Some beech?

[Fred Wright]

Or that's what the leaves look like anyhow. I've never worked up beech before. What you folks think?

My tree company buddy dropped this load off Thursday evening; we had a helluva t-storm roar through Tuesday night that toppled a lot of trees. He's been busy, got me some more cherry and oak and some mystery wood.

The driver said there was some osage in there, I'm guessing it's the stuff with a yellowish center. Never seen hedge in the round before, when I got hedge it was already split.

Thoughts?

 

[zogger]

Leaves look like beech and the smoother bark smaller rounds look like beech.

Oh ya, you suck! Dumped off?!? Suckage! Lot of good wood in that pile.

 

[066blaster]

I don't see any beech in there. I would say buck thorn.

 

[Jed1124]

No beech

 

[Toxic2]

Butternut? Definitly not beech..beech bark has weird cancer looking tumors all over it..

 

[stumpy75]

On the top pic, there might be some beech on top of the pile, then I see hackberry down from that, and maybe swamp white oak in there too...

 

[zogger]

Bottom pic with the leaves, center left. That small round there looks beechy to me. All the other wood, nope.

I don't know buckthorn though, have to look it up.

 

[Seedling345]

Burn that ****


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[066blaster]

There might be a few small beech pieces top left. The one with leaves looks like buck thorn or maybe some type of birch. Hard to tell with tree service wood sometimes it's just overgrown ornamental stuff that's hard to ID. Burn it up!

 

[jrider]

Pretty sure I see some mulberry in there- light rings on the outside and darker centers.

 

[haveawoody]

+1 on buckthorn.
Leaves/wood size /color wood/bark all look right for buckthorn.
It's some amazing firewood, very close to mahogany for BTU.
About 10% more btu than osage orange or rock elm.

Don't burn your stove out LOL

On spare days I go collect it for the deep winter days.
Always come home looking like a stray cat got me and with just a face cord or 2 of it for a days work. LOL
In my area I think buckthorn is right on it's limits for wintering so it tends to be shrub like more than tree.
A 50 year old buckthorn looks and is sized like a 10 year old black cherry.

Sorry no beech in your pile but lots of other fine firewood species in that pile.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Oak, Cherry, Mulberry, Sycamore, others......nice load of fuelwood!

 

[Kevin in Ohio]

We cut quite a bit of beech and the bark on the trees around here is a lot smoother and grayer in color. Heartwood, when fresh cut has a orangish red tint. Kind of like cherry. Splits can be wavy grain to easy as it varies tree to tree. Great BTU's and heavy but doesn't hold up well with longer outdoor storage.

Yellow wood is normally either osage/hedge or mulberry. Any thorns and it's hedge. I've always notice that hedge sap seems to run more and is very sticky, almost like white glue. Hedge will dull your saw quicker too, especially if it is dead.

Notice the outer edge is white and the center goes to the orange color.

All these pics are from the same Beech tree.

 

[Fred Wright]

Thanks guys. It's appreciated.

The sycamore came in a previous load with a lot of cherry. I'm familiar with those but not the others you mention. The guy dropped off another load yesterday evening, mostly standing dead pin oak with some maple. The oak has a punk ring but it's not deep.