If your chimney is all sooted up, loaded with combustible creosote from smoldering green hardwood and you load up the stove with nice dry pine and get some flames shooting up the chimney, yeah, you will probably have a chimney fire. Don't do that. This is likely the scenario that created the old wive's tale about burning pine.
the tail is wagging the dog on this one. Mulling over some cover solution but felt if I didn’t get it split and stacked a cover would useless anyway. I’ll get something over it, even if temporary. Thinking about what I want to do about an east wing
I have heard of using Pine Cones for kindling, but Cedar is usually available, and often plentiful, hard to beat Cedar for Kindling. Well there is the old railroad ties, split small and soaked in used motor oil, that usually gets the hunks of worn out tires burning nicely Doug
Got more pine at the local dump. Just picked up a select few pieces and ended up giving some to a new neighbor I just met who is into firewood. First thing he said to me was "Hey man are you the wood guy???" and I was like "Yup" and then he said "You know I'd like to buy some rounds and chop it myself...." and I cut him off and was like "Uh.......I don't sell rounds. How does free sound?" Gave him a handful of red pine and some white oak as well. I took home a few and it literally took me 5 minutes to split that stack with the x27. Another 5 minutes to stack. Turned out to be 1.5 cartfuls. I started the 22nd holz hausen a week or two ago dedicated to pine since I'll have so much to procure at that FBMP score. Also this is the first hausen to have the plastic pallets instead of wood. Cleaned up and cut to length. You can see the lone white oak round on top at the far end, maybe 8" dbh. Replaced the red oak stump with a slice of white oak from my own tree that was brought down. This one is quite a bit lower. I'm still getting used to that. More power on the stroke, easier to load rounds into, but more bending over to remove rounds. I'm not sure which height I like better yet.
I hate it when the wedge gets buried in the round - been there. Speaking of pine, I have a spilt of it burning in the stove right now.
And that's why you need a minimum of 2 wedges. I have 5 ATM with one buried in a white oak stump hahahahahaha.
I took the Travis Industries (Lopi, Avalon, FPX) factory tour a few years ago. They had a few cords of firewood inside one of their loading bays to burn in product development. It was 100% Douglas fir.
Went back to the same spot. Was exactly how I left it. This time I really packed the bed up pretty nicely. I probably could have fit 2 or 3 more skinnier rounds but that would have entailed moving logs on a big pile and I'll just save that for next time. Going back next week with a neighbor and his car so he can fill up as well. Bark peeled off, straight into a bucket and then the wood chipper and into the compost pile. The 034 Super was a beast today. What a pleasure to be able to use a big boy saw! Here's a short video of a few cuts. 20" RM3 chain on there. Stihl Motomix fuel.
Nice work! I have one small piece of cutting advice. You don’t have to lean on the saw. In other words there’s no need to put pressure on the saw while cutting, especially in pine. A sharp pro saw with rakers filed correctly will pull itself through the wood. If I’m wrong, my apologies. In the video it appears that way. Good to see your still cutting and gathering wood.
Thanks! I was just pivoting on the dogs with a light touch, wasn't leaning on it hard at all but I get ya. It was really easy and I enjoyed seeing the fruits of me labor tested out! Been feeling a little weird not having wood to split heh heh. I have a dedicated holz hausen for this scrounge only. All pine baby! Thanks! I would have except it's not flat and I didn't want to see a fire started from all the leaves!! Heh heh. I did do that last time but that was before the leaves were on the ground.
Huh, I have driven a ton of trails with lots of leaves and never thought much about it. It’s good to be cautious tho. Don’t hurt the trucks feelings leaving it on the pavement!
The pine holz hausen is filling in nicely. Decided to make the splits nice and small since I use them mainly to get the fire going quickly.
Not a bad idea. I have several softwood trees I need to take down (dead or dying) and I was debating how I was going to stack it all separately. Might have to finally try a HH for them. (Hemlock, spruce, and white pine.)
