HELP - TREE IDENIFICATION NEEDED - Pictures Attached

[jacksonp]

HELP - TREE IDENIFICATION NEEDED - Pictures Attached
HELP - TREE IDENIFICATION NEEDED - Hey everyone, looking at buying a 39 inch by 15 ft trunk of chinese elm. This is what he says it is. I don`t know what else to ask him to inquire further. Any information will help. I will post the pics below. My intention is to mill it into live edge slabs for table tops and benches. It looks like the inner ring, heart wood I think, is fairly small and so I presume the colour of the wood may lack character. I can`t tell how big the dark inner ring is at the base of the large log I am interested in. The log he will sell for 100, and it will take be about two hours to get there with a machine and trailer to load it. So with gas prices and everything involved in this, is it worth it - I appreciate all advice and experience. Also, I am located in South Western Ontario close to Lake Ontario in Coburg if that helps. Any info about drying or anything else would be much appreciated. Thanks Again

 

[Zale]

Bark looks like Liriodendron. What would you're total cost be?

 

[Grace Tree]

If it's an elm it's a Siberian, not a Chinese. Chinese have smoother bark--I think.
Phil

 

[Wazzu]

Looks like firewood to me.

 

[Pelorus]

Will it be worth it after you hit two buried J lags, and a couple of nails while milling it?
Personally, I think the guy should pay YOU $100 to take that thing away.

 

[treeclimber101]

Looks like poplar to me , judging by the heartwood and bark .

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Looks like poplar to me , judging by the heartwood and bark .

I was thinking the same thing, but the heartwood looks a little darker then normal.

 

[treeclimber101]

I was thinking the same thing, but the heartwood looks a little darker then normal.

I think it's the shadow , but it sure is similar

 

[jacksonp]

Haha thanks for all the responses. My total cost would be at least 300 after fuel costs, log cost, and milling. The general concencus is leaning Poplar then.....Any one think otherwise ...sorry my question mark doesnt work.

 

[jacksonp]

I was thinking the same thing, but the heartwood looks a little darker then normal.

The Heart wood is proportionately small for a tree this size compared to the tree's I have been looking at, although I have been looking at elms and not poplars.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

I cut some popular trees down for a guy that was buying them from my neighbor. He paid $50 a tree. These trees where around 100' tall and over 36" diameter. He got 2-3 20' logs out of each tree. I would give him $100 for the whole tree.

Here is some popular crotch wood i milled a couple months ago.

 

[Oak Savanna]

Eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides) or Balsam poplar (populus balsamifera). One or the other, I bet its eastern cottonwood. Not elm. That stuff usually goes for pallet lumber. If you really want it tell him you will come get it off his lawn for free and he will never have to see it again or let it sit and save yourself the hassel. If it was near a house you can bet there will be iron in it. Just my 2 cents.

 

[treemandan]

If it's an elm it's a Siberian, not a Chinese. Chinese have smoother bark--I think.
Phil

Some books say the siberian and chinese elms are the same tree but the chinese elm does have thinner bark and is generally a small tree... not like the big ass siberian in the pic.

 

[ATH]

Eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides) ....

Yep

 

[treemandan]

I was thinking the same thing, but the heartwood looks a little darker then normal.

Look a little brown in there to me but everything else looks like a poplar... or one very big old siberian.

 

[jacksonp]

Look a little brown in there to me but everything else looks like a poplar... or one very big old siberian.

Doesn't the darker heartwood look to small to be siberian. the ones i have seen in pictures get dark a couple inches in from the bark.

 

[B Harrison]

If you can get the whole tree for $300 total cost i would say take it, but its not going to be anyones idea of a nice mantel. Poplar or elm there is way too much sap wood to make much out of and it will not stand up to weather.

Good for cabinet frames or millwork if its going to be painted.

 

[ATH]

Do you have an estimate of the volume of the log?

Cottonwood (which that log is), should be worth about $200-$300 per thousand board feet delivered...and you can get better looking logs than that...unless you want the character added by the knots. I wouldn't pay $100 for that if it was next door.