What kind of maple

[BigJ273]

Does anyone know what kind of maple this is? It is very dense it was extremely hard to cut with a chainsaw. Not as heavy as oak but pretty heavy

 

[Merc1973]

Any leaves?

 

[BigJ273]

Any leaves?

Unfortunately not

 

[Woody Stover]

I dunno..could it be Red Maple? As wet as that probably is, weight isn't going to tell you much. Red Maple is decent stuff, more dense than Silver. I don't know that I've seen heartwood like that in any of the Maples, though..
I would post this in the "Wood Shed" forum, where the wood nerds hang out. And get a split-wood pic if you can.

 

[BigJ273]

Split

 

[Woodsplitter67]

From what littlebark picture we have im going silver maple..or swamp maple..

 

[Woody Stover]

Looks like Maple, for sure. Could be hard (Sugar) Maple too, I guess, the bark on those can vary in appearance.

 

[Ctwoodtick]

I see a lot red maple around my area and I say what you have is red.

 

[tadmaz]

Wet red maple can be really really heavy.

 

[jsab9191]

Looks like red maple , definitely not sugar maple.

 

[billb3]

Doesn't look quite right for red maple and I have a swamp full of it. I've never found red maple hard to cut.
Doesn't look like Norway maple either.
Looks more like hard maple with that grey center unless it is rotten - which, again, is not hard to cut. But there's no hard maple here so I've never cut any.

 

[jsab9191]

In the the northeast that scaly bark and dark brownish core would indicate red maple also called swamp maple up here.

 

[Jags]

That looks just like the silver maple I cut around my area, but after years of looking at wood pics on this site I have realized that wood can have different characteristics depending on location.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Red Maple no question.....

 

[nrford]

Soft Maple, without a doubt

 

[BigJ273]

Never burned it before. How is it?

 

[Woody Stover]

Both Red and Silver are soft Maples I've burned..Red seems a little less "soft," burns a bit longer. There are other soft Maples I haven't run across here. Probably the best thing about them is they dry fast. It'll be pretty dry by next fall.