What Kind of Pine/Evergreen Do You Burn?

[windthrown]

Some winters we heat with as much at 40% Leyland Cypress!

Of course we burn a lot of pine and other wood that most consider to be 'trash' woods.

Now that is a lot of Leyland Cypress! It's a way over planted landscape tree in this area so it's pretty easy to come by.

I'm only mentioning it because I doubt many other use it.

For the most part it's about like any other conifer.

I have burned Leyland and Monterey cypress. Denser than most pines, smells up the house with cedar smell. The solid wood part is good, but the stuff I got had a lot of punky wood in the Leyland cypress that were like balsa wood.

 

[windthrown]

OK, OK. Enough of the "we pro", or "big timber", or "pro fallers" stuff.
Enough of the "Harry Homeowner", "fru-fru", or "weekend warrior" fool talk.
Many of us have done both so-called "pro" logging AND cutting firewood for ourselves. We don' need no stinkin' divisions here.
Besides who the F knows who or what your C.V. or experience is ? Who ?

Deal with how different parts of the country cut more than just big timber softwoods. East and midwest have more diverse species Windy than the PNW. So ?
We cut hardwoods, softwoods, blowdowns, firewood, trails; probably more variety than only big softwoods. So what ?
And, we use shorter bars and maybe smaller saws. Why? Trees don't grow to 90" DBH here. Smaller DBH timber in isolated lots means saws that are lighter to carry in.
Faster to sharpen in the field. So ?
So ?

Hey look! Its another noob turd that won't flush wanting to start a fight...

You act like you own this forum. Well, do yah punk?

 

[Wannabe123]

Round 2............FIGHT!

FINISH HIM!

 

[wndwlkr]

I wish I had some pine here. This Hedge is tough cutting.

 

[benp]

I wish I had some pine here. This Hedge is tough cutting.

End of thread...you win.

 

[svk]

I hear brush ape likes pine too.

 

[Wannabe123]

I hear brush ape thinks Hedge cutting is easy and anyone who says otherwise is a wimp (and I don't even know who brush ape is, but his reputation speaks loudly)

 

[windthrown]

Drama Queens.
Who's counting posts or 'seniority' ?
Hey, do any of these PP's ( Putdown Pros ) need to demean anyone ?
We're talking wood heating fercripssake; not "mine is bigger than yours" .
Maybe SlowP (whoever she really is) will love us Fru-Fru, Hommies.

Talk about drama queens, is that you back here again, Fru-Fru Brush Ape?

WTF is a fru-fru hommie, anyway? Is this your picture that I posted here an eternity ago?

 

[maine]

I am hurt.
Yup, we do burn softwoods, only in the shoulder seasons. Never a problem with creosote with any wood
as long as you burn right. Right also that softwoods ( spruce and fir here in N. Maine ) crack in windy snow storms. An early November wet snow with gale winds dropped thousands of trees.

And please, use grammatical marks correctly--it's " Pulp's" dammit. You write like a Fru Fru.
P.S. Bitterroot is Idaho ?

seems like we have one of these bad ice storms at least once a decade.

i remember the one in the 90s was a lot worse, at least down here in the midcoast maine area.

this last one we just had a couple months ago left me without power for about a week.

 

[windthrown]

Oh and Pulp Fiction, this is a pro arborist site, BTW. Perhaps you should consider limiting your posting to the "Homeowner Helper Forum" on this site? Maybe you should also consider not using something as dangerous as a chainsaw, or you might get yourself killed. Also you might want to post on some other more touchey-feelie sensitive wood cutting site, like say, Saw Haw gz (one word) dot com? I think they would be more than happy to help you out with your kind of feisty savvy over there.

 

[Ambull01]

OK, OK. Enough of the "we pro", or "big timber", or "pro fallers" stuff.
Enough of the "Harry Homeowner", "fru-fru", or "weekend warrior" fool talk.
Many of us have done both so-called "pro" logging AND cutting firewood for ourselves. We don' need no stinkin' divisions here.
Besides who the F knows who or what your C.V. or experience is ? Who ?

Deal with how different parts of the country cut more than just big timber softwoods. East and midwest have more diverse species Windy than the PNW. So ?
We cut hardwoods, softwoods, blowdowns, firewood, trails; probably more variety than only big softwoods. So what ?
And, we use shorter bars and maybe smaller saws. Why? Trees don't grow to 90" DBH here. Smaller DBH timber in isolated lots means saws that are lighter to carry in.
Faster to sharpen in the field. So ?
So ?

Where the hell did this come from? I saw no reason for this idiotic post.

I will never say I would not burn pine again, cause one day may have too but long as their plenty of oak and hardwoods the pine will stay in the woods. Another reason I don't like pine is I cut most of my wood in the summer and the sticky pine tar gets on everything.

