I'm going to post all the wood I get from the local dump in this thread. I know I've posted dump scores before so I'll start off with what I got the other day. Here's a piece of mulberry I'm going to keep for wood turning purposes. I'm not sure what this is yet. I should know when I split it. Got me some hemlock for the first time. Didn't realize it was so light. More hemlock.
Love that mulberry. Cool when you buck it and saw spits out the yellow chips. Love to score me some more of that. Rare tree in these parts.
Nice dump score This one could be tree of heaven. If underneath the bark smells like rancid peanut butter, that's what I'd put my money on.
I thought the same, but the bark is too thick. I think its some sort of red oak. Split it open LordOfTheFlies for us.
Ahhh I see what you're driving at with the appearance of a faint sapwood ring. Possibly Pin Oak with that smooth bark. I'm not sure I see any medullary rays though.
I've only gotten pin oak once, and it was just a couple rounds at that. Fresh cut it was pretty dark red, but after a few months as the ends dried I remember it lightened up quite a bit. Maybe not as light as the OP's picture though...
Pin has a much darker heartwood...reddish brown to brown and it does lighten up in color similar to LOTF's quarter.
The butt end of the trunk doesn’t have dark color. My first impression was oak. Scarlet oak has a smooth bark also. Nuttall oak is planted outside of its native range and can have a smoother bark for an oak. Shumard is another. Oak id is hard. If you ever see an overcup oak it’s acorns are a good identifier.
Eric Schamell wins! It definitely smelled like rancid peanut butter under the bark. And it doesn't look or smell like oak to me at all. Very thin bark and yeah it was already quartered like that when I found it. I figured I could make some hardwood kindling out of it since these pieces are so short. Very heavy, seemed very wet, and I did notice the smell yesterday when a small piece of bark fell off when I moving the rounds but wanted to make sure just now. Here's a pic of it split. Kind of reminds me of honey locust in its texture but much lighter in color.
And yes I agree pin oak has much darker wood (of what I've seen) and has distinctive vertical lines in the bark. This bark was dense, thin, and stinky!
Those are new to me and only heard of scarlet oak from here. If you ever cut any of those post a bunch of pics Chud
To me your typical red oak smells like ketchup, very vinegary. Pin oak smells like swamp poop. Yuck. Almost as bad as cottonwood.
Got a few rounds of red oak, some Norway maple, some sugar maple, one barkless round of poplar at the dump yesterday. Split and stacked already. Started a new stack using plastic pallets.
