+100000000 it is a hard maple for crying out loud!scotvl said:Norway has to be one of the most miss identified woods to hear the experience some have with it. It is not anything like soft or silver maple. In my experience I place it in between ash and sugar maple, very hard and heavy even when dry. Its used for flooring, lasts overnight but puts out less btu than sugar. Overall a very good firewood that I have some in my stacks most years.
Flatbedford said:I agree on the longer seasoning times. Also every one of them that I have seen or dealt with has tons of crotches and id usually kinda twisted. Not the best wood for a hand splitter, but it burns ok. The power comoany cut one on my side yard last year. i was happy to see it go, but only took a few rounds from it. I didn't want to deal with with splitting all the twists and crotches. The hauled it off a few days later.
Look at the twisted grain in the big trunk there.
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Yep +1scotvl said:that looks alot more like norway than the tree you had taken down. I find the straiht sectioos pop right open but you need hydro for the uglies.
scotvl said:hey MapleMan can you post some pics of your "Norway" maple, want to make sure you have the same wood we are talking about. 3.5 courds is alot to get from one scrounge of Norway because they generally don't get that big around here.