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Wet Hard Maple? Heavily loaded Ranger.

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  1. Woodscrounger

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    I cut a ranger load of wood after work and have been trying to teach myself the difference between hard and soft maple with no leaves to id. I think this is hard maple. What do you think?

    Love my ranger, the four cylinder was working on the way home and I had to drop some gears on the hills, but it made it. By hills I don't mean real hills, this is Northern Indiana.
     

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    It could be.
    I'm not real good at looking at the bark & telling which maple it is, but it looks like softer stuff to me.

    Either way , In a year or so, It'll burn great !

    "It's all BTUs " :yes:
     
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    To add to what BDave said, I'll keep it trimmed up to "Firewood"
    The maples by bark and end grain are still tough for me to ID as well....
    Great load tho!:yes:
     
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    Nice work woodscrounger!
     
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    Not a definite, but I'd say it looks like hard maple, bark wise. Looks like a good BTU load... Congrats!
     
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    Nice work. Maple looks gooder.
     
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    I'm going with hard. I've noticed the heart tends to have a dry purplish color. And the cambium layer tends to be thick. Only observation of what's in my area. As others said, it's wood either way. When dry I can tell by weight
     
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    Looks like hard maple to me. Growth rings look tight. I've only cut a few. They do have that purple color when wet.
     
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    That looks much different than our sugar maple here in SE Wisconsin.

    It's going to be easy to tell once it's seasoned.
     
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    That's hard maple, one of my favorites, tis heavy
     
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    Ok, I see Norway maple. Hard or soft idk, they are species I've never heard of.
     
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    Easy test is to chop a chunk out of it with your ax. You should be able tell the difference between hard and soft with your first swing.
     
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    "Heavy" is kind of a tough description

    IMO , All green wood is heavy :D

    Maple is similar to birch, is splits a lot easier green.
     
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    Looks a bit more like Norway maple.
     
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    Is that the trunk of the tree or some limbs?
    If it's the trunk or whole tree for that matter I retract my previous statement.
     
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    Its the trunk. I split it today with the log splitter and it didn't split very easy. It was kind of twisty.
     
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    Let's see some pics!!! Insides seam to help sometimes.
     
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    Could help to determine which, soft or hard, is give it the firewood fingernail test.
     
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    Its dark already but I got a couple. Can't complain, today was a beautiful day with a high around 45, not bad for December!
     

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    What is a fingernail test?
     
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