...

 

[begreen]

If there's anything I can't stand it's grown men pining about their wood.

 

[BrotherBart]

Pinus envy.

 

[Wildo]

Growing up, I thought it's full name was " f-ing poplar".

That is its' full name.

 

[Rossco]

More pine burners will be warm this year compared to the "Split and stack it for atleast 3 year" brigade.

Probably have cleaner chimneys and better back health as well.

 

[rowerwet]

I have an 8x11 flue and 8" pipe, tell me again about this creosote...

 

[Omaha419]

I love pine.

I find so much of it at the local dump because of this myth. I say, keep it going.

It is ready to burn in the fire lit after a good couple of weeks out in the sun. Good stuff.