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HybridFyre

HybridFyre

Burning Hunk
Jan 13, 2014
230
CT
Is this some form of pine? The shaggy bark and red ring is throwing me off. There is a ton of it at my dump. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1409416083.552666.jpg

Also too bad I can't get a loader back here. They have a few pieces of 3ft diameter oak wedged in there. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1409416126.095037.jpg
 
Probably cedar. Does it have a pine smell or sap? Russian olive can look like that also.
 
I took a whiff of quite a few pieces didn't have that pine smell to me but some of the pieces did have a lot of small branch offshoots which usually makes me think some form of pine.
 
I have eastern red cedar..if you split it and it is pink it is probably cedar

But because it is at the dump I still say Hemlock. Alot of hemlock trees are dying in Connecticut.
 
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Bark looks more like cedar than hemlock to me.
Split and smell.

Either way, softwood not hardwood.
 
Yup sounds like it's not worth retrieving. Thanks.
 
I see eastern red ceder too, in the first picture. I use it for my kindling and for gifts for the neighbors who also burn. It smells & looks good too.

I wish I had some at my dump I would chip it and use it for mulch too.
 

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Cedar, and don't count it out, ever.

Cedar & pine saved my butt last year.

Mixed it with not so primo firewood & made it.
 
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I'm not totally counting it out. I just have a bunch if oak and maple I haven't even had a chance to split yet so spending more time taking soft woods from the dump seems like a waste at the moment. With a 2 year old at home I just don't have the time to keep up with hand splitting with the other 50 projects I'm juggling. Next spring in getting a splitter and then I'll grab all wood I come across no matter what.
 
Cedar . . . eastern white cedar perhaps. Fantastic wood for making kindling.
 
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