Cedar? You guys burn it if given the chance? YIKES!

I do the same thing. I use those cheap plastic storage bins available at HD, and just carry one up to the stove when needed, lasts a month or two just throwing some "trash in to get some lazy coals going for a new load....

Red Cedar "splitter trash":

 

Just ran outside and snapped a few pics of what's left to stack... was a bit too dark last night to finish stacking it....

 

I bet that pile smells heavenly

 

Eastern Red Cedar/Juniper all right. I burn the scraps/small rounds & pieces with large defects.The rest I have other uses for....

Looks familiar.

 

I did exactly what Thistle did. Noodled a large cedar round into square and ran it through the bandsaw for woodworking planks. The red cedar was full of knots and I could not do too much with it.

Nice bandsaw BTW.

I hear red cedar is good for grilling salmon on planks.

Here are some white cedar fishing poppers and plugs I turned. These are in various stages of completion.

 

Never used any Eastern Red Cedar for grilling salmon, but have used Western Red a few times.Scraps from milling a salvaged 80 year old phone pole Qwest (now Century Link) left for me in 2009. Run a couple pieces through band saw,then through planer to have a slab 1.5 x 7 x 15.Soak that in bucket of water a few hours,it chars a bit but don't burn up in one use like those thin shrink wrapped planks that cost $3-5 each...........Gonna try some Cherry or White Oak next once it warms up here finally. Normally just used those woods in golfball to fist size chunks in weber kettle or brinkmann smoker.

 

Sure does. The whole neighborhood smelled like cedar until the wind started blowing 30 knots today.

Sure is perty! My thoughts exactly, too perty to burn, BUT, it'll be real perty when I'm loading it into the stove some day!

Saved a bunch of bags of the saw dust, going into potpourri type bags into the closets.... amazing, it smells strong right through the sealed zip locs!

 

used to burn cedar in my old cat stove back in the day, obviously didnt get the same burn times but it burned well and completely , love the smell of it as well.

 

I can report two things regarding Red Pine:
1. It is the FASTEST drying wood I have EVER seen, hands down, period!! This stuff was cut green, the day I had it dumped on my driveway. I split it the same day (that eve), and it lay in a pile for a few days. Yesterday I stacked what was left to stack, and found that many of the splits were about 1/2 the weight from when I split them just a few days ago. They already felt, and sounded dry (you know that ping sound rather than a dull sound when hit). So I threw a few small / thin pieces in the stove last night just for kicks.m and....
2. IT BURNS FAST, and HOT! Youza, will be great stuff to mix a split or two into a load of Black locust to get it going.... I always knew cedar burned well, but this stuff is like burning gasoline soaked oak!