Wood ID for the New Years scrounge

[mikey517]

My Lake association took down 7 cherry trees yesterday before the storm hits. I scrounged a truck load while on my way out with the wife. Went back today and found some decent stuff left behind, as well as stuff still in log length. I'll try for that later. But, left behind by the masses was a tree that was holding one if the cherry trees up: those are the first two pictures. I think it's either poplar or maybe locust?

Any help would be appreciated.

Happy New Year!


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[philoshop]

Definitely looks like black locust to me. Growth rings seem too tight for poplar. Smack the end with a hammer: dull thud and a wet dent = poplar, rifle shot sound and a rebound that surprises you = BL!
Nice score!

 

[tomtrees58]

pic 1 is locust 2 black cherry

 

[Woodcutteranon]

This is a toughy... I can't really tell from the pic to give you my definitive answer. It looks like Black Locust but the bark reminds me of sugar maple. The cut ends in your truck have a more honey locust look...but...hmmm... The wood in my avatar is Honey Locust. More yellow though.

 

[stumpy75]

My guess is Black Locust on the ground, and definitely Black Cherry in the truck. The 1st pic is showing more of a green wood, and the poplar I've seen around here is more white than that.

 

[mikey517]

sorry I wasn't clear: the wood in the truck is the cherry. The first 2 pics are the same tree - the bark and the stump end. I thought locust as it does have a yellowish tint that doesn't show in the photos.

May go back with a saw around noon (it is New Years day and all this wood is in a residential neighborhood) for the locust - if its still there!

Thanks for the replies.

 

[mikey517]

Well, went back and did a fast cut and load if the locust. Not a bad start to 2014. Here's pics of the total scrounge from last night and this morning..all within a half mile of my house!

the ash is from last weeks cutting.


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[stumpy75]

The greenish cast to the wood more reminds me of tulip poplar. Any leaves around that look like a tulip?

 

[Vermonster]

Where's the snow?

There's a big difference in the weight/density of black locust and poplar. Just give it a heft.

 

[1project2many]

I've seen wood like that before. Two different times, when clearing out young growth I picked up a green, heavy wood that actually had a unique, not unpleasant smell. In my case both trees were less than 6" diameter and they were a bit twisted and gnarly. They had green-ish yellow grain when wet with smaller growth rings than Poplar but the bark was not as deeply furrowed as BL and didn't have the large, distinctive "V" pattern like BL either. The leaves were very unique and I easily identified the wood as Sassafras. It's about the same BTU as Red Maple or Black Cherry when dry so a truckload for free isn't a bad score. Hard to find a picture of a log with both the green color and bark but if you search google images for "sassafras logs" you'll get the idea.

 

[1project2many]

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[haveawoody]

mikey517,

About 1 month ago someone posted a picture that looked much like what you have.
Lots of people thought it was BL but the bark ridge on the end cut looked wrong.
Whitespider ID it as burr oak and IMO that's what you have in pic #1.

We don't have burr oak in my area and BL looks totally different so I'm 100% sure LOL

 

[stumpy75]

The sassafras I cut around my area smells like root beer to me. And the inner bark is distinctly orange in color. I've even caught the smell after a year of seasoning...

 

[branchbuzzer]

The end grain looks like locust, but the bark ridges on locust usually have more diagonal crossing and come to a point a little more, those look more flattish to me ( kind of how cottonwood bark looks ) and not as thick as normal. Still looks more like locust than anything else though so I'm not disputing the con-sense'

A split piece to look at would probably remove all my doubts and fears on this issue...

Doesn't look much like sassafras to me, but I don't cut that too often. If I can get my folks camera running I'll cut a piece of each for a side by side. Have some stands of both here.

 

[haveawoody]

This is a picture of the burr oak bark ridge on end cut.

http://www.heritage.com/content/art...nterprise/news/doc4e1baba6b6ba58382118801.jpg

 

[zogger]

This is a picture of the burr oak bark ridge on end cut.

http://www.heritage.com/content/art...nterprise/news/doc4e1baba6b6ba58382118801.jpg

That's a dang nice chunk of BTUs right there....

 

[coog]

Growth rings too thick for Burr Oak, and the color is wrong. I agree that the bark is not like the BL that I cut.

 

[branchbuzzer]

I was unavoidably detained so I didn't fire up any saws, just took some pics.

First two are locust. You'll notice in the first pic someone else tried to cut this one down but didn't get very far....



...and these last two are of sassafras