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  • Please help me identify this firewood
  • ugarizza
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    https://goo.gl/photos/R1hL54fEszcKZ4SL9
    https://goo.gl/photos/NUTdrZZ41QDkuMek7
    https://goo.gl/photos/E9XfgYJavSpA9tCq8

    Been advertised to me as hardwood with 0% moisture.

    Interested to know what wood it is.

    Thanks!

    Edited: Oh no photo links not working and posted in the wrong forum 🙂

    jimw
    Free Member

    Sycamore?

    ugarizza
    Free Member

    Feels really light.

    cloudnine
    Free Member

    Sycamore is pretty crap to burn by itself.. I wouldn’t pay for it

    petec
    Free Member

    Zero percent moisture!? impressive!

    ugarizza
    Free Member

    Yeah zero percent is what the seller said!

    hamishthecat
    Free Member

    Not Sycamore I don’t think. Looks more like some sort of Lime

    donald
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    Nothing wrong with Sycamore if that’s what it is. I’ve heated my house with it for the last 5 years and I’ve got enough for the next four years in the garden.

    timber
    Full Member

    Not sycamore, that would be far whiter, smoother and closer grained. Nothing wrong with burning sycamore if it’s not too old.

    A poplar or lime? Can see the start of a sucker on the bark side.
    In one of the pictures it looks shattered as much as split, so either very old or was standing dead/diseased tree.

    Zero percent moisture would be charcoal.

    Not all hardwood is good and not all softwood is bad.

    cheeezzy24
    Free Member

    Looks like conifer to me. If its a hardwood it should have a bit of weight to it. That is likely to burn really quick. I wouldnt buy it!

    ugarizza
    Free Member

    Thanks all, I have a question to the guy selling it.

    In the meantime – if it helps – more pics!

    https://goo.gl/photos/zAHZbXU3PWKuLBcp6

    https://goo.gl/photos/m9HTqjLpYikFF7L36

    Nobeerinthefridge
    Free Member

    Sycamore is awesome.

    0% my arse. What timber says.

    gallowayboy
    Full Member

    from the ring width, its a fast grown timber – from the outside it looks like debarked hardwood. Someone said poplar – i’t may be. If it is it may burn quick but cool. 20% moisture content is well dried firewood, so someones talking crap.

    geoffj
    Full Member

    Poplar or some sort of birch would be my guess.

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