Maple, the hot new yard tree.

[Dana]

I just thought I would throw this in for fun. http://nmi.craigslist.org/mat/1377268407.html

[Jeff]

That's not to far from you, make him an offer! Tell him for 500 bucks you'll haul it away.

[Dana]

Jeff, I could use the 500 bucks. I would place the "saw" logs right next to my wood boiler.

[Frickman]

I see that kind of stuff all the time on the local Craig's List. If I don't have much else going on I'll look around at Craig's List at the different things. Some make for a good laugh.

[ohsoloco]

I wonder if they got a quote from a tree service 

http://pennstate.craigslist.org/zip/1382797102.html

[rickywashere]

yea i love peeps like that they think they own a treasure cause they have a couple trees in there yard/// sad thing is there best value in them being in the yard

[rebocardo]

> I wonder if they got a quote from a tree service

That one was beautiful. 

[semologger]

Free Firewood! Is what alot of people advertise around here.  Then they add You have to cut the tree or tops left behind, Load and haul it away. Then ive seen some that want the same thing but want 10 dollars for every load you cut.

[rickywashere]

i got a trade paper other day seen a guy had 2 logs maple power company cut them and topped one fell the other owner is selling to the highest bidder one is 22in and the other is around 14 /// man some guys are so mis informed as to the value of wood

[nas]

like this one?  These logs are just around the corner from me.  They have been lying there for over a year. 

http://hamilton.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-home-garden-Cut-and-Take-Away-FIREWOOD-W0QQAdIdZ155696791

[Stephen1]

Hey Nas,  get over and get those trees. For that price there must be gold in them

[nas]

Nah  they're 30' long, my mill will only cut 21'
and if I took them home on the forks I'd knock off all the neighbours mailboxes, and I'd get blamed for all the mailbox baseball that's been happening lately.

Nick

[DirtForester]

Sorry to bump this old thread but it gave me a chuckle.

I was manning the booth at some forestry/trade type show several years ago when this guy came up and asked me how much red oak was worth.  I launched in to a long winded explanation of current stumpage prices, etc.  He said that was all pretty complicated so I asked him how many acres of woodland he had.

"Oh no, I just have 2 trees in my front yard.  I'm tired of picking up the acorns.  How much can I sell my trees for?

 

[greg4933]

Wonder when the govt might step in and restrict types of plants that can be planted, and marketed.  To people planting maple trees, you may enjoy the tree, but all you are doing it also helping to spread non native species to our forests.  Maples are invasive, and they are completely changing the forest ecology in PA.  In due time our native oak tress will be worth as much as black cherry.  I just wish more people would read up on what is an invasive and what is not, and try not to plant invasive species.  Another point to think about do deer feed on maple seeds or acron's?  So by helping more maples to spread, you very well could be effecting wildlife composition across a state, or a given area.

[SwampDonkey]

Greg, it depends on the species of maple. There are many maple species native to NA that are very much part of the native forest. These include red maple, sugar maple, black maple, silver maple, Manitoba maple (box elder), striped maple and mountain maple. All native trees. Up here sugar maple has been the preferred native yard maple in rural areas for a couple centuries anyway. On another note, where I live sugar maple is the dominant shade tolerant hardwood species on well drained land. I'd be more worried of potato plantations taking over than I would be of sugar maple forest. That's what we are loosing to potato crop land up here.

[greg4933]

Under your remarks the professors at Penn State University are all incorrect then.  Sugar maple is not a big deal in PA, however strip maple, box elder, red maple, silver maple norway maple are taking a big toll on PA forests.  Pa forests are converting from a oak forest to a maple forest.

[SwampDonkey]

I believe if you research it a bit, you'll find that this is a product of how the forest in being managed. Not that people are planting all those maples leading to the decline in the oaks. Now lets separate Norway Maple, that can be invasive depending on conditions. But, it will never take over our northern hardwood forest, it cannot compete and it isn't as frost hardy up here as the native maples. Our oaks up here grow mostly on the poorer soils and they are very few in number. I believe Ron W may have a better explanation for you regarding the maples.

I brush tree stands, new growth of young trees, in an activity called pre-commercial thinning. We sometimes can start out with a stand of mature sugar maple that has some yellow birch in it. WIth the right timing, that new stand coming after a cut can be 80% yellow birch, sometimes almost pure balsam fir and red spruce, and other times 80 % aspen.  Mature sugar maple doesn't stump sprout.

Off all those species you list (except Norway), I would think the red maple is the most significant. The other trees are either understory shrubs or river bottom trees. We have silver maple here for instance and it never leaves the flood plains of the river. Red maple occurs on a wider range of soil types and can live in flood plain, cedar swamp and ridge top (with sugar maple, beech, yellow birch-part of what we call a hardwood ridge).

[Jeff]

I believe if you research it a bit, you'll find that this is a product of how the forest in being managed. Not that people are planting all those maples leading to the decline in the oaks.

I totally agree.

[Jeff]

Under your remarks the professors at Penn State University are all incorrect then.  Sugar maple is not a big deal in PA, however strip maple, box elder, red maple, silver maple norway maple are taking a big toll on PA forests.  Pa forests are converting from a oak forest to a maple forest.

From a Penn State Researcher...

http://www.canr.uconn.edu/ces/forest/redmaple.htm

[Ironwood]

My current success is due being a " supergeneralist."   

Ironwood