Hard Maple

[thewoodlands]

This hard maple was down so I bucked it up and split.

zap

 

[raybonz]

This hard maple was down so I bucked it up and split.

zap

Nice find zap and as usual nice pics too! Sure is nice out your way!

Ray

 

[patch53]

Hey, thats cheatin', where the Fiskars? :cheese:

 

[f3cbboy]

looks like it has been down for some time.. nice looking pile, maybe a 1/2 cord?

 

[LLigetfa]

looks like it has been down for some time.. nice looking pile, maybe a 1/2 face cord?

There, I fixed it for you.

 

[NH_Wood]

looks like it has been down for some time.. nice looking pile, maybe a 1/2 face cord?

There, I fixed it for you.

+1

 

[wsorg]

Nice little stack!

 

[Backwoods Savage]

And notice that zap knows how to use that splitter too. Vertically, the way wood was meant to be split. lol

Good work zap.

 

[Tony H]

And notice that zap knows how to use that splitter too. Vertically, the way wood was meant to be split. lol

Good work zap.

I don't know seems like extra work , I find the dead tree or cut the tree down and it's horizontal now you want me to put it vertical again so I can split it and lay it horizontally on a pile ?
I was thinking smart man that he is Zap was just tilting it up like that so it would take up less space in the shed. ;-)

 

[Jags]

I was thinking smart man that he is Zap was just tilting it up like that so it would take up less space in the shed. ;-)

I'm sure that Zap was just shaking off the wood chips. He surely wouldn't split like that. :lol:

 

[Henz]

probably 1/4 face cord! or less than a weeks worth of wood

 

[sksmass]

I see the phrase "hard maple" used around here pretty often but am always unsure what the author is referring to specifically. I tend to refer to trees (when I know them at all!) by their species name, like "sugar maple", or "norway maple," or "boxelder". So, when people say hard maple do they usually mean sugar maple?

I define "hard maple" as sugar maple or black maple ONLY
and thus every other tree in the Acer genus is thus a "soft maple".

Is that how others define those terms?

 

[ISeeDeadBTUs]

Hard, Red, Silver, and Mountain is all we got here. Mostly red, which most people I know call 'Soft maple"

None of um produced for crap this year

 

[oldspark]

I see the phrase "hard maple" used around here pretty often but am always unsure what the author is referring to specifically. I tend to refer to trees (when I know them at all!) by their species name, like "sugar maple", or "norway maple," or "boxelder". So, when people say hard maple do they usually mean sugar maple?

I define "hard maple" as sugar maple or black maple ONLY
and thus every other tree in the Acer genus is thus a "soft maple".

Is that how others define those terms?

I always thought Sugar Maple was hard maple and Silver Maple was soft maple and the rest were just maple maple.

 

[firefighterjake]

Never really know what folks are talking about when they talk about "hard maple" . . . I always have referred to maple as red maple, sugar maple, silver maple, etc. . . . if I had to guess I would say "hard maple" might be referring to the most dense maple of the bunch -- sugar maple.

 

[Henz]

Yup that is correct, sugar and the lesser Black are the only two Hard Maples

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Around here it is basically two maples; sugar (hard) maple and red (soft) maple.

 

[Henz]

here to, lots of sugar maple, never seen a black maple, but have some silvers and some reds

 

[oldspark]

Is Red Maple much better than Silver Maple?

 

[Henz]

I would assume that Silver Maple is alittle better

 

[raybonz]

Is Red Maple much better than Silver Maple?

Actually they are similar if not the same.. Look here (broken link removed to http://www.chimneysweeponline.com/howood.htm) I saved this link as it saves confusion.. Sugar maple is hard maple and silver dries very light and makes good kindling,,,

Ray

 

[oldspark]

I been looking at several charts and for the most part they rate the red a little above the silver, but the charts vary some times, I have seen silver maple rated better that elm and I have never agreed with that.