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hfd45178

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Sep 25, 2014
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Dutchess County, NY
Over the last few days I was able to obtain a few truck loads of an unknown type of wood from my grandparent's property. It has been but down for about a year and a half but majority of it is in good shape still. A few of the bigger rounds were still pretty wet and hard to split as well as a few pretty knotty pieces. The rest seemed to go fairly easy with the X27. The smell from the splits is very nice however. Most of it was cut 20-22 inches which will be nice to burn in the oslo hopefully next year. I seem to have gotten just over a cord out of it. What made my day even better is that when I got home and was unloading my truck, the neighbor, whose step father owns a tree service said he has approximately 2 cords worth of maple rounds that he will be more than happy to drop at my splitting area. Hopefully this can be made into an ongoing occurrence and I won't have to worry much about looking for wood. Any how here are some pics, if you recognize this wood at all please chime in. Thanks
 

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Looks good.
 
5 and 6 look like ash, not sure about the other. :rolleyes:
 
That looks like it could be sassafras but I'm not 100% on that! doe the splits smell like root beer? Is there an orange color behind the bark?....
 
I don't know that it is so much of a root beer smell, def kinda sweet but more of a nutty "wood" type smell. Behind the bark is a white/cream type color.
 
All the pictures I see all the same wood --Ash.
 
I think the first photo looks like the bark of an Elm, and the last is a different wood than the rest. The thick bark and colorful sapwood makes me think that last piece is Sassafras. The middle four pics look like Ash.
 
I vote for ash as well
 
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