Wood ID

[Cfran88]

We just bought some land so we're not really familiar with what species we have on the property. This was a fallen tree that we cut up this weekend. Fell over the winter according to seller, so no leaves. It was also fairly light weight. Any ideas?

 

[BigJ273]

White oak? Pretty straight grained.

 

[Cfran88]

White oak? Pretty straight grained.

It was very light when we bucked it. Shouldn't oak be heavy?

 

[Gearhead660]

You saying its light makes me think its cottonwood. Any pics of limbs/branches?

 

[Cfran88]

You saying its light makes me think its cottonwood. Any pics of limbs/branches?

Unfortunately no. The tree actually didn't have any from what I can recall. There are a lot of standing trees that don't have many branches up top, I'm assuming it died before it fell.

But I heard cottonwood smells like cat urine, right? Guess I'll find out really quickly! Fortunately, this was just gonna be firepit wood.

 

[kennyp2339]

I'm leaning on cotton wood also, in any case, the inside of the wood is spalted (rotten)

 

[Cfran88]

I'm leaning on cotton wood also, in any case, the inside of the wood is spalted (rotten)

Oh man, that's too bad. I thought it was pretty good (there were some obviously rotted parts on the ends that touched the ground). It was firepit wood anyway so not a big loss.

 

[kennyp2339]

Oh man, that's too bad. I thought it was pretty good (there were some obviously rotted parts on the ends that touched the ground). It was firepit wood anyway so not a big loss.

Anytime you see those black vein like lines on the inside of the splits then it’s spalted

 

[peakbagger]

If its standing dead with grain like the last photo my guess is ash killed by Emerald Ash Borer.

I expect there is lot of land being sold with standing dead or dying ash. I do not have experience with EAB but reportedly it rots quick standing so get it down and processed

 

[Medic21]

Cotton Wood, popular, whatever you wanna call it. Camp fire wood but, worthless for heating with.