Tree ID please...

[albert1029]

A few years ago a big maple fell with a black locust...I took the locust but didn't see the value in the maple until I started browsing this forum...the cross-section is a little blurry so I included a picture of a few small splits I made of a branch...cutting was relatively easy...started working on it yesterday morning in the rain...thanks

 

[Wood Duck]

The leaf says Silver Maple. I see nothing in the other photos that rules out Silver Maple. Silver Maple is one of the 'soft' maples and should be good firewood by next year.

 

[albert1029]

The leaf says Silver Maple

thanks, I was thinking it was since the bark looked like those I knew to be silver maples...

 

[swagler85]

Sliver maple is nice for this time of year. I have some ready to go now, about 1 cord. And another 36 dbh tree in front of my house that is mostly dead and will come down this winter as soon as I finish splitting what I have bucked already.

 

[albert1029]

Sliver maple is nice for this time of year.

I'm lucky this one came down close to the house....looking forward to using it and I should get almost a cord out of this bad boy...

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Albert, that maple will burn fine. Good for you getting it. Looks to be a really nice size too so you get good wood and it piles up a lot faster than cutting the really small trees.