We got this tree from a friend's yard last year, finally getting to it in the stacks. It had already been dropped and brush cleared.
Green silver maple after being CSS will be ready to burn in 6 months. You should be good to go pretty shortly.
Certainly looks like it could be SM...what I'm used to seeing is the wood a little more white than that though...regional differences maybe...
Does resemble it. Silver dries fast 6-8 months once CS. Reminds me of the diseased beech in my woods. The spalting in the split too. Ive never let silver maple sit long prior to processing so dont know what the inside looks like after sitting for many months. The couple of very dark gray patches on the splits bark reminds me of beech as well. Studied the bark thickness and SM final answer.
The bark of shagbark hickory is sparkler like when you introduce lots of air. If I open the stove door, I have to be careful. I'll try and get a vid some time. And mulberry is like rice krispies.
Hedge apple, a.k.a. osage orange, mulberry, sometimes black locust. At least those are the few I have experience with.
I scored a pretty fair jag of maple in the fall of last year. You all told me it was silver maple. Finally got around to working some of it into firewood over the weekend. One log/branch had a darker center and the further up the branch I cut the worse it got, now I have a couple hollow rounds for campfire chimneys. SM is some of the easiest stuff I’ve ever split. This was out of a ginormous yard tree so lots of twist to it. I can’t imagine how easy a tall straight tree out of a wooded area would split.