rydert
Blue Heeler man
Great info in this thread....
It would make a pretty fireplace mantle.
On second thought,
True "lightered pine" or "fat wood"
has to much pine tar in it and would be dangerous to use as a fireplace mantle.....
I have 300-400 lbs of fat wood right
now....Lightning hit a tree in my front yard several years ago and when the pines
were cut several had
5'-10' sections completely saturated and almost petrified (hard) with sap..I have
already burned 300-400 lbs of the stuff this last summer..
Exactly!It's got thousands of uses. Synthetic base is cheaper and easier these days. The same chemical components are still in thousands of products that originally came only from lightwood.
Kind of dangerous to use more than necessary in a fireplace. Those gums and resins condense on the inside of the chimney and over time they build up until one day you have a real hot fire and they catch up. Give you a chimney fire that will make the whole house whistle.
I have a stump of it in the back yard which I started harvesting off of yesterday. Solid fat lighter stump which formed from a twin trunk pine forming from a common taproot. Ever how it died left solid sapwood 3 ft. above ground with what looks to be about 3 ft. below and 16 inches dia. Plenty for fire starters for a couple seasons
This might need to be on the cooking forum ,but as I understand it , #'s of folk in Southern California and New York City are into all things Cracker. Crackers, Cracker house Architecture, Cracker Cow, Cracker Horses . all things Cracker cep for Georgia Crackers cookies. Flarida did a real first rate ad job on dattun.
What I 'spose is us getting out there and chain sawing chips of lightwood and marketing it to those epicurions to "smoke" meat with. Have to be high dollar stuff what with all the bar oil and chains and bars we will burn up. Just price accordingly is all I reckon with a slight profit margin in mind.
Kind of dangerous to use more than necessary in a fireplace. Those gums and resins condense on the inside of the chimney and over time they build up until one day you have a real hot fire and they catch up. Give you a chimney fire that will make the whole house whistle.
Kind of dangerous to use more than necessary in a fireplace. Those gums and resins condense on the inside of the chimney and over time they build up until one day you have a real hot fire and they catch up. Give you a chimney fire that will make the whole house whistle.
Scrapy: I have known people who lived their entire lives in the backwoods of the Lower Coastal Plains who have never burned anything for home heat except pure lightard. They used lightard in the cook stove, wood heater and/or fireplace.
Most of them lived in old homes which should have burned long ago if your premise is correct. I doubt seriously if they ever retained the services of a "chimney sweep".
Many of these same families would still be burning lightard today if it were readily available as in former times.
Found this today
Found this today