Another "Can you guess the species"

[rwilly]

Here is what I brought home yesterday. Been down and bucked for a week. It has the tell tale center color of Cottonwood, but I don't think it is.

What say you?

 

[Rebelduckman]

Maple(soft)

 

[Hogwildz]

Maple(soft)

X2

 

[Osagebndr]

X3 great for should season and mixing with BL to get it going good( small splits)

 

[Applesister]

Red maple
My BIL cut 7 of them last December for me. A desperate ditch effort to catch up with not being able to get wood all fall. They are buried alive under 2.5 - 3' ft snow.
They all had heartwood rot, almost every one. Dont know what condition they will be in when I finally get them out or if they will be seasoned in time for this coming winter.
By processing this spring for next winter.

 

[Fred Wright]

Looks like red maple. I cut a lot of it here. Good off season wood.

 

[tigeroak]

I agree it is soft maple. I for one burn about 80% soft maple. The only time I don't burn it is below 0 at night. I keep around 7 cord around here just about all the time. I season 1-2 years with average size splits 4x4 and larger. Most will be ready in one year be we hold 2 years and good to go. Never pass it up.

 

[rwilly]

Hmmmm,
It looks nothing like the Big Leaf Maple that is so prevalent around these parts and I don't think it is any kind of Maple. I tried to find some leaves on the ground but the tree company had spread all the sawdust around the area. I remember last year looking at the tree and I don't remember it having the Maple leaf shape at all.
If my memory serves my correctly the leaves were more of an Alder shape. I will be passing thru the area tomorrow and I will see if I can find an old crumpled leaf and get a pic of it.

Thanks for your opinions, I will hopefully have a pic for everybody tomorrow evening, altho there might not be much left of the leaves after sitting on the ground all winter.

Thanks again.

 

[rwilly]

I just received an email from the company that did the work, according to him it is a Horsechestnut tree. That sux. I had a feeling it was not a desirable wood, but I was in the area and figured I'd grab some. I will burn it alongside my fir and maple or maybe use it for pit wood.

 

[rwilly]

So, I doubted it was Horsechestnut, because I never saw any chestnuts. I took a pic of some of the dried up leaves, they look similar to an Alder.
I really don't know what it is, and it doesn't really matter. I will split it and stack it, if it burns good then I will be happy, if it doesn't perform, then into the pit it goes and I will roast some hot dogs and S'mores.

 

[Hogwildz]

Dry it, burn it. BTUs heats

 

[rwilly]

Dry it, burn it. BTUs heats

10-4

 

[Oldman47]

The leaf looks like a dry bur oak leaf, Q. macrocarpa, but the bark is all wrong.

 

[rwilly]

Rats!

I went by the area where I got the wood today and there was a Horse Chestnut sapling growing out of one of the stumps. Might as well put rolled up newspaper in the stove.
That's ok, I can use it in the pit to roast marshmallows and hot dogs.