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  1. crisputer

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    Morning everyone! First time poster and working on my second second burn season. I installed a 17-vl last fall and we have never been warmer :)

    Anyway, I scrounged this up this weekend but don't know what it is... It has a loud smell but can't relate it to anything. Thanks for the help guys! [​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG]

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    Welcome to FHC crisputer

    You'll find lots of help and information here. :yes:

    My guess is some maple variety, but I'm still terrible at determining wood type by look. I tend to need to see the entire tree.

    Not to worry, the others will correctly ID that for you.:thumbs:
     
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    Welcome to FHC! Can’t identify it besides Farwood....:D I’m guessing no leaves to be attached? :faint:... pretty decent bark on it ought to help someone...
     
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    Not a lot to go on there. Could be cottonwood.
     
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    Welcome crisputer :yes:

    You cited the smell as “loud”....can you ascribe that to anything else?
    Like pizz or puke “loud?”
    Minty or lemony “loud?”
    It’s not oak, but that is one of the best “loud” smells there is regarding sniffing one’s wood....:thumbs::rofl: :lol:
     
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  6. crisputer

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    More like pizza/puke I guess lol

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    I had some apple that looked like this but not likely since you say it has a smell.
     
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    Green apple wood can smell like bad vinegar. But the bark doesn't look like apple. That orange oxidation on the split end is bugging me.
     
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    May have found a leaf but not positive it's even from this tree. Sweetgum?[​IMG]

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    That seems about right from what I saw on a quick Google.
     
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    That does look like a sweet gum leaf. Hopefully it’s not that. It’s known for being some of the most difficult splitting wood there is.
     
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    Sweetgum = bad?

    Just no btu's?
     
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    Yes, very little BTU’s for the work also.
     
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    But those splits don’t represent sweet gum... that I’ve seen...
     
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    It wasn't the easiest to split but I've had worse. It was kind of stringy.
     
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    Looks almost like red/slippery elm.............save for the leaf. But you're not 100% sure on that.

    The red/slippery elm I have in my stacks split quite easily by hand with my Fiskars.
     
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    That’s a sweet gum leaf but not a tree
     
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    pics 3 and 4 look a lot like cherry to me. First 2 pics not so much. I'm stumped
     
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    Since last week and after alot of rain, it's now turning black with mold. Still stinks too. The Cherry on the right didn't change at all but whatever that is on the left??? Maybe this new information and pics will help. [​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG][​IMG]

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    Never saw mold that black on firewood here.:confused:
     
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