What type of tree is this log?
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Maybe Cottonwood? Can we see a clean split? How heavy is it?
Basswood. Mess with the bark and you'll find it stringy.
panolo
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Don't even need to see the bark to agree with the basswood id. Fuzzy end grain after cut is a give away.
Cottonwood
I will try and get a piece split. All the wood just got buried under snow from the weekend before I could buck it all up
The chainsaw cut through it like butter
The bark was stringy on a broken branch/log. How would I tell if it was cotton wood?
panolo
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It's not. It's basswood. Get it cut split and off the ground. It rots fast and dries fast. It's in a lot of hardwood mix bundles because it lights quick and coals up well. I burned a few cords of it this year in my OWB for shoulder season and couldn't complain.
panolo
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This is the same wood I cut last spring and burnt in the fall. 
MuskokaSplitter
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Basswood for sure.
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Looks like basswood. 25 years ago, a young logger sold me 4 -12 foot logs of what he thought were white ash. I thought better and did my kitchen finish trim including wainscotting with it. Machines nice
A friend who lives in the north country and is a builder (retired) told me that basswood was a preferred material for house siding. He said it takes paint well.
Surprised the hell out of me, as I don't believe it lasts long on the ground. But I guess if you mount it to shed weather and protect it with paint, then that's a different matter.
I believe it was prized for carving duck decoys. Easy to work. And I imagine the paint protected them when in the water.
Surprised the hell out of me, as I don't believe it lasts long on the ground. But I guess if you mount it to shed weather and protect it with paint, then that's a different matter.
I believe it was prized for carving duck decoys. Easy to work. And I imagine the paint protected them when in the water.
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Basswood, AKA Linden. Smells like pepsi. Not coke. From the poplar/ aspen family and is related to cottonwood actually
Good background on the bass wood. I didn't know it was related to the Cotton wood and Poplar family.
Definitely bass wood.
A friend built a big bank barn and used Yellow Poplar for siding. I thought he was nuts, it rots quick on the ground. He said in the old days they used a lot of Poplar siding because it has some natural termite resistance. I don't know. When I was with UPS, one of my customers lived in a log cabin that was made in the 1930's out of all Poplar logs with the bark on, and the bark is still holding tight.
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