This was dropped at work,but not by me I run the mow crew during mow season. Boss let's me take home the soft woods we can't sell for firewood. I was expecting this to be a type of pine but it has 0 smell and is not sappy and splits real stringy. My guess is River birch? I don't know my birches very well Central Indiana
Could be river birch. Only have scored it once. Popular yard tree as its fast growing. A few rounds had punk after only 2-3 months. It was not easy to hand split and dried super light. I wont take it again unless I have to.
Yeah, could be river birch. Which is a hardwood, but don't say anything to the boss. Lol I've never burned it though, only paper Birch here and I like that stuff.
Looks like long dead red pine. It’s pitchy, dense and kind of stringy and really surprisingly decent firewood. dried up old pine pitch circled in red.
Interesting. 0 pine smell It has a very very faint smell almost like cucumbers. But it's almost non existent
guess I should have looked closer… In my defense full sun pictures are never great for identifying stuff. The sun washes out the colors.
Sorry for poor pic quality guys. I split a lot of pine and it all has a pine smell. Even the old gray stuff when cracked has a scent on fresh split This stuff was cut down in the last 3 months so still high mc. 0 sap 0 pine pitch 0 pine smell I was 100% sure it was pine before I started splitting it