In my part of this planet I have access to mostly Elm, Ash, and Hackberry for what I would call high end far wood. Lots of soft maple/silver maple yard trees to be had too. Well I ever really went out of my way to get much silver maple but last summer my neighbor had 3 huge silver maples dropped by a tree service and I couldnt help myself but to ask what he was going to do with the wood all piled in his farm yard. I ended up with about more maple than I knew what to do with but it was free and only a mile from home. Well I cut and split and stacked it all last summer in July. It is still burning weather here and I started burning some of it last week. Funny thing. Since ole Black Sabbath has a side loading door I open it up to chuck in another split sometimes. I dont ever smell smoke in the house but when burning that soft maple and opening that side door I get a good wiff of what smells like maple syrup. I kinda like it.
I'll take as much silver maple as I can get. It's good burning farwood, even if it isn't at the top of the btu charts.
Yes I graduated to pecan for beef. But I need to revisit that maple. The burgers were awesome! Very unique flavor. Cooking burgers Saturday, now I need to find some maple... I'll send Ruger out
My BIL is the pen guy. I'll bet he can hook me up. He's into wood turning. Maybe he could make me a mechanical pencil
Maple has always been one of my favorites as well. I didn't pay much attention to the kinds of wood we burned when I was a kid, but I'm pretty sure it was mostly maple; I remember the syrupy smell fondly. There's a Brewery/BBQ place that opened up in town a few years ago, and they smoke everything over maple. That was the first time I had ever heard of anyone doing that. Made sense to me though cause I love the smell of burning maple.
