Blackjack1234
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Box elder is also known as 'Manitoba Maple', that's what you will find it listed as in a nursery catalog. Yes you can actually buy seedlings.
It is soft maple.
Quote: Originally Posted by jcappe View Post Last year I burnt quite a bit of it. A local contractor cleard a bunch of it where he was putting in new houses. It was easy to get to and easy to cut. It isn't my favorite wood by far but it is wood and it burns. To me it burns about like soft maple. It is soft maple. [/QUOTE said:Well that explains it. LOL. :biggrinbounce2:
Yes it is. If you have any woodturners local to you check with them before you burn it all up, they will more than likely take all of it they can get. Here is a bowl that I recently roughed out of a piece of Box Elder. View attachment 124539
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Here is a bowl that I recently roughed out of a piece of Box Elder
Yes it is. If you have any woodturners local to you check with them before you burn it all up, they will more than likely take all of it they can get. Here is a bowl that I recently roughed out of a piece of Box Elder. View attachment 124539
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Just don't be alarmed when you think you've injured yourself while splitting it. The red color is normal:
good call... i've split a little of this in the past,, wondered what it was....
nope !ever smell a bunch of box elder bugs?
Box elder is one of the best campfire wood species that there is, if dry. It is also one of the worst wood stove species that there is. Don't sniff it too hard. You might pass out. Ever smell a bunch of box elder bugs?
Box elder is one of the best campfire wood species that there is, if dry.
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