Don't burn pine , pine burning thread .

[Sawyer Rob]

It sure smells nice when you noodle it!!

It sure smells NICE when you build your deer blind out of it too!!

SR

 

[square1]

It sure smells NICE when you build your deer blind out of it too!!
SR

We'll put that in the "Don't Burn Pine" group

 

[brenndatomu]

I had to replace that "one chunk", it was just under $500.00 installed! SO, won't be burning too many of them!! lol

SR

So you do have at least one then... unless you already turned it into a sand box for the kiddies (and/or the kitties )

 

[Lander]

I'm an idiot and failed to get wood for this winter. I have 3 cords of oak, but it is green. So, I went to a local tree guy and cleaned up his stack of "trash." I got a few cords of white pine, and a cord of mixed hard wood. I'll be burning a lot of pine this year.

 

[dancan]

Swamp pine for us northern flatlanders.

Sorry Benp , up here a little further North we call then , Tamarack ,Hackmatack or Larch .
But , I do like the term Swamp pine , it's rot resistant and has a good btu value
I'd sure cut and burn it if I was in a stand of it .

 

[benp]

I agree Dan. Most here call it Tamarack and I have only heard a handful call it swamp pine.

It's a pretty popular firewood and we usually get a delivery of it every other year.

Eta- the reason why I said "swamp pine for us flatlanders" is because that's where it grows here.

That was just a picture from the inter webs but could very well be from anywhere around here.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

So you do have at least one then... unless you already turned it into a sand box for the kiddies (and/or the kitties )

To tell the truth, I was so sick about it, (it was my fault) I put it out back and haven't looked at it since!!

SR

 

[NSMaple1]

Sorry Benp , up here a little further North we call then , Tamarack ,Hackmatack or Larch .
But , I do like the term Swamp pine , it's rot resistant and has a good btu value
I'd sure cut and burn it if I was in a stand of it .

I came up with my own word for it - hackytack. Got some in my stacks to burn this winter from some cleaning up of a field edge last year, along with some supremely knotty pasture spruce. My stacks are a real dogs breakfast - long as it's dry, it's BTUs.

 

[svk]

It sure smells NICE when you build your deer blind out of it too!!

SR

I love the combination of scrounged and new lumber, it looks like everything I build.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I love the combination of scrounged and new lumber, it looks like everything I build.

Nearly the whole thing, is built out of lumber I just milled, out of storm damaged tree's, from here on my place. AND, it's coming along quite nicely...

Yes, there's still plenty of work to do on it, but it's usable right now...

SR

 

[Zeus103363]

Nearly the whole thing, is built out of lumber I just milled, out of storm damaged tree's, from here on my place. AND, it's coming along quite nicely...

Yes, there's still plenty of work to do on it, but it's usable right now...

SR

Very nice work! I work at a sawmill and I am impressed with your work! Did you dry any of that lumber or is it still green?

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[Sawyer Rob]

Very nice work! I work at a sawmill and I am impressed with your work! Did you dry any of that lumber or is it still green?

Thanks Zeus,

All of the lumber is right off the mill, but the logs were from two yr. old storm damaged tree's, so some drying had taken place.....no matter, I allowed for shrinkage...

Thanks again,

SR

 

[brenndatomu]

Burnin a load of pine right now as I type this...hope my chimney is still here in the morning!

 

[WoodTick007]

I barbecued with pine once, but the steak tasted like pinesol, so I spruced it up with some hickory.

I am just curious. . . did you review this one liner prior to posting it or did you just go for it and hit the reply button? ? ? Because I was / am hearing crickets right now? Have I missed something in the delivery? lol

 

[WoodTick007]

burn anything as long as it is dry

That is not true. . . at night or when snowing heavy or there are very strong winds I burn chunks of wet tires and Styrofoam. . .the best are Michelin and it seems that the foam from these new fangled flat screen tv's buy best.

 

[Gypo Logger]

I am just curious. . . did you review this one liner prior to posting it or did you just go for it and hit the reply button? ? ? Because I was / am hearing crickets right now? Have I missed something in the delivery? lol

There was some plagiarism in the one liner, being the pinsol. Lol
Pine being on the minority list of the totem pole is a fine wood to burn.
There is little or no evidence that pine causes more creosote than other species.
Although less discerning hillbillies who burn pine seldom if ever clean their chimneys, hence the bad wrap that conifers get.

 

[Whitespider]

Odd, out here the real Tamarack/Larch grows on hillsides amd usually fairly high altitude, well above any wet lands.

Swamp pine for us northern flatlanders.

Sorry Benp , up here a little further North we call then , Tamarack ,Hackmatack or Larch .

I agree Dan. Most here call it Tamarack and I have only heard a handful call it swamp pine.

LOL
Regional "slang" names make for confusion...

What turnkey is talkin' 'bout and calling "real Tamarack/Larch" is the Western Larch (Larix occidentalis)... it is a "real" Larch, it ain't the "real" Tamarack (but it may be nicknamed that locally). The word Tamarack is an Algonquian Indian word meaning "snowshoe wood", or something close to that... and there weren't no Algonquian Indians in the western United States so it's near impossible to claim the "real" Tamarack grows there when considering the word's origin.

What dancan is talkin' 'bout, and benp is callin' Swamp Pine, is the Eastern Larch (Larix laricina)... it is the "real" Tamarack and grows mostly in swampy areas. It is fairly wide-spread in Canada, but the only place you'll find the "real" Tamarack (Eastern Larch) growing in the United States is in the Great Lakes region and far northeast... Northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York and on up into Maine.

Now the "real" Swamp Pine (Pinus elliottii), also called the Slash Pine, grows in the far southeast United States... like Florida far southeast.

Hey... just straitening out the confusion... b'cause I can
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[dancan]

Thanks Spidey , always nice to learn new things , most people don't know how much the Indian names have influenced the name of stuff and places here in North America .
I like the name swamp pine though , I think I'm gonna use it often "Nah , you don't want that tree , it's just swamp pine , causes chimney fires you know ...."

 

[svk]

It's been months since we've had a real WS explanation like that. Welcome back man!

 

[hamish]

I burn loads of Eastern White Pine, gotta clean up them slabs somehow, so I convert then to btus for off season burning and on the chip burner for off season water heating.

I recently torn down a 100+ year old barn made of cedar, been burning that for the past few weeks, funny to get a 4 hr burn out of a piece of cedar!