I’ve tried talking to Asplundh before, the guys on the crew didn’t speak a lick of English. As was said they do power line tree and branch clearing mostly. Huge company based out of PA I believe.
I've never bothered with pine, but I've had a little in the past to burn while the stove was loaded with coals, and it worked well. I should process a cord for just that purpose.
Is that the other side of Robinson? Be careful rolling it across the street! Maybe a job for your husband.
Come on down! Lol I'm actually waiting for signs of life to go knock on their door. 2 cars in the driveway, no lights on.
LOL no hoarding for me today. I made a switch to contacts yesterday, and one of them wont come out. I screwed with my eye too much as night, now my eye is a painful weeping mess. I need to go to the eye doctor as soon as they can see me this morning
Well, I got the go-ahead from the red pine homeowner. He said the logging truck might not come until spring, if we have a snowy winter.
New England g2g 2019 Just Bring It! We are FHC and we burn Pine! [/U] Post by: JCMC, Jun 2, 2019 in forum: Bulletin Board[/URL] I also burn pine in my OWB great for burning down the coals and also great for quick hot fires in the shoulder season.
I burned pretty much nothing but pine my first few seasons. I knew it was the fastest-drying wood I had available so I put up as much as I could. That gave me usable wood while I laid in a supply of other wood. I posted the results of my most recent chimney cleaning. Bottom line: total waste of time to clean it. Burn and wood dry and hot and you will have good results. as backwoods savage said earlier on the main downside is lack of long coaling. Unless you need a long stretch of unattended heating it is no big deal.
This question sure gets around a lot and while its not surprising but seems like its needing reassurance as Pine is often “blamed” for starting chimney fires if it’s not dry. Same kind of application for any wood cut in the fall to be burned in the winter. Hard to convince people who have learned that way , harder to teach the more stubborn ones. If you have to invest in knowledge, invite someone over to show them the difference. I will burn it if I KNOW it’s dry, if it’s not dry either wait on it or burn it outside. Having said about the latter, it’s been split and stacked but has not been done so for long enough. My particular supply was a summertime free pick up where the wood was still in rounds but not freshly cut. If I knew any better, I’d say the folks I got it from were probably splitting it outside and then bringing it in to burn. I guess according to some folks, the saying “it’ll be alright” would be used more likely in my neck of the woods because if it looks dry, “it’ll be alright”. . Thanks to FHC, I thought even finding fatwood in pine was dangerous to burn but even after drying, it will indeed do its thing well. Usually if you can recognize it in more heavier pieces compared to others, it’s worth harvesting for starter. Some of the more interesting advice is to leave pine for a winter outside off the ground so it gets weathered and exposure, bark tends to fall off more easily and drying can resume more thoroughly while stacked. Often pine trees that get pruned back can get those “pitch caps” on their branch stumps so once they dry out enough, they’ll usually fall off when they’re ready. I just prefer to burn pine outside more since it can pop embers and has a pretty quick burning time which makes having a bigger fire more practical. Tend not to spend much time splitting it smaller than 8 inches or so across since there’s no fear in burning lots at a time, it’s not hard to acquire more.
I got enough, so if it disappears tomorrow, I won't feel disappointed. I took the three butt ends, and a couple of logs that were right next to the driveway. One of the butts I put in the backyard, to play with later. It was pretty sticky. I have a pair of gloves dedicated to pine now. Splitting was with wedge and sledge. This one needed a chainsaw assist to cut through all the stringy bits holding it up. The needles are in groups of three, so maybe not red pine. But definitely not eastern white pine.
A common pine on the east coast with needles of three is pitch pine . The needles also have a twist to them and are rather stiff compared to EWP. There are pitch pine "forests" on Cape Cod and Plymouth, Ma. as that's about all that will survive in the lousy, dry, sandy, fire prone soil. There's a really big one in New Jersey. That is a big one if it is a pitch pine. Red pine needle bunches of 2 Eastern white pine bunches of 5
