Wood ID please!

[CHeath]

 

[thewoodlands]

Not sure but my guess would be Sycamore.

 

[CHeath]

Smells like vinegar after I split it by the way.

 

[billb3]

sycamore ?

they are usually a landscape / planted tree around here

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Sycamore no question...

 

[red oak]

Another vote for sycamore - got some myself a few years ago. No one will confuse its BTUs with oak, but it was free and right by the road so I took it (with landowner's permission of course).

 

[midwestcoast]

Split with the meter in it is Sycamore for sure.
It's one species you only have to I.D once. Very distinctive bark. Bark also changes a lot from the lower trunk to the branches.

 

[CHeath]

I meter the center also. This one on the center was 20. It has been inside a barn for 2 years and still has 20 on moisture. Sheesh! Lets all go in on a kiln in the Midwest. Lol

 

[red oak]

Was it split in the barn? I seem to remember sycamore drying faster than that....

 

[CHeath]

It was like pictured.

 

[basod]

Deffinately Sycamore.
Grows along creek bottoms for the most part.
Booger to split and more on the shoulder season scale of BTU wood

 

[lukem]

Sycamore is about 160% water when fresh cut. Not that bad of stuff to burn really. I wouldn't go out of my way for it, but wouldn't leave it lay to rot either.

 

[CHeath]

It went up like gas when I put it in there. Nice, hollow sound when I hit to pieces together. I put 2 good size pieces on the ash bed and some green wood on top, worked out nice.

 

[bogydave]

Sycamore.
Usually found around a good water source .
I think last Fall "Steeltown" ,in WV. CSS'd several cords.
Seemed he said it was pretty good wood.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

I meter the center also. This one on the center was 20. It has been inside a barn for 2 years and still has 20 on moisture. Sheesh! Lets all go in on a kiln in the Midwest. Lol

For sure that is why I always recommend drying the wood outside before storing it in barn, shed or whatever. Air circulation is the key to drying firewood.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

We don't have any sick-a-more on our place but we see it in various places in the county. No big stands of it but that stuff really stands out from the other woods. Splits nice and easy....if you use hydraulics.

 

[WeldrDave]

Yup, sycamore.... Just got about 2+ cords of it about a month ago, Smells like cat piss when you first cut it.

 

[Applesister]

Sycamore
Its here in NY along streambeds. Looks cool under a full moon. I call them ghost trees.

 

[Senatormofo]

No doubt its Sycamore. Not the best but It to burn but not the worst either.