it was a good wednesday

[iron]

i'm a scrounger and use craigslist as my only source for firewood. recently, there have been many awesome looking posts, but they get gobbled up quickly while i sit at the office job doing the 9-5 thing. by the time i get home, it seems most nearby scrounge opportunities are gone.

tuesday night around midnight, i saw a local post go up. only 5 mins away. i was tempted to go for a midnight stroll, but didn't want the police asking me WTH i was doing. so, 6am, headed out and picked up what i believe to be some cherry. is my wood ID correct? the original post said "cherry, oak, and doug fir", but i don't think i saw any of that.

then, later that day, after getting home from work, there was the jackpot post. the local power utility cut down 2 doug firs and there was a huge pile out there. 3 full trailers later (finishing up around 11pm), i have enough wood to keep me busy for a bit. i think it's doug fir (which would be a first for me), but am not sure. i'm used to seeing monster doug firs in the mountains - the kind that has 6" thick bark - so i'm not 100% positive. the wood grain and color definitely looks doug fir to me.

overall, i think it's probably 1.5 cords. some of those doug fir pieces were a PITA to lift up by myself (8 pieces filled a 4x8 trail --- the pieces were probably 25-30" long).

 

[EJP1234]

Some pieces look like some maple, not sure the ones with darker outter ring but its not cherry like we have on east coast at all. Ours has courser bark, and the red is the inner core. I feel kinda like the expert on black cherry I css'd about 5 cords of it this winter hahahaha...

 

[Seanm]

The ones on the far right of the third pictures look like doug fir with the deep furrows in the bark. I have a hard time with young trees as they often look like others. Ive seen some young firs look more like young spruce when you compare the horizontal slits in the bark. I have to get better with needles but for me I identify with the bark, especially at the base of the tree where young trees often expose their identity. Fir as well as larch get these lines in the bark as you will see in the cross section photo but just to clarify I dont think this is larch at all... Both fir and larch are easy to identify from each other despite this similarity. Ive also seen some lodgepole pine in challenging environments show the same furrowed bark characteristics but not the cross section lines in the bark. Your location may have different bark from fir in the Rockies but on the cross section they should be similar. These photos are of doug fir that I just loaded in the stove that I harvested green in February 2015.

 

[heavy hammer]

Nice pickup, love those rightaways scores. Regardless what it is cut split stack then burn. Nice looking rounds, plus close to home can't beat that.

 

[PWash]

looks like cherry and fir to me. looks like a good score

 

[iron]

i split open a few rounds last night. definitely doug fir for the one.

the other still seems like cherry to me (or plum?), but doesn't have much, if any, smell. the bark on it plus the grain type looks like cherry to me, but at the same time, it doesn't split like the previous load of cherry (that i'm 100% certain is cherry) did. i'll grab some more pics eventually...

 

[AmbDrvr253]

Either way you got some firewood there.........LOL

 

[iron]

yep. i'm a happy camper. the doug fir is fun to split. very solid/strong feeling unlike some of the cedar i've split.

 

[iron]

well that was fun. tomorrow, stack em.

 

[iron]

decided to make a makeshift storage rack (eventually will be demoing an existing basketball court we'll never use).

turned out to be just shy of 1.5 cords.