What did I bring home?
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Looks like Maple to me. The olive color is a disease common to Maples. Not going to attempt to spell the wilt.
I thought it was maple....just not sure on hard or soft. Was starting to rot at the base and the wind took it over. Property owner paid somebody to fell it(too close to other structure for me) and they even took care of all the small stuff, all I had to do was back my truck up to it & buck it up and take it away. In any case it's some of next years heat and dhw! 
I think that is either Red or Sugar Maple. I am not sure how to differentiate based on these pictures.
Wood Duck said:
red or norway looks closer to silver and sugar has its own look... My money sugar. Not much hartwood though so I could be wrong as well..lol
The bark looks more like sugar maple. If you had a piece of silver maple of the same size the hard maple would weigh more. Hard maple has a better smell when it burns too!
To add to that, sugar maple, when fresh cut/split smells like, well, maple syrup almost...Cave2k said:
muncybob said:
Definitely sugar maple- quite common in our parts. From the look of the bark, a maturing adolescent; absent pests or disease it might have lived another 100-150 years. Definitely not red or silver maple, which are excellent kindling. What you have is the "main course." Potentially so good that I'd recommend splitting now for burning 2011/12 or later.
Congrats!
I got to take a better look at those pics and I am adjusting my guess. I don't think it is a sugar maple, I am leaning towards Norway maple, with a possibility of box elder as someone else mentioned. Hopefully it is Norway which is very good firewood and not box elder which is a softwood member of the acer family
It's definatly not box elder I have one in my yard or silver just split a cord of that. I've been burning Norway for a
few years and it has a lighter heartwood, so my guess would be sugar and I hope it is because I just scrounged a trailer full identical to your pictures. Heavier than silver about the same weight as Norway, so if it is sugar we both have some good wood for the 2011/12 season.
few years and it has a lighter heartwood, so my guess would be sugar and I hope it is because I just scrounged a trailer full identical to your pictures. Heavier than silver about the same weight as Norway, so if it is sugar we both have some good wood for the 2011/12 season.
It could be black maple too, which is very similar to sugar maple but has 3 lobed leaves versus the 5 lobed leaves of a sugar. I believe black maple would be considered a hard maple. I saw someone mention that Norway doesn't have dark heartwood but I have seen plenty with dark heartwood like that. The rounded ridges on the bark look more like Norway or possibly black compared to sugar , although i know sugars can have bark like that it seems to me that sugars more commonly have deep but flat ridges. Either way, Norway, black or sugar, you have some good wood there
Maybe it is Norway then but the Norway we get in southern Ontario has had a lighter heartwood with a bark that looks close to a mature ash. Either way it's a hard maple, one thing I've noticed is that soft maples don't have the chekered shiny grain on the splits that the harder maple seem to have. Has anyone else noticed this?
I think you did good. Looks like a hard maple to me too. Personal I hate Silver Maple, you couldn't give it to me CSS. Silver for me throws no heat, the hard maple is perfect.
I'm looking forward to this coming week-end as this pile will be included in the "log splitting party". Renting a hydraulic splitter and splitting my several piles of CL & scrounged wood ... weather pemitting. It will be quite a variety of wood too...some oak, soft & hard maple, cherry and a lot of ash. I'm hoping we have enough out of all this for next year and then some...time to start cutting for the year after!
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