When you're burning hardwoods, do you still mix in some soft/faster burning species? I ask because I've been experimenting this year with wood burning. When I load the wood insert with red oak, it's a pain to get started! I usually have to place a few splits of poplar with the red oak just to get it going. When I build up a good bed of coals then I can load it up with red oak.

Oh and Pulp Fiction, this is a pro arborist site, BTW. Perhaps you should consider limiting your posting to the "Homeowner Helper Forum" on this site? Maybe you should also consider not using something as dangerous as a chainsaw, or you might get yourself killed. Also you might want to post on some other more touchey-feelie sensitive wood cutting site, like say, Saw Haw gz (one word) dot com? I think they would be more than happy to help you out with your kind of feisty savvy over there.

Well this site probably saved my life. I've done some seriously stupid **** with a chainsaw. After finding this site I'm much more safety conscious. You Tube is filled with a ton of tree falling fails but I just never thought about searching for them. Think it may have been your thread/post that has a dude taking down 3-4 trees at one time. Started on one and made it barber chair then he moved on to another that was leaning a bit. Anyway, before finding this site I probably would have done something similar lol. My point in this whole ramble is I'm glad this site isn't restricted to pro arborists.

 

[svk]

Where you been @Ambull01 ? You missed all of the fun today

 

[slowp]

I did not know that firewood was an arborist site. I are not one.

 

[stihl sawing]

Where the hell did this come from? I saw no reason for this idiotic post.



When you're burning hardwoods, do you still mix in some soft/faster burning species? I ask because I've been experimenting this year with wood burning. When I load the wood insert with red oak, it's a pain to get started! I usually have to place a few splits of poplar with the red oak just to get it going. When I build up a good bed of coals then I can load it up with red oak.



Well this site probably saved my life. I've done some seriously stupid **** with a chainsaw. After finding this site I'm much more safety conscious. You Tube is filled with a ton of tree falling fails but I just never thought about searching for them. Think it may have been your thread/post that has a dude taking down 3-4 trees at one time. Started on one and made it barber chair then he moved on to another that was leaning a bit. Anyway, before finding this site I probably would have done something similar lol. My point in this whole ramble is I'm glad this site isn't restricted to pro arborists.

Nah, I use the cheap firestarters at wal mart, but once the stove gets fired it rarely goes out. I have used pine knots before. they work pretty good.

 

[Ambull01]

Where you been @Ambull01 ? You missed all of the fun today

Dude, I'm having some serious issues with the notifications! Didn't realize Pulp graced us with his presence lol. I've been working on the Poulan 375 to get it ready for my move to Washington state.

As for firewood, I just missed out on a pretty big score of Leyland Cypress. I didn't think you could actually burn that stuff so I passed. I'm learning you can burn just about anything as long as it's cured.

 

[Ambull01]

Nah, I use the cheap firestarters at wal mart, but once the stove gets fired it rarely goes out. I have used pine knots before. they work pretty good.

I see. So I guess some type of firestarter may be needed with hardwoods. With the poplar I can start it easily (top down, bottom up, paper and kindling, etc). I've tried the Super Cedars, they seem to be the best. Also used the fat wood stuff, they're okay but they put out a lot of black smoke that clings to the firebrick. The blackish residue burns up once the fire gets going but it makes me a bit nervous what it's doing further up the flue.

 

[stihl sawing]

You can start dry oak with paper, but those starters are cheap and will start a fire in a rainstorm. I would probably still use them with pine too.

 

[Ambull01]

Where you been @Ambull01 ? You missed all of the fun today

Oh yeah, I was wondering about this while tinkering with the chainsaw (sometimes I keep myself up at night because I can't stop thinking about things lol). You live in a place no human should. Too damn cold up there. What is your burning season? I figure for me it will be about Oct/Nov to maybe March/April.

 

[windthrown]

You should have taken the Leyland. Not the best firewood, but way above the worst. Good shoulder season wood. I use the punky Leyland to start fires with. One sheet of crumpled up newspaper and a chunk of punky cypress on it, and wallah!

 

[Ambull01]

You can start dry oak with paper, but those starters are cheap and will start a fire in a rainstorm. I would probably still use them with pine too.

That might be my whole issue, I'm not totally sure this red oak is 20% or below. I may just break down and buy the Super Cedars. My wife sucks at starting fires and is so stubborn she'll never listen to my recommendations. I've been reading about chainsaws, bucking, splitting, elitist stoves, White Spider physics discussions, firewood, etc for months. I've received advice from fru fru hommies, pro arborists, weekend hacks, etc. All this and she still keeps the primary air wide open the whole burn cycle and puts in one damn split at a time!!!