PINE logs anyone?

[Midniteoyl]

I heard the same as u. There's a huge oversupply of logs right now. Log people don't have any more room for logs?
But milled lumber prices are up 300 percent in 1 year. Seems like with that much log supply , the milled lumber prices should be going down. My quotes for the wood for the house are about 25,000 more than what it would have been about a year ago. I am delaying purchasing the lumber package because I am not paying that much of a premium.

 

[workinonit]

I built my entire house with lumber from a Woodmizer saw mill. Trees from my farm. 3000 sq feet. I wish I were a little closer to the OP. I would grab that up in a heartbeat. Around home loggers can't get wood right now. Go figure.

 

[stuckmotor]

A nice pile of pine saw logs has sat rotting in the ditch on my street for around ten or fifteen years. People with personal saw mills can often be seen on YouTube sawing trash logs that these would have put to shame.

 

[cqaigy2]

What a shame to see all that wood go up in smoke in a burn pile. One would think somebody would go for firewood, being it's already downed, limbed and stacked right where you could drive up to it.

 

[MossRoad]

What a shame to see all that wood go up in smoke in a burn pile. One would think somebody would go for firewood, being it's already downed, limbed and stacked right where you could drive up to it.

Many people won't burn pine (or any evergreen) in wood stoves in Indiana.

 

[cqaigy2]

Many people won't burn pine (or any evergreen) in wood stoves in Indiana.

Soot, or sap?

 

[grsthegreat]

Ive burnt pine for 25 years. Its mostly what we have. Aged 3 seasons. I clean the tripple wall flue every year. Good heat, never have any issues.

you just have to be sure to clean flue every year.

i also have a very good wood burning fireplace that has good heat control as the pine burns fast.

 

[plowhog]

What a shame to see all that wood go up in smoke in a burn pile.

This was the driving reason for me recently buying a home/hobby sawmill. The utility company kept taking trees down that were lost to waste. I'm now turning them into something productive.

This spring my wife got 3 new raised planters for our garden-- made out of just a single cedar tree the utility company took down. It was large enough to make 2x12's and 2x6's more than 12 feet long.

I was forced to handle downed trees one way or another, whether bucking them up and rolling pieces into a ravine, or splitting for firewood. It isn't much more work to set them on a sawmill and get something productive out of them.

 

[MossRoad]

Soot, or sap?

Mostly rumors of creosote buildup and short burn times compared to hardwoods.

 

[cqaigy2]

Mostly rumors of creosote buildup and short burn times compared to hardwoods.

I mostly burn doug fir but have some cherry and alder. No pine though. Douglas Fir burns pretty clean, the Alder burns a little longer, Cherry a little longer than Alder. I got some Oak one time, and that burned like coal, it was great. I clean the flue every years, but find little creosote build up.