Yellow ceder?

[minesmoria]

There was a log sort/ bandsaw mill here, and they have 6 yellow ceder logs about 30 foot long marked YU these logs are put in the junk firewood pile.

Now these logs have no rot and look just fine, dont know why they did not use them for lumber.

This is my favorite firewood  smells so good and burns hot and long.

[tyb525]

They might not be valuable enough to spend the time sawing them.

[park ranger]

I would cut it up in a heartbeat.  Yellow cedar looks a lot like western red cedar as far as the tree goes but the wood is much more yellow and smells totaly different(kind of like pipe tabacco).  It is also used in boat building.

[beenthere]

Welcome to the Forum, park ranger.

Where abouts are you? 

Are you a park ranger, and what park?

Curious, at most. 

[SwampDonkey]

Shame to waste good yellow ceder. I saw guys working over clear cuts that were done 15 years previous to gather all the yellow ceder (we call it yellow cypress) they could get their hands on. This was on a remote Island chain off the BC coast. They were slinging it road side by helicopter. So it musta been worth something.  Yellow cedar last a very long time laying on the ground as long as it is in tact and not broken or with cracks from falling and handling.