Siver Maple?

I scrounge a bunch maple.
From research the leaves look like Silver Maple to me. What say you?
I didn't see that on our seasoning chart. How long?

 

Here’s a pic of the silver maple in my backyard.

 

kinda does look like a silver maple to me and the ones i had seasoning at my place took about 6 to 7 months to be descent enough to burn basically early spring to octoberish

 

In my experience with burning silver maple, seasoning time was as mentioned above, 6-7 months after splitting and in a good area for air flow. It gets light rather quick and doesn’t last long in the firebox. Decent shoulder wood if anything.

 

My leaf is a little different than The Wood Wolverine 's. We will see what others say.
I hope the ones that said a summer of seasoning are correct.
I got into this years wood , pretty heavy, trying to keep my 93 year-old mother warm last season and am looking for some one year seasoning wood. I have quite a few dead Ash in the back to cut. I just scoured, about 1/2 cord, 4 year oak in exchange for some fire pit wood pit wood.

 

Mine is a young leaf. I think you do in fact have silver.

 

Looks like silver to me. How about a picture of the wood?

 

I believe that is silver maple also, Rog.
It will work great in your AS.
Not sure it will be ready for a cat stove by October though.

 

That's silver maple.

It definitely dries quickly. Only time will tell if it will dry enough for you for next winter, but it should if you get it split and stacked now.

 

Bark pictures.

 

Sort of looks like silver maple. Someone recently posted some excellent pics of the maples with leaves and seeds. I forget who. Pic is of silver maple from December. Any bark pics Marshel54 ?

 

No doubt about it, silver maple Marshel54.

 

Looks like Silver Maple to me. My stove has chewed up a lot of it. I’m a scrounger and that used to be the most available around here. Css in spring it will be ready to burn in the fall. Nowadays around here Ash is king due to the emerald borer.

have fun, stay safe

 

I agree with everybody else, that's silver maple.
And also with Tim...kinda late in the year to be counting on using it this winter...if you still want to try, split it small, stack it in a sunny and windy spot, and try to top cover it if rain is coming (not normally necessary, but in this case, every little bit helps!)
I'd certainly be grabbing up that dead (and probably fairly dry) ash for sure! GIBIR!
Even hoarding low quality shoulder season wood helps...it keeps you out of "the good stuff" until the weather really gets cold...which if this winter is like last winter, almost barely happened at all!
Also, if you have any Box Elder ("swamp maple") on your place, that dries fast too (similar BTUs to silver)...the upper half of the tree is often ready to burn if its been dead/dying for very long at all. You see BE all over in wet areas and along streams...kind of a weed tree...I'd be surprised if you don't have some.

 

As far as SS wood...
Its really kinda backwards for cat stoves (imho). It kind of a pain trying to get oak coals burned down when its really cold out. The house will be cooling down and i want to get another load of BTU's in, but the oak coals are just laying there doing what oak coals do...coaling...
The solution for me is SS wood. A quick hot fire with minimal coals to get the stove top temp back up quick, ie; SS wood.
Maple works really good in a cat stove and doesn't leave an overabundance of coals like oak. Really cold days get three 8 hour fires instead of two 12 hour fires.

Hey Rog! How many times per day are you firing the AS?