ok firewood know it alls. name the wood. it's not SPRUCE!!! i only get this once in a great while and when i do it's all mine. sorry no leaves to show you. this wood is dense. look at the growth rings in pic 2
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Bobby Kirbos
Scrounger of Cellulose Based BTUs
Cedar?
That be black birch 
James Miller
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Hickory or locust
gents, there is no need for a truck to haul Oak, in fact there's no need for a trailer, or even a big blue tractor, a car does the job very well 
Pics to follow tomorrow....it's too dark outside to get them so I've left the vRS loaded up and tucked away in the garage. I'l just say....you know you've done the job well when you clear the speed bumps okay but hear the 'grauuunch!' of rear mud flaps on driveway as you reverse up it...
I've left some on the pile.... I'm trying to resist.....its oak but its the nasty nasty crotchety bits. the rest of the tree hits the pile Friday so I'll resist until then, and fill the CAR (just a car, that's all it is...it might get filled severl times over) with, I hope, nice straight grained trunk....and continue to resist the nasty crotchety bits of limb wood
I know I'll never match Dan dan the minivan man, or seventyninesaws in a mustang mike, but (as cowboy knows) cars are true scrounge vehicles.
Pics to follow tomorrow....it's too dark outside to get them so I've left the vRS loaded up and tucked away in the garage. I'l just say....you know you've done the job well when you clear the speed bumps okay but hear the 'grauuunch!' of rear mud flaps on driveway as you reverse up it... I've left some on the pile.... I'm trying to resist.....its oak but its the nasty nasty crotchety bits. the rest of the tree hits the pile Friday so I'll resist until then, and fill the CAR (just a car, that's all it is...it might get filled severl times over) with, I hope, nice straight grained trunk....and continue to resist the nasty crotchety bits of limb wood
I know I'll never match Dan dan the minivan man, or seventyninesaws in a mustang mike, but (as cowboy knows) cars are true scrounge vehicles.
i'll show it to you Friday if you want to come up and saw mulberry. let me know.
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
woodchip rookie
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What kind of tree would have big thorns with red heartwood in central ohio?
cracky mate. i was holding that piece of wood and couldn't see 'em.Maaaate, if you can see the growth rings it ain't dense
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Is that the X27, or 25?Maaaate, if you can see the growth rings it ain't dense
That makes more sense. And also explains why guys buy whole lots of dead saws in that state.
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Not sure. Can I phone a friend or buy a vowel? If not, I'm going with butter knife or crocTickla.
James Miller
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I'll be up. I took off Thursday night so I'm not walking around like the walking dead by 10
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bear1998
ArboristSite Operative
If I took a SWAG.....I would gueas dodwood
Honey Locust?
woodchip rookie
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I thought locust of some kind but people here call it thorn locust
The bark does look somewhat more like dogwood than my other two guesses: sourwood or persimmon.
Could be that saying it is not spruce is just a red herring to throw us off. It might really be spruce.
Could be that saying it is not spruce is just a red herring to throw us off. It might really be spruce.
Ayup , not spruce .
woodchip, what is your definition of "big" thorns? Osage orange would have thorns, but they shouldn't be as large as on honey locust. I really haven't dealt with Osage orange for many, many years.
