Wood ID Please

Maple

Red maple

Yep Maple. Good wood. How much do you have there?

Another for Red Maple for sure.

ajreid said:

I've got almost a cord. Never burned this stuff before. It is the hardest wood I've ever split, the grain of the wood is twisted. It also seemed really wet.
What is the seasoning time of this
Stuff?

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yeah that's maple alright, I'd rather split 2 cords of oak than 1 cord of maple sometimes, water usually squishes out, red maple's pretty good, good score.

ajreid said:

I've got almost a cord. Never burned this stuff before. It is the hardest wood I've ever split, the grain of the wood is twisted. It also seemed really wet.
What is the seasoning time of this
Stuff?

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Red Maple. I got a yard tree that came down in a storm and it had that twisted grain....tough as hell to split. It was a live tree and was wet when split, but was getting pretty dry after a few summer months. Some of the fastest-drying wood you can get. Medium heat output, not as good as Sugar Maple.

ajreid said:

Finally found a chart with red maple listed. Its a pretty low on the btu charts at 18.7 million per cord.

http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/wood-combustion-heat-d_372.html

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Just remember it's just as good pound for pound as any other wood.
I like maple it might season a little faster too.

Here is a chart that's often used for BTU measurements as well. It has Red Maple at 20: http://chimneysweeponline.com/howood.htm

For Red maple the charts I have said 20.0 also. Silver maple is 17.4
I had my BIL cut me 2 trees about a week ago. They made a cord between the two. I thought they split like poplar, actually nicer than poplar. On the dry side and one was in a creek bed.
From your pics I could only ID the leaves. The Red maple in my lot has smooth bark like Beech. Although a couple of the trees I found had the rough fissured bark like Sugar maple.
I tried this wood to see how middle range BTU maple burns. My usual mid range wood is cherry and elm and birch.
So I will see.

BIGDADDY said:

Just remember it's just as good pound for pound as any other wood.
I like maple it might season a little faster too.

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Yea but stove size increases for the lower BTU woods to get the same heat output.

ajreid said:

I've got almost a cord. Never burned this stuff before. It is the hardest wood I've ever split, the grain of the wood is twisted. It also seemed really wet.
What is the seasoning time of this
Stuff?

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I have had red maple where the grain spiraled up the tree if that is what you mean by twisted. It is a real PITA to split and stack. Knotty yard trees are not much fun either. It is good burning wood. Lights up real easy. Good for the early season where you want a quick fire to take out the morning chill. I also like it in evening in winter, if I throw some in when I get home it will be mostly burnt down by bedtime and there will be some space to load in the oak for overnight.

paul bunion said:

Good for the early season where you want a quick fire to take out the morning chill.

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I toss a small load of soft Maple on in the evening....no morning chill.

Yeah, I just got a huge load of red maple -that's it!

oldspark said:

Yea but stove size increases for the lower BTU woods to get the same heat output.

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My stove hasn't gotten bigger when burning lower btu wood. Ha