Firewood ID

[Ashes_Firewood]

Hi. Been cutting this up what sort of wood is it? Not something I've had before. Been sat a couple of years before I got round to doing anything with it so no pics of the leaves

 

 

[Gary24]

Looks like sweet chestnut to me

[Mick Dempsey]

Purely speculation, but growth rings are large, bark looks like pop.

 

Does it seem heavy?

[BigfootBjornson]

Sorbus? Looks it to me.

[Mick Dempsey]

Sorbus? Looks it to me.

 

Yep, I reckon you've got that one, good shout.

[Ashes_Firewood]

It's not that heavy really, lighter than Ash or cherry of a similar size but it's reasonably dry with it being sat for a couple of years. The grain is strange when you split it and not seen growth rings like that before in any hardwood - they're huge

[the village idiot]

Sycamore?

[se7enthdevil]

any chance it could be a species of nothofagus???

[Ashes_Firewood]

Sycamore?

 

The bark is kind of similar to Sycamore but not as smooth and the inside seems very different.

 

It was planted sometime in the last approx. 30 years so grown pretty quickly for a hard wood?

 

Only felled as the previous owner of the field they were in had planted a line of them either side of a power line

[Marko1982]

Horse chestnut maybe ???