ID Please

[hareball]

Thanks for looking!

 

[adrpga498]

Beech is my vote, great stuff

 

[jessem]

Pretty sure its red oak, better than beech

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Looks like Oak to me...

 

[hareball]

I thought it was red oak but it ddn't smell like red oak.
Oak confuses me

 

[WOODBUTCHER]

RED OAK

WoodButcher

 

[fire_man]

The bark is smooth - its Beech!

 

[Tony H]

That bark is not very oak looking to me I would say beech or cherry , light a piece up and you will be able to confirm or eliminate cherry.

 

[hareball]

If it was an imature Red Oak it would have shiney smooth bar too. It is dense. I've gone through a bit of red oak this season that was seasoned 3 years and still had that red oak smell but this does not.

I'm really enjoying the tree ID threads! This is dangerous with my OCD though as I'll be out at the wood pile putting all species together and re-stacking lol

 

[SmokinPiney]

That's definately red oak. Probably a young tree or just a limb from a big one. The "smell" your probly thinkin of could be from the black oak we have around here. Stuff stinks!!

Here's some red oak i split up last year. This was all limbs from a good sized tree. Notice the smooth bark?

 

[Boxer]

I vote for red oak also. Even the big old monsters have smooth bark on the limbs.

 

[Chris S]

Is firewood theft big in your area, that you have to hire " security" ?

 

[smokinj]

Beech is my vote, great stuff

+1

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Click on the thumbnail to enlarge the 2nd picture, than "magnify" it with your computer's zoom level, and look at the grain and edges of the bark on the split side-I'd be very suprised if it isn't Oak when looking at that.

 

[smokinj]

Click on the thumbnail to enlarge the 2nd picture, than "magnify" it with your computer's zoom level, and look at the grain and edges of the bark on the split side-I'd be very suprised if it isn't Oak when looking at that.

I see beech, blue beech. I have a cord of beech and 2 cords of red oak in the same pile that is blue beech.imho

 

[PA. Woodsman]

I see beech, blue beech. I have a cord of beech and 2 cords of red oak in the same pile that is blue beech.imho

Does that have the Oak-like grain on the ends of the split side like the 2nd picture? I looked up Blue-beech in my National Audubon Field Guide and under Blue-beech it said that the real name for it is American Hornbeam, and the picture of that is more of a light green coloring almost like Sycamore?

 

[smokinj]

I see beech, blue beech. I have a cord of beech and 2 cords of red oak in the same pile that is blue beech.imho

Does that have the Oak-like grain on the ends of the split side like the 2nd picture? I looked up Blue-beech in my National Audubon Field Guide and under Blue-beech it said that the real name for it is American Hornbeam, and the picture of that is more of a light green coloring almost like Sycamore?

not even close the grain in blue beech is very close with some what of a birds eye in the grain the bark has a blue tint to it doesnt get real big. Biggest I have cut was 32in. thought it was 40+ by the weight very hard wood and season quick for hard wood. Here is a fresh red oak and I think I can find one of the blue beech. 2nd pic blue beech

 

[PA. Woodsman]

not even close the grain in blue beech is very close with some what of a birds eye in the grain the bark has a blue tint to it doesnt get real big. Biggest I have cut was 32in. very hard wood and season quick for hard wood. Here is a fresh red oak and I think I can find one of the blue beech. 2nd pic blue beech

Thanks for the pictures, Jay-you pose a strong argument there with those pictures. Maybe we'll find out for sure one day what it is; either one is good fuelwood, but like you said the Beech seasons much faster. Good job...

 

[smokinj]

not even close the grain in blue beech is very close with some what of a birds eye in the grain the bark has a blue tint to it doesnt get real big. Biggest I have cut was 32in. very hard wood and season quick for hard wood. Here is a fresh red oak and I think I can find one of the blue beech. 2nd pic blue beech

Thanks for the pictures, Jay-you pose a strong argument there with those pictures. Maybe we'll find out for sure one day what it is; either one is good fuelwood, but like you said the Beech seasons much faster. Good job...

either one is of the very best to have.

 

[ansehnlich1]

The cambium layer indicates that it is clearly red oak

 

[Battenkiller]

Click on the thumbnail to enlarge the 2nd picture, than "magnify" it with your computer's zoom level, and look at the grain and edges of the bark on the split side-I'd be very suprised if it isn't Oak when looking at that.

You are correct IMO.

Open pores, visible medullary rays. Beech has neither. Looks 100% like oak to me, maybe white oak from the color and from the fact that the early wood pores are in a narrow band and late wood pores aren't visible, at least in the photo.

 

[thewoodlands]

Looks like beech, but I'm a rookie at this.

zap

 

[WOODBUTCHER]

Young Red Oak will fool ya, it has smooth bark.
I just torched a bunch of it last month, should have snapped a couple pictures.....

I will bet all the wood on my lot, that what you have there is REDOAK

WoodButcher

 

[smokinj]

Young Red Oak will fool ya, it has smooth bark.
I just torched a bunch of it last month, should have snapped a couple pictures.....

I will bet all the wood on my lot, that what you have there is REDOAK

WoodButcher

sure looks like beech to me,but have never cut any red oak that doesnt have a red tint to it .(But I am not the best ID person)

 

[Wood Duck]

The bark looks like it could be Pin Oak, and the wood does too. Branches of Pin Oak often have really smooth bark for an oak.