Firewood Identification

[pennyfan041]

Hopefully I do this picture attachment correctly...anyway, I got some firewood from a local who splits and sells. It's a mixed bag, but I'm curious about this kind of wood. It's got a deep purple color, and I can't find a decent website to help me ID the wood around here. I live in Western Missouri. The photo shows a couple pieces next to a particularly white/yellow piece of wood to give it a little contrast. Any help identifying this would be appreciated!

 

[Rickb]

There is another forum on here for listing wood called the wood shed. That said looks like red oak to me. If you smell it does it smell like cat pee?

 

[pennyfan041]

Ah, I didn't realize that. I'll go check that forum out. It does not smell like cat pee, and it doesn't look quite right up close to be red oak, unfortunately. At this point, I'm going through my mental list of trees I know are common around here and googling pictures, haha. I'm thinking it might possibly be black walnut, but I'm not 100% on that.

 

[Corey]

Western missouri, purple, and looking at the pic, the center split seems to show one sheared branch at the bottom left and one other branch at the top left... so a couple of branches within an ~16-18 inch space.

I'd almost suspect you have some cedar heart wood. Smell would give it away pretty easily... cross between a hamster cage and granny's hope chest, or if you have other logs with purple inside / white sap wood - another characteristic of cedar.

https://www.thelogfurniturestore.com/images/2011_Red_Cedar_Dining_Table_Detail.jpg

 

[pennyfan041]

Alright, I sent this post to the Wood Shed and will await replies over there. Thanks for pointing me that direction!

 

[Kevin Weis]

Black Walnut for sure. Burns okay but not my favorite. When it's done on flames, virtually no coals left. Leaves a fair amount of ash behind but near as bad as Maple. Kevin

 

[begreen]

Walnut would be my guess.

 

[pennyfan041]

Fantastic, thanks for the help! I'm reading up on Black Walnut, and this is definitely it.

 

[hickoryhoarder]

My guesses were also cedar or walnut. I can't tell from the photo.

 

[weatherguy]

Looks like cedar

 

[Woodsplitter67]

I would say walnut. Im burning some right now..