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Blunting Effect
Common Names
Common Uses
Countries of Distribution
Distribution Overview
Ease of Drying
Environmental Profile
Family Name
Gluing
Grain
Heartwood Color
Kiln Schedules
Movement in Service
Nailing
Natural Durability
Numerical Data
Odor
Planing
Polishing
Product Sources
References
Regions of Distribution
Resistance to Impregnation
Response to Hand Tools
Sapwood Color
Scientific Name
Staining
Steam Bending
Strength Properties
Trade Name
Tree Size
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Common Names
Ashleaf maple, Boxelder, Manitoba maple, Maple
Regions of Distribution
North America
Countries of Distribution
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Canada, United States
Common Uses
Building materials, Chairs, Chests, Concealed parts (Furniture), Decorative plywood, Desks, Dining-room furniture, Domestic flooring, Dowell pins, Dowells, Drawer sides, Fine furniture, Floor lamps, Flooring, Furniture , Furniture components, Furniture squares or stock, Hatracks, Interior construction, Interior trim, Kitchen cabinets, Living-room suites, Millwork, Moldings, Office furniture, Paneling , Parquet flooring, Plywood, Radio - stereo - TV cabinets, Rustic furniture, Stools, Sub-flooring, Tables , Trimming, Turnery, Utility furniture, Wainscotting, Wardrobes
Environmental Profile
| Abundant/Secure |
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Distribution Overview
Boxelder is widespread in riparian and palustrine communities throughout most of the contiguous United States. Its range extends from New Jersey and central New York west through extreme southern Ontario, central Michigan, northern Minnesota, central Manitoba, central Saskstchewan,southern Alberta and central Montana, eastern Wyoming, Utah, and California; and south to southern Texas and central Florida. It is also local in New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Idaho, and Nevada. Boxelder has been naturalized in Maine, southern Quebec, NewBrunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and in southeastern Washington and eastern Oregon. Varieties of boxelder occur in the mountains of Mexico (Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, and south to Chihuahua) and in Guatemala.
Heartwood Color
| Brown |
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| Yellow |
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| Yellowish brown |
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Streaks of coral red from a soluble pigment produced by a fungus are occasionally present in the wood. The yellowish-brown heartwood merges slowly into the greenish-yellow sapwood.
Sapwood Color
| Green/Grey |
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| Yellow |
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| Greenish-yellow |
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Grain
| Closed |
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| Even |
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| Wavy |
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| Straight |
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| Straight |
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| Closed |
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Soft, porous wood.
Natural Durability
| Perishable |
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| Non-durable |
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| Susceptible to insect attack |
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| Very little natural resistance |
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| Susceptible to insect attack |
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The standing tree is prone to heart rot, and is usually attacked by an insect called the boxelder bug
Odor
| Has an odor |
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| No specific smell or taste |
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Kiln Schedules
| 8 - D4 (4/4); T6 - C3 (8/4) U |
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Ease of Drying
| Slowly |
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| Reconditioning Treatement |
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| Little degrade |
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| Dries slowly with little degrade |
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Tree Size
The bole is rather short and is often divided into several irregular limbs, which give the tree a rounded shapely crown.
Product Sources
Occasionally mixed with other soft maples and sold as such. It is ordinarily not harvested for timber, and cannot be classified as commercially available. The tree grows abundantly in some areas and is available for small projects, as may be undertaken by hobbyists. Red-streaked Boxelder wood is popular with woodworkers for certain specific applications.
Blunting Effect
Gluing
| Fair to Good Results |
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| Fairly Difficult to Very Difficult |
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| Gluing properties are variable |
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Movement in Service
| Fair to Good Stability - Medium Movement |
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| Excellent Stability - Small Movement |
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| Retains shape well after manufacture |
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| Dimensionally stable |
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Nailing
| Fair to Good Results |
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| Fairly Easy to Very Easy |
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| Satisfactory nailing properties |
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Planing
| Fairly Easy to Very Easy |
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| Fair to Good Results |
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| Responds well to both hand and machine tools |
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Resistance to Impregnation
| Resistant heartwood |
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| Resistant sapwood |
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| Permeable sapwood |
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| Heartwood is moderately resistant |
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Sapwood is treatable
Response to Hand Tools
| Responds Readily |
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| Easy to Work |
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| Satisfactorily |
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Steam Bending
| Fair to Good Results |
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| Good |
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Polishing
| Very Good to Excellent Results |
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| Excellent results |
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Staining
| Very Good to Excellent Results |
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| Fairly Easy to Very Easy |
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| Stains very well |
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Strength Properties
| Weight= medium |
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| Bending strength (MOR) = low |
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Numerical Data
| Item | Green | Dry | English |
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| Density | | 29 | lbs/ft3 |
| Specific Gravity | | 0.42 | |
| Weight | 25 | 20. | lbs/ft3 |
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| Item | Green | Dry | Metric |
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| Density | | 464 | kg/m3 |
| Specific Gravity | | 0.42 | |
References
Boone, R.S., C.J. Kozlik, P.J. Bois and E.M. Wengert. 1988. Dry Kiln Schedules for Commercial Woods: Temperate and Tropical. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, General Technical Report FPL-GTR-57, Madison, Wisconsin
Kline, M. 1986. Acer negundo - Boxelder. In A Guide to Useful Wood of the World, Flynn Jr., J.H., Editor. King Philip Publishing Co., Portland, Maine. 1994. Page 15-16.
Lincoln, W.A. 1986. World Woods in Color. Linden Publishing Co. Inc., Fresno, California.
Little, E.L. 1980. The Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Trees - Western Region. Published by Arthur A. Knopf, New York.
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