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[Jstpssng]

Nice pile of firewood you have pulled out OldPath. I had to look up white maple - never heard of it. Found out it is silver maple or swamp maple, which we have here. Tree names with local variations are confusing.

gg

I think that what he is referring to is also known as red maple or soft maple. (Acer Rubrum). It's one of the more common hardwood species up here, and has about the same amount of BTUs as white birch.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I think that what he is referring to is also known as red maple or soft maple. (Acer Rubrum). It's one of the more common hardwood species up here, and has about the same amount of BTUs as white birch.

Maybe. But this is what I found:

Acer saccharinum, commonly known as silver maple,[3] creek maple, silverleaf maple,[3] soft maple, large maple,[3] water maple,[3] swamp maple,[3] or white maple[3]—is a species of maple native to eastern and central North America in the eastern United States and Canada. It is one of the most common trees in the United States.

gg

 

[Oldpath05]

Nice pile of firewood you have pulled out OldPath. I had to look up white maple - never heard of it. Found out it is silver maple or swamp maple, which we have here. Tree names with local variations are confusing.

gg

Yes and why is that, must be upbring traditions. I thought Swamp maple was in swamps and has cource bark, the Maple I cut wasn't in a swamp and the bark was smooth with a light whitish color to it. It's almost as bad as Popple, Poplar, Aspen<<<which I thought was the same tree.

Then you get into softwood with variation names there to but not so confusing, Pine has several variations and easy to tell apart, then Douglas fir and Balsam fir is that the same tree?

 

[Oldpath05]

I think that what he is referring to is also known as red maple or soft maple. (Acer Rubrum). It's one of the more common hardwood species up here, and has about the same amount of BTUs as white birch.

Neither really fits that description of Maple I was cutting, there was no red-ish tint to the tree and when it dries it dries hard, excellent firewood especially when cutting, it's tall, adds up quick, few limps till the top, splits easy. I like it better than the bushy Beach I cut which has developed some sort of fungus on it, gets all gnarly, dead tops, the trees are dying faster than I can cut them.

 

[Jstpssng]

Neither really fits that description of Maple I was cutting, there was no red-ish tint to the tree and when it dries it dries hard, excellent firewood especially when cutting, it's tall, adds up quick, few limps till the top, splits easy. I like it better than the bushy Beach I cut which has developed some sort of fungus on it, gets all gnarly, dead tops, the trees are dying faster than I can cut them.

I hear you on the beech, but it sure does hold the fire good when you throw a log on before going to bed.

 

[DieselnHooters]

I hear you on the beech, but it sure does hold the fire good when you throw a log on before going to bed.

Beech is great firewood indeed, I'd say its just below sugar maple along with yellow birch and oak as the top ones, the fungus Oldpath describes makes it punky and moist though, it is a widespread affliction but not all trees are affected.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

SR

 

[Jstpssng]

This isn't the neatest pile, but I didn't want to drill holes in my bucket to mount the forks which my father made for my last tractor.

 

[4570Man]

That looks like a SSQA bucket. Why not get a set of forks. They’re the most useful attachment for the money that you can have IMO.

 

[Jstpssng]

That's the plan, I just wanted to get enough wood up so that I could pay myself back for them.