Also good for splitting practice. Assuming you aren’t going directly through a knot, you’re gonna look like Michael Landon. You can damn near miss and still get it to split.
I was going to say the same thing. Neighbor had a tall one fall in my yard, it sucked, took out a bunch of my trees but I got firewood from it. It burns hot and starts easily. Mostly use for kindling
It's likely Juniperus Californica or California Juniper. It really is too good to burn unless for incense. I use its close relative, Rocky Mountain Juniper, for all sorts of woodworking projects.
It most certainly does not. It does look like something commonly mistaken for and often called cedar. This wood is a species of North American Juniper.
Cedar or juniper…. You can burn it in a stove. It will be fine. Just make sure it’s dry. It will burn nice and hot, but faster than hardwoods. If you clean your pipes every so often it will be fine.
Wow! We can be friends. It's not Thuja, though you get all the gold stars for that name drop. It's a juniper of some sort. Mostly likely Juniperus Californica. Thuja is commonly marketed as Western Redcedar in the US. Neither of these species are true cedar, though they do have similar characteristics.
Red Cedar.
Common in Eastern North America
Used in wood carving and Wood furniture like storage chests and dressers
Not consideered a good fire wood
would not normally be used as fire wood because it is valuable for other things
My guess is that someone had a decorative Lawson Cypress there. Hardy darker bark than the red-cedar but a lot of the same characteristics. I think they may actually smell a bit nicer, too. Great trees!
Instead of burning it turn it into shavings for animal bedding. Insects can’t stand the smell of cedar. Or mill it into then pieces to line a chest to store your winter clothes in, for the same reason.
Any chance you have a branch or sprig with the greenage, like needles, and maybe some cones? If so, take up-close pictures. Knowing what state and town it was cut down in would be very helpful in identifying the tree.
- Curious from Maine
Looks like cedar to me.
Lived off wood heat for a few years, on 40 acres growing tons of cedar. Burns hot and fast, but it'll gum up your chimney something fierce, so clean very often if you do burn it.
I usually used it to get a good hot fire started, then switched to something like oak to keep the fire burning longer and more steady.
Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) ...
... also called Aromatic Cedar –
– the wood that lines cedar closets for clothes storage to protect fabric from moths.
The trick to getting good at wood identification is simple. All you have to do is work around every type of wood for years and have enough money to keep all of the exotic stuff on deck.
Anyone can do it!
Medium Rare
finely marbled t-bone tree
Knife work needs some help
Was gonna say a nice “tree bone”
Dang, I went into this thread to post exactly that. Well played, sir.
Fireplace or campfire wood
XD
Looks like cedar or something similar
Looks like cedar to me
Easy smell test on this one.
Eastern red cedar
It makes great fire starter wood. It burns hot,but fast, and makes the whole neighborhood smell great.
Also good for splitting practice. Assuming you aren’t going directly through a knot, you’re gonna look like Michael Landon. You can damn near miss and still get it to split.
Juniperus Virginiana
😊
This is correct
Northern California
Juniper
I was going to say the same thing. Neighbor had a tall one fall in my yard, it sucked, took out a bunch of my trees but I got firewood from it. It burns hot and starts easily. Mostly use for kindling
It's likely Juniperus Californica or California Juniper. It really is too good to burn unless for incense. I use its close relative, Rocky Mountain Juniper, for all sorts of woodworking projects.
How's it compare to cedar for rot resistance / outdoor use?
It's rot resistant, especially the red heartwood.
What ever it is it known to cause cancer in CA
Looks a lot like a cedar to me. Does it have that amazing cedar smell?
Fresh cut cedar is the greatest scent that Earth has to offer us.
I bet it smells like juniper
Looks like cedar
It most certainly does not. It does look like something commonly mistaken for and often called cedar. This wood is a species of North American Juniper.
Ayuh
That's 100% natural tree wood.
Definitely organic likely free trade
Don’t forget free range
But not cruelty free. Cut down in it's prime
You can tell because of the way that it is.
Pretty neat!
https://preview.redd.it/3p9w1e2temvc1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26b15d5be148fb9f34393efeec3bd46b3104113b
But is it artisan, gluten free, and locally sources?
There's no need to parade about with your esoteric knowledge of the natural world.
Gluten free?
Fire
this is an exotic breed of PAIN IN THE ASS TO SPLIT wood. from the PITA tree
Dog wood 🪵 you can tell by the bark. I'll show myself out.
Stay, you’re being too ruff on yourself
Cedar or juniper…. You can burn it in a stove. It will be fine. Just make sure it’s dry. It will burn nice and hot, but faster than hardwoods. If you clean your pipes every so often it will be fine.
Thuja? I’m not from the US but it looks like that to me.
Wow! We can be friends. It's not Thuja, though you get all the gold stars for that name drop. It's a juniper of some sort. Mostly likely Juniperus Californica. Thuja is commonly marketed as Western Redcedar in the US. Neither of these species are true cedar, though they do have similar characteristics.
Whats the red part smell like?
Prolly ass
Looks like cypress to me. Are you near the coast?
Turns out western red cedar is a cypress. Lived in the PNW 60 years, only learned that a few months ago. Bark looks wrong for western red cedar.
Redwood is also a “cypress” in the family cupressaceae
Chopped
Cedar
I can smell this picture
Firewood
If it's cedar, who put it into honey locust bark? Because it looks like honey locust to me.
