Maple Round Up

First off. Thanks to Skier76 for the lead.

Freshly taken down dead red maple. Free wood sign posted in the front. Rounds bucked to fireplace length. Stopped after work and grabbed what was still there. Maybe 1/4 cord. Have a partial rack of red maple that this should fill up.

 

Just what you were looking for!

 

Easy pickins! Wish they were all that easy

 

Nice to have it already bucked (sometimes) Did you go through and cherry pick everything that was 16" or just grab at random?

 

I took what was left. The biggest stuff was left as always. Wasnt cut like we do it but close enough for general cordage and some shorties to add to the nugget bin.

 

Can’t beat that with a stick.

 

Nice little haul. Time and effort for that score makes up for some of the more PITA ones. I did so much maple in my early hoarding days I don't think I want to look at maple again for another 5 years!

 

I think the only maples around here are silver and all yard trees. I scored a pretty decent jag awhile back and would love to get a bunch more. I really like the way it splits and I thought it burned ok

 

Well, I guess technically you weren't blocking the driveway!

 

One in four trees in CT are red maple. I like silver too just not a common scrounge. Most silver i see here are yard plantings. There was some in one yard at my recent Asplundh cutting but they were keeping it.

 

I saw the sign when i took the pic. I was in and out in ten minutes. Busy road and a blind spot so i wasnt about to park there.

 

X2 nice wood to have around and have a few cords of silver, one of the last scrounges myself and Lefty got before he passed, out at Bunny's that I still need work on.

 

Nice Brad! I’m so glad you made it over there! That sign was hard to see from the road. And I was in that driveway too. LOL.

I grabbed 4 rounds myself on the way home from a lunch errand. I had to grab a few…because it was close to the house. I have plenty of wood up north and a few trees fell in our years here in CT.

I’m so glad it went to a good home of a fellow hoarder! Nice work as usual Brad.

 

Split it right out of the PU late this afternoon. Some general cordage, some for bundle wood, and a couple wheelbarrows full of nuggets. About a quarter cord total.

 

Awesome work Brad.

 

Is that black birch in the background? BB is in my top 5 firewoods!

 

Not sure which pic you are referring to but i only see cherry in one of the pics. BB kind of a rare score for me. Cut some back in Decmember. None on the radar

 

This one was what I was referring to.

 

Yup thats cherry. Any BB i had Was CSS in December.

 

The old white Ford always does us proud.