Nope, I meant 12 foot around at shouder-height. Granted we have many more 12 inch trees then we do 12 foot trees. Most of our big soft maples are 6-7 foot, with only a few of the giant 12 footers. This woods hasn't been logged in a very long time. We got many that are approx. 130 feet tall and are near a power-line right-of-way. I just had the power company up here, since I'm trying to get them to drop the ones near the line. The record for red maples is 180 feet tall in Michigan. I don't know what the record diameter is at the base.
My wife and I just measured one, while on a walk in our wood lot. Soft maple, most likely it's a red maple, but there are a few silver maples in the same area. Def. not a hard maple. No tape measure with us, so we used our arms wrapped around the tree. My wife's hands couldn't touch mine. All in all, it took her arms stretched out (5 feet), plus mine (5 1/2 feet), plus an added -fingertip to armpit on me (2 feet). Comes to 12 1/2 feet and that's at shoulder height. Also went back up and measured some of the red oaks. Several are 13 feet at shoulder height.
I like big red maples for firewood for several reasons. One, it competes with my hard sugar maples so I'm glad to get rid of it. Two, it dries much faster then hard maple, and splits easy, Three - I feel no guilt cutting them down since it's not much good for lumber. Four - the real big ones in the deep woods have no lower limbs.
I have tapped big red maples now and then. Fine for making syrup, but has a lot more water content.
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