Re: Maple


"Doug Miller" <spambait@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <7345$4727fec5$471fb922$29280@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Mike Marlow"
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"Doug Miller" <spambait@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <1193772396.791797.177080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
bigjcw1023@xxxxxxxxx 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.

--

-Mike-
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