Free wood! Yes maple can be a pain at times,but dammit it's free! Sharpen the chains, top off the bar oil and gas and git r done!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
NH_Wood that is good you plan on cleaning up the punky wood for the guy. It is always nice to show appreciation.
Welcome to the forum mirnldi Not sure what you have for maple but most maple splits super easy. Perhaps you have some that was a yard tree or one in a fence row. Those can be twisted a bit but if cut in the woods, the maple we have splits super easy.
Welcome to the forum jfhrtn Good that you have the oaks there. Super firewood even if it does take a long, long time to dry right.
Red maple makes good firewood. It won't burn quite as long as oak but still great firewood. Burns hot, lights off easy, splits easy and gives good coals. What is there not to like about it?
Maple is good firewood and each species has a place in the burning season. I focused on CSS a lot of red maple this past fall for next year's use. I actually just put a piece of red maple in my insert that was cut in September. It's burning nicely with no hissing. I hear sugar maple is top shelf firewood but haven't burn any. After see today's results with red maple, I'm going to use it a lot more often vs scrounging.
Wow! I can't believe someone in the great frozen North East actually gave hard maple away! Gooder on you!
These trees were growing around, on, and through old fieldstone walls on my property. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Welcome mirnldi this is a great place! great job NH_Wood looks like a smaller town lot most don't city folk good on you for helping him out! Yes sugar maple is a great cold night wood! but this year red has been working! Red and silver dry quick and put out good heat.. sugar is just another step above...
Thanks for the warm welcome. It does indeed take a good long while to dry. Even stacked then covered up with black plastic and a tarp on top it takes while. During dry periods I remove the cover to let the air blow through. I am cutting/splitting firewood this year to season for selling & use next year. Once seasoned it does burn hot though. Cedar and Leyland Cypress just make the house smell good rather than give off a lot of heat compared to oak. -Rick T2 Tappin'
Thanks Rick. Here's a couple other things you might want to look at on this forum: Primer on Woodburning by Backwoods Savage and Firewood BTU & Drying Chart
I just tried the links and they work. But if not, go to the top of this page and click on "Resources" and you can find both in there.
My project lately has been processing this white oak some to some fire wood. Nothing left but the stump now. It fell during hurricane Matthew and needed to be turned into some btu's to stay warm with. Just was wondering if there was a thread to post up what you have been working on or what your current project is. Like an "official show your project" thread Don't want to hijack your thread with pics but just an example T2 Tappin'
Not sure there is one, but a tree like that deserves it's own thread anyway. Feel free to start a new thread, call it your own, post projects in it..
