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Silver Maple?

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  1. SammyWhammy

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    Picked this up after work, everything I could find stated it was silver maple. I guess I’m looking for confirmation, please and thank you
     

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    Yes sir. The deep set lobes are a tell tale sign. Most other Maples like Red Maple and Sugar .Maple have much shorter set lobes
     
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    Yes that looks like like silver maple.
     
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  4. SammyWhammy

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    Thank you
     
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    Love that SM...had a small fire in the stove the other night...there was a piece of mystery wood in the load that must have been a bit wet yet as the fire was not taking off well...threw a piece of SM in and it was off to the races! :thumbs:
     
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  6. patrick kozlowski

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    sure looks like it
     
    patrick kozlowski, Oct 6, 2020
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    I say it is. Second pic looks like the bark around here. Nice little grab!
     
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    I like the safety footware in the 2nd pic
     
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    I agree. It’s good stuff. It’s not the heaviest of hardwoods, but it burns great. I grab all I can find.
     
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    Nice haul.
     
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  11. SammyWhammy

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    The flip flops were put on after the cutting and hauling was done.
     
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    Yes, that's silver. It burns great and seasons fast.
     
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    Right. I put silver a notch below red but still good wood.
     
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  14. Wood Chopper

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    I burned a lot of Silver Maple last Winter and was very happy with it. Neighbor had some monsters taken down (i took 2 down that I could 3 years ago)
    Neighbor’s brother in law said he didn’t want it due to not being hard enough Dude its free. lol I think the big pieces scared him. Gonna be a noodle fest for some of the biggins. [​IMG]
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    Some big uns but not a lot of gnarlies. Nice grab! :thumbs:
     
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    They’ll be a few challenging ones in there but overall not too bad


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    Yep. Usually easy splitting and quick drying.
     
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    Burning silver maple right now!
     
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    Love some Silver Maple I feel like its under appreciated.
     
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