Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[farmer steve]

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

 

[Bobby Kirbos]

Cedar?

 

[Cowboy254]

That be black birch

 

[James Miller]

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 2View attachment 639467 View attachment 639468 View attachment 639469

Hickory or locust

 

[LondonNeil]

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.

 

[farmer steve]

Hickory or locust

i'll show it to you Friday if you want to come up and saw mulberry. let me know.

 

[KiwiBro]

this wood is dense. look at the growth rings in pic 2

Maaaate, if you can see the growth rings it ain't dense

 

[woodchip rookie]

What kind of tree would have big thorns with red heartwood in central ohio?

 

[farmer steve]

Maaaate, if you can see the growth rings it ain't dense

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cracky mate. i was holding that piece of wood and couldn't see 'em.

 

[LondonNeil]

Maaaate, if you can see the growth rings it ain't dense

Is that the X27, or 25?

 

[svk]

Many shops get people who drop saws off, they tear them down and write an estimate, then the people won't spend the money to fix them and they get tossed aside. It's much like the tops of trees that loggers and land owners alike leave to rot in the woods, there is money in them, but they are picking up dollars instead of tripping on dimes.

That makes more sense. And also explains why guys buy whole lots of dead saws in that state.

 

[KiwiBro]

Is that the X27, or 25?

Not sure. Can I phone a friend or buy a vowel? If not, I'm going with butter knife or crocTickla.

 

[James Miller]

i'll show it to you Friday if you want to come up and saw mulberry. let me know.

I'll be up. I took off Thursday night so I'm not walking around like the walking dead by 10 .

 

[bear1998]

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 2View attachment 639467 View attachment 639468 View attachment 639469

If I took a SWAG.....I would gueas dodwood

 

[95custmz]

What kind of tree would have big thorns with red heartwood in central ohio?

Honey Locust?

 

[woodchip rookie]

I thought locust of some kind but people here call it thorn locust

 

[abbott295]

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.

 

[Ryan A]

I'm intrigued by the dark heartwood, what do you think it is? I want to make sure it's worth my time to drive to the other end of Philadelphia to get it. We have so many blowdowns from our last Nor'Easter that there is a lot of scrounging to be done!

 

[dancan]

Ayup , not spruce .

 

[abbott295]

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.