Back in September, we had 7 pine trees cut down at out weekend place in Southern Vermont. I already had a good amount of pine, but my father inlaw offered to help me process the wood. The tree service left behind the logs. We spent about 5 hours one Sunday cutting them up. A few weeks later, I rented a splitter and he and I spent a full day splitting. I'm probably preaching to the choir here...but there's something really gratifying about processing firewood that's grown on your land. Here are a bunch of pics from the logs, to rounds, to splits:
Awesome! Nice straight grained logs - can't beat processing pine like that - you got a lot! I burn lots of pine too - shoulder season in house and all winter in the outside shop - dry pine is a dream to burn - just need to load a little more often! Great job!! Cheers!
Glad to see you processed the pine all up. I think it is a waste of good wood to just let it rot away. You just need to let it season like any other wood.
Yeah people around here will let it rot - had a friend who cut some because they were hanging over his driveway. By the time I saw the logs on the ground they had a good bit of rot to them already. You can't beat pine for getting the fire started good and fast unless you're using gasoline.
We burn exclusively pine. Never rotted on us, though I have seen some at 9000 ft that was covered in mud/moss and was starting to rot. Interesting!
Pine makes good firewood, it is the bulk of what I burn. It is really good for getting the house warmed up quickly. Greg
I love it to. Im burning lodgepole pine out in the Canadian Rockies and find it quite impressive. It doesnt coal up, doesnt leave hardly any ash, heats the house up quick, is awesome to give your house a shot in the arm at dinner time if its to early to reload for bed, seasons quick......
It took me awhile to discern why I was not getting the coals in the morning here when I first joined...
I burn pine when is available, and easy pickins. It seasons quickly, and starts quickly too. My parents burn mostly red (norway)pine at the cottage. They get poplar, some maple, birch and if lucky red oak. But pine is what mostly heats their house. Some locals give them weird looks when they say they burn pine. There's a lot of ignorance up north...
Yep it takes coming to a place like this to get educated for some people. Nothing wrong with that either because learning something new is good.
I've been burning Pinion pine for 30 years now. It's very heavy and hard to split, but it sure puts out the heat!
You know what's funny? I've been burning pine up north at the old cottage up north since I was a little kid. So I've known pine burns fine for most of my life. We only had 1 chimney fire up there, ever. That was a combination of not cleaning the chimney enough and a small trailer tire that my dumb friend threw in the fireplace. There were no issues, but mostly because there was snow on the roof. I'm sure he's a bit wiser now.
I've been cutting Pinion that went through a fire 10 years ago, it's kinda easy cutting without all the smaller limbs, bark and all the sap. When it's real cold I'm very happy that I put all the extra effort into it. I did get a load of Tamarack a couple weeks ago, it took me awhile to figure out how to burn it, but I really like it now. Wow! is it easy to split and about half the weight of Pinion.22 degrees outside and 80 inside.
