Wood ID

[mpaul]

Just received a load of mixed hardwoods dropped off from the local tree service. Always love getting free wood! But have to admit, I'm horrible and identifying what kind of wood it is. Can anyone help me determine what kind of wood I just had dropped off? Note the leaves on the ground are from trees in my yard not from any of these logs.

 

[Woody Stover]

These are WAGs for the most part;
Pic 1: Cherry, bottom center. Sassafras toward the top with the deeply furrowed bark.
Pic 2: I think some Maple, and Sass with the orange underbark. Sass has unique fragrance when cut or split.

That one with the dark center and wide rings should be an easy ID for someone..

 

[mpaul]

appreciate that. Never burned sassafras or cherry yet. See a lot of posts around here about both of these. This will all go into my third year pile. Should all be good by then.

Believe I also have some chestnut oak in this mix?

 

[Woody Stover]

Believe I also have some chestnut oak in this mix?

Get a well-lit closeup of the end grain, maybe we can see the rays that would indicate Oak..

 

[mpaul]

Take a look at this pic and let me know what you think.

 

[Woody Stover]

Still looks like it could be Sass, but hard to say. Take a hatchet and chop through the bark, into the wood. Like I said, Sass will have a unique smell to it.

 

[stoveliker]

On the other hand at the top of that round I see rays.

 

[mpaul]

I’ll start working on the pile this weekend. I’ll take some photos after splitting some and repost. .

 

[Dieselhead]

Small growth rings on that round. I’d vote an oak variety I usually don’t get thick bark like that with red or white.

 

[mpaul]

Small growth rings on that round. I’d vote an oak variety I usually don’t get thick bark like that with red or white.

We get chestnut oak in our area. Have a few in my backyard. The chestnut has some thick bark with deep furrows like this which is why I’m leaning more towards it.

 

[stoveliker]

I think these are rays, so it's oak (because it's not beech )

 

[Woody Stover]

On the other hand at the top of that round I see rays.

Yeah, I see those now. Gotta be Oak.

I’d vote an oak variety I usually don’t get thick bark like that with red or white.

We get chestnut oak in our area. Have a few in my backyard. The chestnut has some thick bark with deep furrows like this which is why I’m leaning more towards it.

Ah, OK, that's what was throwing me, the deep furrows. I haven't seen Chestnut Oak here. A lot of those pics seem to have an orange hue, so maybe the orange underbark is a camera artifact..
Not sure about the one in pics #4 and #6, with the wide rings and smooth bark. Or the one with the large, dark center...lower right in pic #1 and center in pic #2, with the pizza-wedge shaped sunlight on it. Is that shaggy bark?

 

[patrickk222]

Poplar,wildblack cherry, chestnut oak red oak red maple

 

[mpaul]

Got it all bucked and started splitting it today.
Believe this one here is the poplar?

 

[Woody Stover]

Believe this one here is the poplar?

Quaking Aspen (populus tremuloides?) We don't have it here so I've never seen it.
The Tulip "Poplar" or Yellow Poplar we have here isn't a true Poplar, it's related to Magnolia.

 

[mpaul]

Quaking Aspen (populus tremuloides?) We don't have it here so I've never seen it.
The Tulip "Poplar" or Yellow Poplar we have here isn't a true Poplar, it's related to Magnolia.

That was a neighbors tree that was taken down in a recent storm. Looked up the quaking aspen and the pics online looked exactly like this tree.

 

[mpaul]

This is what I believe is the chestnut oak.

I have a lot of this one. Not sure what it is though if anyone can help?

 

[Dieselhead]

This is what I believe is the chestnut oak.

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I have a lot of this one. Not sure what it is though if anyone can help?

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Sugar maple?

 

[mpaul]

Sugar maple?

Think you’re right. Bark matches and the grain is was a little twisted. Still split easy enough though.

 

[Woody Stover]

Sugar maple?

Bark matches and the grain is was a little twisted. Still split easy enough though.

Bark looks off to me for Sugar Maple. I'm stumped.

 

[hickoryhoarder]

What you're calling chestnut oak looks like chestnut oak to me.

The other one looks like red maple.

 

[mpaul]

Got another delivery of wood from my local tree service. Love the free wood! This time I was able to grab him after he dumped the trailer and asked him what he dropped off.
This load is Norway maple, cherry, beech, shagbark hickory and white oak. Quite a nice variety!