The video was interesting about how a stick of wood could keep you warm. The saying is, it’ll keep you warm three ways. 1) cutting it up, 2) transporting and stacking, 3) burning it. But only in the cooler months. The article mentions burning pine. If green it’s loaded with pitch. Harder to burn and when it does, it’ll accumulate creosote in the chimney, especially if the “smoke” isn’t hot enough. The pitch smoke will accumulate and can cause a chimney fire, I know I’ve had a few. I owned a house built in 1810, no flue liner, just brick, that irregularity will provide places for the creosote to build up. Lived in the house 26 years.
I had 50 acres of woodland in Alton NH much of it was pine, a lot of small standing dead pine, thoroughly dry, no pitch. It was free wood being on my land. I cut it and burned it in the house wood stove, really heated the place. Dead pine burns rapidly and produces high heat with very little ash.
I cut the smaller dead pine and leave the tall ones alone as woodpeckers and other birds find insects / grubs. Besides it harbors more moisture which would need drying. Getting rid of the dead pine opens up the forest to produce better growth for other trees.
It’s also a good wood to burn when making maple syrup in my homemade contraption, high heat and little ash as mentioned.
Burning wood can be interesting , work involvement and pleasureable. If from your property---free.
As an interesting sideline note and history, I’ve been in the south (FL & AL) as a volunteer at a state park (stay free) cutting the southern pine. Those trees have so much pitch in them that when cutting the chips stick to your pant legs. About a half hour after falling, there’s a puddle of pitch on the stump. In the past they made turpentine from the pitch in burning the trees in “tar kilns” Spiral grooves were cut into the bark with a bucket to collect the pitch This is similar to collecting rubber tree sap in Asian countries. Some Tar klins remain around and scars on some trees. For info: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a2c9c1d4738c499bb540297631382dbd
The video was interesting about how a stick of wood could keep you warm. The saying is, it’ll keep you warm three ways. 1) cutting it up, 2) transporting and stacking, 3) burning it. But only in the cooler months. The article mentions burning pine. If green it’s loaded with pitch. Harder to burn and when it does, it’ll accumulate creosote in the chimney, especially if the “smoke” isn’t hot enough. The pitch smoke will accumulate and can cause a chimney fire, I know I’ve had a few. I owned a house built in 1810, no flue liner, just brick, that irregularity will provide places for the creosote to build up. Lived in the house 26 years.
I had 50 acres of woodland in Alton NH much of it was pine, a lot of small standing dead pine, thoroughly dry, no pitch. It was free wood being on my land. I cut it and burned it in the house wood stove, really heated the place. Dead pine burns rapidly and produces high heat with very little ash.
I cut the smaller dead pine and leave the tall ones alone as woodpeckers and other birds find insects / grubs. Besides it harbors more moisture which would need drying. Getting rid of the dead pine opens up the forest to produce better growth for other trees.
It’s also a good wood to burn when making maple syrup in my homemade contraption, high heat and little ash as mentioned.
Burning wood can be interesting , work involvement and pleasureable. If from your property---free.
As an interesting sideline note and history, I’ve been in the south (FL & AL) as a volunteer at a state park (stay free) cutting the southern pine. Those trees have so much pitch in them that when cutting the chips stick to your pant legs. About a half hour after falling, there’s a puddle of pitch on the stump. In the past they made turpentine from the pitch in burning the trees in “tar kilns” Spiral grooves were cut into the bark with a bucket to collect the pitch This is similar to collecting rubber tree sap in Asian countries. Some Tar klins remain around and scars on some trees. For info: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a2c9c1d4738c499bb540297631382dbd
I wouldn’t burn this type of pine for heat.