ID?

[nola mike]

Any ideas? It's extremely tough to split, hard and stringy.

 

[FLINT]

I was going to say sweet gum - and there is definitely plenty of that in richmond.

but your bark and wood actually looks like of like some kind of pine to me.

 

[nola mike]

I was going to say sweet gum - and there is definitely plenty of that in richmond.

but your bark and wood actually looks like of like some kind of pine to me.

Actually, I was going to say gum as well. I don't think it's pine. Is gum that tough to split? Also, very hard to find rings on the ends.

 

[FLINT]

yeah, I looked again and thought it looked less like pine.

wood looks like sweet gum - very tough to split, even tougher after its dried for a bit.

your bark looks extra chunky though for sweet gum - but the wood is very white just like in your picture.

 

[jackofalltrades]

It is not sweet gum for sure. It looks a whole lot like Eastern White Pine, but that should be easy to split.

 

[raybonz]

Looks like a bigger white pine to me..

Ray

 

[Adios Pantalones]

I don't know sweet gum from Sweet baby Ray's, but that looks exactly like white pine.

 

[nola mike]

Well, these are 7" rounds, if that helps. Not big. I just split a bunch of pine a couple of months ago. Don't know the specific variety, but they're nothing alike. Aside from being much easier to split, the pine has a coarse grain. Mystery wood does not; in fact, it's almost indiscernible. Pic shows pine on the bottom.

 

[FLINT]

if the piece is knotty, white pine can be VERY hard to split. like horrible and you want to just chuck it in the woods. I've pounded and pounded on white pine before - its kind of like hemlock in that the knots are like iron, and you cannot split through them - the whole piece will just break off sideways first.

 

[FLINT]

if the piece is knotty, white pine can be VERY hard to split. like horrible and you want to just chuck it in the woods. I've pounded and pounded on white pine before - its kind of like hemlock in that the knots are like iron, and you cannot split through them - the whole piece will just break off sideways first.

haha, i'm going back to my original thought now - I think it is white pine.

 

[nola mike]

Man, I suck at this. I thought that my wood ID skills were at least "pine v. Not pine", apparently they're even worse than that...

 

[tw40x81]

I almost never resort to noodling, but I've noodled more difficult to split knotty pine than anything else. The straight grained pine is candy for the fiskars.

 

[WhitePine]

Well, these are 7" rounds, if that helps. Not big. I just split a bunch of pine a couple of months ago. Don't know the specific variety, but they're nothing alike. Aside from being much easier to split, the pine has a coarse grain. Mystery wood does not; in fact, it's almost indiscernible. Pic shows pine on the bottom.

Your "couple of months ago pine" was probably some form of southern yellow pine, possibly virginia pine. It's grain is more uneven than white pine. It's wood is somewhat darker than that of white pine. Your pics seem to confirm that.