Quick wood ID

[Investment Camper]

Oak?

 

[Heart Rot]

Yup... my first guess would be red oak.

 

[stoveliker]

Yes, I agree

 

[Woody Stover]

I also think it's Oak, but the bark looks a little different from what I see here.
A closeup pic of the end grain should confirm it..

 

[Investment Camper]

I’ll find out today!

 

[Woodsplitter67]

Definitely oak.. most likely red. If you can grab that you got a good score. Dplit it right away

 

[Investment Camper]

Whelp not oak and not sure. Soft wood that smells like vinegar. Poplar? Great exercise and the stuff will burn. But not what I expected.

 

[Investment Camper]

Another pic

 

[NickW]

I see at least 2 different species on the log pile. Guessing the 2 on the top might be oak. Most of what's on the ground looks like a lower BTU wood (which is good for shoulder season).

 

[Woody Stover]

Wood kinda looks like Tulip Poplar, but the bark on most of that stuff doesn't. I can't recall if Tulip has that orange underbark, either. May not be the highest BTU, but like Nick said, it's still useful. One thing you can do is split some of it smaller, for fast-lighting splits on top-down starts.

 

[Investment Camper]

Yes that’s an excellent suggestion

 

[Woody Stover]

Another good thing about the lighter, lower-BTU stuff is that it dries quickly. Less than a year in some cases, if not split too big.

 

[MRD1985]

That looks a bit like red maple to me. Color of the wood doesn’t match oak in my experience of red oak. Definitely not white oak

 

[Woody Stover]

That looks a bit like red maple to me.

Hmmm, interesting call. Bark doesn't look quite right to me, but the wood does. I know I've seen those popped-loose center-plug cylinders when splitting, but don't recall if it was Red Maple.
If that is indeed Red Maple, that's a good score. A grade above Tulip Poplar, for sure. It has decent BTU, a little below Black Cherry. Dries fast, should be ready by next fall if you don't split too big. I'll grab Red Maple, but I usually pass on Tulip.
I got some pics of my Red Maple stash; It has those "Maple ripples" in the split faces, if you know what I mean, but I don't know if they are as visible on fresh-split wood. The heartwood can have a pinkish hue to it, and I think I see hints of that in the OP's last pics.
I also took a hatchet out there, and my Red does have that orange underbark.
In the stack pic, ignore those couple of red-orange splits, and some of the bark you see there, that's Black Cherry.

 

[stoveliker]

The green trunks looked like red oak to me.

 

[MRD1985]

This is a red maple in my yard. Could be the picture or my eyes but looks very close to me?

 

[Woody Stover]

The green trunks looked like red oak to me.

That's what I thought at first, but I didn't see the medullary rays in the closeup pics of the end grain. And the bark on the "green" ones is pretty close to the other bark.

This is a red maple in my yard. Could be the picture or my eyes but looks very close to me?

Yessir, it does. And Red Maple bark can be slightly shaggy at times, as seen on a couple trunks in the OP's first pic. Not as shaggy as Sugar Maple can be, though.

 

[stoveliker]

That's what I thought at first, but I didn't see the medullary rays in the closeup pics of the end grain. And the bark on the "green" ones is pretty close to the other bark.

I agree; pics in post 7 and 8 don't show rays. But I don't see which of the two colors trunks those are, and the dirt and quality of the pics doesn't help. The color of the wood there is also too whitish for oak and looks like a maple family, I agree.
I have never seen the core break out for oak as it did there.

 

[Woody Stover]

Trunk colors could be fluke introduced by the lighting or camera..

 

[stoveliker]

Not sure; two trunks next to each other in the same lighting...

 

[hickoryhoarder]

The first photo looks like red oak.