It would make sense that the water in the round would gravity feed downward. This is one of the reasons a lot of folks stack that way in outdoor piles. Another is being teepee'd, the stacks would shed rain better.
Where you located Jetjr? Freezing weather will help with the sap. Really really freezing cold will get the pine to a point of popping apart when split. Standing the rounds on end and a few days of direct sunlight may help speed checking in the ends which can aid in deciding where to swing the maul
Located along the Pa/Md border. Sure i am willing to give it a go. The two are white pines and not sure exactly of the other. I just hope in a month or two i can remember why i sat those rounds on end and the others lengthwise.
I don't like leaving pine in rounds as they get full of log grubs plus they get soft, not punky, just soft might be the humidity here even splits will get soft in stacks out in the rain I used to keep pine in a old chicken coop nice and dry - would stay light and hard be careful if you're splitting it with hydraulics, when they 'pop' they can also go flying and not necessarily in the direction you'd expect. I've been hit in the shoulder.
Split that pine asap it will be ready next season. It is great for a quick hot fire. And if you can slow the draft down you can a decent burn with it. I can load the fire view with lodge pole and get 8-10 hour burns with it.
So I cut down two more pines a cedar and sweet gum. No great wood but at least the yard will look better. That's not hedges in the top pick its all stuff waiting to be chipped.
Looks like my yard last February minus the snow....BOMBSCARE!! Got tired of the sweetgum balls falling in the yard and dropped 3 ~80' trees. The gum wood is not as bad as folks will have you believe - a bit of a booger to split but hydraulics take care of it. Make sure to top cover it or the fungus/shrooms will take over. Leaves a bit more coals & ash but burns similar to soft maple when seasoned a year or more. Best part is its right in your backyard
Got this pine that I cut down on the 23rd split this aft. http://firewoodhoardersclub.com/forums/index.php?threads/knocked-down-a-pine.2949/ Sap was pretty much dried up. Oozed out of the rounds and beaded up a little bit on the 23rd. Was nice to handle with the little splitter today. It is wonderful stuff to put on hot coals in the morning and get some quick mass of fire going again.
Yea the bad thing is I tore up the yard like that last year too. Got the majority chipped up today. Other than some small junk. Was not to bad only got my truck hung up twice. Hopefully can get some grass growing.
Could be I am not real good in evergreens. I think he's going to have boards cut out of the logs. Was a little hairy it was raked back towards the house pretty good. I've seen insurance commercials like that.
Does look like a Norway. The easy was to identify spruce is by the needle. Spruce has sharp needles. If you grab them and it hurts then it is a spruce.
