Musings on a Sunday morning. Piñon is pine. It’s an oil wood. Why don’t we do the same with red cedar? Legitimate question. I love the smell of piñon and I love the smell of cedar. Get rid of a pesky tree and enjoy the incense. Am I wrong?
When you burn pine in a fire it smells nice as does oak or many other hard woods.
When you burn Oklahoma cedar it smells like a chemical fire.
Just awful.
I burn a lot of it to heat the home but if the wind is calm and the smoke will settle in a neighbors yard or my yard i will not burn it as it smells that bad.
You sand it or burn it with sandpaper it smells different than in a fireplace.
When you burn Oklahoma cedar it smells like a chemical fire.
Just awful.
I burn a lot of it to heat the home but if the wind is calm and the smoke will settle in a neighbors yard or my yard i will not burn it as it smells that bad.
You sand it or burn it with sandpaper it smells different than in a fireplace.
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I believe Juniper. But yeah I like burning them too.
Used to be one of my favorites on scout campus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniperus_virginiana
Used to be one of my favorites on scout campus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniperus_virginiana
No!! Piñon actually has a purpose, red cedar is just invasive and only serves to suck up water.
I'm highly allergic to red cedar pollen and they all need to die.
I remember when we moved here in late 2009-early 2010, that the governor had a program that paid prison inmates to chop down red cedar trees. I think it was like $1/tree and $3/tree over a certain size. Anyone else remember that? Or am I just dreaming it up in my head? I wonder what happened to that program and why we can’t roll that out if ever existed or stopped?
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