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Offline Katchin

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Wood Identification
« on: March 31, 2013, 10:35:46 PM »
Hi all,
A big tree came down in my mothers garden, just wondering what it is?

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Re: Wood Identification
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2013, 11:31:53 PM »
Hi,
From the size and amountof timber plus colour of the bark I think it is Beech - but I might be wrong
Ken

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Re: Wood Identification
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2013, 12:40:41 AM »
It looks very much like Robinia also known as  Black Locust to me the ray running across the grain and the color are what draw me to that conclusion

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Re: Wood Identification
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2013, 11:47:44 AM »
Would really help to see some of the foliage , but it looks very much like a conifer ,scots pine most probably !

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Re: Wood Identification
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2013, 06:30:53 PM »
Guy's the bark is too rough to be Beech and wrong for Robinia (I looked a some I have outside).

The growth rings are wide and even which makes me think conifer like TWiG, but no idea which one.
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Re: Wood Identification
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2013, 09:22:44 PM »
hmmm, many opinions here  ???  ;D
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Re: Wood Identification
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2013, 11:08:20 PM »
pine/cedar of some sort. Smell the cut ends. It should smell like izal.

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Re: Wood Identification
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2013, 07:56:28 AM »
The most likely candidate is Scotch Pine, known for it's reddish bark, the only thing I am not familiar with regarding it is the heartwood, some softwoods have a different coloured heartwood, Cedar does, Douglas Fir does, I don't know if Scotch Pine does though. But the bark is very much like it.

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Re: Wood Identification
« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2013, 01:24:06 PM »
Could tHis be Macracarpa or Monterey Cypress. I have some of it here and the end section is identical.
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Re: Wood Identification
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2013, 08:13:52 PM »
I would say that is Pine/conifer...


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Re: Wood Identification
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2013, 10:23:33 PM »
To be honest, there simply isn't enough information to make a reasoned assessment of what wood this is. The best guess, and I stress guess, is that this is a coniferous tree, most likely a spruce, but possibly a cypress. My reason for this assessment is threefold, firstly the growth rings, which are widely spaced indicating a fast-growing softwood, secondly the cluster of knots on the same horizontal plane across the end-grain, indicating annual growth of side-shoots (which eventually become branches), which is again typical of fast-growing coniferous trees in a temperate climate, and thirdly the bark platelets, which cry out 'Spruce or Cypress' to me.
Whatever coniferous species it is, accurate identification would require rather more information than we've got here. speculation is simple, but the lumber that this trunk can provide is not going to be of any great value.

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Re: Wood Identification
« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2013, 06:24:34 PM »
The growth rings look very wide to me so would go with some sort of pine.

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Re: Wood Identification
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2013, 04:06:42 PM »
Well this will help, my mother just told me that it was originally a Christmas tree with roots, so it did very well really  8)
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Re: Wood Identification
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2013, 04:17:16 PM »
How old it it? - count the rings.
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Re: Wood Identification
« Reply #14 on: April 08, 2013, 09:50:33 PM »
How old it it? - count the rings.


From the picture is that about 17-18 rings ...   ??? ...  Then age ..



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