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sixminus1

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Just scrounged a few small logs from a neighbor who took down a tree in his front yard. I'm sure it's a hardwood, just wondering if anyone can ID it from this picture.
 

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sixminus1 said:
Just scrounged a few small logs from a neighbor who took down a tree in his front yard. I'm sure it's a hardwood, just wondering if anyone can ID it from this picture.


Cherry.
 
+1 Cherry.
 
sixminus1 said:
Thanks! I'm surprised -- all the cherry I've had in the past had curled, flaky bark.

yea the last cherry I scrounged was the same, but what you have is cherry too.
 
That's like a landscaped ornamental cherry tree, unlike the cherry trees that grow wild. Still good wood. I have the same tree lining my drive. A neighbor lost one in the snow storm and I have it all cut up, looks the same.
 
The bark looks more like Dogwood than Cherry to me. I have not cut Dogwood to know what the wood should look like. There is the Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) and also several others like Korean or Kousa Dogwood (Cornus kousa). I don't know if the wood is the same color in both species. The type I'm thinkging about is Flowering Dogwood.
 
Wood Duck said:
The bark looks more like Dogwood than Cherry to me. I have not cut Dogwood to know what the wood should look like.

I'm thinking Dogwood also-that's what it looks like inside.
 
Did you do the sniff test? If its cherry you will know! However, it doesn't look like cherry to me. Never cut dogwood so I can't help you there.
 
Definitely flowering dogwood, awesome wood, I burned a bunch of it last year, on par with the best hardwoods in my opinion. Wish I had more of it.
 
My experience with dogwood is that it seasons extremely slow... slower than oak... I have some that has been CSS for 1 year and it still won't register on my moisture meter. At the same time I have some white and red oak that has been CSS for 15 months (just slightly longer than the dogwood) and it's at 21-25% moisture...

Burning the dogwood anyways to get rid of it... just throw one piece at a time in the firebox and it burns fine... It gives me good residual coals that way...
 
Just looked at the blown-up picture on my home computer which is much clearer than the one at work; it's Dogwood, bet the farm (and the wife) on it lol!!!
 
Definitely dogwood. Very dense fiber. Enormously better fuel than black cherry.

Nothing like any cherry around here- bark, wood, you name it.
 
smokinjay said:
sixminus1 said:
Just scrounged a few small logs from a neighbor who took down a tree in his front yard. I'm sure it's a hardwood, just wondering if anyone can ID it from this picture.


Cherry.

No Way on God's green earth is that cherry!
 
nrford said:
smokinjay said:
sixminus1 said:
Just scrounged a few small logs from a neighbor who took down a tree in his front yard. I'm sure it's a hardwood, just wondering if anyone can ID it from this picture.


Cherry.

No Way on God's green earth is that cherry!

lol, Good thing that you don't get a penalty shot! My best guess! ;-)
 
nrford said:
smokinjay said:
sixminus1 said:
Just scrounged a few small logs from a neighbor who took down a tree in his front yard. I'm sure it's a hardwood, just wondering if anyone can ID it from this picture.


Cherry.

No Way on God's green earth is that cherry!
To give jay a break, the bark does look slightly similar to black cherry. Seeing as how there are some ornamental cherry's that have bark similar to that, I'll give him a pass on that one.

I'm not entirely sure what it is though. Bark does look like dogwood, but I thought dogwood was white all the way through (no difference between heart and sap)... at least the dogwood I have that was IDed as dogwood by the forum last year...
 
All the dogwoods I have cut have dark heartwood, everything about those pics says dogwood.
 
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