ID my wood

[CaseyForrest]

That looks the same as the stuff I had in my last load load logs. Wasn't sure myself, guys on here said basswood as well. Saw goes right through it, pretty light and soft. Pretty furry cuts after the saw goes through it.

Its cuts like basswood... But the stuff I cut and burned lat winter looks different than this. Perhaps its another type of Linden.

 

[johninky]

That looks the same as the stuff I had in my last load load logs. Wasn't sure myself, guys on here said basswood as well. Saw goes right through it, pretty light and soft. Pretty furry cuts after the saw goes through it.

Sassafras.

 

[CaseyForrest]

Another.

Bark gets smooth as the diameter decreases.


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[skindaddy]

Got another one. What is it?

i have one exactly like this i was wondering what it was, some pics i found of younger smaller cottonwood looked like it?beech?
it looks just like it mine is dead so bark pulls off in large pieces and is fury like that underneath
prob. dont make good boards with it ??
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[duckman]

looks like a cucumber tree

 

[Del_]

I thought at first that it might be hickory but later photos sure don't look like hickory.

 

[svk]

I thought at first that it might be hickory but later photos sure don't look like hickory.

I think he's put up multiple different species looking for ID's. Otherwise I'm really confused.

 

[Del_]

I think he's put up multiple different species looking for ID's. Otherwise I'm really confused.

In that case...


.......it's all oak!

 

[CaseyForrest]

I think he's put up multiple different species looking for ID's. Otherwise I'm really confused.

You're not confused.

My experience with trees was in the landscaping and moving areas. So I always handled them in their juvenile state. Seeing them in the wild fully grown and I'm like a lady of the night in church.

 

[CaseyForrest]

Ok. I've got a couple that have me stumped.

First.

Second.

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[CaseyForrest]

The root flare sits above grade on both. Are they both the same and is so, what are they? Sugar maple?



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[CaseyForrest]

Smaller branches and buds on the first one remind me of red maple.


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[svk]

Looks more like silver maple to me but regionally they vary. The red maple I've dealt with in upstate NY looks somewhat different than what I cut at home.

 

[CaseyForrest]

I've cut and split a fair bit of silver. It's not silver. I would say red for sure if it wasn't so dense and heavy. But the bark is giving me pause because it's different than the large red maple I took down for my neighbor.


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[svk]

I've cut and split a fair bit of silver. It's not silver. I would say red for sure if it wasn't so dense and heavy. But the bark is giving me pause because it's different than the large red maple I took down for my neighbor.


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If it has buds like maple and smells like maple then it is. Red maple is really tricky because it can vary so much. Some is perfectly smooth and others can just about pass as shagbark and anywhere in between. And two totally different looking trees will be growing right next to each other.

 

[CaseyForrest]

Did some internet searching and I'm settling on the first one being red maple. Buds are a dead ringer.

The second I still don't know.


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[svk]

Is the second sugar maple?

 

[CaseyForrest]

Don't know.


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[CaseyForrest]

The leaves from a red and sugar and very similar.


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[CaseyForrest]

Ok. Some more searching says the second one is referred to "ambrosia" maple. Not a specific species but an affliction from the ambrosia beetle that goes after soft maples. So I'm thinking they are both reds.


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