nickg
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After our Winter Storms , i have plenty of Silver Maple on the ground, i bucked it in 14 inch rounds, and began splitting it this weekend,, I'm not to sure about the Silver Maple as good firewood, any thoughts ?
After our Winter Storms , i have plenty of Silver Maple on the ground, i bucked it in 14 inch rounds, and began splitting it this weekend,, I'm not to sure about the Silver Maple as good firewood, any thoughts ?
Silver Maple burns similar to Norway Maple and Tulip Poplar.
Hot fire quickly, but not a very good all night wood.
When I have some Silver Maple clean-up, I do buck it and split it. A nice addition to the woodpile mix.
Finally, it only takes a few months to season out split wood.
I just split a bunch of it today myself. It will be the first wood ill burn next fall before it gets really cold. It burns good but not for long.After our Winter Storms , i have plenty of Silver Maple on the ground, i bucked it in 14 inch rounds, and began splitting it this weekend,, I'm not to sure about the Silver Maple as good firewood, any thoughts ?
After our Winter Storms , i have plenty of Silver Maple on the ground, i bucked it in 14 inch rounds, and began splitting it this weekend,, I'm not to sure about the Silver Maple as good firewood, any thoughts ?
90% of my wood is sugar maple. Not a long burning wood. I get about 6 hours from a load of it in my Caddy.
But it beats paying the gas bill.
If you have real sugar maple it is "Acer Saccharum" and it is the real deal hard maple. One of the premier firewoods.
Then it must be silver maple.
Nah, I bet you have Red Maple aka Soft (swamp) maple. The leaves of the Sugar and Red and very similar leaves. Red Maple at the edges are more irregular.
The bark is different on the older tree's but quite similar on younger tree's.
Silver maple has a funky leave and fruit compared to the other 2.
I'd love to burn wood like oak and hickory with mBTU ratings well over 20, but there just ain't none of that stuff over here.
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