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

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.

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

I agree that is cherry

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.

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.

I say cherry or black birch

Dylan said:

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.

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Its nice wood to cut also.

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.

Dylan said:

jabush said:

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.

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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.

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

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?