This pine was bucked up this spring so it will be for next years shoulder season. The last picture (pine4) is where I'll grab the rest from. The first picture is what I started with and picture named pine3 is what's left.
I can dig it. Been going through a heap of white pine myself lately. For being so soft, I am amazed at how well it holds up to extended ground contact. I'm working on a pile now that's been laying in the back after having been dumped out of a dump truck a couple years ago, that after sitting on a local logger's landing "for a couple years." Virtually no rot, and - knock wood - no serious ant infestations yet.
pile o' pine everyone thinks you're nuts if you burn pine around here so I keep mine on a psycho path when you turn your back on them when they are all piled up like that they get knotty
I wouldn't use the sapwood of eastern white pine outdoors unless it was protected from wetting processes. heartwoods are resistant to decay because they contain extractives such as fatty and other organic acids, terpenes, wax, tannins and numerous other benzenoid compounds that are toxic to fungi and mold organisms that would otherwise eat the cellulosic compounds for lunch. Pretty much the same concept as industrially post-treated sapwoods to make them toxic to decay processes.
