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[Gordon Gould]

A couple years ago I cut a tree I thought was soft maple and put it in the wood shed. When it was dry and ready to burn I new it wasn't maple. It was light as a feather and like you said - lousy firewood. I took a picture and asked what it was. I was told it was bass wood. I didn't know we had any on the place and I have only found one more. Easy to tell from the leaves. This is what it looked like.



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[Industrial Toys]

Years ago, I had neighbors that were both some kind of scientists. Tree Doctors. I asked them over to identify various trees. They couldn't. Since then, I have just come to the conclusion that it's not that simple and I don't worry about it too much. I just didn't want to destroy some particularly valuable saplings.

 

[xring100]

A couple years ago I cut a tree I thought was soft maple and put it in the wood shed. When it was dry and ready to burn I new it wasn't maple. It was light as a feather and like you said - lousy firewood. I took a picture and asked what it was. I was told it was bass wood. I didn't know we had any on the place and I have only found one more. Easy to tell from the leaves. This is what it looked like.

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gg

Does the wood have a red hue to it an smell good? If so its sassafras. I cant tell from the picture

It could definetly be bass wood

 

[John_Mc]

A couple years ago I cut a tree I thought was soft maple and put it in the wood shed. When it was dry and ready to burn I new it wasn't maple. It was light as a feather and like you said - lousy firewood. I took a picture and asked what it was. I was told it was bass wood. I didn't know we had any on the place and I have only found one more. Easy to tell from the leaves. This is what it looked like.

About the only use I've found for basswood is kindling.

 

[rd_macgregor]

I think Basswood is a popular carving wood...

 

[PJSprog]

I think Basswood is a popular carving wood...

It's also become quite popular for use as body wood on inexpensive electric guitars.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I just remember that we made bowls out of it in grade 7 woodshop.

Yes, that light wood has a reddish hue and smells really good. I never heard that we had sasafrass. Sounds like a southern variety. Isn't that a kind of tea?

 

[rjmack]

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[Industrial Toys]

NICE WORK! I would have made a mess of the turf!

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Man big wood it awkward but man it make for a pile of wood.

This is why I don't often take large trees from people and prefer my telephone pole-sized locust trees.... :laughing:

A maple tree fell on a friend's house and I hauled it off for him as a favor. This one round is 31" in diameter, and yielded about 58 pieces of firewood. There were some that were over 36" as I couldn't cut through them with the 18" saw.

First pic is after I rolled it up onto the splitter by hand.
Second pic is after I halved it in one split. Little splitter with the new Harbor Freight engine did well with that.
Third picture is the wood from that one 31" round, about 58 pieces.
It'll heat my house for 2-3 days in the coldest of winter around hear. :thumbsup: