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Seems like a great way to stock up your firewood supply for the next winter, if you manage to target it in a way that doesn't cause half the city to show up, bu
by meibo 4y ago
Seems like a great way to stock up your firewood supply for the next winter, if you manage to target it in a way that doesn't cause half the city to show up, but maybe a little less than that?
- zeven7 4y agoPine is really smokey and burns fast
- midoridensha 4y agoIt's worse than that. The sap in it will collect in the chimney and then cause a chimney fire. You really don't want to burn that stuff in a fireplace.
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y agoSo use a rocket stove? Burns too hot and efficient to leave residue.
- yibg 4y agoYeah, let me just dig the old rocket stove out of the basement and fire it up.
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y agoThey are fairly easy and cheap to construct, plenty of guides for rocket stoves, and rocket mass heaters. Want to heat an entire garage 24h with a hand full of twigs? An ordinary oven can't cope.
- fifilura 4y agoI'd say that is a symtom of bad combustion (too little air). Not what kind of wood you use. Sap burns just fine.
- alrlroipsp 4y agoIt's both too low temperature burning leaving resiude in the chimney that can catch fire later, AND pine/spruce having way too much sap to burn alone. You should absolutley mix it with other wood when you burn it, same as oak.
- fifilura 4y agoFair enough. Feels like you have more (possibly hard-earned) experience than me on this issue.
- fifilura 4y agoHere in Sweden at least, christmas trees are not pines but spruce. These small ones with lots of branches - probably not worth the work effort unless you are desperate. And you'll get a lot of residue branches. You also want them to dry for a season before you burn them. Other than that, they burn just like any other log. Maybe a bit less energy per log. Maybe more smokey than some, but smoke should go out the chimney not in the room.
- mc32 4y agoIn the US we use firs and spruce as well but often "pine" means some kind of conifer... Occasionally you might see some white pine sold at Christmas tree lots.
- alrlroipsp 4y agoGranved är ren skit. Förstör skorstenen o pannan, kåda o inge energivärde. Elda björk istället!!!
- aidenn0 4y agoMostly fir or spruce in the US as well, but those are often informally referred to as "pine"
- eropple 4y agoIt's not. You don't want to burn softwoods; they're resinous and create a ton of smoke.
- marssaxman 4y agoA pile of Christmas trees makes for a terrific January beach bonfire.
- rubyfan 4y agoEvery year our neighbors do this. We jokingly refer to them as The Bumpus family because they are loud and are always doing stuff like this.
- wildzzz 4y agoWe lit up a dead Christmas tree that had been sitting outside one summer. We were so sure the cops would show up when someone saw the two story column of fire that thing made. The good part is that it was all over in about a minute.
- Angostura 4y agoProperly dried they are pretty smoke-free
- eropple 4y agoHow dry are we talking? Because burning furniture-grade EWP offcuts (~6% moisture content) is smoky as hell. It isn't the wood, at least not entire - it's the sap pockets and other crap. (I have a wood shop, these are things relevant to my interests!)