Latest Scrounge....What is it?

[BucksCoBernie]

There's a lot available....Its pretty heavy and isnt splitting too easily...axe just sinks into it. Bark fell off pretty easy too.

 

[schwaggly]

I'm terrible at this but here goes, sugar maple

 

[RAY_PA]

looks like ash thats on the downhill slide

 

[billb3]

Looks like the maple that grows in the wet areas, here.
Especially pic 2 and 3. The bark does fall off in big sheets like that after it sits a bit.

 

[Wood Duck]

i don't see much Tulip Poplar firewood, but that is my guess. There are lots of Tulip Tree/Tulip Poplar/Yellow Poplar in Bucks County.

 

[BucksCoBernie]

i don't see much Tulip Poplar firewood, but that is my guess. There are lots of Tulip Tree/Tulip Poplar/Yellow Poplar in Bucks County.

This is what I was hoping it isnt! haha I was hoping for ash. Its tough for me to tell without seeing any leaves.

Ehh either way theres a lot of it and its all free.

 

[Pagey]

Color is just like some tulip poplar I processed this time last year. Dries out to almost nothing.

 

[Wood Duck]

The Tulip Poplar I have burnt was not bad firewood. It is better than true poplars like cottonwood and aspen, I think.

 

[KarlP]

I'm guessing Norway Maple...

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[BucksCoBernie]

I just tossed a split on to see what it would do and surprisingly it caught with very little smoke or sizzle....maybe it is ash!

 

[webby3650]

This looks like the same Tulip Poplar pics that are being called Ash in another thread right now :roll: . Tulip isn't bad wood, it just burns really fast and sometimes can be very hard to split, therefore some don't want to bother with it.

 

[wood spliter]

Looks like Maple. Do you have any Branch's? Twigs on Maples and Ash are opposite.

 

[Todd]

Kind a looks like Boxelder? Any red streaks in the grains?

 

[BucksCoBernie]

Looks like Maple. Do you have any Branch's? Twigs on Maples and Ash are opposite.

No branches, everything was already limbed and most of it bucked. I just have to muscle it up a hill.

 

[BucksCoBernie]

Kind a looks like Boxelder? Any red streaks in the grains?

No red streaks. It does have a greenish tint to it.

 

[smokinj]

looks like ash with green tint to the grain, Thats Tulip.

 

[gzecc]

Because it is semi punky its hard to tell in the pics. My guess is poplar, although the monitor coloring is subjective. The heart wood looks like poplar. If you hit it on the edge I bet it breaks off and is very light.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

For sure it is NOT ash. Probably tulip popple.

 

[Ronmbucket]

That bark looks just like the ash tree I had my hammock hung from for 25 years.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Yes, you are right. The bark does look very similar, but it is not ash.

 

[ISeeDeadBTUs]

Bark that falls off easily sounds like Aspen. So I'm votin' 4 this TwoLip PopAll everyone speaks of . . .


Quit luggin that crap up the hill. Ain't worth the effort :shut:

 

[NH_Wood]

Ash! Diamond shaped pattern of bark on third pick is a good sign, as well as the outer ring of bark of the first pic showing the strong ridges adn valleys of the ring when crosscut.

 

[maxed_out]

+1, I'm going with Ash. Looks like the stuff I just cut.

 

[wisconsindvm]

ash would be easy to split. So would aspen. That is cottonwood. You will know for sure if ,when the bark falls of,f there are little soft ribbons of inner bark between the bark and the wood that almost seem like crepe paper.

 

[Gary_602z]

+ 2 on the Ash being easy to split. Gotta be something different.

Gary