You can burn seasoned pine with no problems, it just burns up really quick. And you are correct it gets hot and fast.

 

chad what my dad always taught me was to build a hot dry fire like once a week and kept it burned out but if you let it go to long and do that you can burn your house down

 

jesus christ you must not be able to sense sarcasam, why would I burn tires when I get all the wood I want for free?

 

i clean mine out once a year just before i light it. been to to many house fires that was started by a chimmey fire to not screw around.. If you have a wife like mine it doesent matter what you burn in it if the house isnt 100 degrees shes cold. By the end of the super bowl i had to go to the other room because the thermostat read 99 degrees. damn her

 

Definitely couldn't sense any sarcasm there... I've read it a few times and still can't. No offense or anything, its just that I know people who have done it, and its something that gets everyone with a wood burner that much less time to burn without major laws.

Again, sorry if I ruffled your feathers.

 

I thought I had put a winking smilie in that post, oh well

 

my house was gutted by fire in 1988 cause of a **** poor design of a metal chimney and a potbelly stove in the living room.......some green wood is what caused the fire.......the sap pooled and dripped down onto the carpet.......after the remodel we had a big wood burning central heating unit in the basement and every month or so we would burn a chimney brick and at the beginning of every season too.......

 

Yeah, that kind of stuff happens. Nowadays building code mandates that any open flame burner has a masonry base, and depending on the state/county, the area around the stove must also be masonry, no carpet, no linoleum. Its not just the sap, it can be hot embers, or even the radiant heat from the stove. I know when I was framing homes we had to elevate them 6 inches and have anything within a 3ft radius tile, brick, or stonework.

 

my house is 130 years old.......it was the only source of heat it had besides a giant coal stove down in the basement from about 1910 to 1950 then it had a oil stove for about 25 years til it died......

 

Yep, thats why building codes have changed.