Feeding 3 Stoves! 12 Cord a year! It's no wonder you don't have any time to scrounge, buck, split, and stack all of your wood. I'm a pine addict too, but for me it's because it's the only wood I can get reliably that's already seasoned, and free. I've been thinking of starting a Pine Hoarders club, and selling T shirts, but I'm afraid I might get booted off this forum.
If you got those prices for split seasoned pine, that's a fine deal. I keep around a half cord in stock, I'll mix it in with hardwoods when I need a quick heat, as well as make kindling from it.
I'm not paying for pine. I'm paying for someone to buck, split, and dump the pine next to my wood stacks.
Loads of it here too particularly white pine.. If it was dirt cheap, cut, split and delivered I'd buy it too.. Hate getting sap all over the saw and myself! Ray
I hate how fast it gums and dulls the chains in winter but boy does it burn well in the stove after its dry.
I'm glad I don't have that problem with the Lodgepole pine I burn. In fact I stopped cutting douglas fir because I didn't like dealing with the sticky pitch that would ooze out of the wood sometimes when it warmed up. Douglas fir is weird in that is still has a propensity to ooze pitch for years after it has been dried.
