Wood ID from morning scrounge

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Got a hit on a FREE downed tree removal ad I posted on CL, and started the harvest this morning (see pic 1).

It was surrounded by maples, so I'm thinking it's some kind of maple. Am I right (see rest of pics)?
Property owner says it's been down a couple years. Some of the 2-3" limb pieces seem ready to burn, light and hollow sounding when knocked together. Good news is, this is for 2015-2016, so I'm right at the cusp of getting ahead.
 

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No leaves to go on, not even any bark to go on....extremely hard to tell without anything to aid in identification. Best you could really do is split one of those rounds open and post a pic of the open split so we can see some of the grain of the wood. Even then that's really not much to go on but its better than nothing.
 
Thanks, will do. I might have a piece or two with some bark hanging on, and I'll try to post that too.
 
Yea bark would be helpful, its hard ID'ing wood in this condition, I cut a barkless dead standing tree last winter with no top on it, practially impossible to tell what it is.
 
Pic #4 sure has the look of Cherry. To me you have more than one specie there.
 
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I'm going to take a guess from what I see in pic #2 and say Silver Maple, but I could be wrong.
 
Dats dead wood! Real dead wood what dat is.....
 
Ralphie Boy said:
Dats dead wood! Real dead wood what dat is.....
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Indeed it is, Ralphie.

See if anything from this pic helps clear things up. A couple splits and some barely-hanging-on bark.
 

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cherry x2
 
The small rounds give it away - Cherry x3
 
Yep. The color and the look of the grain leaves no doubt that I was wrong! I noticed the color on some of the rounds in back of the truck but some of it looked so much like Maple I thought the color was because it was very dead.

Still not convinced that there's not some Maple in there but it matters little. Either way, you have some decent wood.
 
Yeah it was like a jungle in there, and a lot of Maple around, so I wouldn't be surprised if I was cutting some Maple that came down with the cherry tree. It might get more clear now that I'm into the main trunk (one morning this week I'll finish it up hopefully). Thanks everyone.
 
If it was maple it would be all mushroomy by now. Maple grows the coolest mushrooms. Exotic.
I wonder how come mushroom farms dont use maple?
 
I vote cherry for sure based on that bark and they honey colored brown tinge to the wood
 
Longstreet said:
I will never second guess you. That was a fine example of wood id-ing before the second wave of pictures.
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Thanks Longstreet, but there are still some that get a guy in trouble! And some of the species in your area are a little "foreign" to me.
 
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