You're 100% right. If i need extra output in temps like we're having now. I'd prefer anything other than oak for a midday fire! It's a pain trying to burn down the oak coals with a cat stove. Poplar and pine are great for afternoon fires! I burn 90% oak...(100% last year and so far this year )
With my AS if I open the bypass and crack the door while opening the air all the way it burns them down fairly quick. If I need it really fast, I open the ash pan door and the coals are gone in a hurry.
Your right, last night i told my wife, ''now you see why i try to get wood when ever, and where ever, i can get it.'' I've got a pretty good stack of wood outside of my wood shed, but, you never know when you could get your wood supply cut off, which we did where we live. So, now, its buy it by the dump truck load, but, i have no place to put it at this time. I'll have to figure some thing out for the future.
Nothing yet, and of course it’s snowing like New England in February so it’s not looking good for today...
I managed to at least start some of splitting before the snow moved in. These are some of the pieces that were already bucked to my preferred 18”. The smell of this stuff is strong but in a good way. I can actually smell it inside the house, 30 feet away. It went right through my gloves too and now the smell is on my hands. Reminds me of a bad New Year’s Eve with Tanqueray about 15 years ago
You must have the magic touch then, being able to convince a sunny California girl to come back to Wisconsin with you
I know, not many would swoon over pine, I'm just happy that I didn't have to go out and get this stuff Now the REAL work begins though!
Around this time next year when home heating oil is $6.00 a gallon, people are going to show up at my door in droves begging for a piece of my pine empire!!!!
How fresh is that pine? If it's just cut and sappy, which it sounds based on the 30 ft smell radius, mayonnaise will clean off the pitch from your saw. Also if you can process and stack it before it warms up, it will be much cleaner. I processed a fir tree this last winter and it left sap trails on the stacks from each split, some a good foot long. Glad I didn't have to touch that firewood for a couple of months. I hate pine pitch.
Oh it's pretty fresh I'd say. Lots of sap everywhere. I haven't cut any yet but that's a good tip to know with the mayonnaise. I'm hoping to knock out this whole pile this weekend, considering it's taking up my parking spot. The hard part will be moving it all into the far end of the backyard so I can stack it. I may end up spending some time clearing a wide enough trail so I can load up my trailer and use my lawn tractor to haul it. I'm not too keen on carrying it all back there in my wheelbarrow.
