So I had a few pieces of wood that.....holy mackerel.....burn way hotter than the cottonwood I have been buring. I don't remember where I got it.... Here's a couple pictures of it Here's the bark It's was 73 in my basement when I put this stuff on about 2 hours ago....
Oak is what I thought also. Should feel heavier than a comparable sized split, no? Save it for those windy cold dakota nights.
Looks an awful lot like pin oak to me. brenndatomu this is what I’ve always characterized as medullary rays in the side grain view
could be hard maple too. Though iirc South Dakota is pretty far west for it to be native. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t a yard tree though. Tree ID from just one split is pretty difficult without adding in differences from region to region. Heck the bark of two of the same species can look pretty different from tree to tree in the same region. Then you factor in the lookalikes it can get tricky in a hurry
Yeah I didn’t look to see where the OP was from. All that character inside the grain just looks like maple to me.
I don't see oak either. More maple-ish. Sometimes 1/4 sawn maple has that sycamore look, like this: (pic is maple)
The only Oak that I know that grows here is Bur Oak (a type of whiteoak) and that is hard to come by.
Coming right up..... To me, my own picture, I would say American Elm, but the look of the wood from the other pictures are too red
