Why don't people like burning pine?

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Ask them if it's "bad" to burn (non-PT) 2x4's in a stove. That's pine...
Ha yup, my buddies dad burned all the scrap 2x4's from his new house construction project, back in the 1980's, He burned them in his woodstove that he used to heat his house.
Yes you can guess what happened, he had a chimney fire.
Those fresh 2x4's can be quite sappy and wet.

After that no more 2x4's in the woodstove.
No more chimney fires.