Mystery wood

[Phil]

Someone gave me some free firewood, I picked it up yesterday. One pile was from a tree that I can’t identify. The wood is yellow, even yellower that the pictures, and it weathers to red. It’s hard and heavy, but splits OK. The photos below aren’t great, if needed I can take more in better light. I’ve only seen the cut wood, I have no other identifiers. This is definitely not a common forest tree for this area. It was a good 3 feet at the base.

Any ideas?

[Matthew]

From the picture I would say locust or mulberry.

[Phil]

At this point I’m leaning towards Mulberry myself. 🙂

[lancek]

its locust boys good wood for firewood but better for flooring to bad the guy sawed into firewood it looks like it wood of been a nice log

[Traveling Woodsman]

Ditto on locust.

[Phil]

But what kind? Definitely not Black.

[Joshua Kingsley]

Here in vermont I would call that Honey Locust.

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