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Spent a little time on the cutting floor today

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  1. papadave

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    And came home with a little Oak and Maple.
    I thought the Maple was a Red, but looking at the leaves, now I'm not sure. Little help?
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    Gotta go back and get the smaller stuff, then start cutting some more.....if the rain will hold off, which is doubtful.
    Got 24 rounds from this one.
    Nice to finally get back out in the woods.
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    I'm really poor with Maple ID, but that sure looks like sugar maple leaves to me.
     
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    Well, wouldn't that just be icing on the cake.
    These trees are in clumps of several trunks. Do Sugars do that?
     
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    I say sugar maple too....I went out with my flashlight and looked at my sugar maple and leaves look the same so you are good....:thumbs:
     
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    I hope it is cooler out there. The heat is brutal here for September.
     
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    Only hit about 70 or so today. Beautiful clear skies.
    Very nice day.
    This is gettin' gooder all the time.:thumbs:
    Wait, it's dark thirty in Maine already? You're an hour earlier than us, right?
    Stinny's prolly in bed already.:D
     
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    Something I noticed in my research is that Sugar had rounded sinuses, where these are Vs. Hmmm.
     
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    That's good stuff. We had a record here yesterday-96 and it wasn't much better today.
     
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    Boo, hiss.
    Just got done with that garbage. Cooler weather heading in for good, I think.
     
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    Looks like "Sugar" or hard maple to me, they'll grow in clumps out of an old stump like many trees.
     
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    and I hope so! Sick of this sloppy humid heat. Might as well be in Florida where that is the norm.
     
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    Sugar maple, red maple has three prominent points with other smaller striations. This tree has five, with smaller striations, I cast a vote for sugar or hard maple.:thumbs:
     
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    "Stinny's prolly in bed already.:D" ... :p
     
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    Give it about 2 days. The heat broke here today and you are about 2 days behind us the way the weather patterns move.
     
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    That looks like Sycamore to me . But then I've been wrong before ;) .
     
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    That's the way I've always identified them. Sugar maples always look to me like they have "wings" too, while a red maple's leaf is more square. I'm voting Red.
     
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    Mostly Maple and Oak, with a few Pine and small Beech in SisIL's woods, so not Sycamore. Leaves are close, but not the bark, and these don't have the "fruit" of Sycamore.
     
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    Yeah it's red. Still gooder stuff though! You can tell by the "serrated" edges to the leaves. The "clumping" is also a clue - red loves to put up root suckers. I'm constantly pruning them from the reds in my yard.

    Red w/ 3 major lobes:

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    Red w/ 5 major:

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    Sugar - note the smooth edges:

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    Perfect comparison Shawn.
    You can clearly see the U-shaped sinuses in the Sugar.
    I hadn't noted the serrated edge before.
     
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