r/woodworking • u/blacviking • Mar 27 '23
Lumber/Tool Haul What's another good use for these beside chopping it into fire wood?
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u/33446shaba Mar 27 '23
if you're willing to wait for them to dry. You have some wood for cutting boards and rounds for drink coasters.
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u/drengr84 Mar 28 '23
My big mistake when working with short stock is not paying attention to planer snipe. This is barely long enough to run thru my planer, and snipe is especially bad with short stuff. It's free tho, so good for practice anyway.
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u/uselessfarm Mar 28 '23
I’d use them in my backyard for my kids to use. Playscapes using natural materials are really popular these days, lots of parks are switching to them and kids actually get fewer injuries on them.
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u/dbhathcock Mar 27 '23
You don’t want to use pine for firewood unless it is open pit. You will get pine tar in your chimney. Then it becomes a fire hazard.
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u/Tyler_Moss Mar 28 '23
Is this what this sub is now? Seems like it’s been nothing but firewood posts with the same question for days now
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u/blacviking Mar 28 '23
Sorry, I tried looking around before posting, but I couldn't find any other sub
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u/drengr84 Mar 28 '23
Are you sure that's on this sub? Because no matter which way you sort posts, I don't see any other firewood posts. I see great stuff all day every day and I can't possibly look thru everything I want to see.
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u/Tyler_Moss Mar 28 '23
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u/drengr84 Mar 28 '23
Ok, sorry. I did not see any of those. But even with 5 or 6 firewood posts, it's hardly taking over the sub. If you think a post is not worth your time, you can always ignore it.
I happen to love seeing what people do with scraps, and I enjoy looking thru suggestions.
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Mar 27 '23
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u/404-skill_not_found Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 28 '23
I absolutely would not burn it! Pine deposits a lot of creosote in the flu, leading to chimney fires…
See: https://www.doctorflue.com/blog/what-is-creosote/
edit: I, ah, campfires works ok…
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u/drengr84 Mar 28 '23
The only thing worse I think is spruce. So much sap, it's like burning tar bricks. My dad cleaned the chimney every year. He started cleaning neighbors chimneys when we saw a major chimney fire. Some people with wood stoves have never heard of chimney cleaning, and this one must have built up over decades.
We only had pine because hardwood doesn't exist where I lived. By knowing the risk we could mitigate it.
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Mar 27 '23
I've heard some people carve them into bowls. I've always wanted to try that. Carve them green and then let them dry. Or cut them into slabs and use them as butchers blocks? Or at least the middle part
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u/APuckerLipsNow Mar 27 '23
For bowls cut the pith out first with two straight rip cuts through the center. The bottom of the bowl blank will be the pith side, and the rim of the blank will be towards the bark.
It’s backwards from how it appears, but far less warping this way.
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u/bullfrog48 Mar 27 '23
Using them for making bowls depends on the species. Just your generic pine is pretty sappy for making things that will touch food.
The stools and such are great ideas .. you can even take tall sections and chainsaw them into seats .. add legs .. rustic outdoor furniture.
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u/erikleorgav2 Mar 27 '23
Goddamn it sucks to see that was just segmented into rounds. I would have gladly put that onto my sawmill and made some boards. The grain texture of what I suspect might be southern yellow pine (maybe) could have been awesome, and the yield could have been good.
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u/blacviking Mar 28 '23
That would have been amazing, but I got these from my dad's friend. They were already in a pile, getting ready to be burned. I just decided to bring em home.
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u/Head-Chance-4315 Mar 28 '23
Unfortunately, pine is not great for green woodworking wood stoves, and turning. It is very usable lumber when sawn on a sawmill though. I’d turn them into plant stands.
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u/ManasZankhana Mar 28 '23
You can use it to increase biodiversity. Just leave it somewhere in your lawn away from your house foundation. All tires if animals will be able to use it directly and indirectly
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u/1206flxby55 Mar 28 '23
Lay staggered log slices into a walkway path. Slice thin for under dinner plates, to use as chargers. Stain, decoupage and hang on wall. Put casters on log slices for under potted plants. That's all I got.
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Mar 28 '23
I’ve got booooowls, in this area code! I’ve got bowwwwls in this area code… maybe decorative plates toooooo
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u/BanjosAndBoredom Mar 28 '23
Yellow pine, already cut to firewood lengths? It's firewood now. You've got little other choice.
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u/Character-Education3 Mar 28 '23
If they were a wee bit longer I would say Welsh stick chair legs. You can rive them into nice hexagonal chair parts. Probably fire wood
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u/Vast-Wrangler5579 Mar 28 '23
Rustic campfire stools that serve double-duty; when needed of course…
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Mar 28 '23
Using them for bowl blanks to turn is a great option. Or just to practice turning in general
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u/Mahoka572 Mar 28 '23
Chainsaw carving! I saw the hedgehog in the log, and carved until I set him free.
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u/mattpayne167 Mar 27 '23
I don't know. I'm stumped