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#Post#: 80548-------------------------------------------------- |
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Red Maple wood |
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By: dpjones Date: December 22, 2017, 10:47 am |
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Red Maple good for anything ? I got one to take down, might be |
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20-24" thick at the first log and maybe 3--8ft logs. |
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Thanks |
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DJ |
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Re: Red Maple wood |
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By: 3000 FPS Date: December 23, 2017, 12:26 pm |
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If you know someone with a mill you could try to get some lumber |
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or I would probably use it for firewood. |
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Re: Red Maple wood |
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By: dpjones Date: January 3, 2018, 10:47 am |
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I'll probably mill them in to 1by's and hope for the best, I |
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just hope they don't all split on me like the Hickory did. They |
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looked so pretty then started splitting before I could get to |
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the end of the log. |
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DJ |
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Re: Red Maple wood |
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By: dpjones Date: January 4, 2018, 10:02 am |
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I cut it yesterday, it was doey in places, I'll check a little |
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today but I think it'll go to the burn pile. It had to go |
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anyway, going to fall on my building. |
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Thanks |
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DJ |
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Re: Red Maple wood |
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By: dpjones Date: January 6, 2018, 1:20 pm |
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One of the logs seemed ok so I took a slice to see what it |
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looked like. I kinda like it |
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Re: Red Maple wood |
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By: 3000 FPS Date: January 6, 2018, 6:07 pm |
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Yep that is pretty nice looking. That could make an |
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interesting table. |
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Re: Red Maple wood |
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By: Al Smith Date: January 8, 2018, 3:26 pm |
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Red and silver maple are not like good old sugar maple,called |
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rock in Canada .It burns but not that good.The lumber is soft |
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.They were planted mostly as fast growing shade trees .The life |
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of a silver is maybe 100 years .Most get hollow .Both sides of |
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my 500 foot driveway have both silver and red planted around |
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1982 and they are already showing signs of decline.What few |
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sugar maples are healthy as a horse. |
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Re: Red Maple wood |
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By: dpjones Date: January 10, 2018, 6:31 pm |
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I'm not 100% certain it's Red Maple, I just tried to compare it |
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to what I found on the Ga. forestry site. It is softwood for |
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sure and this tree was probably basket ball size in the mid 80's |
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when I built my shed. These trees grow wild here in my woods so |
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I can get the wood most any time, don't know how the wood burns |
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for heat but I've used it plenty in my smoker and a Pork roast |
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cooked for bout 10-12 or so hours sure is mighty good. |
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DJ |
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