--Question: what wood is it? Seem to have a lot of it in the current pile of firewood. Very pronounced smell when cutting on the bandsaw; looks a little like aged, i.e. greying mahogany on the cut face. Very gnarly bark like on an oak tree.
Turpentine smell, mahog look
Feb 28, 2006
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Hi steamer
Steamer I don't know where you live but a pine wood or spruce is very likely, turpentine is made from yellow pine, Balsam Fir also has a lot of resin in it, the bleu/grey color would be blue stain or fungus, very prevalent in softwoods, just an educated guess.
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Have fun and take care Leo Van Der Loo
Goin' with Leo on this one. It could easily be a pine/fir/hemlock with the gray. That only means exposure to the elements on those types of trees.
We have some large pines here in Texas, and the bark on them in just nasty. It is tough, and come off in hunks.
If your firewood was cut from a rotted tree, it almost assuredly something like Leo said, especially with the wonderful turpentine/pitch smell.
Robert
--Thanks, guys. Don't think it's pine tho, i.e. no obvious sap or gooieness to it as one sees at the lumberyard anyway. Don't know much about hemlock; maybe that's what it is? Anyway I'll let it dry for a spell and seee how it changes, heh. Got this stuff by someone other than the usual source for firewood, so the pedigree is unknown, but the idea that it's rotten or in some way moldy sounds really plausible.
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