When do you think that maple will be ready to burn once processed? I started splitting my maple in January and it seems like it is dry enough as is.
Welcome Stoveaclaus , glad to have you here! Silver & Red Maple are generally good to go after SS for one good Summer. This can vary by climate & RH, but I've been able to burn it no issues in that time frame. It certainly starts out lower moisture if Winter cut.
Thanks for the welcome. I just started heating with wood in December and I am currently embracing an addiction in wood hoarding. I thought wood hoarding was going to be tough on Long Island but I have been red hot this year in acquiring good hauls. As a part time burner after work every night I figure to need 1 1/2 cord this year. My wood stove is super efficient and my house is fairly small. As it stands now I have a little over 2 cords.
welcome to the forum Stoveaclaus ! Great to have you on board. Lots of knowledge and humor here. Great bunch of folks! You've come to the right place if you are a wood addict! Although we have a tendency to feed your addiction
these are the dead ash rounds im storing like that jo191145 . Ill flip them so the wet end is up and they will split a lot easier. Been sitting a couple weeks maybe.
Even though I use hydraulics I may just incorporate this methodology in the future as long as I’m confident I’ll get to them in a timely fashion.
Welcome Stoveaclaus Pretty soon you'll be burning 24/7 when your confidence increases. It'll start to drive you nuts when you hear the furnace kick on
Wonderful score there! Think of how good it will feel to have it split and stacked. All those BTU's in reserve for a hard winters day! Welcome to the club. Pull up a stump and grab a cup of coffee!
Welcome Stoveaclaus ! I’m pretty new here too but I can already say I have learned a ton and laughed out loud more than a few times when reading through some of these threads. Great crew on here for sure! I CSS about a half cord of silver maple in the spring of 2018, by the time it finally got cold enough for me to fire up the stove in November (‘18) that maple was bone dry through and through. Splits felt like air compared to when they were just split.
interesting browsing this thread and hearing the comments about dry silver maple being harder to split. I'm guessing 1/2 of all the logs I've split on my property have been silver maple, or what I've been told is solver maple, and it's probably the easiest to split of everything else but pine! I do split some pine for shoulder season.... But unless it's got crotches or limbs off it or bad bends, I look forward to getting into the maple because it just falls apart with my Fiskars isocore. Is silver maple softer than most maples? I also use it in the smoker a lot since we have so much of it. It doesn't seem to smoke like a softwood and it seems to burn hot in the wood stove if I leave the chunks big enough (to burn long I mean)
I agree, now I’m actually wondering if that was silver maple that I had. It split very easily. I couldn’t even make kindling splits from it because it would actually just flake rather than split on small pieces. I never once had use a maul with that stuff. Took it all down with fiskars x11 or my Gransfors splitting hatchet. I wouldn’t even think about taking out my hydraulic splitter for it... would not have been worth the time to dig it out of my garage!
How do you like it when you use it the smoker. I typically buy apple, maple or cherry chips but I feel like I have enough wood to be making my own.
