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Thoughts on burning sugar maple and paper birch?
« on: April 03, 2014, 01:45:06 PM »
I've burned plenty in an indoor wood stove no experience with it in an outdoor boiler, what are your thoughts?
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Re: Thoughts on burning sugar maple and paper birch?
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2014, 02:28:11 PM »
If it will burn inside, it will be better outside. Cause you don't have to haul it in.
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Re: Thoughts on burning sugar maple and paper birch?
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2014, 02:38:56 PM »
 :thumbup: I like the way you think!
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Re: Thoughts on burning sugar maple and paper birch?
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2014, 05:16:32 PM »
 Jwood, I am not positive but I am pretty sure that all the wood I cut and split last summer was sugar maple and it burnt very well this winter. I also did more this spring to complete a clean up of wind damaged trees from a July storm. They were large old trees and the three we split last summer gave us six cords. Not as good as oak but it was there and had to get cleaned up. That's when we made the decision to get the OWB, would have been a shame to let it go to waste.
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Re: Thoughts on burning sugar maple and paper birch?
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2014, 05:43:57 PM »
I was wondering because I just went out into the state land today where they logged and the public can go in after the logging companies until their permit is up then after that I can get a permit to get up to 10 cord of deadfall or already down trees, what I saw was almost sickening full birch trees left to rot, sugar maples just pushed over with a bulldozer I got a cord of wood out of a 50'x50' area and they logged at least 40 acres!
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Re: Thoughts on burning sugar maple and paper birch?
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2014, 06:05:00 PM »
Awesome!  What state is that?
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Re: Thoughts on burning sugar maple and paper birch?
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2014, 06:30:17 PM »
Hard maple (sugar) is pretty good stuff. It's the soft maple that doesn't work very well. Michael less btu's and burns to ash with no coals.
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Re: Thoughts on burning sugar maple and paper birch?
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2014, 06:31:50 PM »
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Re: Thoughts on burning sugar maple and paper birch?
« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2014, 06:33:53 PM »
I don't see much of the other maple trees around here just sugar maple, syrup making trees yum!
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Re: Thoughts on burning sugar maple and paper birch?
« Reply #9 on: April 03, 2014, 06:45:00 PM »
Personally I would rather eat the Syrup, we call it syrple
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Re: Thoughts on burning sugar maple and paper birch?
« Reply #10 on: April 03, 2014, 06:57:33 PM »
Quote from: slimjim on April 03, 2014, 06:45:00 PM
Personally I would rather eat the Syrup, we call it syrple
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Re: Thoughts on burning sugar maple and paper birch?
« Reply #11 on: April 03, 2014, 07:00:05 PM »
It's against the law to burn Canadian Maple here in Canada
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Re: Thoughts on burning sugar maple and paper birch?
« Reply #12 on: April 03, 2014, 07:02:03 PM »
Both woods burn fine for sure.. In fact I had a lot of black and paper birch this burning season..They burn up more quickly than oak..I would never turn those woods down!
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Re: Thoughts on burning sugar maple and paper birch?
« Reply #13 on: April 03, 2014, 07:02:26 PM »
Quote from: farmboythegreat on April 03, 2014, 07:00:05 PM
It's against the law to burn Canadian Maple here in Canada
Whys that?
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Re: Thoughts on burning sugar maple and paper birch?
« Reply #14 on: April 03, 2014, 07:03:23 PM »
its on our flag
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