I get a text message over the weekend. Customer of mine had a tree snap off in the woods between him and the neighbor who happens to be my friend where i store wood. This is the same source from my thread. if i have these trees cut down, you can have the wood! Oakee dokee!!! We had some high winds the other night. Snapped off this red maple top. Dropped off some wood at my friends next door so i checked it out. Tree is alive and some decent wood to be had. I can fell the spar too. He lucked out, if it snapped the other way it would've taken down his power lines. No rush to get this. Ill give some of the wood to my friend. Ill update when i do. Not my favorite wood, but free and can cut to my size. He has more trees i may fell as a paying job.
Nice score! I love red maple. I cut two loads of it this past Saturday. Cut in 16” lengths with good air flow it can usually get below 20% MC in less than a year. Red maple is always in my inventory and is helping me get on the three plan
In my second year as a fireplace burner I am loving red maple!! It dries well and burns good, fast but at least it makes good flames
There is a lot of it around! It has its good and bad points. Like you mentioned, the twisting grain in the trunk. And the borers, if I don't take the bark off. And stacks in chunks instead of splits. On the plus side, dries fast, and is great for milder temperatures.
Nice score Buzzsaw! I’ve got red maple mixed into the stacks in the wood shed. Burns hot alongside other hardwoods. I’d take it!
Looks as though the grain had some twist where the break happened. When i buck it up ill split one of the big uns. If twisty, my friend next door there gets it as he has a hydro.
I'll also give Red Maple a "like." Great kindling wood, besides its other attributes. I bet that trunk isn't too twisty; It's the yard birds that can be nightmare.
Red maple is my good wood so far this year as I have (about a half cord left now) a stack in the way of dropping a dead oak and two big dead old white pine trees. I wasn't going to move it, just subject it to an attrition process by using it. Cut the trees down in Feb probably. A broken maple - might already be a little soft if it was dead standing. They seem to go quick here. Hope it is still a solid red maple. No shrooms, no spalting.
Fresh cut green splits easiest for me in the cold weather. Late last Winter i acquired some that was a month cut. Once the ends started to check it got a bit warmer it was harder to split. Some did have a twist. Hand splitting of course.
