tree/wood identification asst. please

[texican65]

Hey everybody. I got this wood in large rounds over a year ago from a tree service that left it behind, and nobody wanted it. I split it and stacked it, its dry, and very light weight in my hand, even the larger pieces. Its got a hairy/stringy outer bark and wide straight grain, super easy to split with an ax. I initially thought it was some sort of cedar, and it may be, but it never had that distinct cedar aroma, I love the way cedar smells....this wood has no smell at all. Not sure what it is.....experts?

Dow

 

[Hinerman]

Cedar is my first thought.

 

[texican65]

Ya, it was mine too, but I can't remember cedar having that white outer layer closer to the bark, its always been all 1 solid color...and always smells sooo good.....this wood....nothing, no scent.

 

[rarefish383]

Annual rings look too big for Cedar, looks like Dawn Redwood, Metasequoia. Only reason I say this is I milled up some last year. Does the bark pull off easy? I kept all the bark thinking it would start easy. It didn't. So now I have all these pieces of bark. I'm going to make Bat Boxes out of it. Unfortunately, a lot of people take them down because they loose their needles in the winter and they think they are dead, Joe

 

[stumpy75]

+1 on Dawn Redwood.

 

[rarefish383]

Just looked where you live, it might be some other kind of Redwood, I'll let the West Coast guy take a look, Joe.

 

[Ikeholt]

I'm not a West Coaster, but it looks like willow to me. It'll burn fast, whatever it is.

 

[stumpy75]

The northern range of redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) ends somewhere in the southern Oregon coastal range. I'll stick with dawn redwood.