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My neighbor cut down a red maple (crimson maple)

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  1. ThomH123

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    My neighbor works for the town and has supplied me with roads side scrounges in the past. He grew up best friends with my son. He took down this red maple yesterday. I hear it is a Norway variant . He asked me to help him with some cleanup this morning. His buddies are taking some of the wood but I have first choice. I ran the saw for about an hour in a sprinkle that turned into rain. I got some nice rounds, note how the bark resembles ash. I will go back during the week. There’s allot of crotches and knots.
     

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    Nice score. Yes the crimson king cultivar of Norway maple. I imagine it's like regular Norway and dries very fast, and puts out decent heat.
     
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    Wow! Nice score Thom! Hard to beat the proximity of that one.
     
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    Robert Fripp helped me load my truck!
     
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    Lol
     
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    I was going to throw a King Crimson joke in there but I’m glad you did instead :D
     
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    I thought this comment was a King Crimson reference “ Yes the crimson king cultivar ”
     
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    Good stuff there. Ill take all the Norway/Crimson I can get. Splits easily and btu's comparable to ash IMO. Yard trees can be tough but find a straight one (they seem to seed themselves on property lines and go unchecked for years) and you'll get some nice splits.
     
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    Had an hour so I went back to m my neighbor’s, I wanted to help him clean up so I took some of the bigger and crotch pieces. This load would have looked allot bigger in the 5’20” bed of my Dakota.
     

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    Nice job! It all adds up!
     
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    They are pretty similar it looks like:

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    Your chart shows red Maple a bit more optimistically rated than most. Most it's about 18 mbtu a cord. But I do agree with the Norway maple assessment.
     
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    Yeah, some of my numbers tend to be a bit different, if your interested to see how I came up with them I wrote about it here:
    How I built my Firewood BTU Ratings

    Jonathan Y had similar thoughts to me by the looks of it on how to come up with BTU across a wide variety of wood types:
    Rethinking firewood BTU calculations
     
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    Had some time this morning so got back at with the neighbors Crimson Norway. I was working in very wet, slushy snow. His buddy keeps telling him he’s going to come and get some. He better hurry up! I’m even talking some of the more knarly pieces to help them both out. This load makes a little over a 1/2 cord. IMG_7720.jpeg IMG_7720.jpeg IMG_7722.jpeg IMG_7723.jpeg IMG_7726.jpeg IMG_7724.jpeg IMG_7725.jpeg IMG_7720.jpeg IMG_7722.jpeg IMG_7723.jpeg IMG_7726.jpeg IMG_7724.jpeg IMG_7725.jpeg
     
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    Way to get it done in the snow. Not a big fan of working on wood in the wetness. May cut some tomorrow if dry enough. Nothing but rain here. Did see a trace of snow on a roof in Wallingford though.
     
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