Any pine that I cut that has heavy pitch content gets turned to kindling. You do not want to throw a big chunk of pitch pine in a stove. I have done it, it made key components turn a dull shade of red. Pine is decent firewood I prefer lodgepole over other varieties. The big pitchy but end of a pine is probably better campfire wood than anything.
I burn six to eight cord per year in the owb. Great shoulder season wood, and nobody around here will take it so I usually get it dropped off free of charge, often bucked to length. If you can let your rounds sit for a year it's a lot less messy to work with.
Yep, burn it. White pine can be a pain to split by hand, hope you have a splitter! About half of what I burn is pine, of one variety or other.
Let it season for a year or so, and use it for you shoulder seasons (fall and spring), save the good stuff for the real cold weather. That way, you'll save on using good stuff like oak during the milder periods.... If I had room for that kind of wood, I'd rank it up and use it too. But all my space is taken by 7 years' worth of premium hardwood . I've burned seasoned spruce and pine in my stoves, and it can really put out the heat. But it doesn't have the longevity in the stove that good hardwood does. So, yes it is worth saving if you have the space, but I'd plan on using it in the shoulders, saving the good stuff for the really cold months.
Bahaha! That's funny, yet so true. Cottonwood & Willow are not worth the time, but I never thought about using them as "in law defense". The Alder is a bit better here than some, but not by much.
Last year was my first time burning white pine due to several large trees taken down in our yard. Going forward I will always have pine in the mix if possible. Its light once dry, great for burning coals down, starting fires, can dry in < a year usually, and I have a unlimited supply pretty much. I try to only cut and split when its cold out, its just a bit messy once it warms up. I'm going cut some poplar this fall and see how I like it, we have a crazy amount of it at the cabin.
I did the same thing as the OP this past winter. Burned mostly pine all winter to save my hardwood for the upcoming winter and it worked out very well. Burning pine this winter
