Took a boat ride this morning to recover a stump for a client. Found a nice log that I just had to have. Not sure what this is but I believe it might be locust. Super dense, rich yellow interior. No bark since it’s been washing in the river for quite a while. Anyone have a guess or confirm what it is?

Maybe Osage orange aka hedge.

Id have to be able to smell it before i could give an accurate opinion.
Im actually very good at determining various types of wood that way.
I was stuck one time however.
A guy handed me a small piece and i was unable to give him an answer right off like i usually can.
So in order to further humiliate me he asked me to take a guess.
So i told him that it was either a scrap of wood from an old outhouse, or a piece of pussy willow.

Hornbeam?

Dale could be correct.

It was a straight trunk about 25’ long. Eliminates any Osage orange ive ever seen around here

Looks a lot like locust to me.

That’s what sawn locust looks like here.

Bodock, O-orange/ hedge apple is little more orange. Orange-yellow.

Locust here is green-yellow

Bark...that’s a toss up, looks slightly more on the locust to me.

I’ve cut hundreds of locust poles for fencing. I might know at least a little about it.

Cross section in OP looks very similar to the Black Locust we have in Northern KY. As noted above, Osage Orange seldom has a very long straight section to the stem.

Is black locust that rough on the exterior?

Mulberry or hedge. I don't remember locust being that yellow. You would have to cut it to get a good smell of it.

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Looks like Black Locust to me.

i'd say locust from the color, grain and length of trunk.

What state Hunter 4623????? and in what area of that state?

South Jersey. Across from Philadelphia international Airport

Non-native where I used to live and recall black locust to look like this web image. I cut some, geeze that was 7 years ago, and milled into a few boards... Some dense stuff.




Exterior did not look like the OP's top pic - that I recall, it was much smoother.

Such as. (web images)

Cut some shavings off it and see if it smells like juniper or cedar. Could be black locust as well.

If it doesn't float, then Natalie wood.

You and I are going to burn in he'll for that. You posting it, and me laughing.

Well, I Googled it...

Looks like Black Locust to me.

Where are you located?

Black locust. Very good firewood. It doesn't rot.

More likely imo than black locust to have the rougher convoluted trunk as shown. References say it'll grow "straigher" in bottomland when in tight clumping rather than very crooked in open settings.

Locust would be my guess

It is locust. I burn lots of it here in the NC mountains.

You are not a well man. That is sick, sick.
It is funny, though.

Ive seen pecan that color

Dead horse aside. Provide one picture of a barkless black locust log that looks like the OP, picture number one. Anyone?

Took it to a local old timer that’s a wood guy. He said probably locust but he didn’t discount mulberry. Difficult to identify because it’s been rolling around in the water and on the beach for a long time. He thinks the softer parts of the trunk eroded away and left behind the unique look. Either way,it’s cool and I’ll make something even cooler out of it at some point.

Saw somewhere if you were to cut a fresh (? for drift wood) piece out and place in water, osage will color the water and black locust will not. Have fun with it.


PS Encouraging. I hope to get out and find some local wood for a little project, possibly mountain mahogany.

It would make a good background for some duck, squirrel, bird, body mounts

To prove locust put it under a blacklight. It will shine brilliant yellow. My bet is it will glow.

Osage extractive are yellow, so that would prove osage, if the wood seems to be lighter, mulberry.

Several people mentioned mulberry..... that's my guess.

My bets on osage orange.

This looks to be an old thread (1yr.). He ought to know by now.

Bring extra chains for the saw! Man is that stuff hard!

Looks like locust to me.

I haven't gotten over the convoluted exterior, yet, nor am I highly likely to! LOL

When it’s good & dry on the outside hit it with a chainsaw. If it throws sparks you can see in the daytime bet on locust.

Poplar

Locust, 100 percent guaranteed.

It does resemble black locust. And like Slummy, I have planted hundreds if not thousands of them as fence posts, sawed out of groves on the farm.

But I have not seen a black locust free of bore holes in over forty years.

That alone would disqualify the piece as locust to me. Perhaps locust borers refuse to live in Jersey.

I searched the world over and found pics aplenty of non-smooth looking black locust logs as well as straightish osage orange logs that I am going with the majority for once... LOL

Pretty groovy. I have some black locust at home incorporated into my loading "desk" and will try it when I get a chance with a correct light.

Well, I would never have guessed osage orange would grow in NJ, but apparently from what I was able to find it does.


That changes my thinking a bit as to what those logs are.

Looks like locust

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