unknown wood.....

[mga]

i was splitting some various kinds of wood today and came across several large pieces like this. it split real hard and was unusually stringy. but, the red grain was kinda different.

anyone know what it is?

this was like a branch inside of a branch....can't describe it any other way, but while splitting a large piece this was inside the center. all the pieces of wood had this red grain in it.

 

[retoid]

Do you have pictures of the bark? Thats kinda cool looking.

 

[Adkpk]

Don't know but it's very pretty. I would leave just like that. More pics?

 

[Geez]

Box Elder stains like that quite often. It's caused by a fungus and the red tinted wood is sought after by wood turners. What you have looks more like a type of pine or cedar though kinda by the looks of the grain and branches.

 

[mga]

Box Elder stains like that quite often. It's caused by a fungus and the red tinted wood is sought after by wood turners. What you have looks more like a type of pine or cedar though kinda by the looks of the grain and branches.

i know it's definately not pine. i'll see if i can take some pictures of the bark. the bark looks like an ash tree bark...

this piece was inside a huge chunk that i split.

the redish color was inside the center of each log....not around the bark area.

 

[bore_pig]

Seen a lot of boxelder. Never seen one get big enough to have that piece inside of another piece. Pretty wood though. Wish I could help you more!

 

[ray benson]

The box elder around here is a deeper red. And looks more like this picture.

 

[Rookie1]

That looks like the boxelder ive cut around my place ray.

 

[mga]

The box elder around here is a deeper red. And looks more like this picture.

maybe that's it......many of the pieces looked just like that.

 

[Geez]

If the bark is like ash it's probably Box Elder. I cut a lot of it down around here this year. I had a couple over a foot in diameter. The intensity of the red varies and some don't have any red at all. I heard that generally the tree needs to have had some kind of injury or insect damage for the fungus to get a foothold. If you have some bigger or really intense pieces with unusual grain or staining, paint the ends to prevent checking and cracking and sell them to a woodturners club or on Craigslist.
I had some really nice turning blanks set aside to use for myself but I left them too close to the rest of my wood. Then I came home to find out that my sweet, trusty wood slave had loaded the OWB for me. :jawdrop:

 

[Trout 2003]

The green ash in my area of PA almost always has the red stain inside. I cut a lot of it and it is always red. No matter what size the tree is or where it is growing it is filled with red. It will disappear with seasoning.

 

[Wood Scrounge]

I have seen Tulip Poplar look like that and the bark come off clean when it's sat for awhile. The only thing is tulip poplar is usually arrow straight.

 

[mga]

thanks people!

i'm leaning towards box elder. it's an OK firewood, ranks among the mid range for BTU's, but fast burning. supposedly dries quick.

info here:

http://chimneysweeponline.com/howood.htm



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[BlackCatBone]

I'm gonna say sycamore as another possibility. The wood color is certainly like sycamore, and I've seen plenty of vibrant red coloring like that in some pieces of sycamore. It is tough to split also.

 

[mga]

I'm gonna say sycamore as another possibility. The wood color is certainly like sycamore, and I've seen plenty of vibrant red coloring like that in some pieces of sycamore. It is tough to split also.

hmmm..another option. there were no leaves on it, so that's out.

and, yea, it was really tuff to split. my log splitter usually doen't have a hard time with wood, but this stuff really put it to the test. really stringy.

 

[gink595]

The green ash in my area of PA almost always has the red stain inside. I cut a lot of it and it is always red. No matter what size the tree is or where it is growing it is filled with red. It will disappear with seasoning.

+1, Thats a common thing I've seen when I am cutting Ash.