Maple?

Hey guys. What kinda maple is this? Also does it take as long as oak to dry?

 

It looks like Sugar Maple to me but I've been wrong before.

 

Thanks for the info guys.

Is this poplar? How well does this burn?

 

We usually burn wood like that in the shoulder season (when it's not real cold but need heat) we take what is down so we've been burning Hemlock and White Pine the past couple of shoulder seasons.

 

I agree with Scotty on the maple. Looks like red to me as well. I have red in my stacks and I ain't complaining one bit.

 

Definitely maple, but what kind? Too hard to tell. It could be sugar. Give it a year and a half css'd, or 2 years and it will be fully dry.

The second one is a poplar of some sort. Split and stack that and it will be ready in a couple of months. Easily burnable by spring 2017.

 

Thanks for the answers guys. I'm always curious what kind of wood I'm cutting. Here's another one for you. What is it?

 

I agree with Scotty on the first picture, at first glace I thought sugar but when I zoomed it looks much more like red. Sugar would be better but red will do just fine. Last pictures look like aspen to me.

 

That's more poplar. It dries quickly, starts easily, and won't bake you out of the house in shoulder season.

 

I'd say sugar maple but that leaf looks like red maple. Red round buds is red maple and pointy brown is sugar. Or post a leaf pic

 

Here's a leaf on that maple

 

Leaf

 

Yep, that's sugar. I was on the fence a little too, but leaning sugar. The bark on reds is a little more "flakey".

I agree with poplar for the other 2 as well - tulip, and aspen. I burned quite a bit of aspen 2 years ago. It dried super fast, but if it got rained on it would soak it right back up. I think a lot of softer woods are like that though. If you have a good stacking location and you can keep it dry, you'll be fine. It burns hot and fast, and leaves almost no coals behind. Good for those early/late season fires where you just want to warm up the house a bit.