Wood ID needed

[uggabugga]

I bought a cord of slabwood sight-unseen, it seems to be quite a mixture - but not nearly as 'oaky' as was stated before I bought it.

A lot of it I'm having trouble identifying; the surface bark is basically gray/brown, but quite reddish underneath. I almost thought it was pine at first, but it's much heavier, plus it's a real bear to split. Inside it's a very light color, and on most of the pieces the grain can hardly be seen. The piece in the picture below has a much more twisted grain than most, but all of it is tough to split.

Any ideas?

 

[chinkapin_oak]

looks like a piece of oak that was cut next to a knot. Do you have any more pictures of other pieces, that have the bark or the end-grain? I could give a better answer if I saw either one.

 

[uggabugga]

looks like a piece of oak that was cut next to a knot. Do you have any more pictures of other pieces, that have the bark or the end-grain? I could give a better answer if I saw either one.

No other pictures at the moment. I already had hacked on this one some, but I picked it for a picture since it had more bark on it than any of the other pieces that were nearby. I can try to get another picture later..

 

[gzecc]

Looks like pine to me.

 

[johnsopi]

does look pine, how does it smell

 

[jlove1974]

Pecan

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Silver Maple perhaps?

 

[jlove1974]

If it's as heavy as you say it was, twisted grain, and white wood with gray-ish bark on outside, and red inside...

it's Pecan I use to have about 15 pecan trees at our old house. Used to is the key words. Only good for firewood IMO lol

Once seasoned, it's every bit as good as hickory since they are in the same family

 

[Wood Duck]

I am not familiar with any oak as white as that. I have never seen Pecan, so that is my guess.

 

[krex1010]

Could be apple, never saw pecan before and i am not sure it's common in md. But apple is white like that sometimes and can be very twisty and tough to split.

 

[smokinj]

Silver Maple perhaps?

+1 BUTT OF THE TRUNK.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

Silver maple usually has flaky bark. Did you see any of that?

 

[jlove1974]

here's silver maple

 

[smokinj]

here's silver maple

Here some silve maple as well it takes on many looks....What ever that is it is part of the Root ball....

 

[jlove1974]

I would say it's one of the the two. DC would probably be the upper part of most pecan species range, but if you have ever had one in your yard...
You'll know that it's the most trash-dropping trees in the world. The pollen tassles are the worst trash on a concrete driveway.
And Oh ya, every 3 years or so you get a bumper crop of nuts.

If I ever planted one again, it would be at the far corner of my property. Or at a friends house.

 

[uggabugga]

It doesn't have any smell at all, really. Now, pecan is a very interesting guess - does pecan have reddish inner bark like that, though, and such white interior wood? I've looked hard for pecan around here but haven't seen any, although I just planted two [supposedly] cold-hardy pecans in the back yard last summer.

Thanks for the guesses! Maybe I should take another picture.

If all else fails, I work in a lab where I can fairly easily get a DNA sequence from some of the outer bark material, that will be a definitive ID...

 

[jlove1974]

does pecan have reddish inner bark like that, though, and such white interior wood? ...

Yes. .

The bark is grayish, but when scratched shows red interior bark.