I've had all this pine sitting here and I split about 1/2 cord of it last week. Split a little more today then said forget it. I have 2 cord of cherry and walnut waiting and two maples waiting to come down in the yard that split easier and burn better. So I loaded up the green rounds and took them to the dump. Had another stack that was standing dead and it's a little punky so I split it in quarters and threw it in the burn pile. I burn pine in my stove and have burned mostly pine this year so far. But with it being less btu's and more work I just don't want to mess with it any more with better stuff waiting. Now to get to the good stuff.
Where's the secondary flames? Oh, I thought that pile was a pic of the BK/Princess. Definitely a 40 hour burn.
Sometimes you just have to do it. Shoot, I still have not taken care of the pine from last winter. One of these days....
I got too many other things going on and figured I needed to cut a corner somewhere so the pine had to go. I'll stack the splits I have by the fire pit for next summer.
Pine can be really easy to split if you have a tree without many branches. I guess you didn't have that kind of tree.
I hear ya' Sean. I mentioned in another thread that I still haven't gotten all the rounds from the yard Spruce split. I'll get to it though. Might be spring, but I'll get to it.
What kind is it? Most of the pine I get around here (southern yellow) splits pretty easy. Ive got a load of 17% pine in the stove now.
My neighbor had a large pine, not sure of species, blow over a few years ago and I took my 044 over to help out. I cut cookies where the ring of branches grew. He split it by hand and had no problem.
This stuff wasn't fun at all to split. Stringy and lots of branches so many knots in the splits. I had to run the splitter full length of the stroke every time. Some of it even bogged down the splitter into the slow mode.
I've got a bit of White Pine that's next to the fire pit that sounds just like that stuff. Got all gnarly when I tried to split it. I snagged a few of the smaller ones this fall and stuck 'em in the 30. Burned pretty gooder. The bigger ones will go in the pit.
Cant blame ya. Ive tossed many sweetgum round into the woods that I got tired of dealing with. That burn pile oughta go for a while
