I was getting ready yesterday for wood burning season. And forgot to label each pallet of wood, and don't want to burn any pine indoors. Please help if you can determine by picture order which wood is which Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
If you can get a closer picture of the pile in the 5th picture it may be your pine but why not burn it indoors? If it is nice and dry it will make nice firewood for early fall and late spring when the time it lasts in the stove doesn't matter as much.
Well I don't use a wood stove, it's an open face regular fireplace. I'm pretty sure I only have one pallet of pine somewhere but I'm so terrible still with determine what kind of wood is which. Pine is not good to burn inside cuz of creosote build up Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Burn all the pine indoors you want as long as it's dry. The creosote buildup from pine is a myth. Ask anyone who lives up north....all they burn is pine! Ps...any wood that is wet will put off creosote, not just pine.
Wrong. Just wrong. As has been said, as long as it's dry (AKA, under about 20% moisture content), it won't create any more creosote than any other wood. You've been listening to the wrong people, or believing old wives tales, which were based on folks burning habits from long ago (and some, not so long ago).
Pine smells piney. Use your nose. No need to worry about burning it indoors but I wouldn't want to rely on it when it's super cold out. You'd be reloading the stove a lot.
The Pine will probably be lighter in weight than your other wood, unless you have some Tulip Poplar or the like. It will give a livelier fire, I like burning it in the fire pit. But as everyone has said, I wouldn't hesitate to burn it in the fireplace as long as it's dry.
It is difficult to tell some of the pictures what the wood is for certain but I really did have to laugh when I read the quote above and knew the guys would jump all over this one. But you are not alone as it is an old wives tale from years and years ago. I hear it at least a dozen times every winter. The bad part is that you can't educate everyone and they will continue to scoff at the idea of burning pine. I fondly remember as a young lad the first time we took a vacation up north and lots of places had fireplaces and all of them were burning pine. We thought nothing of it but many did! None of the places burned down either. Actually I'm very happy that you posted this as this can help a lot of people so thank you for your post Nickolas.
2nd to last pic is pine. Burn it indoors if dry as others have said. I will be burning pine in about a month to keep warm, ain't no thang but an uneducated myth.
Have you cleaned your chimney yet, before the start of the season? Do you have a moisture meter? You're going to need to top cover them all up before the snow flies
I think the pine will still have some pine smell, so you will be able to identify it. It doesn't really matter though. The old wives' tale about not burning pine indoors is common throughout PA, apparently. I just heard it the other day here in Center County.
I hope any reservation about pine has been removed from your concerns Nicholas62388 . I wonder just how that old wives tale originated anyway? Maybe because someone somewhere years ago spent part of their precious time processing pine instead of hardwood? As stated in earlier posts, there are hundreds (thousands) of burners that use pine conifers evergreens etc due to the fact of that is what they have to burn......the old adage, "burn what ya got" I guess! So long as it is dry (seasoned) you'll be fine! Now-get a pic of your fireplace posted!!! Burning a fire would be great, if you could.
