Wood ID Help

[Iowa22]

Looking for help from everyone again identifying some wood I scrounged. The first group has a bark pattern that's very similar to Ash, but I've been splitting Ash and the grain on this stuff is nowhere near as fine, it's a bit more strainey than the Ash, but it's not really stringy like elm or anything like that. I'll post the 2nd group in a comment below.

 

[Iowa22]

Here's the 2nd group. This stuff pops pretty good when it splits, a bit brownish/reddish inside, more furrowed bark of course compared to the first group.

 

[shoot-straight]

Bottom one looks like red oak?

 

[pjohnson]

is it the same tree some looks like white oak and some red oak

 

[peakbagger]

oak for sure.

 

[Osage]

Here's the 2nd group. This stuff pops pretty good when it splits, a bit brownish/reddish inside, more furrowed bark of course compared to the first group.
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Mulberry.

 

[Kevin Weis]

Yes Oak. Is not screaming Red though with that bark but it could be. When you get into the Oak family there are many species that unless you were in forestry tree identification for many years, will need a leaf to positively the identify. However one clue would be where was it growing hillside, poor soils, floodplain?

 

[Iowa22]

pjohnson: It's a couple different trees.

Kevin Weis: on the lower part of a hillside. I've gotten walnut, black locust and elm from the same spot.

 

[Jags]

The second group is oak. And I am thinking the first group might be as well but not totally sure.

 

[HisTreeNut]

+1 on the second group being oak. The first group I am not sure on.

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[hickoryhoarder]

Bottom photos look like red oak. Not sure of the top ones.

 

[ValleyCottageSplitter]

1st one...my guesses would be ash, sassafrass or bitternut hickory. It looks a lot like ash based on the color such as the reddish brown streaks in pic 2. I would guess hickory first but it should have finer grain than ash. Second one also looks like red oak to me, but bark doesn't look like northern red oak.

You can sand flat a cross section with 150 grit sandpaper, get a magnifying glass or loupe and then compare with some images on one of these sites: https://woodidentification.net/wood-images-2/
or
https://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/hardwood-anatomy/ (easiest to use the search feature).

The endgrain can be pretty definitive on hard to ID wood.

 

[Kevin Weis]

Top ones Ash, probably Green Ash. Bottom ones almost positive Red Oak.

 

[nrford]

first group is definitely ASH, second set is Red OAK.