Does maple make for good firewood? I can get a load for 50 bucks

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Does maple make for good firewood? I can get a load for 50 bucks


YES

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Does maple make for good firewood? I can get a load for 50 bucks


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Yes, but hard maple makes better firewood than soft maple.

Deb

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Does maple make for good firewood? I can get a load for 50 bucks

Anywhere between fair and excellent, depending on the species.

Typical soft maples are silver maple and red maple. Silver maple is fair, at
best, for firewood; red maple is mediocre to good. The hard maples (sugar
maple and black maple) make excellent firewood.

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Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

On Oct 30, 6:21 pm, (Doug Miller) wrote:
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Does maple make for good firewood? I can get a load for 50 bucks

Anywhere between fair and excellent, depending on the species.

Typical soft maples are silver maple and red maple. Silver maple is fair, at
best, for firewood; red maple is mediocre to good. The hard maples (sugar
maple and black maple) make excellent firewood.

I just got a nice load of 3" thick hickory cut-offs from some stairs
we're making. It's all checked to hell because the purchaser of the
stairs sawed it himself from his land, but it'll make for some nice
cooking fires.

JP

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Does maple make for good firewood? I can get a load for 50 bucks


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Yes, but hard maple makes better firewood than soft maple.



But that's like saying great sex is better than good sex.

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-Mike-

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Does maple make for good firewood? I can get a load for 50 bucks

Anywhere between fair and excellent, depending on the species.

Typical soft maples are silver maple and red maple. Silver maple is fair,
at
best, for firewood; red maple is mediocre to good. The hard maples (sugar
maple and black maple) make excellent firewood.


Dear Doug:

Send me all of your soft maple.

Thank you.

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-Mike-

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Does maple make for good firewood? I can get a load for 50 bucks

Anywhere between fair and excellent, depending on the species.

Typical soft maples are silver maple and red maple. Silver maple is fair,
at
best, for firewood; red maple is mediocre to good. The hard maples (sugar
maple and black maple) make excellent firewood.


Dear Doug:

Send me all of your soft maple.

Thank you.

LOL -- haven't burned a lot of silver maple, have you? Red maple's OK, but
silver isn't much better than tulip poplar as firewood.

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Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

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"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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wrote:
Does maple make for good firewood? I can get a load for 50 bucks

Anywhere between fair and excellent, depending on the species.

Typical soft maples are silver maple and red maple. Silver maple is
fair,
at
best, for firewood; red maple is mediocre to good. The hard maples
(sugar
maple and black maple) make excellent firewood.


Dear Doug:

Send me all of your soft maple.

Thank you.

LOL -- haven't burned a lot of silver maple, have you? Red maple's OK, but
silver isn't much better than tulip poplar as firewood.


Actually - I really don't know. When it comes to sub-dividing soft maple
into various types, it's all lost on me. For what grows in my woods - it's
close enough to differentiate between hard maple and soft maple. Both make
nice heat. Have no idea what type of soft maple grows here though.

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-Mike-

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LOL -- haven't burned a lot of silver maple, have you? Red maple's OK, but
silver isn't much better than tulip poplar as firewood.

Actually - I really don't know. When it comes to sub-dividing soft maple
into various types, it's all lost on me. For what grows in my woods - it's
close enough to differentiate between hard maple and soft maple. Both make
nice heat. Have no idea what type of soft maple grows here though.

Your soft maple's probably red maple, then. Decent firewood. Decent furniture
wood, too, for that matter, though not as good as sugar maple for either
purpose -- but way, way better than silver maple, which is too soft and
light to be much use.

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Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

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Actually - I really don't know. When it comes to sub-dividing soft maple
into various types, it's all lost on me. For what grows in my woods -
it's close enough to differentiate between hard maple and soft maple.
Both make nice heat. Have no idea what type of soft maple grows here
though.


Pound of wood is a pound of wood when you're burning. So at the same
moisture content you go with the heaviest. Sugar maple @ SG 0.66, red at
0.56 and silver at 0.50 should give you an idea. Tulip-poplar is 0.46 .
You're a bit lazy if you can't take the time it takes to look up your local
stuff or ask your county agent.

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"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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wrote:
Does maple make for good firewood? I can get a load for 50 bucks

Anywhere between fair and excellent, depending on the species.

Typical soft maples are silver maple and red maple. Silver maple is
fair,
at
best, for firewood; red maple is mediocre to good. The hard maples
(sugar
maple and black maple) make excellent firewood.


Dear Doug:

Send me all of your soft maple.

Thank you.

LOL -- haven't burned a lot of silver maple, have you? Red maple's OK, but
silver isn't much better than tulip poplar as firewood.

I have burned a lot of silver maple as well as Manitoba maple which would be
rated as very soft maple. If you want to maximize heat output per load of
wood, go for sugar maple, but the others still produce heat, and if it is
this time of the year you don't want a lot all at once, or the fire to last
all night, they are still good.