I grabbed a few limbs of this wood from a pile in an industrial park. When I grabbed it I thought it was some kind of ornamental maple due to the bark. Note that it has seasoned two years and I found it in a stack I look at the end grain and that looks like oak but no sap wood. I remember it was tough to split.
I’ve got some beech staged up by my stove right now. It’s been processed since August 2020 when Isaias hit. I have to look really closely, but I’ll be darned, there are very faint rays in the end grain. Yours are a lot more pronounced for some reason.
The end cut resembles oak grain, but the thin bark made me think beech and the second pic confirmed that. Beech...final answer. Great firewood that ill take over oak any day. It can be tough to split if left in the round for a while.
We don’t have beech here , I would have guessed a maple of some sort but I am an amateur!! Looks like it will burn anyway!
As others have noted beech. Excellent firewood but may take a few years to season. I would recommend measuring its moisture content. I am burning a bunch of it this winter.
If I had never seen Beech my initial guess would of been Maple. BUT thanks to Eric Wanderweg , I immediately saw Beech.
Beech likes hardwood hills. I have a couple smaller ones here but they’re huge and plentiful on the hills around the lakes here
They do like hills. There used to be a lot of beech across the road from us but they had them all cut off. I had one that was bigger than that oak we cut last year but it finally rotted so now is history. I remember those bottom limbs. Wow! They were huge. I used to stand on them for deer hunting.
First thought seeing the end grain was Oak, but bark seemed a little thin. Beech it is. It looks ready to burn!!!
