Wood ID & Cord size?
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NH_Wood
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If there is maple in there, I'd think red maple from the bark. As for amount, I'd be surprised if there is a cord there, but hard to tell how big the pile really is. Cheers!
If I were to guess, once it's processed, less than half a cord. At least there doesn't look to be a whole lot of spruce. I would tend to agree that it looks like soft maple of some type or other to me as well.
SolarAndWood
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Looks like a little better than a cord to me. I'm no id expert, but I've always found that free wood burns great. Free and delivered can only burn better.
Looks like mostly maple, a small forked pine tree trunk in the center and a (maybe)spruce/cedar (but it could be pine, too) behind the pine tree branch on the left.
I don't think you have more than a cord.
Piles and even truckloads always look like more to me.
My 1/3 cord estimates are always 1/4.
I don't think you have more than a cord.
Piles and even truckloads always look like more to me.
My 1/3 cord estimates are always 1/4.
Wood Duck
Minister of Fire
It looks like Norway Maple to me. I am not sure where Norway Maple falls on the soft/hard maple scale, but it seems harder than Red and softer than Sugar maple when splitting. The Ys and knots of a big Narway maple are tough to split, and even tough to cut with a chainsaw.
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FireAnt
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I am going to say Norway maple. Looks just like what I split a month ago. Possibly 2/3's of a cord
You know, after I looked at that picture, I thought, definitely not sugar maple, and man, that actually looks like Norway Maple - then I see that others thought so as well. Don't know how much, hard to tell like that, I'd guess you'd be lucky to have a cord there.
CrawfordCentury
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I have a hard time determining depth in pix posted on the 'net, but it looks to be about half a cord of mostly Norway. Maybe a little more if I'm missreading the depth of the pile.
2 things lead me to Norway. First is the look of the bark. My favorite climbing tree as a kid was a Norway, so I've spent a lot of time up close with the bark. Also, it's a popular landscape tree. If this was dumped by an arborist having done a residential removal, there's a better than average chance that it's a landscape tree that outlived its welcome with the current homeowner.
I did a take down of one maybe 3 years ago and burnt the wood myself. IMO, it's comparable to red maple as firewood.
2 things lead me to Norway. First is the look of the bark. My favorite climbing tree as a kid was a Norway, so I've spent a lot of time up close with the bark. Also, it's a popular landscape tree. If this was dumped by an arborist having done a residential removal, there's a better than average chance that it's a landscape tree that outlived its welcome with the current homeowner.
I did a take down of one maybe 3 years ago and burnt the wood myself. IMO, it's comparable to red maple as firewood.
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