Picked up this in the way home last night. Wild/black cherry right? For some reason I though it was too tan last night, and I didn’t get a good sniff. But, smelling more like cherry this morning.
Looks like Cherry to me. Does the trunk (the car trunk, not the tree trunk) smell really nice? Awesome find. Heading today to grab the cherry i scored the other day. Have you hit the locust score recently?
I sniff my wood all the time ...love the smell of a fresh split of green wood. Sassafras, birch, white oak
My favorite smelling wood is elm, not sure exactly the variety because not all elms smell like what I would call a sort of sweet spiced spanish cedar. I can tell you that its one of the varieties of elm with woven grain that is hard to split. I actually put chunks of this elm in my cigar humidors and I love the result. Anyway, some luscious cherry chunks you got in that trunk mrfancyplants ! Green looking cherry like that is not always easy to make that first split from a full log. I have likened splitting green cherry to be a bit like splitting very hard and perhaps frozen taffy. Actually its kinda like splitting this stuff, Italian Torrone
This one had a very faint smell to the split trunk. I’ll give the car trunk another sniff after work today as I picked up a full load on the way in. I think maybe it had been dead a while and less smell as parts were missing bark and there were a few ants to knock off. I think good to have some more quick drying wood for year 2 as I am pushing it on my year one supply. Some of the pine I picked up last fall is not as dry as expected for my dwindling spring supplies.
This cherry was popping open while quartering, with two blows max, but I happened to only have the isocore with me.
At first glance I thought this was mulberry, but on closer inspection I have deemed it catalpa. No matter, a carload of shoulder season wood is always welcome.
You know I was going to say that, with that greenish color, but not being there in person I took your word. It has that tell tale sapwood as well with the little pointed sapling bumps. Those smaller pieces though on the lower left of the group shot looks suspiciously like catalpa or a related tree called Paulownia aka: fox glove, or empress tree which is an invasive weed tree. I think those two pieces are more likely catalpa but if they are this tree then it will be incredibly light and will burns like a smoldering punk (dont ask me how I know) so mulberry is quite an upgrade. Anyway I'm including a picture of the Empress tree just for future reference and FYI since these are sprouting up here and there and have a very distinct looking shape and bloom in the early spring
Now isn't that a little honey... I spotted this little wind victim the other day while out and about, but didn't have time to scoop it up then. It was in the far back parking lot of an almost defunct K-Mart in my town. Today I got it on my way home from work. The location of this moderate sized branch couldn't be any better with the nearest parked car over an acre away! It was such a secluded peaceful location that I bucked it to size right on the spot for a change. Its not much to brag about, but it did make for a happier commute.
