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My brother owns a cabinet shop. He just bought a new, computerized table saw (Homag Espana). Basically, you put a tree in one side and a kitchen comes out the other side. It was delivered in a huge wood packing crate that was reinforced with 4×4 lumber. We decided to cut it up and use it for firewood. I’m just curious about what kind of wood it is.
The saw is from a German company but built in Spain, I don’t know if it was packed for shipping in Spain.
The wood is very pale, almost white, with a straight, even grain.
When you cut or split it there is no smell of any kind, there is no pitch of any kind visible.
It burns with a yellow flame, doesn’t burn very hot, doesn’t make coals and leaves a lot of ash.
And finally, the reason why I’m asking this, it burns explosively. Constant popping and exploding. The explosions throw large embers all over the fireplace. This is not just a nice crackling fire but a constant barrage, like strings of firecrackers going off.
Any guesses?
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sounds like it could be aspen or poplar
*Geez I Dunno:But I have on occassion gone scavenging for some cool exotics that basically came from the far east in large crates that were used to ship green marble? Nobody wanted the stuff until I kept poking my head in asking if I could take it off their hands. "Sure, go ahead." Then somebody caught on and the stuff was never around anymore. Found some rosewood and other hard to come by expensive stuff which I used to make backgammon boards and pool stick cases.
*I had something very similar to your description that was pallets on a load of English Oak (quercus robur) parquet block from Lithuania or Latvia. Very soft, very light-weight, almost pure white with with what looked like dirty marks in the grain. The importer told me it was Poplar. I used it as a trim to a Spotted Gum (see Mark Cadolis' post on "works in progress) hardwood floor. It was too soft to be of much use for anything else. I think it's traditionally used for match-sticks.
*Due to the need to fumigate pallets from overseas I would reconsider bringing it into your home to burn.Gabe
*Hard to say what it is. Due to the scarcity (read $$$) of wood in Europe, it is likely an inexpensive tropical timber which is imported for use as dunnage.Could be a utility specie from either Africa or SE Asia, to take a guess.David
*With approximately 2500 commercially available wood species in the world, even as a wood technologist I could not even begin to guess.The burning with the explosions are generally attributable to softwoods because of their pitch content though they may not have pitch pockets.End grain patterns (minute and microscopic) are generally necessary to correctly ID wood.
*I like wood, but that saw sounds even better! Do you have to feed it kitchen trees?
*Stanley - What exactly is a "wood technologist" ?
*Hold it up to the screen so we can get a good look at it. ;-)Peace,Martin
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My brother owns a cabinet shop. He just bought a new, computerized table saw (Homag Espana). Basically, you put a tree in one side and a kitchen comes out the other side. It was delivered in a huge wood packing crate that was reinforced with 4x4 lumber. We decided to cut it up and use it for firewood. I'm just curious about what kind of wood it is.
The saw is from a German company but built in Spain, I don't know if it was packed for shipping in Spain.
The wood is very pale, almost white, with a straight, even grain.
When you cut or split it there is no smell of any kind, there is no pitch of any kind visible.
It burns with a yellow flame, doesn't burn very hot, doesn't make coals and leaves a lot of ash.
And finally, the reason why I'm asking this, it burns explosively. Constant popping and exploding. The explosions throw large embers all over the fireplace. This is not just a nice crackling fire but a constant barrage, like strings of firecrackers going off.
Any guesses?