I love me some beetle killed trees they are almost ready to burn as soon as they hit the ground. A day or two out in the sun is all it takes for those
Then cutting the limbs and getting it cut up into sections and loaded on the truck. I took down 4 trees today and got alittle more then half a cord. I was real motivated since I got my propane tank filled and the math came out to 30 dollars a month for the last 8 months.
What stove are you burning it in? I burn 4-5 cords of the beetle kill a winter in the Fireview and we only use the propane as a back up. I don't think the furnace has ran once in the last 4 years other than a pre season burn to see if it still works.
I have an Osburn 1600. The pine is only half of what I burn. I also have a bunch of cottonwood and elm that I use mixed in. I use propane for the hot water heater, cooking stove and of course the furnace when used. I was really happy to see I only used 30 dollars a month.
Thats what our wood looks like, thank you for posting this!!!!! I was confused when I joined. I had 2-5 year bone dry wood. Mostly dried in rounds as well. Husbands splitting maul literally made a crack sound on the rounds...., could make rip roaring HOT fire in minutes, pine rocks! Then came questions from members that burn hardwoods, and questions about "coals". I replied yes, there were coals when I stoked again at 2 am, but now realize my coals were just the last part of the pine burning off, not the coals others are accustomed to. I think the best coals I have ever had was our previous home, he would put a large chunk of fossil coal on the hot fire before bedtime, it made lighting up the pine the next morning a breeze. That said, we are now buying wood since late 2013. I burned (tried to burn ) wet split pine spring 2014. We did not have a choice, no furnace here, but it was a losing propsition. What a PITA.
Like gmule said that it is almost ready to burn. You can tell it is really dry. The pic of the wood in the back of the truck shows big cracks in it. Those cracks will go up the whole length of the tree. Out here in the west it is good firewood.
About the coals Wildwest, you are right pine does not leave coals, but that is why I have other wood. I probably have about 8 cords right now split and stacked of other wood.
Nice haul Mag Craft. I noticed the stump looks real nice on that second tree but the first one looks as bad as some of my cutting efforts. Some day I hope to have a clean looking stump every time but I still can't seem to get a level front and back cut on the same tree.
Yep sometimes I do not always get the back cut even with the front. It has not been an issue so far on the direction the tree falls at. I try to spend more time reading the lean of the tree to get it to fall where I want.
I thought stumps were cut that way on purpose to get tree fall where you wanted it too. Sounds good go with it!
I peruse craigslist a lot hoping to score some other species. I have accumulated several cords of a somewhat mixed pile of ash, elm, apple, pear, and cherry that I use for over night logs on weekends. With my wife home during the day and I work a mid shift so I am able to put the last load in at 1 AM before I go to bed so I don't have to rely on hardwoods for coals.
I am retired so I can keep the fire going all day during winter and at night the house is insulated and air tight enouph so it will only drop by 10 to 12 degrees by morning. So I always start a new fire every morning.
Nice wood. I miss the west---used to live in Wyoming for a while. Pine gets a bad wrap from some folks who haven't used it, but it always burned well for me. I enjoyed the pics.
