Not a steak, but wood... Pink Center?

cedar? does it smell olike cedar? could be boxelder if not.

My first impression is one species or another of Cedar. Rick

I have some of that and by the looks of the bark 100% CEDAR

I believe that may be an arborvitae that grew way to big,I had a similar sized piece that looked identical.

cedar for sure

100% cedar. Cut a few down the other day an plan to have milled up into boards for a cedar closet for my wife.

Looks like cedar, smells like cedar, could be arborvitae :lol: but it really looks like red cedar.

Don't know if it is cedar or not,but the bark is not Boxelder.

Gary

Store it in your closet.

That is certainly Eastern Red Cedar. I have a ton of it. Arborvitae trees look similar but the heartwood isn't reddish.

thats the good stuff they used to line closets with back in the day. We had a closet in our house with all t+g cedar but we had to remove it to make my sons room larger. I did put some of the cedar in the other closet. Still smells great after 80+ years. Not like me!

Eastern Red Cedar/Juniper or some close relative.

Scrounged 2 p/u loads off local CL in March 2011 & 3 more sitting on curb a few blocks from home in Nov 2007.Large old ones can be stubborn splitting with all those knots.Worth it though.I mill the best pieces into slabs & woodturning squares/blocks.Fairly soft,easy to work,dries without much cracking or warping & smells wonderful.The leftover scrap pieces & smaller/lower quality logs are great kindling & when needing quick heat on milder Spring & Fall days. I keep my eyes open for more of this all the time.

red cedar
it'll sometimes be the first growth in an abandoned farm field here
there's one field up the street that completely filled in with red cedar - and bittersweet.


I usually toss it in with the pine and hemlock stack

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Man - Thistle, I would love to feed that notty stump through my splitter just to listen to it scream. :coolgrin:

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haha. I found the knottiest one of the bunch that's around 15" diameter,cut a piece off it 10" long & am using it for chopping block.Roughly 10+ cords dead Red/White Oak w/ some Shagbark hand-split since May 2011,a few dents from the X25,but no cracks yet.It'll eventually rot before its splits in two.There's at least 6 large knots in that piece.

Backwoods Savage said:

Store it in your closet.

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How long to season in there?

Very common Eastern Red Cedar it looks like to me. Brought over from Asia to solve erosion problems. It has taken over though. We cut them down anywhere and everywhere we can pile them up and burn them. Too much work for the sappy stuff to burn in my stove. I also worried about all the sap that is in it. It smells good when it burns though. The trees give off a plume of pollen in the spring if they are male which I think is a major allergen contributor and are covered in berries if they are female. Birds spread the trees everywhere.

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Very common Eastern Red Cedar it looks like to me. Brought over from Asia to solve erosion problems. It has taken over though. We cut them down anywhere and everywhere we can pile them up and burn them. Too much work for the sappy stuff to burn in my stove. I also worried about all the sap that is in it. It smells good when it burns though. The trees give off a plume of pollen in the spring if they are male which I think is a major allergen contributor and are covered in berries if they are female. Birds spread the trees everywhere.

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Every reference I have ever seen lists Eastern Red Cedar - Juniperus virginiana - as native to North America. Lots of plants were brought over from Asia to try to solve problems, but not this one. It does invade pastures in some areas. It makes a good kindling and I burn a lot of it, but it tends to be really knotty and has lots of small branches so it is a bit of a pain to process unless you find them old enough and growing close together or in the woods so the lower branches have naturally dropped off.

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Thistle said:

Jags said:

Man - Thistle, I would love to feed that notty stump through my splitter just to listen to it scream. :coolgrin:

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haha. I found the knottiest one of the bunch that's around 15" diameter,cut a piece off it 10" long & am using it for chopping block.Roughly 10+ cords dead Red/White Oak w/ some Shagbark hand-split since May 2011,a few dents from the X25,but no cracks yet.It'll eventually rot before its splits in two.There's at least 6 large knots in that piece.

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I ain't skeered:

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Looks like some gnarly old green Piss Elm there.Grain so interwoven it makes a corkscrew seem straight ;-) In Apr 96 thats when I bought my splitter (sold it in Dec 2005) because of having 8 cords worth of large green White Elm that I cleared from low wet area next to the ravine.Plan was to have a combo watermelon patch & planted a couple dozen Black Walnuts & Butternuts. That didnt work out so well.

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Thistle said:

Looks like some gnarly old green Piss Elm there.Grain so interwoven it makes a corkscrew seem straight ;-)

Plan was to have a combo watermelon patch & planted a couple dozen Black Walnuts & Butternuts. That didnt work out so well.

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You sir, are correct on the wood. Also, never plant Black Walnut where you want anything else to grow. They can kill a garden as well as many other tree types.

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Yup mature (or almost) Black Walnuts need to be 50 ft minimum from certain things like tomatoes,apples.But bluegrass does fine underneath them.I've seen the first 2-3 rows of corn or soybeans stunted when an old walnut is at the edge of field.I have 3 older walnuts along east fence,garlic & other things growing about 50 ft the west,they do fine.But any tomatoes are planted further away.