Just got a bunch of maple and wanted to see if my 5ton homelite electric splitter will handle the job ? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Depends on if it's hard or not. sorry couldn't resist. Maple is usually fairly easy to split. With crotch and knottier pieces being the occasional exception.
How big are the rounds? If greater than 24 inches you may want to wack in half with a maul or wedge first. I see some noodling in your future for the gnarly knotty pieces.
It is very rare to get a hard splitting maple. I've split tons and tons of it with just an axe. Of course, that was many moons ago before I even knew of there were splitting mauls (I had used sledge and wedges on hard stuff) and then after using a splitting maul, I injured my back and learned to love hydraulics. Back in my younger days I used to love those big rounds that I'd split in half using sledge and wedge then go to work with the axe. Wish I could still do it.
Owb? In my Inside fireplace ...not a wood stove and open face fireplace Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Splits look like silver maple, will dry fast. Truck bed is pine, hedge (best wood available btu wise), and what looks like ash to me. Nice scrounge
Maple can be downright miserable if it grew with a spiral grain. I've come across some like that from tree services. But it looks like what you have is straight grained. It also looks like more than maple in the back of truck.
Yes that maple is just nasty terrible stuff to split, just drop it off at my house and be done with it.
Ehhh I can't figure out the diff types of wood I picked up today from each other...some were easy on the splitter some took everything it had and that was after spinning it around til it eventually split Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I retract my hedge statement....it's mulberry. The yellow stuff that is. It all Burns, just keep splitting and stacking lol
I find that most maple pops pretty easily. I don't get the good sugar maple they get further north though. If it sits a week or so in rounds it seems to pop when the wedge is only a quarter of the way thru it. I have hit some of that curly or wavy grained stuff and it takes a little more to split but it's still nothing compared to some black locust. Or the dreaded sweet gum.
No such thing as "Easy firewood" it's all "hard work" But Some is easier than other Here birch split easier green Spruce splits hard when it's green & harder when dry. Spruce split best at -10° or colder Having a hydraulic splitter now, it's all easier than by hand.
I'm Picking up a ton of ponderosa pine wood tomorrow, not best wood type but ityll dry and burn Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
