Quick Seasoning

The Maple wouldn't be dry enough in that short time up here.
Must be nice.

 

Here are the numbers:

Eastern white pine log 5" in diameter cut but not split in February: 8% on the end
Soft maple noodled in April measured all over: 14-15%
Living soft maple: 39%

 

Could be 25_35% if split n checked on the inside,checking outside won't tell you much

 

I hear ya'....As an aside, when I noodle, I go real small to season fast and to fit in my smaller firebox.

I've never had any problems with the maple. It provides good secondaries and gives off it's btu's quickly unlike the oak.

My disaster was in February when the only wood I could get to given the snowpocalypse was eastern white pine allowed to season less than a month. That was not a warm time for me. It was totally useless. I had to mix in lumber cut offs and could only get heat when I had an intense bed of coals to put the wet splits onto.

 

That sucks....

 

Hope you have checked your chimney since burning green pine....