Sugar Maple Kicking In
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cptoneleg said:
I've never burned oak so I'll stay with sugar maple. I'm getting 10 hour burn times with the sugar maple.
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zap, if you ever get the chance to get some oak, do it.
Of course, it'll take a while to dry, but it's great firewood.
Of course, it'll take a while to dry, but it's great firewood.
PapaDave said:
PapaDave, I thought about it but we have enough ironwood on our property which has higher btu's so we'll be burning that starting next year.
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Just trying to learn, I purchased a great deal of my firewood in the past 25yr. Spent 90% of my life away from home, am retired now ( thats what laid off folks over 62 yr old call it ) And am learning my woods and I have as much sugar maple as I do Oak. Never seperated my wood before , but now have stacks of oak , cherry, sugar maple, don't know how I had time to go to Work on a regular job.
cptoneleg said:
I just take what wood has blown down plus leaners and dead standing. We seperate our wood and with the cold weather lately the sugar maple is our go to wood.
Next year we'll have plenty of beech and sugar maple for our go to wood.
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Oak blows away sugar maple, period.
Better yet to mix the both.
The maple leaves alot of ash, burns quicker than oak.
Oak burns long, leaves good coals, and little ash. MOre btu to oak than maple.
Better yet to mix the both.
The maple leaves alot of ash, burns quicker than oak.
Oak burns long, leaves good coals, and little ash. MOre btu to oak than maple.
Such is the dichotomy that is my life- as a wood burner, sugar maple burns really nice, as a syrup hobbyist, seeing those wonderful sap sources fall to the ground brings a tear to my eye.
Hard maple does extremely well and there is not a huge difference between it and oak. So feel good about your maple Zap.
Backwoods Savage said:
I'll take it and if I had Oak on the property I would have some of that also. Just the fact that Sugar Maple takes one year to season is another reason I like it over Oak.
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zapny said:
How close is your nearest Oak tree? I think we have one in a mature 60 acres of forest. And, that is the only one I have seen in the area.
SolarAndWood said:
Solar if you head about 7-10 miles north towrds Potsdam New York It's loaded with them. This one guy had 10-12 removed from his front yard so they would get more sun but left the one nearest the house.
From our house you can go another 5-6 miles east and they have them, my neighbor has one that is just inside the property line next to our line so maybe one day we will have some.
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I was thinking softer Maples.
It is true. Sugar is not much different than Oak. Both fine burning woods, burn what ya got.
I had some softer stuff and it left alot of ash, but less coals. I still say a good mix is best for burning. Too much of a coaling wood leaves just that, too many coals. A good mix for me seems to burn nicely and not leave too much ash or too much coals.
Heck I'll burn whatever I can get in the stove. Pine is great for burning excess coals down and getting heat while it is in the process.
Enjoy what you have.
It is true. Sugar is not much different than Oak. Both fine burning woods, burn what ya got.
I had some softer stuff and it left alot of ash, but less coals. I still say a good mix is best for burning. Too much of a coaling wood leaves just that, too many coals. A good mix for me seems to burn nicely and not leave too much ash or too much coals.
Heck I'll burn whatever I can get in the stove. Pine is great for burning excess coals down and getting heat while it is in the process.
Enjoy what you have.
Hogwildz said:
Hogwildz, I think your correct on the ashes for the Sugar Maple. I throw some Cherry on which does a good job burning the coals down.
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Speaking of burning what 'ya got, I forgot that I put some of the spruce from last spring farther back in the shed. I should be about 2 weeks from where's it's at, but I could grab it now if I wanted to. I'll try to keep it for April or May.
I just got into the popple/maple/oak that was left from last year. Hog is right, the soft maple leaves lots of fluffy ash. Well, so does the popple.
Might try putting that stuff aside and just burn the oak until this latest cold snap goes away.
Burn on with whatever ya got, and stay warm.
I just got into the popple/maple/oak that was left from last year. Hog is right, the soft maple leaves lots of fluffy ash. Well, so does the popple.
Might try putting that stuff aside and just burn the oak until this latest cold snap goes away.
Burn on with whatever ya got, and stay warm.
Zap, do you have any black birch? I've been burning straight loads of it for about a week, and I have to say, it just hopped clean over hard maple on my preferred woods list. Not that there's anything wrong with sugar, not at all. Just that the black birch seems to last forever, has perfect coaling qualities and doesn't leave a lot of ashes. And it is really puts out some ferocious heat. I've often said that sugar maple is like cherry on steroids. Well, black birch is like sugar maple on crack. I wonder how it compares with ironwood... a wood I've never burned in my life.
Battenkiller said:
Just checked the btu chart and never realized river birch (black birch) btu rating is 26.8 and ironwood is 26.4. We have some birch so I'll have to check on what type, thanks for the heads up on the btu rating.
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