Identify this wood.......I do not have any ideas!

[MrKenmore]

Can anyone ID this wood. The trees are pretty tall, probably 60 feet. Mostly high branches. The region is Long Island New York.

It splits easy. I'll report later on its burn time.

Thanks!

 

[MrKenmore]

One more picture.

Still trying to figure out how to embed pics in the post.

 

[jabush]

Looks like cherry to me. Not sure of the species.
I have a fair amount of Black cherry in my piles and it burns well.

 

[My_3_Girls]

Yup, I'm with JABush - cherry - awesome smell while burning, too.

 

[MrKenmore]

Wow, now that I look at the bark again it does look very cherry-esque. The trees are so tall compared to most cherry I normally see I didn't even consider it. Also because it doesn't flower or bear fruit. Here' one last shot:

 

[citizanken]

I agree that is cherry

 

[DiscoInferno]

Clearly cherry. Go ahead and sniff a split. I can always smell when the wind blows through my cherry stacks.

In my experience, cherry (like a lot of other trees) grows as tall as it needs to to find the sun, with few branches in the shade.

 

[laynes69]

It looks like domesticated cherry. We have alot of trees like that on our property that produces sweet black cherries. Our trees are around 40 to 50 feet tall. Forgot to add, it can rot quickly so keep it covered, dry.

 

[MrKenmore]

RE: rotting-I definitely noticed this happening to a few pieces. I split it in early March of this year. Where I stacked it could have been better. Once spring came the area grew in a little more than expected.

 

[ourhouse]

I say cherry or black birch

 

[MrKenmore]

Researching black birch I think it he one. I just "googled" black birch and the trees (this is from my mom's property where she has a lot of these) looks exactly like it.

Link:

http://www.eserc.stonybrook.edu/FieldGuidesWorkshop/2002/AshleySchiff/disk1/image08.jpg

Thanks everyone!! I think the mystery is solved.

 

[ourhouse]

Oftentimes, black birch can be difficult to split, as its fibers spiral vertically down/up the stem. It is PRIMO firewood, though....get all ya can get.

Its nice wood to cut also.

 

[jabush]

I don't know man...your original pic looks like cherry whereas your link to Black birch looks different.
As Dylan stated...Black birch will smell very sweet (although I wouldn't call it wintergreen). It reminds me of a brand (that I can't remember) of gum we used to get at the corner store when I was a kid. Once you smell it you'll never forget it.

 

[jabush]

I don't know man...your original pic looks like cherry whereas your link to Black birch looks different.
As Dylan stated...Black birch will smell very sweet (although I wouldn't call it wintergreen). It reminds me of a brand (that I can't remember) of gum we used to get at the corner store when I was a kid. Once you smell it you'll never forget it.

Though I don't recall its aroma, I do remember getting an inexpensive gum at the penny candy store when I was a kid. Three sticks to a package, each stick wrapped in a whitish waxed paper. It cost ONE cent for the three sticks. It was called....Chum-Gum.

I'm thinking "Beechnut" or "Beemans". I don't know...that was a good MANY brain cells ago.

 

[begreen]

I think Beemans was licorice flavored? Beechnut. I used to love that stuff and we had a tree across the street that had the same smell. As a kid I used to think it was a beech tree, but now I'm really curious to know.

 

[DiscoInferno]

We've got a lot of beech in MI, and I can't say I've noticed much of an odor (gum-like or otherwise) from the trees or their wood. I tried a beechnut in the summer, but I don't think it was ripe yet; not tasty. Beech is pretty easy to identify, anyway, due to its smooth gray bark.

Oh, and I still think that wood is cherry. :cheese: Does it not smell like cherry when freshly split?