wood smells like dog doo when cut

Dog wood? ;-D

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i had some oak that smelled like that, dont know why.
Chuck

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I’ve cut some wood that was in a selection of popular. Kinda looks like popular but has a real bad smell/

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Wish I could tell you. Sell it to a kennel. Oh! and by the way, don’t burn it!

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Possibly cottonwood. They smell terrible. They pickup whatever is in the ground water. Dog poo, cat poo, human poo, cow poo…..
I cut on one that had grown close to an outhouse. Gawdawful!

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i have had many oak boards over the years that smell like cow pee and always wonderd as to what causes this until one day i came to me
as a youngster i lived out in the country and i remember cows gathering around big oak trees for shade and leaving their deposits which i am sure got soaked up by the tree hence the smell in the boards from the tree
so now i call those boards pee oak
also when framing with spruce lumber i get this cat pee odor in my nose but have not figured that one out

kiefer

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Well, I’ve heard that King Wood smells like a wet dog. Wet dog/dog poo…..... not much different. But the color is not even close.

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red oak smells like dog crap everytime i cut it

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>Kiefer Probably why my Dad refered to chair seat wood as “Piss Elm”.

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I vote for oak, had that experience with it.

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yeah oak has an interesting smell but i dont find it unpleasant.

Could it be Bat feces? You said it was in the attic and bats if they get in can really make a mess.

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hmmm, oak has that nice smell of “expeniveness” mixed with lung cancer. you like to smell it, though you know it’s gonna kill you!

funny this thread comes up now, yesterday in class my teacher planed some african hardwood strips and the smell was really like butt sweat!

Greedo,

I guess I have never been close enough to someone else’s crack to know what butt sweat smells like :) Sorry I could not resist. LOL!!!

Sounds like the wood might have been Zebrawood. It is not the most pleasant smelling wood to work with IME.

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It’s quite possibly cottonwood. I use a lot of cottonwood. Some spots in it, especially if you cut into some of the darker areas, smell like, uh, well, crap.
I’ve heard some older guys who didn’t know what it was call it shitum wood. No I’m not making that up. I had one guy try and tell me seriously that this was the proper species name for this wood. I would have probably believed him if I didn’t already know it was cottonwood.

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