When you have a fireplace or wood stove, and you get ready to start a fire you have to choose what wood you use. When starting the fire if you have pine it creates a sap once heated up and it coats the fireplace with a very flammable sappy wax. It will cause your house to burn down if you use it. It also burns to quick, now Hickory burns slow but very hot, it is also it is hard to split. What I am saying is be like the Hickory and be hard to split, when the enemy comes you shouldn’t be dry rotten and easy to destroy and quick to burn up. Be strong!