I'm into a small section of Spruce in my burning wood now. I had to take it when I scrounged it; as I said I would take ALL the wood that was in the pile. It's been 2 years CSSed. I really like the way it burns!!! Same burn times as my box elder........different type flame though. BTU's baby!!!!
My Fiskars would just bury itself into the wood...............so I resorted to "wedge and sledge"!! It's much lighter than box elder with the same drying time; but it has about the same burn time.
2 year seasoned is good for spruce I've noticed it Burns much better than after the second year, not sure why, maybe the pitch dres out , sure burns hot on the BK cat. Only problem for me is the fly ash plugs the cat way more than birch
Yep that Spruce has a gazillion limbs sticking out of the trunk making it tough to split. I had some here and noodled the whole bunch. Like you said MightyWhitey Free BTU's. You gotta love it.
I like burning spruce although like most of us we dont go out of our way for it. I find it burns nice and hot but there is a noticeable difference in burn times compared to my go to woods. I find burning it in the shoulder season is preferable. I actually just went through a truck load of it that my son and I c,s,s this fall. It was easy to get and was standing dead. The kind we have out here are tallish and easy to split.
I've burned spruce before and, other than it not holding coals, it's a flamethrower! Burns very hot! I burned up several very large Norway spruces a few years back in my maple syrup evaporator, man did that thing cook fast.....
I picked up a couple rounds of spruce from the tree dump once...after splitting them....there won't be a second time, if at all possible.
Not even close, in my experiences. It lasts well in a tight stove or CAT stove, but still not in the same league as hickory.
I have about 3/4 cord of Spruce rounds out front in need of splitting. I have read that it is excellent wood to use in a wood fired kitchen stove. Small splits can be fed to the fire box to control a nice hot burner. I noticed in our little brick rocket stove that some Spruce really gets a pot of water boiling in a hurry. It is a shame that "pine" gets shunned as firewood by the uneducated. Even the tree crew I worked on thought I was crazy because I wanted the "pine". Notice how I put pine in quotation marks, because the tree crew and just about everyone else can't tell the difference between a Pine, Fir, Spruce, or etc. I looked at the neighbor lady crazy not long ago when she pointed at a stand of "pine" trees and expressed concern about them breaking because they were soooooo tall. Well I explained that those SPRUCE trees were extremely flexible, and pointed out it is the kind of wood the use in very flexible plywood. Hmmm, I guess that's true.... is the response I received I love all types of woods, just like people. Everything has a purpose and place.
Well, around here most folks, including me, tend to just say pine for most evergreens except for cedar. No harm. It's sort of like saying maple or oak. There are many different types and there can be a big difference in them, say, like soft maple vs hard maple; but they are still maple.
