Creosote question Blaze King

[GG Woody]

Pine and spruce are 2 different animals.
Spruce is low on the totem pole. Comparatively, pines are heaven sent.

So sticky... The Spruce is so sticky, so much sap, I regret every one I touch...

 

[stoveliker]

Try Long Island pitch pine...

 

[all night moe]

So sticky... The Spruce is so sticky, so much sap, I regret every one I touch...

I find pines, in general, much, much, worse.
Especially in late July and all of August.

 

[Tron]

pitch pine

nomen est omen?

 

[Tron]

I find pines, in general, much, much, worse.

Nah, they're ok.
And since we had a severe drought in 2023 and half of our pines are dead now due to pine beetles, I'll have enough firewood to last me decades.
Not sure if the wood itself will last that long, though.

 

[all night moe]

nomen est omen?

I never got the Latin names down.
I've heard more slang names though....LOL
Ie, for box elder, "split leaf maple." I do know it's in the maple family but geese. Guy probably called it that because he sold firewood.

 

[all night moe]

Nah, they're ok.

Try climbing them for a living.... in July and August.
Get back to me after... LOL

 

[Tron]

I never got the Latin names down.

It's not a name, it's a quote. Literally saying "The name is a sign" meaning "The name speaks for itself".
So if it's a "pitch pine", that tells me something right here.

 

[Tron]

Try climbing them for a living.... in July and August.

Well, I meant ok as firewood.
I'm not climbing them anytime soon, or ever, especially not the dead ones.
But I've resorted to not go into the woods to cut them down if the heat index is >95F.
Done it once at around 100F last summer, not going to do it again.

 

[stoveliker]

nomen est omen?

Pinus rigida - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Tron]

Pinus rigida - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Not in our neck of the woods.
We have what's called "Yellow Pines": loblolly, longleaf, shortleaf, or slash pines.

 

[Dieselhead]

Really?
All I burn is southern pine harvested from dead trees, well dried, of course, and it lights off immediately during the reload. So does the cat.

I'm with @Ashful, if the cat's inactive when I reload, I don't wait until the gauge shows active, I know it's going to become active even below the active zone. As mentioned, looking at the cat is a good indication, if it's glowing (even only in places), all's good.

I should have stated my remarks reflect my experience from a cold start.

 

[Ashful]

I'm burning a lot of hickory now, harvested after a very rare tornado ripped thru our neighborhood May 2019, and split and stacked under roof in 2020. I know the stuff is dry, and it burns beautifully, but damn... hickory is just crazy heavy! Carrying two satchels of the stuff, enough to cram an Ashford 30 full of it, is like carrying two armloads of railroad iron.

I'm intrigued by the argument that higher-BTU woods allow one to engage lower on the probe thermometer. Note I didn't mention time, just temperature. It may be that they take longer to get going?

I'll admit that I've noticed huge differences in how one load versus the next take to reach the point where I'm ready to close the bypass. But I'd never paid enough attention to link it to one species of wood versus another. Now I'll have to watch for that!

Many of my loads are mixed these days, oak or hickory mixed with ash or walnut. Walnut in particular is almost balsa wood-light, or at it least it feels that way, after carrying loads of large shagbark hickory splits.

Second load of this afternoon, all hickory, will get a third in this evening:

 

[Ashful]

Oh, and this is when I closed the bypass on a recent load, which went to glowing cat within 15-20 seconds. The second thermo is surface of single wall pipe about 15” above stove collar.

That position in cat probe should be about 100-200F, but glowing cat is probably close to 1000F.

 

[Dieselhead]

Ooo man SB hickory. I burned a couple cord of that last season. From what I recall lots of ash, tons of coals and watch out for the 4th of July spectacular when using your poker on reloads.