What wood is this?

[davetaz]

Any one recognise this wood?

[Mesterh]

Western red cedar maybe?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

macrocarpa or redwood could be other possabilities

[jump-it]

it looks very simular to some ive used on some of my cross country courses which is african pear wood! like steel to cut and apparently very casonagenic (sorry crap spelling)

[Buzzsurgeon]

Elm

[Big 'Ammer]

Beat me to it, Brett!

[Matthew Arnold]

Beech?

[davetaz]

I do have a good idea that it is a tropical hardwood that was obtained by a reclamation yard. They couldn't find any one to split it for firewood so took my Thor 13T petrol splitter along and got through it ok.

Cut some in half with the 660 and had to re-sharpen after 3 cuts! Took longer to sharpen than to cut 3 pieces in half.

As far as i know it is ................. answer later this evening!

[gensetsteve]

I am really poor at this but will have a go. All the bark has fallen off so could be beech. If it did not look so red I would almost say willow if its really light and is stringy when split otherwise dont hav a clue

[Matthew Arnold]

Teak or African Teak (Iroko). We use Iroko on the rails for the trailway bridges. Nice and hard with a good oil content but not as expensive as Teak.