Wood ID Please...

[NordicSplitter]

First off, I'm sorry for no Pic and I know that may make this impossible but here goes.....Picked up a load of wood from the tree service place this morning. Average size rounds but a bark that I have just never seen....Thin and jet black with a tinge of rust color. Not like paper(birch) and not peeling (old silver maple) Lord I wish I had a photo... Oh ya...rounds are HEAVY! Never had this wood before...

 

[bogydave]

Best I can do is say it's "Gotten-wood"

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Could you be describing shagbark hickory? Except for the jet black. I would not describe hickory as jet black.

 

[NordicSplitter]

Could you be describing shagbark hickory? Except for the jet black. I would not describe hickory as jet black.

Maybe because of its age, the bark turned black, Just a thought....

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Sounds like a railroad tie lol

 

[Blue Vomit]

Sour cherry

 

[midwestcoast]

Could also be Black Birch
Pretty tough to I.D from a description

 

[Jack Straw]

What do it smell like?

 

[Shane N]

Hard maple? Shot in the dark