Work Done In 2026

[Dieselhead]

Lots of good shoulder season wood and kindling!

Sounds good. Nice when down it'll already be in the area of the other stacks.

I’m sending it off with the tree co. This specific pine in my experience (even proper seasoned) burns with black smoke and smells like an out of tune oil boiler.

 

[MRD1985]

I’m sending it off with the tree co. This specific pine in my experience (even proper seasoned) burns with black smoke and smells like an out of tune oil boiler.

Which species of pine?

 

[Dieselhead]

Which species of pine?

I believe it’s an eastern white pine.

 

[MRD1985]

I believe it’s an eastern white pine.

I use that for kindling. It’s fantastic. Never really tried to burn full loads of it in a stove though.

 

[Dieselhead]

I use that for kindling. It’s fantastic. Never really tried to burn full loads of it in a stove though.

I’ve never burned it in my stove either, just in campfires and 55g drums. I don’t even like burning it that way. Stinks too much. 👎🏻

 

[stoveliker]

I've burned loads of pitch pine (a species with a lot of sap, used earlier to seal wooden boats) in my stove and also in my fire pit. In the latter it smokes like a coal locomotive,.in my stove it works fine if one burns low. If one burns hot with a lot of draft,.smoke gets sucked thru the cat too fast and I see it outside (and when I sweep...)

 

[Isaac Carlson]

White pine burns hot. Let it dry for a couple years and you will have some nice firewood. The only downside is the sap that gets on everything. That’s the o ly reason I stopped burning it. Just too sappy to work with.

 

[MRD1985]

White pine burns hot. Let it dry for a couple years and you will have some nice firewood. The only downside is the sap that gets on everything. That’s the o ly reason I stopped burning it. Just too sappy to work with.

I agree, although in my experience needs much less drying time. The sap, on the other hand, I cannot stand. I have 7 80 foot white pines in my backyard. I cannot stand the sap over everything. Only upside is I get unlimited fire starters (pine cones).

 

[stoveliker]

So, that load from last week, post 311, is basically done.
These pieces are left, my shed is full. Have to stack some on a rack outside for a year.
And I have a cord and a half of uglies and shorties for the neighbors, of which I need to still split half.

Not too shabby for me, an echo 4910, and an x-27.

Oh, and I like red oak better than white oak. That white oak was stringy...

 

[heavy hammer]

I have been busy and not around much lately but memorial weekend I cleaned both stoves and flues. Very little soot but I clean the basement stove one a few times throughout winter. I'm hoping if things slow down a little to process some firewood. Can't believe it is already June hope everyone is ready for summer.

 

[Isaac Carlson]

It’s crazy how the year is half over already! I tore the rotted floor and transom out of my “found in a field” boat today. The foam was sopping wet and the floor was rotten to cardboard. I’m not sure if I will put foam back in it or not. I don’t really need it, and the mice seem to love it.

 

[Turbo89]

I bucked, split and stacked about a half cord of red oak I got from my buddy. Always great to get free wood!

Im almost 2 yrs ahead now, so I’m getting more selective…. But there’s a lot of good wood for free on market place right now!🤤

 

[Isaac Carlson]

I’ve been looking at about 10 cord on multiple marketplace listings, but I already have a ton of wood. It’s hard to tell myself I don’t have to go get it.

I have 50-100 cord to process already, but it sooooo tempting to go get more!

 

[GG Woody]

The trees keep blowing down on the dirt bike trails... I feel obligated to bring them home... Our campfire is seeing some nice spruce, I feel like a rich man tossing such nice wood onto the campfire!

 

[Dieselhead]

New bricks for the floor of the stove. I had some pretty degraded and a couple busted. Stove went into service in 2014, first set replaced so far. I cut the, to fit with my tile saw.

 

[Isaac Carlson]

Looks nice! We should replace some of ours, but they are still holding together. We have been using the same bricks since 2014. They get logs dropped on them and have cracks all over, but the cracks are packed solid with ashes, so I plan on leaving them for now. I do have to replace the grate, because that is pretty much gone now.

 

[MRD1985]

New bricks for the floor of the stove. I had some pretty degraded and a couple busted. Stove went into service in 2014, first set replaced so far. I cut the, to fit with my tile saw.

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I did the same. Also replaced the baffle that was broken. I’ll change the door gasket at some point before heating season. No idea when yet. Wish my firebrick lasted as long as yours..

 

[NickW]

I made a firewood score post the other day about some red maple that I got at the township brush pile. Turns out it's almost all elm. Stringy, splits for crap, smells like pee; but pleased with the BTU upgrade. All split and stacked, about 3/8 cord.

Gave myself a pinch point boo-boo too that wrecked my jackknife.

Edit.... Odd, I just looked at my BTU charts and one has elm under red maple...? I really struggle sometimes with "rating" what I have available for "everyday" hardwoods up here. White birch is probably the best followed by cherry then red maple (but I haven't burned much red maple yet...). Black ash I usually burn with aspen because it doesn't last much longer but burns hotter. I thought the elm would be a premium, but it doesn't look like it according to the BTU charts. If elm isn't going to be a premium I can probably stack it with birch. White ash I now consider a premium because it lasts longer than the above listed woods, but it's no oak...