jtp10181 said:Edit your profile to include your location....
In most areas Pine can season in a year, or even half a year if its arid and sunny all summer. Pine will season around twice as fast as hard woods if its split from what I have read / heard.
No, we import all our wood because its a cold climate here and 90% of our wood is pine. The hardwood from down south is the only thing able to heat our homes. %-Pjohnnywarm said:Worth the trouble to cut and split??
John
Highbeam said:I am now burning pine. It was a dead standing large diameter tree and seasoned to very dry dryness over this last summer. It's all fine to burn except.... except when you get near the bottom and the outside is covered in this white hard layer of pitch. I threw in a split with a white outside and boy oh boy did it burn like a torch. Made me quite nervous. Maybe what they call fatwood. Avoid that part of the tree or save it for firestarter.
EddyKilowatt said:+1 to the comments about fatwood. Learn to spot it. Sometimes you'll see pitch (crusty crystalized-sugar looking stuff) on the outside... sometimes it is heart wood and just looks a little more marbled or translucent with a more variegated grain. Either way it lights with a match and burns like an old tire. Nice for kindling, not so nice if you got a hot fire going and throw a "fatty" log in... you'll see yellow flame and soot you didn't know your stove could make.
But once you weed out the fatwood, pine burns fine and the kind around here at least (Radiata) splits easy and dries fast.
Eddy
swestall said:If you're going to work with pine, make sure to have a big bottle of Lestoil handy. (to get the pitch off you).
Pine is good.........
swestall said:If you go to EBAY and search fatwood there are some pictures there.
nshif said:here is a pic of what i have
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