Large maple

[lehman live edge slab]

Bad pictures but this is a maple one of the tree services I fix saws for took down. I have my Saturday all booked up milling it.

 

[RI Chevy]

What kind of Maple?
Does it have smooth bark or rough bark?

 

[lehman live edge slab]

The guy that took it down said it’s a silver but I never looked that close

 

[lehman live edge slab]

But it didn’t look as rough as some of the other maples that I was told were silvers when I cut thrm

 

[RI Chevy]

Thank you sir

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Better photos of the log, it does look like a silver maple. I’ll post pictures of the inside tomorrow

 

[Al Smith]

They planted silver and red maple by the zillions for relatively fast growing shade trees .They live about 100 years .In this part of Ohio it's not native .Those in the woods are sugar maples .
I've seen the silvers get to around 4 feet in diameter .Little fat trees 60 feet tall while a sugar can get over 100 feet in the woods . Fact I've got a sugar in my front yard that's as tall as the 100 foot oaks .

 

[Fresch]

Silver are weak and break in the wind, my street is covered in them. They are a soft hardwood.

 

[Wolverine]

Agree, looks like silver. It mills up pretty easy. Should get a couple slabs before a touch up is needed. Do ya have your metal detector ready?

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Already cut up 6 slabs no touch ups, my single 090 on a 72” Alaskan mill. 42-45” wide slabs 7-7 1/2’ long 3” thick. Last two slabs getting close to the cracked section and split full length one spot. Will try to bow tie back together after dry or I’ll set flat and put an epoxy river down middle. No metal anywhere so got lucky and ended up with 2 1/2-3 chords of firewood also. Couldn’t split with mall so I had to noodle it down to firewood size because I don’t have a splitter.

 

[RI Chevy]

What do you use to seal the endgrain?

 

[lehman live edge slab]

 

[Catman]

That’s a Silver Maple!

 

[lehman live edge slab]

I use anchor seal a water emulsified wax, water carrier evaporates and leaves wax in grain. Put a 2500 lb arc winch on a square tube so I could move from stake pocket to stake pocket on the car hauler. Put winch wherever I needed to pull from to get slabs on trailer

 

[RI Chevy]

TY sir.
Nice work

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Very small portion of the noodles ended up with 23 42 gallon bags of noodles when I was done. If I keep doing this need a splitter so I can noodle down to lifting size and split the rest of the way. Burned 2 and 1/2 gallons of gas through my hybrid and my 064 making firewood 20 and 25” bars.

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Maybe I need to buy the jms 064 for sale on Craigslist by the cities, if I get a maxed out 064 I could retire the 090. Woods port has to make up for the 50cc less easy and it’s only 1000$.

 

[lehman live edge slab]

And just kidding about the saw wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole I know some people have had luck and others not so much would almost like to see the ratio good to bad saws. Way my luck usually go’s it would be a bad one if I were to get it.

 

[RI Chevy]

You should sell the noodles. Lol
Nice job there.

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Actually some of the best fire starter I’ve used, wonder if I person could blend the noodles with wax and make candle shaped starter sticks.