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[splitoak]

Could this be black birch?..real thin bark... and black.must have been dead standing..pretty light..took what was good..bottom was rotten...thanks

 

[homebrewz]

Hard to tell from those photos.. no good pictures of the bark and a split piece. One of the telltale signs of black birch is a wintergreen smell from a freshly split piece.

 

[splitoak]

Ill take a side pic..

 

[paul bunion]

That isn't black birch.

 

[HackBerry]

Do the logs split or explode? With all that spalting there's a fine line between firewood and rotten wood.

 

[Paulywalnut]

Looks like hard oatmeal from here. Check it out good if you're hauling it out of a tough area. Might be rotted.

 

[Sully]

Don't you find bucket trucks perfect for wood collecting

 

[splitoak]

U day man sully..lol..here are some split pics..straight grain not rotted at all..oh and moisture content still close to 30%.an its pretty lite to pick up..

 

[Sully]

U day man sully..lol..here are some split pics..straight grain not rotted at all..oh and moisture content still close to 30%.an its pretty lite to pick up..

Noticed that triplex and lighting arresters. Lol

 

[Richie]

Black birch for sure. You can see the horizontal lines called lenticils. Black birch is my favorite. I could go on and on about the romance. I have some punky stuff like you have and it burned real well. You won't get real long burn times however.

 

[Missouri Frontier]

Black birch for sure. You can see the horizontal lines called lenticils. Black birch is my favorite. I could go on and on about the romance. I have some punky stuff like you have and it burned real well. You won't get real long burn times however.

Tell us about your black birch love affair. Just remember we are kinda PG around here.

That was my Mod try out. Am I ready for prime time?

 

[mark cline]

Cottonwood , it will stink when you burn it

 

[paul bunion]

Except for the color on the one piece that you focus on it all looks more like beech to me. Especially the bark on the piece at the bottom of photo 3. I've split into plenty of beech that is spalted like in your split. If it were Black Birch the outer thin paper layer would be peeling and show on pieces that are as punky as that.

 

[jdp1152]

First pics look like it could be a small birch but the split doesn't look like it. Hard to say...moisture content and creeping for sun does weird things to a tree.