Firewood identification

[JM87]

Can anyone tell me what type of wood this is by the bark, color or grain? I’ve been cutting trees since I was a teenager so kind of embarrassed I can’t tell. With no leaves and similar bark it’s tough. It’s fairly hard wood and splits very easy. I thought maybe Poplar but it’s hard, Oak maybe? Seems to dark to be Ash. First three pictures are one tree next three are another. First post on this site but been reading for a long time, thanks.

 

[Ronaldo]

Second set of pics, the wood with the dark center/heart is Walnut. The first I'm not sure....

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[square1]

Ash
Black walnut

 

[JM87]

Thanks guys, I thought maybe Black walnut but I didn’t remember it splitting so easy.

 

[square1]

Having never split black walnut trunk wood, just limbs, I can't attest that it splits easy. It's always gnarly, twisted, and stringy. Quite a pain to split.
Scrape the bark with the edge of a knife, if it gets browner, it's walnut.

 

[JM87]

Definitely gets darker and has that Walnut look when I scraped it. All of them were pretty straight trunks with few branches. I cut them down as side work to widen a driveway and she wanted me to take the firewood too so it was a great deal for me.

 

[Ronaldo]

All Walnut I've been around has been fairly straight grainer and split beautifully.

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[cat10ken]

With that light colored wood I'd have to say it's butternut; a cousin to walnut.

 

[JHank]

First two pictures look like poplar, possibly ash,next two walnut.

 

[JM87]

With that light colored wood I'd have to say it's butternut; a cousin to walnut.

I hadn’t thought of Butternut because I haven’t seen it in years, certainly looks kinda like it though.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Poplar and Walnut.

 

[Wood Doctor]

I hadn’t thought of Butternut because I haven’t seen it in years, certainly looks kinda like it though.

Butternut also for that one. I cut a slew of it four years ago. Dark heartwood and light sapwood, it has about 70% of the heat content (BTU/cu ft) of black walnut.