I thought I was getting all oak on this scrounge and most of it was but it seems about a third of the wood looks like this when I split it. It is a little stringy and holds a lot of moisture but is lighter in weight then oak.
Another what type of wood do I have thread.
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smokinj
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Thanks for looking, so is it anywhere close to red oak on the btu scale? It seemed softer when I was splitting it.
Ralphie Boy
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I think it's Yellow or Tulip Poplar, not hickory. There are a couple of posts on this fourm with pictures that are very close to your picture.
At first I thought poplar but it doesn't smell like any poplar I had before. And no green or purple colors only brown. If I had to describe the smell I would say it is closer to smelling like some kind of grass then any other wood I have split.
bioman
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nrford
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Bark looks nothing like either tulip/yellow poplar or hickory, that grows here. Not sure what strange things grow in S. Jersey, but I would say it looks like Soft Maple to me
fishingpol
Minister of Fire
I just finished a carving using a piece of the same species. My wood supplier guy said soft maple too, as he had some milled planks that looked just like it. There was a small tinge of green color in with the brown heart wood.
Stax
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blujacket
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nrford
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nrford
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NH_Wood
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Exactly! Not trying to be a know-it-all or anything like that, I feel I know a lot about trees but I have learned alot too from these forums. I like to broaden my horizons!
Wood Duck
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Woody Stover
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What about that dark core, is that common? I've only cut a few Red Maple so far, but none of them had that...
I find that a lot of soft maple i cut, 20"dbh and up are punky at the core.
And yes the heart wood is dark, much the same as ash wood.
And yes the heart wood is dark, much the same as ash wood.
Yes that's common in the larger red maples that I have cut down. Really dark heartwood. The bark on that tree is textbook red maple..........
Woody Stover
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As I mentioned, I've only cut a few but this is what I've seen so far. This tree was on it's way out and had some punk in some of the branches, but the core looks like the rest of the wood. This split is 20". The White Ash I've cut (many trees) never has dark heartwood...
Here's a Red that's in my yard. The bark on this and others I've seen looks kind of scaly. I'm not saying that the wood in question is not Red Maple; Just reporting what I've seen here.
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