Need Help ID Aged Rounds

[mfh]

Hello - I was hoping that someone could shed some light on the rounds I received from a neighbor. They are a couple years old - so some did not have bark, but luckily some did. I began to split it and the wood is a whitish yellow. The bark was thick, and when I took it off, it was wet between the back and the wood, and when the outside bark came off, it left "stringy bits" similar to when you husk corn.

He had told me it was maple or beech - but I don't think it is either. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Matt

 

[Wood Scrounge]

pictures would help a lot, but maybe black locust?

 

[Zodiac45]

It's hard too say without seeing the wood but it sounds like the ubiqitous "popple" wood. Yellowish white, the bark thick, and next too the wood is a layer of stringy black. Oh yep. sounds just like popple which is next too crap on the firewood scale.

 

[TKeller]

Black Locust

My black locust has thick bark that after a couple years drying will start to come off. When you peel it off it has a inner thin lining between the bark and the wood kind of like you are describing. The heartwood is yellow and the sapwood is white so together they are white and yellow. Just trying to throw out an educated guess here.

 

[tanker]

sounds a little like cottonwood

 

[ray benson]

sounds a little like cottonwood

That's what I thought.

 

[woodbooga]

It's hard too say without seeing the wood but it sounds like the ubiqitous "popple" wood. Yellowish white, the bark thick, and next too the wood is a layer of stringy black. Oh yep. sounds just like popple which is next too crap on the firewood scale.

Good guess and I probably agree. Split some just last night.

Question: how old are the rounds? While rounds will last longer than log lengths, it doesn't take too long for "popple rot" to set in. Doesn't sound like the wood was too punky, so I'm wondering how "aged" the rounds are.

 

[mfh]

thanks...

I was thinking it may be poplar as well. I will try and post a picture.

Kinda ticked off since the fellow was "positive" they were not poplar. Well - I hauled a bunch of it...so its gonna get burned. Just wished I did not waste the time getting it.

As for the age - the one lot is about 1.5 years, the other around 3 years. None if it is punky; but it is lite color in the middle, and the one that is 1.5 years which still has the bark does have the blackish stringy layer underneath...so I may be "screwed."

Thanks,
Matt

 

[mfh]

So then...here is another question...

If it is indeed popular, and has all been in rounds or 1/2 rounds for at least a year...and I am in the process of splitting it now into fireplace size, can I burn it this year?

Thanks - clearly I am new at burning for heat...

Thanks,
Matt