Maybe a dumb question, but I am far from an arborist! What type of tree is this? Been laying broke at the base but suspended of the ground for a couple of years. The bark falls right off.
What type of tree is this?
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Maybe a dumb question, but I am far from an arborist! What type of tree is this? Been laying broke at the base but suspended of the ground for a couple of years. The bark falls right off.
Poplar was one of my guesses, not real hard and has a unique smell to it. I'm in northern Indiana if that helps.
bag of hammers
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Another vote for poplar. I burn it if it's not punky. Road crews left a bunch on the right of way couple years back so I cut it up. You can split with a butter knife. I use it for fast take-the-edge-off shoulder season fires and save the primo stacks for the colder days.
Woody Stover
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Yeah, my first thought was Tulip (Yellow) Poplar. Split pic would confirm it; Often has green or purple hues toward the center of the round. Dries pretty quick. 16 MBTU per cord (soft Maple is around 19.) It's better than bottom-of-barrel stuff like Cottonwood, Willow, Basswood, or true Poplar (Aspen,) and you can heat with it if you have to. You'll just be loading more often. I mainly use it for kindling.
That doesn't look like any Tulip Poplar I've seen in Indiana and as far as I know that's the only poplar we have... Are there no leaves on the tree?
Can you get us a picture of a split or cleanly cut face so we can see the grain? I'm stumped...
Can you get us a picture of a split or cleanly cut face so we can see the grain? I'm stumped...
Hopefully it is decent wood, I have two good size trees on the ground. About 24"+ diameter. Probably 35ft to the first limb
I'm no expert but started this wood id post last week https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/wet-wet-wet.145335/#post-1958698 ... looks very similar
I have a lot of sycamore on my property. I'm just not very experienced in differentiating the wood yet.
Looks like poplar to me, too.
The poplar in my woods is pretty rotten dead standing. Otherwise it's pretty good shoulder season wood when you want a heat-free fire.
Heavy green, light as a feather dry. White wood, bark doesn't smell too good.
We have a little bit of big tooth aspen and it's about the same.
The poplar in my woods is pretty rotten dead standing. Otherwise it's pretty good shoulder season wood when you want a heat-free fire.
Heavy green, light as a feather dry. White wood, bark doesn't smell too good.
We have a little bit of big tooth aspen and it's about the same.
Osagebndr
Minister of Fire
No, Sycamore has a green and white spotted bark, looks like a camoflauge Army jacket. Also has lots of bumps and twists to it and you'll find out if you ever try to split any it has a very twisted grain, one of the toughest to split.
Take a maul and whack a round into a few splits and post a picture of the grain on here, that'll help us identify it please!
nrford
Minister of Fire
Oldman47
Minister of Fire
Not very likely in Indiana.
My ash looks a bit like that with the bark peeling off but is dark gray in color on the old cut ends and even the splits have a gray tint to them. I have no idea what you have there.
That is 100% what I have...hope someone has an answer... It's P I T A to split even with the hydrolic
It is really wet, which is surprising seeing as to how long is been down. My hydrolic with the four way did a good job splitting it! Hope it burns good.That is 100% what I have...hope someone has an answer... It's P I T A to split even with the hydrolic
turn_n_burn
Burning Hunk
Woody Stover
Minister of Fire
Tulip also tends to have a very straight trunk. I'm still not ruling out Tulip, based on the split pic. Is there other bark on them you can get a pic of, that looks different than what is shown in post #1?
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