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Any use for a large "fat" pine stump? I was thinking about cutting some cookies, but I don't know if you can finish pine that is full of turpentine?

Is this wood good for anything besides fire starter?

seems to me that the boards that have a lot of pitch in them seem to split easy when nailing them. Im sure they dry fine and I would hate to waste a good log. I'd saw it up and see what happens. If they are no good them you might need a ramp for your four wheeler. The other day a neighboor had the floor of her horse trailer fall out. Just a couple of holes, but the trailer was loaded and a horse was hanging out of it. So she came to my house and we patched it in with some junk boards. The wood worker in me just cant throw away a board.

Hey reprosser

just what is a large "fat" pine stump?
What ar the deminsions of it,, to me stump sounds like a cut off piece,, short log,,, Swedish candle example or sumthin.
If you can get full lumber out of it, say 8' stock or more,, and its large,, yes sometimes it does have more pitch then normal,, and with that, makes great decking boards or siding boards,, lots of color caricter...{ Did I ever mention that I hold the world title spellin bee championship }

lol

Well, the stump part is about 3 ft high above where the roots come out (ground level). Not long enough for boards.
It is about 36" diameter.

The "fat" is a term I have heard used (also "lighter" and "fat lighter") to describe a pine stump where the sap/pitch/turpentine has accumulated to the point of saturation. The wood is greasy, and we use it to start fires in the fireplace. It is very hard, and smells strongly of turpentine. Burns hot and fast - like it was soaked in gasoline.

I made a stirring stick once out of this type of wood - big mistake - grits tasted like mineral spirits. (Everyone know what grits are?)

I love grits. You might try and saw the stump into an outside bench. Make it 4 inches thick and as big as your mill can cut. Make nice thick legs for it and your wife will love you.

That is kinda what I had in mind. Maybe cut with the stump leaning at an angle to get an oval cookie?

Grits???? Grits?
Please explain?
Dennis.

Yeah, well, I'm from "the land down under". You know, where we eat Vegimite, drink lots of VB and dodge the "mud gekkos" when we go fishing. Bloody grit is what you get in embarasing places when you go to check the sheilas on the beach. Or when you fall off your bike.

Yeah, I know what grits are. They come from the CONE field over YONDER (everyone knows where YONDER is, right? And I know ya'll know what CONE is. Don't ya?). Makes me kinda wanna get the salt & pepper and butter out, and cook up a mess of grits!!

Reprosser, if you can heat the "slab" (or whatever you cut) up to a certain temp (can't remember the temp needed, but you can look it up under "setting pitch") it will set the pitch. That will keep it from oozing out of the wood on those sweltering hot SC midlands summer days. If you keep it hot enough, long enough, it will really set that pitch to where it won't ever soften up in hot summer heat. Your wife will appreciate that when she sits on the bench you built, wearing her nice new light colored jeans on that hot summer day!!!

I have only done small "pine knots" in the oven. It works great to set the pitch, but it makes the pine hard as a rock. I like to carve the pine knots, so hard is not good.

Hell man, down here a cone is what you smoke! You light one up in the morning and float through the day, then light up another and have some really good dreams all night and life is good. Sometimes you even rember to eat something.
I guess you mean sweet corn, not too bad on the BBQ but the butter makes yer hands slipery, drips off yer elbows and then you pick up yer Bundy&Coke and it slips out of yer hand. Still, that cone ya had fer lunch makes evrything allright.

Well Ya know Repro,, Ya really gotta wanna mess with that pine stump thing,, Dont put it on your mill,, save your machine for more valuable stuff,, and use your chainsaw er ax to make lighter stuff out of it,,

I think you have the best advise. I got plenty other things to work on for now. This stump can sit out a while, and if I git a hankerin' - I might mess with it...or not.