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[Bluegrass Wood Burner]

I'm burning a wood that has burs on it. Underneath the bark it's got burs. Anyone no what that is. It's not very dense. Just fair. The bark is very rough on it. I wish I had a picture.

[schoppy]

Locust can have burrs but it is pretty dense wood and burns hot.

[Bluegrass Wood Burner]

I believe it's honey locust. The bark is coming off real bad. Every block it separates. I probably should have burned it last year.

[jrider]

Pictures would help.  As already stated, locust is dense.  I'm thinking some kind of elm possibly?  I had some in years past I thought was elm and it had sharp points once the bark fell off which was pretty easy. 

[Bluegrass Wood Burner]

I'll try and get a picture of one of the logs.

[Bluegrass Wood Burner]

Looks like alligator skin.

[mlappin]

Elms not exactly light either unless it’s already getting punky.

[RSI]

That doesn't look like honey locust to me.

[RSI]

Could it be willow?

[Bluegrass Wood Burner]

It is not in the best shape. Should have been burned last year. A tree service gave it to me and I remember when I spilt it it would have a jagged edge on the end like sharks teeth. It has a lot of ash and not enough burn time.

[mlappin]

Could be some oddball ornamental tree not normally found in your area.

[Bluegrass Wood Burner]

It's awful hard for me to turn down a load of free firewood.

[schoppy]

Sounds more like some sort of soft wood not locust like RSI said.

[jreimer]

Could be some sort of elm.  Elm creates a lot of ash as you said this does.  The elm I have burned creates hard chunks of ash around the nozzle of my stove so I need to be careful to clean them up every load or it plugs it up.  It's been a strange burning wood in my gasser.

[Walleye]

Not locust or honey locust. Looks a lot like Chinese elm. Several of them growing on my neighbors property, never burnt very much of it so I don't remember the burs. Probably still had the bark on it though.