Log 20 ID, Maple ?

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Bacffin

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I think I am in the maple section of this grapple load. The bark on this one is smooth at the small diameters and a litte deeper at the thick. Coloring is blue/grey but there was some black on it too. Pretty white inside even though the end grain pics look brown.

Thanks Again,
Bruce
 

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Silver could be red but its all good.>>
 
Boy these maples are tough for me to id.
 
I'd say silver
 
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Its definately maple.
 
Hard maple again.*** note the inner bark is brown, heartwood color is brown...soft maples will have more of a red tinge. 1000%Hard.
 
Hard maple again.*** note the inner bark is brown, heartwood color is brown...soft maples will have more of a red tinge. 1000%Hard.


If its hard and coming form a logger that the nasty-est looking hard wood maple ever.
 
I thought you said it before J it's firewood not sawlogs?? He isn't going to get veneer for firewood ;)
 
I'd say that's a hard maple too. Looking at the bark, that's what me thinks..
 
Hard maple again.*** note the inner bark is brown, heartwood color is brown...soft maples will have more of a red tinge. 1000%Hard.

Okay good to know. I now have something to look for because there are a couple more in there. Thanks nford.

Bruce
 
I thought you said it before J it's firewood not sawlogs?? He isn't going to get veneer for firewood ;)


That seem to be the case. Those growth rings are huge and double heart wood screams less than hard.
 
How you holding up Basffin. You seem like you keep on ticking
Now you know , after you cut this stuff up you gots to split and stack it.
 
Hard maple again.*** note the inner bark is brown, heartwood color is brown...soft maples will have more of a red tinge.

Okay good to know. I now have something to look for because there are a couple more in there. Thanks nford.
+1. Thanks for the tips. We need all the help we can get! ;lol That kind of info is not in the book. I've cut my share of wood recently, so I could help myself by being a little more observant and noticing some of the distinctions...
 
Width of growth rings really has little to do with specie, and more to do with growing conditions. Hard Maple under the correct conditions can achieve growth rates as high as 2.5" in diameter in 10 years. Also J you should know that every time a tree forks you will get double heart. A good logger removes more defect trees than good trees so you should see alot of double hearts in firewood quality trees. I guess after seeing 2+million board feet of Hard Maple every year for 20+years you get pretty proficient at ID, and have seen more shapes and forms than most folks.
 
Width of growth rings really has little to do with specie, and more to do with growing conditions. Hard Maple under the correct conditions can achieve growth rates as high as 2.5" in diameter in 10 years. Also J you should know that every time a tree forks you will get double heart. A good logger removes more defect trees than good trees so you should see alot of double hearts in firewood quality trees.


LOL I get that part and pointed it out to you in another. I for one have never got any hardwood with two harts. I always see it in sliver maple.



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How you holding up Basffin. You seem like you keep on ticking
Now you know , after you cut this stuff up you gots to split and stack it.

Pretty good actually. I got me some good pain killers ==c . It's raining here today..no bucking :(. The wife will have that all split in no time...er,er,er....
 
Width of growth rings really has little to do with specie, and more to do with growing conditions. Hard Maple under the correct conditions can achieve growth rates as high as 2.5" in diameter in 10 years. Also J you should know that every time a tree forks you will get double heart. A good logger removes more defect trees than good trees so you should see alot of double hearts in firewood quality trees. I guess after seeing 2+million board feet of Hard Maple every year for 20+years you get pretty proficient at ID, and have seen more shapes and forms than most folks.

Okay, so if I have two identical trees and one grows in a shaded wood lot and the other in full sunshine 6-8 hours a day out in the open, will the shaded one have tighter growth rings from slower growth? I know soil conditions play a role here too.

Thanks,
Bruce
 
As well as water. more sunlight=more growth.
 
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Yep. That sunshine can do wonders for many things, including trees. Proof of that is the edge of the woods vs the center. Notice how the limbs and even the trunk will bend towards the sunshine while in the middle of the woods the trees grow straighter. They grow straight up looking for that sunshine.
 
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