Log 15 ID Please, No Clue, Butt Ugly Also!

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Bacffin

Bacffin

Minister of Fire
Jan 2, 2012
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30 Miles Northwest of Boston
This one has got me. It was different to buck up from the others I have in the grapple load. When running the saw though it, it would naturaly follow the twisted grain pattern. I tried to keep the bar straight and square through the log, but it was useless. After a while I just gave up fighting it and let it cut where it wanted to. The mold growth also had an effect on it. It penetrated in a few inches where it is attached and those areas all basicaly dust/punky now. too bad. I'm thinking maple family?

Thanks Again,
Bruce
 

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Looks to be a hard maple. I will go with sugar.
 
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Looks like maple to me too, depending on where they grow they can be tough sometimes.
 
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If it came into a sawmill it would go into the Soft maple deck!
 
nrford said:
If it came into a sawmill it would go into the Soft maple deck!
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?? Okay, I thought sugar maple was considered hard? Is it silver?
 
Scotty Overkill said:
No. Sugar only runs for a day or so in the fall and for a month or so in the late winter/early spring. You may get commited to the nuthouse if someone sees you licking wood.....even if it is your OWN wood!!;lol
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The mind went right into gutter, ay!
 
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I am pretty sure it is maple but not sure what kind. I'd say it is either Sugar (Hard) maple or Red (one of the soft) maples. Both have that flaky bark that you see on your log.
 
nrford said:
If it came into a sawmill it would go into the Soft maple deck!
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Its a little hollow and if that hits the deck you will be a man down!
 
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Bacffin said:
Why soft?
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#1 the color of the heartwood screams soft maple.
#2 the bark speaks soft maple much more than Hard.

Right Smoke the hollow would be bucked back some! But hollow logs are sawed everyday at a grade mill!
 
Where this is soft, will it be under 20% MC before the other hardwoods? I will hold it aside if it is.

Thanks Everyone,
Bruce
 
Bacffin said:
Where this is soft, will it be under 20% MC before the other hardwoods? I will hold it aside if it is.
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Soft Maple dries super-fast...at least the Red Maple I've gotten recently.
 
nrford said:
#1 the color of the heartwood screams soft maple.
#2 the bark speaks soft maple much more than Hard.

Right Smoke the hollow would be bucked back some! But hollow logs are sawed everyday at a grade mill!
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There bringing them in that small and hollow again one man down................These guys are loggers thats why this stuff was sold as cord wood!
 
smokinj said:
There bringing them in that small and hollow again one man down................These guys are loggers thats why this stuff was sold as cord wood!
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I know it is not a sawlog the intent was make the point of where it would go if it was! You don't have to be a jerk!
 
Bruce, just look at soft maple and hard maple as two very different woods. And yes, soft maple dries extremely fast. If left in the woods it can also rot pretty darned fast, even if it is off the ground. We had one we cut a few years back (do that sometimes just for the deer to feed on) and it landed across two others that we had fell. I don't remember if it were 2 or 3 years later and a neighbor was looking for some wood for a needy person. These 3 trees were very close to the line fence and I just told him to cut them and take them. You could already see them turning punky.

Soft maple is still good to burn but just won't hold a fire as long as hard maple.
 
Wood...or any aspect thereof...just ain't worth getting all worked up about. Be nice to one another here on the playground, or I'll have kick y'all out & lock it up. I don't want to have to do that. Rick
 
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