Hi all, Glad to be here, this is my first post. I am an audiovisual artist from Belgium. The firewood I hoard is mostly virtual. This isn't your typical firewood question, but here goes. For an animated project I'm currently working on, I would like to create a virtual forest scene showing an axe, a chopping block and a pile of chopped firewood. For the firewood I will be using 3D scanned models I found online. However, it's unclear to me what types of firewood these are. I would like to know what trees they were cut from, since this will inform the look of the scene (the trees in the forest for example). Could anyone here help me identify the wood chunks in the images below? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time and have a nice day. 1: 2: 3: 4: 5:
Welcome to the forum Yonas Seyoum Sorry I can't help with the ID but that sounds like a neat project. btw, I have relatives in Belgium but have never been there. My mother came to the States (went to Canada first) when she was a little girl.
Knowing that these splits are from a conifer species is a big help already, thanks Chud. That's an interesting story Backwoods Savage. I also have (distant) relatives in the States, but I have never been there either. Who knows, we might be related. Thank you all for the warm welcome!
That would be wild! I do know my brother was able to visit with relatives when he was in the army and stationed in France. Most of my relatives are Deschepper.
Haha, it really would be. Deschepper sounds like a very Flemish name, that's also the part of Belgium I am from. That must be a pretty difficult name to pronounce as an American, right? Most of my relatives are Copers, but I'm not quite sure if my American relatives share the same name. I will check and let you know!
Not difficult and I've met some with that name but no relation. My bet would be the Copers may have added another o to make it Cooper or Coopers. That is a fairly common name here. I have an appointment to make now. Have a nice day.
My best guess would be Scots Pine. Of course, I am unfamiliar with Euro trees as a whole so it's a total guess. Some pictures of bark do look similar. Just having bark to go by makes identification difficult unless the specie has difinitive charachter bark. Best luck with the project!
Welcome to the club Yonas Seyoum ! I can say definitively it’s a type of conifer so you’ll want your forest to be coniferous. I can also say with some certainty it looks like a type of pine. Beyond that I’m not positive. The broken grey thick scales of the bark make me think of Loblolly pine. That would be the only pine here in the United States that I have had experience with that looks similar to that. Short leaf and long leaf pine also look similar. Good luck with your project and hope this helps.
Welcome Yonas Seyoum Interesting project and foray into the forums! Have you gooogled Euro species by bark appearance?
Hi Eric, thanks! I have, but there are a lot of tree species. A good number of barks seemed very similar in appearance to one another. In some instances there also was a surprising amount of variation between different trees of the same species. I can imagine it's a lot easier if you know what to look for. That's why I turned to the fine people of this forum. Now I'm happy to know the firewood came from a pine tree. Thank you all!
