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You want to get your stove rocking and rolling load that puppy up with a few pine knots about big around as your forearm. They’ll have the firebox glowing red and the stack looking like a coal fired locomotive. Until they soot the chimney up or the chimney fire starts.

I hear ya. Had a Jonsereds 70E I bought back in about 1980 or so. Son of a gun ran like a hotrodded Saab...or Saab fighter plane. I'm sure it got well over 13,000 RPM's. Scalded cat, that thing.

Never failed me but, alas, common sense (parts availability) got the best of me and I sold it last year...

Piñon is a popular firewood here in New Mexico. In the last few years I’ve seen it advertised for $400/cord during peak heating season, but more typically in the $300 range otherwise.

It is high in pitch, and you need to keep things hot to prevent smoldering and creosote buildup. And use well seasoned (dry) wood. Once you get the hang of it you can load the stove up and have a hot bed of coals at dawn.

And the smoke is pungent (in a nice way).

Its still February...
This tree here, I have been working on for 4 days now. I have gotten almost 5 cords out of, I cut it in 10-12ft lengths and drag it out with my truck using a yarding block or two, attached to a tree and cable to get the logs out to where I can work on them. This one is 60ft long, 24" at the top and 48" near the butt.
Last year I got 6 cords out of one tree. When I was a kid of 17, the crawler skidded a Fir tree in to the landing and I got 12 cords out of it.

Here is the next victim's, not as large but alot easier to deal with as they are not to large in diameter, about 100ft in length. These tree's are all bug kill Fir.
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This about half of a load my[very good] neighbor brought me late last spring.
All red & white oak 12" to 20" dia that had been wind-rowed for a year or more.
He's done this in back to back years now, both times a surprise left for me sitting by my splitter.

It has allowed me to back off of my dwindling supply of black locust.

Thanks ironbender...couldn't figure it out..lol

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