Would you burn juniper wood in a fireplace?

Does it have too much resin in it?

Last week I burned three large piles of juniper wood that's been drying out since July. I put a match to some needles and the whole thing went up quick. Fire was 30 feet in the air.

That was just the branches, I still have a lot of big trunks, and more branches to cut. I don't have a fireplace but thought I might give it to a neighbor if it won't mess up their fireplace. I don't know a neighbor who has a fireplace, but could probably find one.

I don't want to get anyone else to cut the trees because they're close to the house, and it needs to be done carefully. One tree is going to be real tricky because of the house, c-band satellite antenna, and the power lines. I'll probably have the power company come out and trim the tops, they've done it before, to get them out of the power lines.

Will probably have at least a cord when cut.

If you want the wood and are willing to pay shipping I'll send it to you, plus a handling charge.

On Thu, 02 Feb 2017 17:51:52 -0600, "cowabunga dude"
wrote:

If you want the wood and are willing to pay shipping I'll send it to you, plus a handling charge.

I pass and would not burn it inside; nor use it to cook with.

On 2/2/2017 6:51 PM, cowabunga dude wrote:
Would you burn juniper wood in a fireplace?

Does it have too much resin in it?

Last week I burned three large piles of juniper wood that's been drying
out since July. I put a match to some needles and the whole thing went
up quick. Fire was 30 feet in the air.

That was just the branches, I still have a lot of big trunks, and more
branches to cut. I don't have a fireplace but thought I might give it to
a neighbor if it won't mess up their fireplace. I don't know a neighbor
who has a fireplace, but could probably find one.

I don't want to get anyone else to cut the trees because they're close
to the house, and it needs to be done carefully. One tree is going to be
real tricky because of the house, c-band satellite antenna, and the
power lines. I'll probably have the power company come out and trim the
tops, they've done it before, to get them out of the power lines.

Will probably have at least a cord when cut.

If you want the wood and are willing to pay shipping I'll send it to
you, plus a handling charge.




Would not burn in bulk in a fireplace because of high resin content.
Leads to creosote buildup.

On 02/02/2017 04:51 PM, cowabunga dude wrote:
Would you burn juniper wood in a fireplace?

Keep your chimney clean... In the southwest, you burn juniper because
there isn't much else worth burning. Up here we burn pine, fir, and
larch, again because there isn't much else. People in the east with
hardwood coming out their ears sneer but you use what you've got.

Season it well and don't close the damper. Or, if you've got a source of
better firewood, keep it for sitting around a fire in the back yard.

rbowman wrote:
On 02/02/2017 04:51 PM, cowabunga dude wrote:
Would you burn juniper wood in a fireplace?

Keep your chimney clean... In the southwest, you burn juniper because
there isn't much else worth burning. Up here we burn pine, fir, and
larch, again because there isn't much else. People in the east with
hardwood coming out their ears sneer but you use what you've got.

Season it well and don't close the damper. Or, if you've got a source
of better firewood, keep it for sitting around a fire in the back
yard.

I'm one of those lucky ones ... we've got 12 acres of oak and other
hardwoods . But I don't sneer , I grew up in Utahahaha where pine is the
predominant fire wood .
--
Snag

On 02/02/2017 10:50 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
I'm one of those lucky ones ... we've got 12 acres of oak and other
hardwoods . But I don't sneer , I grew up in Utahahaha where pine is the
predominant fire wood .

That's one of the things I miss about the east. There is a lot more
diversity, and that's a good thing in the woods. Around here it makes
species identification easy as long as you can tell a ponderosa pine
from a douglas fir. Throw in a few larch but they're easy; their needles
fall off.

There's a local Forest Service legend about a fast track easterner who
was getting his career ticket punched by a year at Nine Mile. "what are
all those dead pine trees?" he asked, looking up at a stand of larch in
the fall.

cowabunga dude wrote:
Would you burn juniper wood in a fireplace?

....

no, bury it and let the fungi/worms have it.

we don't burn much at all (neither of us have
much tolerance for smoke of any kind) and
eventually broken down wood makes the best
garden soil.

or use it as a brush pile to give critters
a home.


songbird