I got two truckloads of pine that was laying in a backyard of someone in the town I live near. He was keeping it to burn in his fireplace but realized it didn't do well so I took it off his hands. It was already good and dry because it was sitting for two years, it burnt well but fast and I used it in the fall season. It didn't leave a good ash bed at all, I think you would have to burn it with some hardwood otherwise it will ash up into a fine powder and go completely out.