Convince me its okay to burn pine

[Jotel me this]

I have burned wood for more than a decade, but this is only my third year with a stove. I mostly burn ash and oak, but last winter we lost a big pine in one of the ice storms. I cut it, split it and stacked it (well away from my main wood stacks,) and it seems pretty dry (I have not put a meter on it yet) but it has these giant pockets of sap that just scare the heck out of me.

I know a lot of you guys up north, and at high elevations burn pine without hesitation. If you were me, would you burn it? I probably have the better part of a cord stacked.

someone in here once said, "I live in an area with only pine. you think I import oak??"

dry it and use it

 

[Jay106n]

Just threw some pine splits in. I have not mutated yet.

 

[twd000]

I burn 90% spruce, 10% birch.

How do you split that spruce? I had a neighborhood tree guy leave some spruce rounds and I find my hydraulic splitter just obliterates the knots. There isn't a single straight piece leftover. It looks like I split it with dynamite. I don't think I'm going to bother splitting and stacking the rest of the spruce, as I have plenty of oak and white pine.

 

[Jazzberry]

How do you split that spruce? I had a neighborhood tree guy leave some spruce rounds and I find my hydraulic splitter just obliterates the knots. There isn't a single straight piece leftover. It looks like I split it with dynamite. I don't think I'm going to bother splitting and stacking the rest of the spruce, as I have plenty of oak and white pine.

Knots burn great. Full of pitch usually.