Came home to a load of maple.

[Roundgunner]

A tree service dropped this in my back drive on Sunday. Started cutting it today. Looks like a few weeks worth of bitter cold relief to me.






He called it silver maple, I called it shagbark maple. What do you guys call it?

 

[BrotherBart]

hat do you guys call it?

Work.

Psssst: You misspelled Sthil.

 

[goofa]

You misspelled Sthil

psssssst: stihl lol

 

[BrotherBart]

psssssst: stihl lol

Killjoy.

 

[goofa]

anyways its stihl a nice bit of free maple to score

 

[Roundgunner]

Work.

Psssst: You misspelled Sthil.

Good catch but I'm not surprised, I can hardly spell my name and never claimed to be able to spell fluent German.
But can you tell what the other Stihl in the photo is?

On my way to filling the racks for 2015-16.

 

[Applesister]

spellcheck wouldnt pick that up anyway. I call it swamp maple but that term offends people who have it growing in their yard. Im not really sure actually if its the same maple as those multi-stemmed monsters growing along the Mohawk River basin. Its too swampy to get a closer look. If the proper nutrients and enough water is available they can get Godzilla huge.

 

[Woody Stover]

What do you guys call it?

I call it Silver, and I call it more like about six weeks' worth here.

 

[Applesister]

thats gotta be awkward, spellcheck didnt catch it on both counts. ;-)

 

[BrotherBart]

I was hoping for somebody to call "Skitt's Law". From the usenet days it says that anybody that corrects somebody's spelling or grammar will make a spelling or grammar error in the correction.

Got a bite.

 

[Soundchasm]

If those things are to scale then they're kind of big! I'd call it Silver Maple. Been working on one my friend had dropped. I hate surrender worse than anything, but I'm going to have to cry "uncle" on the biggest section plus a few horrid crotches. The routine for anything above 14" has been to cut a groove 3-4" down one side, get that stuck in my little splitter, pull it out and cut the groove halfway, back in the splitter, hear it crack open, back off the splitter and cut the two sections apart. I hope you have a lot more horsepower at your disposal, or that tree is real straight.

But NICE score.

 

[Roundgunner]

The first photo has a couple cut at 24" that shows scale. I think some is 30-32 inch. I noodled a funky cut today and it cut easy enough.

 

[Soundchasm]

I was surprised and humbled by this (only) 29 year old tree. With God as my witness it's like it's woven together. Here's hoping that yours pops open just like it's supposed to. Mine is probably child-proof...

 

[Woody Stover]

What do you guys call it?

I see in The Guide that one nickname for it is "White Maple."

 

[Woody Stover]

Here's hoping that yours pops open just like it's supposed to. Mine is probably child-proof...

Had a Red Maple like that a couple years ago. Normally, it splits easily but this yardbird had some of the twistiest grain ever. Man, that thing was bad, even with a 22-ton.

 

[nrford]

wormy Soft Maple.

 

[Roundgunner]

I split up about a third of it today. I wouldn't want to do it by hand, ( I don't ant to do ash by hand ) but with the splitter it was not bad but the water pooled up on the ends with the pressure more than I have ever noticed before.

 

[Soundchasm]

I split up about a third of it today. I wouldn't want to do it by hand, ( I don't ant to do ash by hand ) but with the splitter it was not bad but the water pooled up on the ends with the pressure more than I have ever noticed before.

Good deal then. I think Silver Maple gives up its moisture w/o much of a fight, so any small splits could be good this winter. My pal's tree was wringing wet as well. Yours was delivered farm fresh, too.

 

[BIGDADDY]

That's a great way to get logs. Does that happen very often?

 

[Roundgunner]

Same guy cut this oak last month. I had to bring this home from across the street.



Good year but lots of work.