What tree species is this ?

[Mikey D]

Ok tree huggers and possibly @8ob and other arborist types ...
I've foraged this fallen tree for fire wood , it's on a river bank currently (well the rest of it is .... )
It's about 100 yards to the road so gotta wheel barrow the rest to footpath then road/car ...

So after it's seasoned for a year should be good to burn but what is it , it's not willow or anything else I recognise ?!

 

[Maker]

My guess is beech. Hopefully someone who knows what they're talking about will be along soon.

 

[MattF]

I'd say Sycamore.

 

[123hotchef]

looks like ash with the dreaded disese

 

[Keith 66]

It could be Beech, Sycamore has smooth bark & some of it has heavily fissured bark so it could be Alder or Aspen.

 

[Barking Mat]

A chopped up tree.

Or bits of.

 

[fixedfixer]

The smooth bark and the way it has split says Beech to me.

 

[hotponyshoes]

Touch it with an angle grinder and see what colour the sparks are?

 

[OJCar]

+1 for beech

 

[Mikey D]

Nah definatly not beech I'm afraid ,not alder . Aspen ? Ash? Not sure ..... wouldn't know one if I fell over it

 

[not done it yet]

Got any leaves from it? Next to a river could even be willow?

 

[Mikey D]

I'm there tomorrow I'll take another pic or two ,not willow . No leaves has been on its side at least a year I think .

 

[GRW]

Im rubbish at identifying trees.... but it does look quite a bit like the light colour but fairly dense wood of a tree I cut down in the back garden - which was a Eucalyptus.
(Mate had the wood for his fire, and said that while it took a bit to get going, but once burning it gave good heat and burned slowly) .
I dare say this post isnt very helpful

 

[redlig]

A chopped up tree.

Or bits of.

Don't be too sure. It could be an Ikea tree kit or the bits left over from one. There will be a key thing about somewhere.

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Didgrow?

 

[GRW]

Don't be too sure. It could be an Ikea tree kit or the bits left over from one. There will be a key thing about somewhere.

"An IKea tree kit". I always wondered just how those sneaky Scandinavians ended up with so many trees!

 

[pedrobedro]

The thin stuff looks like Ash with the white wood and smooth bark and the thick one looks like Beech that's been stood a while, the bark does crack up like that with time.

 

[Mikey D]

It's from the same tree , unless it's a cross breed ,

 

[Newlands]

Pretty sure that’s ash, especially looking at the split piece on the left of the photo. Definitely not beech - the bark is wrong, the grain is wrong and beech doesn’t split like that. But whatever it is as long as it burns is all that counts, especially these days.

 

[Onoff]

Mug?