Help! Please help me identify this wood.

[Tony H]

I was thinking mulberry so I compared to some I have and the stuff id a bit more green on color , so yesterday I was splitting some wood and came across some that looked very similar with the white outer ring and it's bur oak

The top 2 pics are mulberry and the bottom 2 are bur oak. My vote is bur oak

 

[billb3]

That wood may require a circle singing game, early in the morning, to season and burn correctly.

 

[Battenkiller]

tfdchief, I couldn't locate the mulberry. I split what I thought was mulberry, but it was was too light in weight and kind of a nondescript light-brownish mystery wood. Really ugly, so I fed it to Beulah.

I did find the hedge, however. It was given to me as "Osage orange", which is the proper name for hedge, right? Anyway, here is a picture of the end grain. The heartwood is quite dark now because it is many years old, but I'll bet it was a lighter color when it was first cut. My experience with most very dense wood is that the heartwood darkens a lot with age due to oxidation. This piece is exceptionally dense. It would make a good billy club. You can see how light the sapwood is, but I have no clue about the nature of the fresh sap since that long ago dried up.

 

[tfdchief]

tfdchief, I couldn't locate the mulberry. I split what I thought was mulberry, but it was was too light in weight and kind of a nondescript light-brownish mystery wood. Really ugly, so I fed it to Beulah.

I did find the hedge, however. It was given to me as "Osage orange", which is the proper name for hedge, right? Anyway, here is a picture of the end grain. The heartwood is quite dark now because it is many years old, but I'll bet it was a lighter color when it was first cut. My experience with most very dense wood is that the heartwood darkens a lot with age due to oxidation. This piece is exceptionally dense. It would make a good billy club. You can see how light the sapwood is, but I have no clue about the nature of the fresh sap since that long ago dried up.

Battenkiller, Yes Osage Orange is Hedge. Thats hedge! If I can cut some fresh hedge I will post a picture. Thanks