what wood is this?

[R0ck632]

Can someone help me out and tell me what wood this is and is it good for wood stove burning? Thanks..it's bright red on inside

 

[Pennsyltucky Chris]

Sycamore?

 

[drz1050]

The bark looks like beech, but I've never seen red beech...
Any leaves?

 

[R0ck632]

I had a tree guy drop off a load of stuff in my driveway so I don't know anything about it..its bright red and stringy when I split it.

 

[gzecc]

Rotten sycamore?

 

[midwestcoast]

Sycamore

 

[R0ck632]

Why is it so red inside

 

[Jon_E]

Either rotting sycamore, or it might be a specimen tree that the tree guy removed. Eucalyptus maybe?

 

[Wood Duck]

The bark looks like London Plan Tree, which is a hybrid Sycamore, but the wood is strangely red. Sycamore wood should be white. I don't know of any Eucalyptus that will grow outdoors in NY. Is the wood solid? Diseased London Plane tree might be a good guess.

 

[hoho]

all are right, red is metal in the tree some were

 

[iamlucky13]

My first guess was alder, but the bark is smoother than the red alder that is common in the Pacific NW. Looking for more info, there seem to be a couple types of alder that grow in the NE.

Assuming it's similar to red alder, it's a moderately low BTU fuel. Moderate splitting difficulty, and the stringy bark can be annoying.

 

[R0ck632]

This wood is extremely hard to split it is realllllly solid..Even my 27 ton splitter gets stuck a little going through it.

 

[Wood Duck]

There are no large alders in the northeast. Our Alders top out at around three inches in diameter.

 

[Firefighter938]

The bark looks like sycamore. Maybe the red is just a regional/soil thing. Sycamore is tough to split.

 

[iamlucky13]

Ah...nevermind then. Even if the photo may look a bit like red alder, I doubt our variety would grow there even if deliberately planted. It likes lots of rain and mild temperatures.

 

[Applesister]

The bark looks like london planetree like wood duck said.
Ive never seen the interior. The red could be fungal staining.
Sycamores are commonly rotten in the middle, or hollow. Also interlocking grain which is evident in the pic of the split.
Chinese elm is another tree with blotchy flat plate bark. Another possibility.