The humble pine tree

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wg_bent

Minister of Fire
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Nov 19, 2005
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Poughkeepsie, NY
Once upon a time there was a lovely and majestic pine tree who lived in New England. The pine tree had many friends who lost their leaves in the winter. The pine tree would remark to the naked oaks and maples about how silly they looked in winter without all the nice green clothing they would put on for the summer, but the humble hardwoods would only point to hearth.com forums and tell him how worthless he really was since many a post talked about how much creosote the pine would produce, and how little heat would come from his sappy wood. One day, one the the pine tree's children was picked up by a little girl on her camping trip across the country. The little pine cone sat patiently in it's place among the other items the little girl was collecting to remember her trip by. On her way back to colorado, one of the pine cone's seeds dropped onto the ground next to a babbling stream at the foot of a big mountain. The little seed nestled deep in the forest floor, and in spring began to grow.

Over the next 80 or 90 years, the little tree grew into a huge and majestic pine tree just like it's parent. One day during a fierce storm a huge bolt of lightening struck the tree causing it to fall over. The tree remembered just how it's parent would be teased about how useless it was as firewood and lamented over its fate of a long and painful time of decay on the forest floor. But here in Colorado, all the other trees were also pine and reassured the fallen tree that a nice person would soon be along with 30" Stihl saw to cut him up so that he could provide a full winter worth of heat for a family. And soon it was true. A nice man came alone with his saw, cut up the tree, split him into stove size chunks and heated his home for the whole winter with the humble pine tree, and the pine tree felt a great sense of pride in how it was able to do just as good a job of heating as the eastern hardwoods that had said it wasn't so.
 
OH NOEZ TEH CREOSTOES

;)
 
And the little pine trees cousins in Virginia have been honored to be providing heat for Mr. and Mrs. BroBart for the last three weeks while they have been getting December and January highs and lows. They haven't touched a piece of hardwood on the piles yet for either stove.

Thank you little pine tree and all of your family.
 
And too a little pine tree that sprouted from a seed being blown in from Virginia too the Klondike . Thanks for fornicating to fill my mighty rocky country side that gets to -50 below in the bowels of winter. That
no way in Hell a hardwood would ever survive. ( This is pretty much all I got.) Oh thank you pine tree from the N OF 60 Family.
 
north of 60 said:
And too a little pine tree that sprouted from a seed being blown in from Virginia too the Klondike . Thanks for fornicating to fill my mighty rocky country side that gets to -50 below in the bowells of winter. That
no way in Hell a hardwood would ever survive. ( This is pretty much all I got.) Oh thank you pine tree from the N OF 60 Family.

Blaze King don't need no stinkin hardwood. Two end tables and a coffee table from the GoodWill store chopped up will heat the house for the whole winter, eh?
 
And to the big pine tree that landed in Warren's woodpile that he graciously shared with me, Which is sharing the stove with my wood, I'm still burning it Warren, I stretched it out over all this time!
 
Thought it was time to bump this thread once again as the burning pine questions are coming once again.
CHEERS :cheese:
 
I warm my house up with this stove of mine
I keep the chimney hot and drawing fine
I don't care what other scroungers find
Because it's fine, I burn the pine

- Johnny Ash
 
I'll be burning some pine mixed with fir this year. The wood I got was supposed to be an alder/fir mix but ended up being fir 50%, pine 40% and alder 10%. Grrr. Looks like that will be our fall and spring burning wood. Some of the stuff feels like balsa wood next to the dense doug fir.
 
Pine Pine you burn so fine
Burning hot but not so clean
chimney says pine pine go away
dont come back another day.

From others here!it seems ok to burn pine!Just need to clean more often.I have some pine from a tree the town cut down and left !maybe i will split it in the fall and use alittle at a time with my other wood.
 
OK, you guys talked me into it. I cut up a face cord or so of dead Red Pine and Spruce that will be the first to feed the stove this fall. I can get as much Pine as I want for free. Free wood equals free heat whether it be Pine or Hardwood.
 
Todd said:
OK, you guys talked me into it. I cut up a face cord or so of dead Red Pine and Spruce that will be the first to feed the stove this fall. I can get as much Pine as I want for free. Free wood equals free heat whether it be Pine or Hardwood.

That cat in the Fireview is gonna rock with that pine. Just make sure it is dry all the way thru.
 
Hmmmm Wonder if Todd agreed to burn pine to shut up the corny poems lol.
 
Out here in Co. there's so much beetle kill being ground up into pellets, that all you pellet heads will have fuel for many moons.
 
You can not burn pine!!

Send it all to me and I will properly dispose of it.
Lots of poeple will not burn it, easy to pick up for free.

Jeff
 
pinewoodburner said:
You can not burn pine!!

Send it all to me and I will properly dispose of it.
Lots of poeple will not burn it, easy to pick up for free.

Jeff

Shhhh. You are going to screw up a good thing.
 
So what disease or insect infestation has been named after that little girl ?

This must be one of those new-fangled politically correct fairy tales.
Only little boys are supposed to be out sowing seeds.
 
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