Is this dried sap or fungus/mold?

is this dried sap or mold/fungus??? If mold already then I'm not going to attempt to split it and throw it back into woods

 

Looks like sap, but something may be feeding on it, like a fungus.

 

Hard to tell, but even if it if mold/fungus it wouldn't bother me at all to keep the wood.

 

Would make some nice splating if you were to mill it.

 

What's so funny?


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Looks like mold to me. I think you will be fine to split it, stack it, dry it and burn it. Mold spores are everywhere. Manage your humidity properly and it won't be a problem when you bring it in the house.

 

I gave up either way and throwing it out....I think I'm done trying to deal with pine. I know most are against it but I try to use any and everything. But this stuff is just so sappy and messy and stringy. I'm done

 

Looks like mold, and the orange stuff looks like fungus. Pretty benign stuff unless it's growing behind your bathroom walls. Once the wood is split and dry it won't have the moisture it needs to thrive.

 

Dont give up on pine. Some are messy, some arent. Pine is great for shoulder season but is also useful to burn down coalbeds or get quick heat on a frigid start-up.

 

Ehhh idk man the stuff I have is the messiest and sappiest stuff I've ever dealt with


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Leave it outside for a while on other wood. Itll dry and maybe form pitchpockets that are a blast to burn.
When cutting, wear clothes thatll embarass a hobo and chuck em when done. Our eastern white pine can be like that but I never pass it up.

 

Pitch pockets? UUGGHHHH I guess I'll finish splitting it and put it alone and mark it to say "garbage/last resort" and not touch it for two years so it's as dry as can be I guess

 

Wood looks fine to me. Some mould might be growing on the sap but that looked OK to me.

 

Some of my favorite wood to burn is pine that was standing dead for a number of years.. It seems that the sap all works its way back to the trunk from the branches and concentrates there.. In some of it you can see the hardened amber sap that burns like a torch. Sap sucks on your hands, saw, gloves and chaps... But when it dries, it gives off a ton of BTU's and is fun to burn..

Fatwood - Wikipedia

 

Some people are quite a bit more sensitive (?) to mold than others. I know a guy that produced some nice spalted maple bowls and decorative trees but his wife put the ki-bosh on letting any of it into the house....
(I also would have kept it)