Any experience with Silver Maple?
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Isaac Carlson
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Inexperienced burners burn wet anything. I like my wood dry, but wet oak lasts a long time and that can be used to your advantage if you are careful about creosote. A neighbor burns fresh cut wood all winter and has a black pipe outside his house. The creosote dripping out of that pipe would coat many railroad ties. I have been thinking of stopping over and having a friendly chat about burning.
Seems to me that soft Maple and Cherry will absorb moisture more readily than harder woods. If I pull some out of a top-covered stack where rain might blow in on it a little, and put it directly in the stove, it may hiss or show a little moisture on the end of the splits. Better to keep it on a well-covered porch for a while or dry it for several days near the stove...
I can't have too much flame in my Dutchwest or the baffle glows but if I cut the air too much the cat will crash. Seems like it crashes more with Silver than, say, White Ash, for some reason. I've been putting a trench in the coals so air can get under the load a little more. Silver seems to burn fast and hot in my other cat stoves, so I don't know what the deal is with the Dutchwest and Silver. Turns out this burning of wood is rocket science, after all.
That's Aspen/Poplar up there, right, not Tulip?
Ahhhh, I'd have a problem with that. I'm spoiled on true hardwoods like White Ash and White Oak.
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