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jlow

jlow

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Jan 19, 2009
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Sterling Heights, Michigan
My buddy from work had a couple of trees taken down on Monday. He has no need for the wood and asked if I wanted it. Of course I told him I did. I picked ti up last night and will split it this weekend. I think it is ash and maple, but would like a verification. The trees were not dead so this will be for 2011-2012.

Thanks, Jeff
 

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2nd pic looks a lot like ash to me . . . but I'm better at IDing trees by their leafs.

I might stand corrected though . . . some of that wood has a darker inside . . . I don't often see that with the white ash I cut.
 
I am in the process of bucking up an ash...and I agree you have some there....the "lighter" colored stuff also looks like the maple I have stacked.
 
I think the pattern of the bark, plus the light outer wood but darker colored wood in the center of the rounds suggests Norway Maple. THis seems like it was a shade tree (lots of Ys), so Norway maple is a likely candidate. Isn't White Ash white the whole way through? I don't have much Ash, but I have cut some Norway maple and it looked like this stuff.
 
jlow said:
My buddy from work had a couple of trees taken down on Monday. He has no need for the wood and asked if I wanted it. Of course I told him I did. I picked ti up last night and will split it this weekend. I think it is ash and maple, but would like a verification. The trees were not dead so this will be for 2011-2012.

Thanks, Jeff
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First 3 pics look like a Hard Maple the last one less sure of could be elm you will know as soon as splitting starts.
 
Thats not Ash. Not sure what it is though, but its definitely not Ash. Ash does not have a dark heartwood.
 
It is definitely two different trees. I am splitting it tomorrow so I will post pics.

Thanks, Jeff
 
Oh I thought it was all one tree. The white wood could possibly be Ash then. Split some then post some pics!
 
It looks like there are still some leaves on some of those rounds, but you can't quite see them good enough in those pics. If so, take a good pic of the leaves and that will help id that wood.
 
Get a pic of the leaves before they wilt. Leaves are the best ID marker.
 
Wonder if it could be Mulberry. The 4th picture looks like what my mulberry rounds looked like before I split them 2 weeks ago.

EDIT: looked closely again, maybe it's not mulberry, but that bark looks the same as my mulberry...
 
I dont see Norway maple. Bark is too furrowed and I have never seen the dark heartwood like that in Norway maple.
 
I have seen dark heartwood in Norway Maples, but not sure that this is Norway Maple.
 
Grabbed more wood today, so I didn't get a chance to split. I did, however, take pics of the leaves as suggested. The stuff I got today was silver maple, hemlock & oak.
 

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That leaf on the right might be Boxelder? See any red streaks in those rounds?
 
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