Locust?
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dustytools
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Cherry?
Sure looks like black locust to me. High density, burns long & hot once thououghly air-dry, but routinely needs a few sticks of more volatile wood (e.g. sugar maple/ash) mixed in to keep the flames "happy."
Can't claim to know what it is (guessing Cherry), but it is definitely not Black Locust. Leaves and Bark are both all wrong for that. Also, the splits have a yellowish tint )not reddish like the OP's) in my experience.
Black Locust leaves: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...a=X&ei=Sz1cUq61IYLC9gT0pIDwCA&ved=0CDUQ9QEwBA
Black Locust bark: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...=ET1cUrDCF4X49gSxgIHYAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CC0Q9QEwAQ
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NOT black locust or honey locust.
We have both black and honey locust and I agree it's definately not black locust. The bark kinda reminds me of honey locust but I can only compare to nursery varietys of honey locust. The wood color is way off for black locust and is several shades different than the last known honey locust I cut up. The leaves are the most off, too large and too pointy and not enough of them on the sprigs. There were some seed pods in the area that were somewhat locust like, but not the long string bean like ones on black locust - these were short and thick. Should of snapped a pic of those too.
I've had somebody guess Black Ash but I don't think so.
4seasons
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Not locust. I 2nd cherry, or I guess 3rd. That bark looks nothing like the locust I have but looks like the cherry I have.
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There is plenty of black cherry trees in the area, some less than 50ft away. Not black cherry.
The bark pattern is close to black cherry but too light. Black cherry wood has very distinctive color and smell.. this is not black cherry.
The wood has tight growth rings and is quite heavy - moisture content is high, much higher that what you see in green black locust.
tomtrees58
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honey locust. yup but cherry wtf
Woodchucker Ron
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Looks like black ash to me.
We have several kinds of locust around here some with thorns and some without but none that looks like that tree does.
Cheesecutter
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I'll throw a guess at Kentucky coffeetree.
climberjones
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Cheese cutter beat me to it!x2 for coffee bean!
Vote number 3 for Kentucky Coffee Tree. Picture of leaves the giveaway. Bipinnately compound leaves, only thing like that around here, may be some in the warmer climates.
For sure not Black Ash, from what I know looks like coffeetree
It is Kentucky Coffeetree. Found some of the seed pods and that clinched the ID. Suprised to find it, didn't think any was around here. There must be a dozen more in the immediate area. Supposedly on par with red elm btu wise.
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