silver maple does it make good firewood
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Makes fair firewood imo but starts to rot soon if not kept out of the weather.
Any easy to get wood is good firewood. If it burns and will fit in my stove, I burn it. Yea, Silver maple will rot pretty fast if left on the ground, even in tree lenghts
macattack_ga
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Too much ash... have to empty the stove too often when burning silver maple.
If you've got a wood burner w/ a shaker & pan it'd be a different story.
If you've got a wood burner w/ a shaker & pan it'd be a different story.
Yes..it's the bestus wood out their..almost as good as wallnutt and syickamore .
macattack_ga
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Yeah, I was wondering if he was trolling.... has the forum been that slow lately?
Yes to both your statements.
To bring something worthwhile to this thread..post a picture of that FJ40!
I hope so, because I got 4 cords of it from a neighbors tree last fall. It was right next to my driveway, so it was hard to turn down! No, it's not oak, locust or hedge, so don't expect that! But it was free and close and will burn just fine. Really nice for campfire wood, or a fireplace on Christmas Eve. .
NSMaple1
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Especially if it's free....
Huskybill
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I was burning anything I get my hands on. I cut a willow tree I got seven cords of wood from it. The only problem it smelled like the swamp was burning. I was burning it around 11 pm through the night. I let it dry for three years too.
Maple is ok. I mix it with oak, hickory. I set the stove damper and pipe damper by the temp gauges. Not to waste wood burn time.
Maple is ok. I mix it with oak, hickory. I set the stove damper and pipe damper by the temp gauges. Not to waste wood burn time.
It does smell nice when burning.
I like some on hand for early and late season in the owb
Silver maple is good to smoke bacon. I like to split it into small splits and then take the chop saw and cut into little chunks. I have a metal 5gal bucket with a 2in hole in the lid. I fill the bucket about half full of those little chunks and put on top of the fish fryer and heat it up. The chunks will burn without flaming up, all smoke. Hang your middlings over top the bucket and let set in the smoke for about 4 hrs for a cold smoke. Slice and fry, Yum Yum
It beats trolls repeatedly asking for free firewood..... But only just.
i think if you have to ask a person prolly shouldn't be burning wood.
James Miller
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I ask a lot of questions and you haven't told me to get lost yet
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I worked for UPS for 30 years. I always checked out the cars on new routes. One route I had, had an older fellow I always talked to. One day he said he had to get over to the Big Brick House and mow the yard. In the middle of the development was a 5 acre lot with a big brick house, and an old FJ. He bought the house he lived in when he got married, and he later inherited the Big House, but liked his smaller house better, and couldn't bring himself to sell the family place. He said if I liked the FJ I could have it. I told him I had looked at it a couple times and was amazed at how rust free it was. He laughed and said back in the 60's-70's it had rusted out so bad he bought a brand new fiberglass body from J.C. Whitney and rebodied it. A couple days later it was gone. He told his son he gave it to me, and his son grabbed it fast.
