Just chipping away at it after work nights on my way home. Home owner isn't in a rush. He's a cool guy I might go down on Friday since I'm off. It's just easier to do it on my way home since I'm about 45 minutes away.
After looking at the bark a little closer I think that's actually a Norway maple. Still good stuff though. The leaves are basically identical between the two, which was probably why they thought it was a sugar. I'd rate the firewood about the same as white ash. Nice score! That puppy ought to heat you a couple times.
Well I guess it depends on who you ask. We burned mostly red pine this winter, and about a cord of ash. But, my place is really easy to heat, plus I'd like to get my stand of pines cleaned up in order to reduce insect damage. Your heat demands may be much greater than mine.
I burn silver maple in the dead of winter while I'm around to tend to my furnace and use my better stuff (oak,etc) overnight or when I go to work. Some say just shoulder season but I think it just depends on how you use it.
I like to run a mix of harder and softer woods in the stove all season. I'll change the blend depending on the heat demands. This last winter was fairly mild here, so we got by just fine with the pine.
Yep, I'll mix different kinds together sometimes too. It was a pretty tame winter here also and my house is insulated really good so I burnt alot of my lesser quality wood.
Better than that. Especially if it's a yard tree. I processed a few logs of Norway maple this winter. It's pretty much as hard as sugar maple. Definitely much harder and more dense than red or silver maple.
