ID if you please

[FireAnt]

I was clearing vines and low brush at my parents today. This tree is right on our property line and was starting to uproot. I thought I would cut it down and test the new splitter. I had a clear drop in front and the tree has small limbs at the top. I thought the little branches would snap as it fell. Nope 1 got hung up, I still don't know how. LEANER... I now have to figure out how to get it to drop.

Is it a maple of some kind?

 

[ISeeDeadBTUs]

Bark looks like either Cherry or Birch

But WTH I know . . .

 

[smokinj]

why is the cut so curved?

 

[Wood Duck]

The stump looks like Black Birch, but I would expect you'd notice the wintergreen smell of the tree if it was Black Birch.

 

[FireAnt]

why is the cut so curved?

Yeaaahhhhh... The saw got stuck and I had to finish it with a little 10 inch bar pole saw. Tight space to get it in and the tree is probably 14 inches round.

 

[smokinj]

why is the cut so curved?

Yeaaahhhhh... The saw got stuck and I had to finish it with a little 10 inch bar pole saw. Tight space to get it in and the tree is probably 14 inches round.

ok couldnt figure it out do you have any pic's of the tree leaning?

 

[ISeeDeadBTUs]

Jay . . .you got some new way to ID trees by how they lean??? :wow:

 

[FireAnt]

Jay

I will have to get pictures tomorrow. I am home now. The tree is stuck on a 3-4 inch crotch towards the top. If the tree moved to the left a little it would drop.

 

[smokinj]

Jay . . .you got some new way to ID trees by how they lean??? :wow:

sure do! Its a "tree" leaning into the fork of another "tree" who cares what it is until it hits the ground. imo

 

[smokinj]

Jay

I will have to get pictures tomorrow. I am home now. The tree is stuck on a 3-4 inch crotch towards the top. If the tree moved to the left a little it would drop.

you may get lucky and use a rope and just pull it out.

 

[FireAnt]

Jay

I will have to get pictures tomorrow. I am home now. The tree is stuck on a 3-4 inch crotch towards the top. If the tree moved to the left a little it would drop.

you may get lucky and use a rope and just pull it out.

That's exactly what I was thinking of doing. I maybe shouldn't have cut it... But it was starting to come up out of the ground so I thought it might be alright to cut... and I have my new Troy-Bilt splitter sitting there.

 

[RAY_PA]

I was thinkin maple, but I am about 65% on the wood guessing game....lol

 

[ohio woodburner]

silver maple cut a bunch splits like butter

 

[CJRages]

That could be Hickory. Young Hickory trees will have bark like that. Try splitting a piece. If it splits fairly clean with only a few "sticky" strings - it probably is Hickory. The light wood color matches too.

 

[Ncountry]

Red maple (soft maple). Any chance it was growing in semi wet or wet conditions?

 

[FireAnt]

Red maple (soft maple). Any chance it was growing in semi wet or wet conditions?

I would say semi-wet, moist soil most of the time. There is wetlands all around. Is that the black spot in the center?

 

[gregp553]

I'm not good at this, but it looks like maple to me. But I guessed right about the hand saw.

 

[Hurricane]

I will take a chance at beech, did it still have dried brown leaves hanging on. The beech tree does not drop it's leaves until the spring, the new leaves push off the old ones.
The bark looks a lot like the beech trees in my yard.

 

[gzecc]

It looks like a young tree. Have you counted the rings? That would help the ID

 

[Ncountry]

Red maple (soft maple). Any chance it was growing in semi wet or wet conditions?

I would say semi-wet, moist soil most of the time. There is wetlands all around. Is that the black spot in the center?

Yes, all the soft maple, I have cut , growing in wet conditions seem to look like that

 

[WOODBUTCHER]

It has the "tell tale star shaped stain" that most Red Maples have (not all).
My guess is Red Maple based off that one pic, post more pictures when you get a chance.

I've posted some of my ID'S

WoodButcher

 

[FireAnt]

Here is a pic of the branch that got hung up. It's the little branch stuck on the other tree.

 

[smokinj]

I would rope it and rank it out with a truck.