LOL!!! I try not to drive it in salty conditions. Ive owned it five years. 2008 with 175,000 miles. There was no rust through IIRC when i bought it.
Yes, I've had terrible experiences with clinkers. Trust me Brad, you won't soon see me hoarding it any time soon. IF I were in a situation like fuelrod's, I'd burn elm mill scrap in a heartbeat. General consensus here is clicker content is regional related to minerals in the ground.
There's another site that some folks would "poopoo" you for burning silver maple or box elder or cottonwood. If'n it heats your home, and you cannot get any "better" wood.............................I will never make fun of you. I heated my home with mostly box elder and silver maple for 5-6 years. Funny the woods I mention..................are seasoned very, very fast..............a fact many "SNOBS" ingore.
Nice building.....hey I burn Hemlock too at my hunting camp. Dries quick and puts out good heat, it just is not "overnighter" stuff.
We all get snobby at times. I have thrown whole pine/spruce trees on the burn pile before realizing they would have made nice shakes for my house. Talk about regret. Everyone in the area snobbed out on a guy who wanted to clear a hillside in his yard. He made all kinds of wonky cuts in trees, some cut over half way through, and left them standing. Some he got snagged in other trees. I went and looked at them and offered to clean it up for a price, since it was all hazard trees at this point. Months later, he has an ad that shows random length rounds and trees down everywhere. Nobody wants to mess with it. We've burned willow, cottonwood, silver maple, and many other woods. Silver maple isn't bad. I'm bringing home a whole tree this week that was taken down about 2 miles away. At least 8 cord in that tree. We have made 8 trips so far, and have a bunch left to make. The guy who owns the property has even helped load it and used his truck to bring some home for us. I can't walk past a deal like that, especially when it's enough to heat the house for a year.
That's a monster silver maple by our standards - I don't think I've taken one down that amounted to more than 3 cords... I love having silver maple in the stash - dries quickly and reliably, easy to cut and split and has enough BTUs to make me happy.
This is the stump. We have 5 cord home so far and the biggest stuff is still in his yard. I cut a 67" silver maple years ago. This one is over 6 ft dbh.
