All I've cut up for maple is red maple and norway maple and the dark heartwood centers don't look like the red or norway maples that grow here. The smaller diameter rounds don't look right for red maple either, usually they are a smooth grey bark for that size. But I'm in swampy glacial till gravel soil and all of them could present slightly different characteristics in better/worst soil conditions. I would need the leaves. I'm hoping you're on higher ground and have hard maple rather than silver maple.
Around here, silver maple cant be found it the woods. Only in the city. And it seems like it has bark almost like a shagbark hickory but with scales not as prominent.
good haul! I always find the cross section of a knot neat looking when its cut through. Tough on me and the axe though! Not sure on the species, its not sugar or norway.
Great cardio! Had my physical Dec 31, Dr. checks heart rate, looks at me puzzled and says i have the heart rate of a runner. "Do you run" he asks? No i chop wood!!! Best of luck with it!
Looks like the Red/Soft Maple here. It's a heavy grunt when green, splits hard if frozen like now. I like ash better...lighter, splits easier than red maple or white birch. Burns better. The Fisker doesn't always bite into larger butts of ash . Have to saw a groove into the top for a metal wedge to get started.
Huh! Ive cut some huge ash rounds the last couple months (up to 28")and almost all ive halfed with my fiskars. No more than 5 good whacks and though (X27 model) If its too knotty or gnarly i wont even try, ill take the saw to it. Have you ever tried this trick which i learned myself recently by observing another hoarder. Lay the log on its side and cut a groove with your saw at least halfway then hit the kerf with the axe and it should split easily. I watched a gut cut rounds of 24-30"' red oak by the road nad do it that way. Has the borer beetle affected the ash in your area? Dying and dead around here, sad to see. Lots of bare trees in the Summer. Going the way of the chestnut
here too, rarely see it in the woods. Sometimes planted in yards years ago and fast growing. Likes wet soil. Prolific seed producer.
