Finally tying up some non firewood projects and getting back to my wood stash. Here's my current stash ready for splitting. I know the pic doesn't show it but it's 4 rows deep Then there's this... I figure that's about 100K calories...
Those are Pondarosa Pines. I know a lot of people look down on pine. Where I live they grow everywhere HUGE! I used to be picky, not anymore. I figure the ease of getting them makes up for the btu deficiency. The challenge is the diameter and moving them without heavy equipment.
HA! Yeah that's not even all of it. Figure this will get me 3-4 years ahead. What's great about it is after this I can focus on oak.
Indeed they are !!! If you’re figuring the coefficient works, you’ll find out that the large trees are gonna give you your heat worth out of them in terms of volume. So whatever you have, you probably have about 2 cord worth of good hard wood there being ponderosa pine. Helps to have someone who burns pine more dominantly than others(estimating by your post sir) I’m very comfortable burning Alder here, so if you’re comfortable with pine no reason why you shouldn’t be. Looks like you’ll be busy with that for a good while!
Aren't we all really comfortable w/the wood at hand, in our area. How can you not be? In Colorado, pine...be in lodge pole, ponderosa, doug fir...is what there is. I've burned it for years and very grateful to have it.
Really what I meant was this alder was presumably 8 years old when I got it. The family had come home and told me this was the same wood they had then but needed the room for their things in a place of storage. So this wood has been very dry and such a breeze to burn. Its a nice medium heat, Im not opening windows often when I burn Alder. Now I am very comfortable with the wood I have otherwise different varieties. Just having the mild heat as opposed to others is working best now. Feels better that I have lots of variety for different ranges of temps. Not sure if I’ll be falling into the teens anytime soon but I’m ready for it either way.
Looking good. Our white pine and spruce get heavy like that out here. These are average for an older yard tree. Big, but not unmanageable. Gotta split em Savage style.
Yeah you can't willy nilly this stuff That's a nice haul. I've heard White Pine is dense. How does it burn?
That is some good sized rounds. The Lodge pole pine out here that I get is not that large. Well like you said you have some work to do.
White pine burns great. It dries in less than a year as well. Now it's not a long lasting burn, but it's great for taking the chill out of the house, and shoulder season. Yeah, you've got some work to do, but winter time is great to do outside work.
Man we have Lodge Pole out here as well. What a great softwood. Burns like a champ, low ash in my experience but as you said doesn't get too big. IMHO that's actually an advantage. Easier to move ya know?
White pine burns hot and fast, and as Horkn says, it dries equally fast. I don't think I'd call it dense, at least what I'm getting (yard trees with fat growth rings) but it certainly has its place here. I'll use it for a quick heat up once or twice a day in shoulder seasons, and mix it with hardwood when it's not real cold to stretch the good stuff out some. It's also great to burn down coals, which is weekly maintenance with an owb as far as I'm concerned. The best part about pine is that here in the northeast no one wants it because it causes chimney fires so I generally get all I can handle delivered free.
"The best part about pine is that here in the northeast no one wants it because it causes chimney fires". Yeah that's what I keep telling all the local folks around here. I have about 6 cords of Ponderosa Pine in my stash.
