I'll burn anything provided that it's dry. If it's there for the taking. Pine can be a difficult one to split in my experience. The big rounds are full of water adding to the weight.
I am happy to hear that, as I often hear about how easy pine is to split, and how it is one of the lighter woods. I was starting to doubt my strength, cause sometimes they can put up a good fight! I let the rounds dry for several weeks before trying to split them, it really helps. Greg
No doubt that it can be very knotty. I hear ash is really easy. I've seen some very twisted ash trunks too. The smaller branches are a breeze. For splitting, I stand behind red oak, cherry, and locust. Everything else, I use a splitter.
A few shots from this morning. I got home and went and cut and loaded two loads. Still plenty there. It's less than half mile from my house so I think I'll get some more. He already has a bunch bucked to stove length that he said some one else may get but if they don't pick it up, I can have it.
Within a mile & free Be worth it for me. Good for early shoulder season & one off fires to take the chill of on rainy days. + Making a few bundles of kindling is fun too
99% of the time you will find ash to be one of the easiest splitting woods there are. Most of the time we just barely touch it with the hydraulics and it splits open so that makes for some fast splitting as you don't have to move the wedge very much at all up or down.
If the white pine is free and easily accessible I would take it. If it does not meet both of those requirements I would leave it. I have about a cord and a half of white pine for this shoulder season. Looking forward to burning it and saving my oak for colder weather.
yaya, I just looked at those pics, in 40 degree weather that's 2 weeks worth of burnin', hey, I just thought of somethin' PINE IS FINE
Last year when I really got into bushcrafting I learned all about pines and their wonderful pitch and fatwood. Old rotting pines are the best because fatwood does not rot and you can kick or knock away all the punky stuff to collect all the fatwood in the resinous knots. Last night I burned a fatwood torch that I made from a branch butt off an old rotten pine. Fine shavings scraped off a fatwood knot will easily ignite with a spark from a ferro rod. Gooder stuff!
Yup! I have some birch bark in my fire kit. Cattail fluff and other fluffy seeds ignite from a spark real nice too!
