Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[J.W Younger]

I got em all over the place...don't know what they really are but I been callin em gum...sorta of a black gum looking red leaf in the fall and stuff.
Sum will split and some won't.

 

[Agent Orange]

Fellas, help ID this wood. Tree was standing dead in a corner of my front yard in and amongst some big red tips and azaleas. Cut it down last year, was about 8" at the base, 15' or so tall. Threw a couple of pieces on my firepit in the backyard last night...and damn does it stink. Smelled like someone threw a bottle of bad cologne on the fire. I pulled it off and chunked it to the backyard. No idea what it is, and it ain't going in the firepit again, I do know that.

Rotten American elm?

 

[USMC615]

Rotten American elm?

May be...I don't know. Just smelled like bad cologne hell when it was burning. And it's literally balsa wood light in weight.

 

[lone wolf]

Fellas, help ID this wood. Tree was standing dead in a corner of my front yard in and amongst some big red tips and azaleas. Cut it down last year, was about 8" at the base, 15' or so tall. Threw a couple of pieces on my firepit in the backyard last night...and damn does it stink. Smelled like someone threw a bottle of bad cologne on the fire. I pulled it off and chunked it to the backyard. No idea what it is, and it ain't going in the firepit again, I do know that.

Willow.

 

[J.W Younger]

Willow.

Yep, it's light weight when dry.
If there's water near by i bet that's it.

 

[USMC615]

Yep, it's light weight when dry.
If there's water near by i bet that's it.

Was growing on the up side of a ditch, within about 6-8 ft.

 

[J.W Younger]

Was growing on the up side of a ditch, within about 6-8 ft.

LW nailed it then, i was going by bark pattern and got it wrong.
Looking at the splits it looks just like some of the willow i cut near a drainage ditch at work.

 

[lone wolf]

Was growing on the up side of a ditch, within about 6-8 ft.

If it smells piss like, light weight and breaks easy prob is Willow.

 

[USMC615]

My brother says it's the same as a tree just over my privacy fence in the back yard. That one has heart shaped leaves as best he remembers. Only willow I know is what grows at the waters' edge in the ponds/small lakes we hit...long slender leaves. Looking at the tree over my backyard fence, it's got dried out little leaf pods or berry pods still attached to all the small limbs. I'll throw up a ladder and snap a limb off, put the pic up shortly.

 

[lone wolf]

My brother says it's the same as a tree just over my privacy fence in the back yard. That one has heart shaped leaves as best he remembers. Only willow I know is what grows at the waters' edge in the ponds/small lakes we hit...long slender leaves. Looking at the tree over my backyard fence, it's got dried out little leaf pods or berry pods still attached to all the small limbs. I'll throw up a ladder and snap a limb off, put the pic up shortly.

Heart shaped would be Catalpa or Pawlownia.

 

[lone wolf]

https://www.extension.iastate.edu/forestry/iowa_trees/trees/catalpa.html

 

[USMC615]

He mentioned the same...I'll put up a pic of the small branch we snap off shortly.

 

[lone wolf]

He mentioned the same...I'll put up a pic of the small branch we snap off shortly.

Look for cigar like seed pods at the bottom from last season, AKA cigar trees.

 

[zogger]

He mentioned the same...I'll put up a pic of the small branch we snap off shortly.

You should see a big nest of bagworms sometime if it is catalpa. fishing tree, bait.

 

[USMC615]

None...trust me, I've robbed a many of Catawba worms over the decades. No nests.

 

[J.W Younger]

The last catalpa i burned was a lot heavier than willow, kinda yellow color.
I don't know if it smelled that bad or not, sticking it in the owb.

 

[lone wolf]

More pics of different angles needed.

 

[USMC615]

Here's a little small branch
we snapped off of what I believe is the same tree in my Richard Head neighbors back yard, overhanging my privacy fence. The little pods damn near resemble a crepe myrtles pods, but much smaller.

 

[lone wolf]

Looks like Gum berries

 

[J.W Younger]

This is what I've been calling black gum.
Tupelo.