It’s probably yellow birch. I looked at your earlier posts and I think I see yellow in those photos. We have a place very near you, but I think a bit higher in elevation. On our property if it’s birch it’s either yellow or white. I was up there the same weekend. We got 24”. Most snow in one storm that I was present for in at least 20 years.
Agreed! I’ll get some better pics this coming weekend. The pic of the staging area is mostly Birch. If it’s Blach Birch, that’ll be some serious BTUs! Fingers crossed.
Nice! You guys must be up in the Southern Greens. We got about 8-10” out of this last one. I’ll try to get some more pics and some split pics this upcoming weekend.
Spent some time today swinging the Fiskars and moving wood with the quad. It was another wet day in New England! Glad I had some rubber gloves to keep dry. Wood ID time! Here’s some of the birch split. Any ideas? I do believe we have some Cherry here?
Actually now that i study the pics more i think all the splits pictured are black birch. Did you give them a sniff? BB has a wintergreen minty smell and cherry smells like cherry.
You said it got greasy, and you weren't kidding. You might want to wait and not go out on those days where it's mud/ slip greasy and set up a bit more solid. When there's no secure you'll do fine as is, but I see a set of chains on the rear tires in your near future if you don't have any yet. If you keep at it and keep on the same trails, you can cut most of winter. Once you get the rigid hitch on the shed, out well be a lot easier to haul and just rear chains, 4wd, and the sled you can go pretty much anywhere. Downhill with a load of wood in the sled you'll need to plan ahead and not expect to be able to stop, so plan that out.
*When there's no snow you'll do fine as is*. Meaning you won't need chains until there's more than a couple of inches of snow.
Thanks guys! The Birch did have a smell. Similar to what Brad described or what I call the Birch Beer smell. The pile had a nice smell to it after I had a bunch of splits stacked!
We are thinking the same! I actually held off on leaving the property this weekend. Ironically, there wasn’t much snow left after noon. It looks to firm up this week with winter temps finally back. We’ll see what the storm system at the end of the week brings. That’s a ways off. If we do eventually get some decent snow, I have a solid hitch I installed on our wood toboggan and will tug that behind one of the snowmobiles. Also, I have the itch for a UTV, but that’s another thread….
The last photos look like Yellow to me. Similar BTU to Black. As I recall Yellow also has that smell, maybe quite not as strong.
I’ll take that! There’s a good amount of that still in the woods, so I’ll definitely be getting after it.
Fun day! My wife and I spent some time up back and split and stacked just about everything I had staged. I love splitting, my wife loves stacking. It works very well. I was able to split just about everything except a few large rounds and some odd shaped pieces. Looks like I’ll have to fill those empty racks and keep this process going.
Need some help IDing this wood. White Oak? It had a very interesting smell to it; almost like white wine. Had a number of larger rounds and they created quite a few splits.
Not white oak. Was it growing in a wet area? The wood itself almost reminds me of black gum. How did it split? Also could be bigtooth aspen like Brad says.
Thank you! That’s our neighbor’s place. Ours is a bit smaller. There are about a half dozen A-Frames in our neighborhood; it’s pretty cool.
