I saw one piece of this super heavy, super dense, old dried out limb of something. I have no idea what it is. And there weren't any other pieces of it so I found that strange. Kind of has a red hue to it and it didn't split clean all the way through.
Not fresh I don't think. That one piece was dry as a bone and almost dry rotted but it was so dense and heavy it was weird. It came from the sidewalk in front of a neighbor's house so it might well be an apple tree.
Based on the bark, I’m thinking beech with the bark disease. The wood doesn’t look very beech like though.
Yeah the first I thought when I saw the bark and how heavy it was was that it was beech...but confused about the grain. Maybe that's what beech does when it dry rots? The beech I know has very visible dots in the fiber and is yellow, not red. If it was really that rotted it still managed to be very heavy somehow.
