Another wood ID please

Here goes nothing...Poplar or Cottonwood...If it is soft wood..

looks like one of the hickories to me - maybe pignut

I'm just over here in Kalamazoo and that bark is familiar just can't put my finger on it right now... it almost looks like red pine but that dark heartwood is making me second guess that...

inside the split it looks identical to a mockernut hickory I've been processing lately. The old small branches in the heartwood that died off so early they barely effect the grain a few years later...the darker heartwood near the border with the sapwood...the color of the heartwood and the color of the sapwood...the ratio of one to another......that's all consistent with the hickory I have.

The bark is different than mine- but to me it looks like pics of pignut hickory that I've seen.

its not hickory if its splits easy and is light..... that im sure of.

i say cottonwood.

shoot-straight said:

its not hickory if its splits easy and is light..... that im sure of.

i say cottonwood.

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I'd agree about the "light" part - hickory is some heavy stuff.

But I don't agree about the "splitting easy" part. In my experience, some hickory is very tough to split - but not all. If you have hickory with grain as straight as that shown in the pics - just like the mockernut hickory I've dealt with - it's quite easy to split. I've process just about of cord of it so far with no problems at all and using nothing more than my Fiskars I can split 16" rounds in half with a single whack.

This looks like what I just split, soft maple.

to give you a comparison - here's a few shots of the hickory I have. The colors are a little faded now, the log was bucked a couple of months back - but it looks to me to be the same except for the bark. It has that, dark thin, wavy center line with stub branches that died off early.

BEConklin that is really beautiful looking wood......

Whatever it is. It looks like some nice firewood. Some kind of nut wood?

I believe that's sassafras if it smells strong and fires quickly especially the limb wood

Leave it to me to miss the OP's description "soft wood"

hickory's so hard the splits clank when you toss them on the pile

Osagebndr said:

I believe that's sassafras if it smells strong and fires quickly especially the limb wood

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I believe you may be onto something there. Hardly ever see it this far north, so I have little experience with it. It looks like a young tree(small diameter) so that could explain why there is so much sapwood.

We got it all over here. Gets fairly large and usually dies out and falls on its own.

I'm thinking basswood

http://ontariotrees.com/main/species.php?id=2016

blazincajun said:

I'm thinking basswood

http://ontariotrees.com/main/species.php?id=2016

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That was my first impression as well however, the bark is not quite right, and unusual for a basswood that small to have that much heartwood.

Bark doesn't quite look right for Sass and the inner bark doesn't look orange enough. OP would be able to immediately tell by the smell, though....

Woody Stover said:

Bark doesn't quite look right for Sass and the inner bark doesn't look orange enough. OP would be able to immediately tell by the smell, though....

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I can agree with that statement as well.

Willow??

nrford said:

That was my first impression as well however, the bark is not quite right, and unusual for a basswood that small to have that much heartwood.

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Yeah - saw that also. Does look like some hickory except OP said it was a softwood. Just want to hold it and smell it. To bad we can't get smells through our screens/monitors.

Bwhunter85 said:

There is no smell when cutting or splitting. I am stumped on this one. These came down in our December Ice storm. They were growing in a wet area of the property, if that helps. I'll try and post some other pictures tonight.

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Post a picture of the cutside, the end side, that should also help....

Bwhunter85 said:

There is no smell when cutting or splitting. I am stumped on this one. These came down in our December Ice storm. They were growing in a wet area of the property, if that helps. I'll try and post some other pictures tonight.

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How about some twigs and general surroundings and maybe a photo of the stump.