Please could you identify this type of wood species

[alsayyed]

Today I have given these small log by the municipality and I do not know what is it, but they  told me it grows in Qatar and in Nevada desert in USA, so if anybody from Nevada or could  recognize these small log. It is red wood type very hard wood.
Look at the video.
I appreciate your reply.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhJEkuaqz5k

[ARKANSAWYER]

  Looks like mesquite and if it is hard that be it.  Grows all through the SouthWestern part of the country.  Texas Timbers should have some.
   

[Riles]

Cook a steak with it, it has a very distinctive aroma.

[alsayyed]

  Looks like mesquite  .
   

Dose woodworkers use this type of wood becuase i never heard before that this wood is popular.
I have not milled this yet, but I am going to to mill it maybe tomorrow.

[beenthere]

Any pics of the leaves?  Might help to zero in on its species, and rule out juniper as a possiblility. But mesquite is a good probability.


Here is a link to a pic of the bark..
http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/imgdown.cfm?img=1374806&res=3

[ARKANSAWYER]

  Big chuncks for turners is where the stuff I get goes.  Have seen a few boards but the stuff is hard and you do not get long lenghts most of the time. 
  Do save the scraps for smoking meat and even pen blanks sell.

  Look for Curly Woods web site and see some that he has listed.

[Jeff]

Curly Woods is no longer in business.