A bit of wood for another day

[Grahamshed]

Just cut this down to make room for another shed. I am sure you all know what it is.

Oops, forgot pic

 

[KimG]

Ahem, to make room for another shed eh! cough cough, that Laburnum is in the way dear.

 

[Grahamshed]

I wish Kim, not Laburnum.

 

[procell]

Looks like cherry bark but could be another soft fruit.

 

[Grahamshed]

Fraid not

 

[KimG]

Hmm I was going by the colour (after making a point not long ago about how colour is not a good guide! tut tut!! )

Well you got me with that one Graham, there seems to be a distinct separation between sapwood and heartwood, with the sapwood being very thin, normally that indicates a fairly slow growth, but the rings seem widely spaced indicating exactly the opposite! The texture of the cut also seems torn somewhat, which leads me to think of something softish, but what?

Could it be False Acacia? Robinia? It doesn't grow round here so I am unfamiliar with the bark of small branches, it doesn't seem to fit the pics I have of the mature trees bark.

It's a puzzle to me. :?:

 

[woodfarmer]

Looks like Stagshorn to me) smells lovely when being burned
but looks good also.

 

[Grahamshed]

My perverse sense of humour was hoping this would drag on for a while but Woodfarmer got it in one. Sumach, or stagshorn, it is.
Not a branch Kim, the main trunk.

 

[woodfarmer]

My perverse sense of humour was hoping this would drag on for a while but Woodfarmer got it in one. Sumach, or stagshorn, it is.
Not a branch Kim, the main trunk.

looks good when turned if you don't end up glued to the floor from the resin. I would hang on to it if I were you.

 

[KimG]

Ah, that's pretty interesting, although I have seen the trees, I have not seen the timber before, nice one Graham!

 

[Grahamshed]

It certainly is resinous, you could swim in it.

Well, actually you couldn't

 

[gregmcateer]

a few turnings on google images look great - thanks for sowing the seed of an idea, (there's one in our garden I've been willing to die to, err....
make room for a shed!!
Time to look for the copper nails, methinks