Dropped a few silver maples

[swagler85]

Well we dropped a few silver maples for my neighbor. Only had to haul it about 300 feet to my woodpile, not too bad of a haul. One was about 20 inches the other closer to 30. Not sure how much wood I will get out of it but will go into the 13-14 pile. Surprised the local fire dept didnt show up with the brush pile we lit up. Wow that loader takes all the work out of dropping hauling and cleaning up.

 

[leftyscott]

I cleaned up a couple silver maples last year. I was pleasantly surprised at how well it burned after about 6 months of seasoning.

 

[bogydave]

Hydraulic assist is nice.
Still lots of work to get it into the wood stacks & start drying. Fun work though. Especially splitting the big rounds
It'll be some good wood in 2013 for sure!
Close to 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 cords is my guess

Now That's A Fire
I could roast hot dogs from here

 

[Gark]

As for splitting silver maple, they have been anywhere from easy to really tough to split for the ones done around here. Can't figure it out.. I would think rounds of the same species but different trees would split with about equal difficulty, but haven't found that to be the case at all. Hope yours are easy-- nice catch!

 

[Jags]

As for splitting silver maple, they have been anywhere from easy to really tough to split for the ones done around here. Can't figure it out.. I would think rounds of the same species but different trees would split with about equal difficulty, but haven't found that to be the case at all. Hope yours are easy-- nice catch!

It can be different from tree to tree by a wide margin. A tree that is felled amongst many others is probably gonna be the straightest and easiest splitting. A yard tree or fence row tree will probably be tougher. The more wind battered a tree is, the more difficult to split (general rule of thumb, here).