Can you i.d this wood please

[gink595]

The reason I think apple is because it has the little branches growing everywhere in the trunk, the color looks similiar and he said that little piece was 60+ pounds, Apple is heavy! I cut a bunch of it last year and I'm now starting to burn some it smells great and seems to burn nicely. BTW what does it smell like?

 

[TKO-KID]

from the first picture I thought Sweetgum but the from pictures near the end I am thinking Apple. It looks alot like the green apple tree behind my house. I will take a picture of it tommorrow so you can see the resemblance. Very dark bark and reddish tint to the wood itself.

Remind to take a picture if I forget.

 

[MS460WOODCHUCK]

That is locust. Same thing I just put in the stove. Older locust has really rough bark and younger one's bark is smoother, both are very dark in color. The center is a orange color with a creamy colored ring under the bark and the inside of the bark is creamy colored. Just like what is in the pictures up top.
I burnt 3 apple trees all summer at the campground split & unsplit. I always cook on wet fruit wood out there. Anyways, it's not apple. Look's like it was cut recently. Does it smell of apple's. I bet not and if it was apple it would. At least all the apple I've been around did.:greenchainsaw:

 

[lovetheoutdoors]

the locust around here has thick bark no matter how large or small the tree is...we have yellow locust and field locust.

 

[MS460WOODCHUCK]

Black locust & honey locust is what we have. I have never heard any other name's for it.

 

[lovetheoutdoors]

thats all ive heard it called around here....who knows...yellow locust has a yellow tint to it and the field locust is more white...and i think there is a few black locust around here.

 

[Bill G]

Here is some interesting reading about Locust.

http://forestry.about.com/library/silvics/blsilrobpse.htm

In the reading you will see that Black Locust is also called Yellow Locust. It has short thorns when young that are lost as the tree grows but remain on thin young branches

Honey Locust is the Locust with the very long thorns although some are thornless

On the beginning I dobted it was in the UK but I guess there is some in Europe.

I will attach some pictures.

Bill

 

[Dolmaro]

Could it be Yew?

 

[willsaw4beer]

Looked like some nasty roots to me. Didn't look like the beech around here bark wise, apple seems more likely. All the locust around here is thorny and has rougher bark. But then again what's over there I've never seen so it's hard to say. Wood that twisted and knotted I normally leave in the woods...

 

[cmetalbend]

:agree2:

Looks like a big piece of root, hard to tell what kind of tree from the roots?

 

[olive_oil]

Umm,,,

Apple? It's a hard wood for sure, nice colors too! Wherebouts in UK do you think it was grown?

 

[GASoline71]

Looks like a huge root to me too...

What the heck was it cut with a Sawzall???

Gary

 

[olive_oil]

Looks like boxcelder with the red streaks and sometimes splits real hard. Steve

Box Cedar ,,, yep-the red streaks! How does it smell? Cedars have a pretty telling scent!

 

[Bill G]

Box Cedar ,,, yep-the red streaks! How does it smell? Cedars have a pretty telling scent!

I am pretty sure he meant Boxelder. It was a simple typo

Here is Boxelder info.

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/DENDRO/DENDROLOGY/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=3

I do not believe the wood picture in the orginal post is Boxelder but who knows in the UK

Bill

 

[mountainlake]

Looks like a huge root to me too...

What the heck was it cut with a Sawzall???

Gary

Must have been a dull sawsall. Steve

 

[west county]

might they have any Red Bud in the area?

 

[jack-the-ripper]

might they have any Red Bud in the area?

You may have to head to Columbia to find any Red Bud.

 

[J.W Younger]

I went out for a trailer load of wood this morn and came accross this, the piece pictured next to my saw weighs 66 pound, and brother it was hard to split any ideas of what it is ???

looks like sombodys chain was dull but that was'nt the question.

 

[west county]

:agree2:

You may have to head to Columbia to find any Red Bud.

good call

 

[TKO-KID]

forgot to take a pic today, was busy taking down a oak today and forgot about the pics of the apple. Will try to remember tommorrow.