1. Welcome Hearth.com Guests and Visitors - Please enjoy our forums!
    Hearth.com GOLD Sponsors who help bring the site content to you:
    Jotul Cast Iron Stoves
    Woodstock Soapstone Stoves
    Hearth and Home (QuadraFire and Harman Stoves)
  1. HDRock Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 25, 2012
    1,156 posts
    Grand Blanc, Mi
    I didn't cut any of those today or yesterday , when I do I will bust em open and put up pics.
    The pics were different trees, I took other pics to but apparently ! I don't know how to use the camera on my phone :rolleyes: cus they were not on there when I got home
    #26

    Helpful Sponsor Ads!



  2. HDRock Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 25, 2012
    1,156 posts
    Grand Blanc, Mi
    You got it, Pointer, some of it is a little punky under the bark but ,some of it is just wet under the bark.
    I found out today something else that I don't know about this kind of stuff, I went out and cut about a face cord today .
    I was going after some of the smaller stuff that was up off the ground , thinking it was going to be dry enough to burn, because it was not touching the ground but , the bark is pretty wet and just under the bark is wet , I checked in the center of the wood on the end grain after I made cuts and that was like 16% MC, but the outside of the wood is like 35% MC or more , so it doesn't look like I am going to be burning any of this until next year.
    Will it dry out ,stacked and left open to the elements ;?
    Why , is it so wet under the bark like this when it is, 4 feet off the ground and setting there for two years ;?;?
  3. amateur cutter Minister of Fire

    joined: Aug 20, 2010
    1,118 posts
    West Michigan
    See other thread HD.
  4. HDRock Minister of Fire

    joined: Oct 25, 2012
    1,156 posts
    Grand Blanc, Mi
    I busted some up , it is from a different tree but, the bark looks the same, wood in pic here is definitely Maple, I'm not sure which kind of Maple
    Edit : on second thought this stuff may be different, I will get some pieces from the trees in the first pics in this thread, to be sure, and satisfy, all curiosity .==c

    IMG_20121214_232147.jpg IMG_20121214_232227.jpg
  5. Shaw520 Feeling the Heat

    joined: Oct 15, 2012
    397 posts
    Modena
    Looks like maple
  6. gzecc Minister of Fire

    joined: Sep 24, 2008
    2,855 posts
    NNJ
    Does look like maple. Proves its very hard to ID from the bark alone.
    smokinj likes this.
  7. Woody Stover Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 25, 2010
    3,407 posts
    Southern IN
    Knock off the punky sapwood (or chop it off with a hatchet if it's not too much work) and stack and top-cover it in the wind. May dry enough to burn later this winter. Toss a split in later and see what happens. Even though it's off the ground, it still gets rained on and the punk absorbs water. I've found limbs off the ground that must have been at least ten years old...sapwood totally gone. It burned well...
    And hard maple at that. Score another one for nrford. >>
    nrford likes this.
  8. ansehnlich1 Minister of Fire

    joined: Dec 5, 2006
    1,506 posts
    Adams County, PA
    yep, that's either norway or rock maple, my guess is it's rock.

Share This Page