any body know what this is?

[saewoody]

The soft maple dries like ash IMO. I'm usually at 20% if cut split stacked before March and burned in October.

+1

I generally have the same experience with soft maple. I’ve got some maple I split and stacked during the summer that is sub 20%. I stack in single rows.


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[KJamesJR]

Looks like mostly sugar maple.

Those vines could also be oriental bittersweet vine. Someone at some point thought it was a good idea to bring them over to the states. I have it all over my property. It gets thick, 4-8 inches in diameter. Chokes out and inbeds itself into trees. Nasty stuff. Really evasive and hard to get rid of. I'm still battling it.

 

[jwfirebird]

doesnt look like that thankfully. the vines are either poison ivy here, or some places its grapes, but they are just as aggravating. they grow like spider webs though the tops and you cant move any of the branches because they from tree to tree. alot of the time if im trying to get rid of a branch or top in a hedge row you have to hook it to the quad and pull it down

 

[KJamesJR]

doesnt look like that thankfully. the vines are either poison ivy here, or some places its grapes, but they are just as aggravating. they grow like spider webs though the tops and you cant move any of the branches because they from tree to tree. alot of the time if im trying to get rid of a branch or top in a hedge row you have to hook it to the quad and pull it down

Consider yourself lucky! I've already taken down several of good tapping maples because of that bittersweet vine.