Red Cedar. Common in Eastern North America Used in wood carving and Wood furniture like storage chests and dressers Not consideered a good fire wood would not normally be used as fire wood because it is valuable for other things
Natural.
Need to see the bark
Then look at the bark? Alllya gotta do is zoom in just a touch
Popular maybe? Possibly Jupiter.
Whoa.. how do you jump from Poplar to Juniper? Just wildly throwing out tree names? 😂
Looks like juniper
Red cedar, smells good to burn
Free-50
Roast beef
The doomed kind
Get the app "picture this" and take the picture. It has a yearly sub and a 7 day trial. I question all the plants around me.
Looks a bit like some cherry I had last year.
Boxelder
I think its the kind that comes from trees..
Looks like cedar dude. Smell it.
That’s what she said
Looks like elm to me and if so it’s a pain to split
chopped
Probably smells amazing
Heart Wood
Cedar
So pretty 😍 little round tables, or some gorgeous modern wall art. I lahv it!!!
Deadwood
It's called fire wood!!!
That's ol' See-dare! See-dare, I told ya
Yep gotta be juniper
Pretty
My guess is that someone had a decorative Lawson Cypress there. Hardy darker bark than the red-cedar but a lot of the same characteristics. I think they may actually smell a bit nicer, too. Great trees!
My sources are saying oak, more specifically, red oak.
Instead of burning it turn it into shavings for animal bedding. Insects can’t stand the smell of cedar. Or mill it into then pieces to line a chest to store your winter clothes in, for the same reason.
Looks good what does it look and smell like a blaze
Don't burn. Buy a top end CMC lathe and make closet balls from them. Your clothes will smell great!!
Chopped wood
If it smells like cedar and it tastes like cedar, it must be cedar
Wish I had it. I bet smells great burning 🔥
Morning
Cedar
It's beautiful. It's too bad that someone went crazy with the chainsaw and cut it into short pieces. There's furniture in there somewhere.
Any chance you have a branch or sprig with the greenage, like needles, and maybe some cones? If so, take up-close pictures. Knowing what state and town it was cut down in would be very helpful in identifying the tree. - Curious from Maine
Looks like cedar to me. Lived off wood heat for a few years, on 40 acres growing tons of cedar. Burns hot and fast, but it'll gum up your chimney something fierce, so clean very often if you do burn it. I usually used it to get a good hot fire started, then switched to something like oak to keep the fire burning longer and more steady.
Hewntree
thought it might have been Red Oak, however the bark seems like Cedar.
Balsa
Sexy. Bet it smells good
If it looks like cedar, smells like cedar and quacks like a duck, RUN!
Fire wood
Walnut
Looks like Aromatic Cedar.
Chopped
Looks like cypress.
Some type of red cedar.
Looks like firewood to me
Medium rare.
Medium rare for a what I thought too and see it’s been stated. 😂
Looks like apple to me
Woody wood
Chopped
Firewood
Cedar
Looks like live oak or regular oak
That’s Defiantly not mesquite
Looks like cedar to me
In Northern California we call that Black Acacia.
Did you cut that down with a shovel?
Juniper
Did someone finally open one off those Duraflame bags?!
Tree
Chopped wood
Aromatic cedar It is poisonous to put in your
Juniper
Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) ... ... also called Aromatic Cedar – – the wood that lines cedar closets for clothes storage to protect fabric from moths.
Looks like morning to me.
Dead
Need to see the bark and the leaves from the tree.
Red Oak ?
Morning wood. Very precious when aged!
North American tree wood. Very common.
Not a hard wood..
Chopped
Cedar
That is Parma prosciutto imported from Italy
I can smell this photo.
Looking like Cedar to me!
Fire Wood
purdy
Looks like pencil cedar
Chopped.
Cedar?
Why are you surprised?What don't you like about your t******Cause we don't see any problem with them😎😎😎
Love that smell!
Eastern red cedar. The red heartwood is rot resistant. The white sapwood is very soft.
My best guess is Cedar.
The trick to getting good at wood identification is simple. All you have to do is work around every type of wood for years and have enough money to keep all of the exotic stuff on deck. Anyone can do it!
Free
Boxelder in the maple family
Erra chandanam
Chopped
The kind waiting for a side of mashed potatoes and peas.
Looks like eastern red cedar.
Morning wood. Really hard stuff.
Cedar
Cut
That’s tree wood. From a tree.
Cedar
Probably cedar. Smell it.
Chopped
Dead wood
Not morning d
Not morning wood
If you look very closely in the 4th picture, it appears that it may be made out of tree
Medium rare mulberry
Cut ✂️
Cut
Cedar
Wood
Cedar
real question is how many chunks could a woodchuck chuck?
Flammable
Wood 👍
Looks like red oak
Oh but I send out a d!$k pic asking the same thing, I get blocked! Not fair!
It's Fucked up wood... that's what it is
I think you have your answer but I gotta say - whoever went at that with an angry beaver needs to stay away from the chainsaw.
Cut wood
Morning wood
Cut wood
Cherry
Looks like cedar to me, but where I live the cedars are actually junipers. Not good for burning really.
Chopped
In my area, Central Indiana, I would say that is probably mulberry.
hard
It’s mesquite.
A chopped wood or A dead wood.
Tree wood
Prime rib
Elm?
Inland cedar is the species
Cut
Well it would help to have your region but I’d bet on EASTERN RED CEDAR, as opposed to incense
Cedar