ID this easy splitter

[Mick Dempsey]

Never acacia, not in a million years.

[Stubby]

16 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Never acacia, not in a million years.

What about a million and one Mick ? 😀 Bark looks good when I googled it . This is acacia as opposed to Robinia false acacia ? 

[Mick Dempsey]

What acacia (scientific name) are you talking about then?

[AHPP]

[kram]

On 16/04/2025 at 12:32, AHPP said:

I did think that as I was cutting it. Salved my conscience by observing the severe shrinkage.

 

Would you have a photo from before felling? How fresh is it?

[Mick Dempsey]

Anyway, purple plum.

[sime42]

Too dark for Acacia, that's more golden. Unless the colour of the photo is off.

 

It's some kind of plum, or other variety of Prunus.

[sime42]

9 hours ago, BillQ said:

I had some this year and it was hard to split, sometimes bouncing the axe out and when it cut into the wood I left it for 10 seconds as it groaned and crackled. Also had a lot of dark "thorns" radiating out from near the centre to the bark, but that could be species???

 

This sounds like sods law at play. If it doesn't want to split when you want it to make firewood. I was coming at it from a woodwork or wood turning perspective, it's got a bad reputation for splitting before or after you make something nice with it. Splitting as it dries and shrinks.

 

I think a lot of the plum side of the Prunus family have thorns of some description. Or maybe what you saw are old small branches that died off and then got eveloped by the bulk of the trunk/branch. I've seen that with other timber.

[Stubby]

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

What acacia (scientific name) are you talking about then?

Sorry mate . The " true acacia " is native in tropical and sub tropical regions of Australia and Africa so I was way off there !  Pseudo acacia , False acacia, black locust are what was being suggested and you are right mate , its not that .

[Dan Maynard]

Black walnut