Good question, and I don’t know. I plan on asking our forestry consultant and will report back. For now everything we’re cutting is firewood.
It is one of our soft maples. It’s native to our area along with silver maple, another softy, and the prize, sugar maple. Reds and silvers grow fast and almost anywhere so without competition they tend to take over. For firewood the red is a low to mid grade at best. For lumber it’s in the pallet wood ballpark. They make good yard trees but tend to hollow out as they get older. In our case since we’re trying to transition back to traditional oak hickory stands, red maple is basically a giant weed in the woods.
Where I am, just north of you, the emerald ash borers have wiped out the ash population over the last ten years. A tree would look fine one year; the next year, it's dead. White larvae inside.
Yup since they were first discovered in CT in 2012, they have been killing them off. Only the ones at higher elevations seem to have been holding on. But it is only a matter of time.
I have a Husky 460 for larger stuff, but I just like using the tiny saw as much as possible. I would love a 261cm with a 16" TsuMura lightweight bar, but my Husky 460 and MS150 do everything I need to do. Eventually I'm going to send my 346XS back to get fixed.
I'm not 100% sure, but the P&C are seriously scuffed up. Less than two tanks of fuel. My guess is the carb is messed up or some failure on my part. It was a bummer.
I want him to spread the love to my 395 and MS150, especially since I owned both since new. I bought the 346 used on eBay.
He does the CS2511's, why not a Stihl? If I didn't already have the MS150, I would have a CS2511 with 1/4" B&C package.
