can someone identify this wood

[dcarch]

If it is sweet gum, you should not cook with it.

dcarch

 

[cwalk]

Oh ok

 

[woodcutter]

Black Cherry



~Martin

X2, That is great wood for smoking especially with pork. Makes nice furniture too. I have some mature cherry trees that we have cut and use to cook over an open fire pit. When they get around 16"-20" in diameter they start to rot in the middle at the bottom of the trunk. They look like a healthy tree and then the wind knocks them over.

 

[cwalk]

Sooooo is it cherry for sure?

 

[woodcutter]

I found a piece of black cherry drying in my garage.

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[cwalk]

How can i be sure

 

[woodcutter]

It is difficult to tell for sure from looking at pictures on the computer. Keep asking people until you find someone who knows how to recognize it.

 

[dave in indiana]

Looks like maple, probably black maple.

 

[cwalk]

Guess i gotta burn some to see Wht it smells like

 

[badmoont2]

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If you look at the end in this shot you can see "rays" which are indicative of Oak. When quarter sawn these rays produce a beautiful figure. To me the bark looks like a Red Oak, a very common tree in Northern Arkansas where I live, don't know about the Little Rock area.

 

[dcarch]

Also, as I said, very similar to sweetgum.

Here is a picture of a log from my sweetgum tree. Compare the two, notice the graining and bark structure similarities.

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[DanMcG]

Could you split a piece so we can see the grain? It would be easier to identify looking at gain.

 

[cwalk]

Ok

 

[cliffcarter]

The second set of pics, the trees cut down by your FIL, are Black Cherry for sure, very good cooking wood.  

The close up of the wood that you posted originally is most definitely Oak. That would explain the off smell when you burned it, unseasoned red oak can have a nasty smell when burned.

I can see no black maple in any of the pictures in this thread.

I do think that the wood in the original is a mixture of oak and maple.

 

[mountainhawg]

http://www.treebarkid.com/index.php/general-bark-id-key

 

[oldschoolbbq]

I looked through your pics in the opening string and with all the shots at different angles. The first shot looked like Cherry to me , the 'scabby' kinda bark. The interior shots confirmed it for me with the color and linear cracking. No sap on the bark and the Lichen growing on it convinced me.

Gooooood an Ribs.

Have fun and ...

 

[cwalk]

Well I have tons of Wht my father in law cut down. Time to start cooking

 

[legend]

The leaves seen in the bottom of the photo in post #24 are definitely oak.
 

 

[cwalk]

Im adding plum to my wood collection, my dad is prunning a plum tree that ive been asking about for years. Every year he says the tree will produce fruit but every year at least two plums bloom which are usually consumed by bugs. I'll post pics once tree is cut and dried a little. Been raining here