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[Osage]

Was cutting a standing dead tree yesterday and noticed that the saw dust really irritated my throat. Also had kinda sweet smell. Burned some in my shed today and the smoke smelled like pipe tobacco and was irritating to my throat again.
Thought I knew all the trees in Kansas but have never ran across this one before.

 

[gzecc]

Off the cuff it looks like apple.

 

[Osage]

Off the cuff it looks like apple.

Have cut apple before. We used to have an orchard when I was a kid. Never had it iritate my throat.

 

[Jan Pijpelink]

Have cut apple before. We used to have an orchard when I was a kid. Never had it iritate my throat.

Based on the description and the inside of the cut, I was thinking Sassafras, but the bark looks different.

 

[Medic21]

Cherry?

What does the bark look like?

 

[Osage]

Based on the description and the inside of the cut, I was thinking Sassafras, but the bark looks different.

To the best of my knowledge we have no sassafras around here. Have smelled sassafras and not the same.

 

[Osage]

Cherry?

What does the bark look like?

That's a possibility. Very little bark left on it. There's a little shown in the one photo.

 

[CincyBurner]

Tough to say from the pics, but it does look like something in the Rose family, perhaps pear, or hawthorn (pink wood) ?

Perhaps it wasn't the wood itself that irritated your throat, but just cutting a dead, dry dusty tree ?

 

[Kevin Weis]

I'll vote for the apple until more evidence comes to light. Kevin

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Is it really heavy and dense? If so it might be Dogwood.....

 

[Woody5506]

I considered sycamore due to the irritation of nose/throat but the bark isnt right for that.

 

[Osage]

Is it really heavy and dense? If so it might be Dogwood.....

That's a good possibility. Does not split easy. Kind of stringy like elm.

 

[weatherguy]

The wood and what little bark that's theres looks like cherry.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

That's a good possibility. Does not split easy. Kind of stringy like elm.

I thought of you and these pictures tonight as I brought some splits in and some of it was Dogwood and I thought "I'm pretty sure that's what this guy has", I would be very sure of it and if so it is great fuelwood!

 

[ajayabb]

If its dogwood It sure is a nice size


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[D8Chumley]

I don’t know a lot of woods, but I have some dogwood in my stacks and that’s what I thought also

 

[Ctwoodtick]

Yes, looks like the apple I’ve cut.