ID Please

[mattsmth]

Could you fellas help with an ID on a load off free wood. It smells like licorice. Thanks.

 

[osagebow]

Smells like root beer, I'll bet!
sassafrass.Light, good kindling wood, low btu's but dries quick

 

[Defiant]

Free wood is good wood, how much did you get?

 

[Woody Stover]

low btu's but dries quick

Not too bad....pretty close to soft Maple.

 

[osagebow]

Fun to split, too!

 

[Woody Stover]

I've been cutting straight dead ones to use as sleepers to stack on. If they're not as straight, I cut shorter rounds to elevate pallets. It's fairly rot-resistant.

 

[mattsmth]

Once it's split about a half cord of. I guess it will be good for start of season.

 

[Hogwildz]

I love that stuff. My favorite smelling wood. Enjoy

 

[bogydave]

Sassafras is a good addition to the wood stacks.
Smells great & burns good.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

I have to cut one every now and then just to enjoy the scent.

 

[Hogwildz]

We used to get a few sticks of that every now and then back in the 80's when I worked for a landscaper. He would get pole lengths in, we would split with a Super Split log splitter. He was a dealer for them, and that thing rocked! Anyways, every time I would get into some Sassy, I would take a few small pcs and put them in my truck. Makes a great air freshener ;-) I always loved the beauty of that bark & the wood also.

 

[Defiant]

I have to cut one every now and then just to enjoy the scent.

I always seem to be cutting one but the scent is not to appealing

 

[Paulywalnut]

I keep a few thin slices of sassafras rounds in the shed . I hit them with sand paper and bring that aroma right back.

 

[USMC80]

Love the Sass!

 

[Reckless]

My sass lost its smell

 

[Applesister]

Great ID pics
Being an aromatic wood snob, its interesting to hear what people write about burning a lower grade BTU tree. I heat with a fuel oil boiler. The fireplaces and woodstoves are ambiance pretty much. No wood boilers yet. No closed off combustion chambers.
I grew up with open fireplaces as a heat source in our summer home by the Canadian border. With not fully seasoned sugar maple.
I've never even seen a Sassafras tree but it sounds like it lends itself to open firepits and lakeside campfires. One of those 'western' woods I have yet to experience.

 

[Plow Boy]

[quote=". One of those 'western' woods I have yet to experience.[/quote]

Eastern too. We have sass in NC

 

[Plow Boy]

[quote=". One of those 'western' woods I have yet to experience.[/quote]

Eastern too. We have sass in NC

 

[mattsmth]

Thanks, guys appreciate the help.

 

[Applesister]

Ohio River..Mississippi valley wood? Yes I've studied the range maps for Sassafras. Im too far north. It has a broad range.

 

[Plow Boy]

I have yet to a sass that big around here they are usually pretty small.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Sass tends to "pop" due to moisture pockets in the wood. Not quite as much as Mulberry, but usually has a few pops to it when burning.

 

[Reckless]

I have a ton of 30'+ sass on my property and Im mid-eastern NY

 

[TimJ]

I'm going to try it for the first time this fall. Splits very easy and the saw handles it easy. Dries fast
I think this winter I will get alot more and use it as a mixer with other shoulder season wood when I start burning next year.