Maple logs

Maple logs are logs obtained from cutting maple trees, which give 100 Woodcutting experience per log (members wearing a Seers' headband 2 receive 110) and 2800 experience per full inventory (3080 experience with Seers' headband 2). Members can fletch them into maple shortbows, maple longbows, or maple stocks, and members and free players alike can burn them at firemaking level 45 for 135 firemaking experience and 3645 firemaking experience per inventory. Maples can be burned using Barbarian Firemaking (Members Only) but you need at least 65 Firemaking to do this. Burning maples in this fashion gives the same Firemaking experience as burning the Maple with a Tinderbox. Although (except for the Daemonheim peninsula resource dungeon) maple trees can only be found on member servers, members can bring them over to free worlds and trade, light, or sell them to free players who can also trade. There are maple trees located north and south of the Seers' Village bank.

Prior to the release of the Grand Exchange, maple logs had a street price of about 100 coins each. When the Grand Exchange was introduced, there was an influx of hundreds of thousands of maple logs obtained from Miscellania that were all thrust into the market at once. This massive oversupply caused maple logs to drop to the low price they sit at today.

With the 2 September 2009 personalised shop update, minimum price limits on many items including the maple longbow (u) were removed. Before, players would buy maples at around 36 - 42 coins each and fletch them into maple longbows (u). They would then be widely traded as junk with other players, along with other unwanted fletching products. The longbows (u) were worth 144 coins each, but after the shop update, they fell to 64 coins each. The logs in turn suffered a fall to 29 coins. There is an underlying demand for maple longbows (u), as they still have training value.

Because of their low price and the moderate experience they provide, maple logs are commonly used for training Firemaking, where one can spend about 4.5 million coins to get from level 45 to 99 Firemaking, using about 95,000 logs. Their frequent use has made them the second most traded item on the Grand Exchange, behind Fire runes, with 11.9 billion traded in the 180 days leading up to 12 August 2010. This averages to 765 per second, peaking at nearly 1580 per second on busy days. This is a very popular way of firemaking that can be done in free to play. They are also a very good item to flip and sell.

As of the Dungeoneering update on 19 July 2010 maple logs are obtainable by woodcutting in F2P, with 30 Dungeoneering at the Daemonheim Woodcutting Island. The nearest banks are in Daemonheim and Al-Kharid. This is a good place to train Firemaking because there are usually people powerlevelling Woodcutting that will give you free logs.