orange stain in pine

[trainwreck]

Just cut down a dead white pine today and the two bottom logs have an orange stain that looks like they were soaked in orange juice. What is this? Is it even worth hauling the logs out of the woods or should I just leave them for fertilizer?

 

[aggiewoodbutchr]

Any way to post a picture?

 

[Ed K]

Most likely red rot, if the wood is sound bring it out. It'll bring pallet price.

 

[Sprig]

To my limited experience pines are very sensitive to piercings, ie. fencing, ropes, nails and so on. Is it possible this was because of a fence-line or something similar? I don't know about redrot and am not an arborist (learning curve) but the last dead one I cut had black stain for at least three feet on either side of where there was wire. Like I said, I know nothing but am curious as we have many pines here in the NW coast and I find many dead ones that usually aren't much more than 20-35 years old, and yes, these are ones near properties and ones to be very wary of (wire does wonders for chains as most of you know).