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I cut her open today - - not even a hint of stain or spalting after sitting for three weeks. And the smell... it's not pine, it's not fir. I'm fairly certain it is a cedar. No sap pockets inside, but my chain was fairly sticky. My best guess is cedar of lebanon. The wood is a beautiful orange...

yes exactly, ponderosas are also more warm in color - this is much more gray/blue. Before the tree team reassured me I thought maybe lodgepole pine, because I found this needle/cone cluster nearby... but they did have a yard full of pine trees so who knows where it came from: Isn't Deodar a...

I was afraid of that. It has that Ponderosa-like bark. But the family said it was a cedar, and the tree company who cut it down said it was a cedar when I questioned it so that's why I was confused. It did not smell like the junipers I used to work with back in FL... Having sat for a week...

Anybody? I guess I'll have to just slab it and find out ;)

(I am in LA) My neighbor had this tree cut down in their backyard and are letting me mill it into slabs in exchange for 50% of the wood. They say its a 'cedar' but when I came to look at it it was all dead and there were no leaves/very few branches to ID it with. I asked what the leaves looked...