Had enough with the pine.

I usually save the pine for the pit and kindling. One mans garbage is another mans treasure.. Put it on CL someone may take it off your hands if you don't want it

 

I had about a half cord of pine start of this season, burned some of it in shoulder season but turned most of it into kindling

 

If I get to 43 cords I'll look that way also.lovin every minute getting there.

 

Y'all have a better wood mix than me apparently. I've burned a good bit of pine this year and really, it is my mainstay wood. No complaints about it at all; it suits my needs about perfectly. It isn't cold right now (like not even burning tonight) so I'm using up the half-rotted, but dry Ailanthus. I save the sweet gum for when I need high test stuff or for the pizza oven.

Since I split everything by hand, I know I don't really understand the capacity and limitations of a hydraulic log splitter. But I'm pretty sure if you are using one and comment on the splitting difficulty of pine...

 

I'm with you, though mine is spruce.
I work my way around it, good wood if you don't have birch but the BTU difference ( 5.5 million more BTU/cord of birch)
and more work for spruce
( spruce is dirtier, tougher on the chains & gloves, more/tougher liming, splits harder & many times sticky )
Lucky enough so far to be able to get 100% birch.
BTU:



Have burned spruce in the stove in the past & will in the future if need be.
Have over a cord for the fire pit. Any spruce I get now is split small & goes there.

Woodcutting area has several dead spruce, if I needed ready to burn wood,
I take it. Easier to process the dead that the green.
Yea, I'm a wood snob when I can be.

 

Birch makes purrdier stacks for us to drool over too

 

Never had a problem splitting pine or hemlock by hand. I take what I can get.

 

Hauling wood to the dump ??
if you did around my neck of the woods they would put you in the funny farm lol
I like birch but I will take spruce any day it's all better then diesel even cottonwood/aspen is good for a fire pit

 

Darn wish you could have dropped that at my house. It's all I have burned this year 10+ hours between loads and the house has been staying toasty warm. I also keep it for campfire wood and donate it to the church for youth group bonfires and I am just about out of it. One cord left to go and then I have to dip into the good stuff

 

I kinda take it personal when I can't get a round to split.

Pine/spruce is mostly what I burn. It's the only wood you're going to get for free around here. I kinda like burning it because I'm heating a large space with the stove in the basement, it burns hot and fast and doesn't coal up too much allowing for frequent reloads which I'm ok with doing.

 

NO! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!


Some one needs to kick him out of the club.

 

yup, mostly pine here too. Like some one else metioned. I buck the straight sections and cookie the knotted sections.

 

Yeah I'd probably do the same thing too if we had better wood available here. Fortunately I am only heating a small house so pine will do.

 

I have a pine dump. There's some rather large pine logs in it.
At the time I didn't have time for it and no one wanted it. Even free. Including me.
Sometimes one has to pick their battles. The days are only so long and we're here for such a short blink of time.
No sense spending time processing something that will likely sit and rot anyway.

It would be interesting winching one of those logs out just to see how solid they still are or aren't but I have dead standing pine and green pine I can weed out that's less hassle and less time and fuel consuming . Plus I have green oak sitting on the front lawn I need to address.

 

I have been going over my mom's to help clean up from a storm way back that knocked over maybe 15 pine trees. Needless to say I have been dragging my feet and lacking the usual enthusiasm when it comes to processing. I'm not taking any (wood snobbery) but just trying to make her yard and woods look better.

 

If I'm going to bother to transport wood and burn it, I'd likely be burning it in the stove not outside, but I guess all our circumstances are all a little different.
I'm limited in the space I have to store the wood I burn and only have enough room in my woodshed for about 5 cord so I prefer to only store wood that is ready to burn (seasoned). If I was completely out of wood and winter was upon me, and given a choice of 5 cord of fresh cut oak or 5 cords of the standing dead lodgepole pine I normally cut, I'd have to choose my usual pine because I know that if I took the oak we'd certainly freeze that winter.
Funny you mention walnut though, because walnut is the one type of hard wood I do have a little of in my shed, and this year I was doing some experiments burning some walnut wood along side the pine and never really noticed much of a difference in heat output or burning time. I do remember though that some of the walnut was a lot harder split then the pine. Of course the walnut was green when I split it and the lodgepole pine I get is always pre-seasoned and straight grained.