Silver Maple / Firewood?

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Dale.Z

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Neighbor just had a Silver Maple fall from a storm. Question is does it make good firewood? Hate to do all that work for if it’s less the desirable firewood.

Thanks Dale
 
Not bad. Good fall/spring wood or mix a piece or two in with some oak. Better than cottonwood/willow and worth the work if not too hard to get.
 
Like has been said above...Great wood for spring or fall...I usually don't go out of my way to get it, but I won't let someone just push it up in a pile and let it go to waste...
 
I won't let someone just push it up in a pile and let it go to waste...

I do.

I had ten on my lawn and I cut them all down becouse every time I mowed the lawn I would mow hundreds of tiny Silver Maples. I cut some of the bigger stuff up to burn, and I think I got more money in gas cutting them up than they was werth. I wouldn't eaven fool with them if I was you.
 
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Thanks everybody for the advice. I think I will go for it. Close to the house, easy access and it will help out my neighbors. I have lots of red and white oak little bit of hickory and some ash so I am going to try mix it like aandabooks said. Plus its hard to say no to free.

Dale
 
I like Silver maple when it's free and easy to get. It's good for starting fires and those 50 degree weekends when you just want to have a fire.
 
Thanks everybody for the advice. I think I will go for it. Close to the house, easy access and it will help out my neighbors. I have lots of red and white oak little bit of hickory and some ash so I am going to try mix it like aandabooks said. Plus its hard to say no to free.

Dale

An empty woodshed is a hungry wood shed. It says, feed me.

A full woodshed is a lonely woodshed. It says, build me a friend right here next to me.

Wash, rinse, repeat. :blob4:
 
woodbooga: (WOOD-bug-ah), n. reg. dialect, common to areas of N.H. and Maine; one obsessed with obtaining free firewood to fuel woodburning appliances to mitigate expenses related to home heating with fossil fuels. Used as a term of derision by non-woodburners who mock the presence of loose bark and other wood waste in pickup truck beds.



This made my night! I thought I was the only one with this ailment, my wife wants me to call the doctor in the morning and ask if there is a treatment program for the likes of us now that I have the official name for it.
LMAO!!!!
:cheers:
 
This made my night! I thought I was the only one with this ailment, my wife wants me to call the doctor in the morning and ask if there is a treatment program for the likes of us now that I have the official name for it.
LMAO!!!!
:cheers:

The cure is worse than the illness. Among the only known ways to curb or cure woodboogery:

-Burn down house
-severe back injury
-being naughty with chainsaw; too many stitches to work
-tree falls on you
-groin
-truck breaks; other vehicle is Mitsubishi

Lots of good advice here on how to avoid these so-called cures for fiending for wood. :cheers:
 
The cure is worse than the illness. Among the only known ways to curb or cure woodboogery:

-Burn down house
-severe back injury
-being naughty with chainsaw; too many stitches to work
-tree falls on you
-groin
-truck breaks; other vehicle is Mitsubishi

Lots of good advice here on how to avoid these so-called cures for fiending for wood. :cheers:

:cheers:
 
I picked up a bunch because the power company was cutting a new ROW along my route to work and cut a 24" diameter with some big main branches. The rounds were heavy as all get out which I later found out was because they were 90% water! The splitter really tore through them rather than actually splitting them and the water just poured out. It's really stringy too which gets annoying. Not the best stuff, but anytime I can grab a truckload of wood for free on my way to work I'll take poplar, pine, cottonwood, etc... I get enough oak and locust for overnight burns-the lightweight stuff is for weekends when I want an excuse to play with the furnace every couple of hours.
 
take it...it splits nice and easy, and is a good starter for wood that takes a while to get going like hickory or locust.

Free wood is always the best...and the closer the better
 
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