Wood ID please - 3 kinds....I think?

[BucksCounty]

Can someone ID these for me? I think the first is ash?

 

[smokinj]

ash, beech,ash?

 

[gzecc]

ash, beech +? At least cut an end off the last one on the right. The true wood can't be black. Split it to help the id.

 

[raybonz]

Ash, Maple and ?


Ray

 

[JustWood]

Ash, Maple and ?


Ray

MMM HMMM . Eye'm a little stumped on the last 1, 2.

 

[RAY_PA]

split that last one open...or cut a couple inches off the end...then take a pic

ash, maple, maybe ash

 

[brokeburner]

ash maple mulberry mulberry should be yellow or orangeish when you cut it

 

[gzecc]

I was thinking mulberry also.

 

[billb3]

ash , maple, sassafrass

my guess.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

ash, maple, maybe ash

I agree with this....

 

[gzecc]

I agree with the maple for #2. I was laying down the first time I looked at it!

 

[BucksCounty]

Here are some pictures of them split. I am certain 1 is ash. I think 2 is maple...it appears to be the same as some other wood I've been splitting today that everyone identified as maple in a previous post. The 3rd...maybe ash..still don't know.

 

[lexybird]

first 2 definitely go ..ash and maple the last one id guess mulberry or maybe an elm species

 

[WOODBUTCHER]

I like the random cut in the first piece of ash, makes me think about cutting on grapple loads. The second is maple, never seen the last species.

WB

 

[DBoon]

I agree with Ash and Maple for the first two. Can you post a picture of the bark close up for the third split?

 

[CrawfordCentury]

1 - ash

2 - red maple (bark in pic 1 made me consider beech, but the end grain is wrong)

3 - rock/sugar/hard maple

 

[benjamin]

So what is that last one anyway? Could it be walnut? the bark's not quite right but that's the only wood I know that has a pith like that. can't quite tell the diameter or age of this piece.

 

[Hogwildz]

1 - ash

2 - red maple (bark in pic 1 made me consider beech, but the end grain is wrong)

3 - rock/sugar/hard maple

2x

 

[BucksCounty]

This is the tree that the 3rd piece came from. It obviously was a branch. I am just learning species of trees....never really gave much thought until recently. Is this an ash? The bark on the piece appears very different from the trunk. Anyone got an answer for me?

 

[Wood Duck]

That tree is an ash.

 

[gzecc]

Looks like norway maple too.

 

[Battenkiller]

1 - ash

2 - red maple (bark in pic 1 made me consider beech, but the end grain is wrong)

3 - rock/sugar/hard maple

Bingo!

 

[CrawfordCentury]

Looks like norway maple too.

While I still thing the piece of wood in the OP looks like sugar, I think you might be right.

Quick couple questions for the OP, BucksCounty...

I see that there has been some landscaping done at the base of the trunk. Is this because grass will not grow beneath the tree?

Do you have any pics of the canopy? Norway has kind of a lillipop looking perfect crown which is why it was prized as a landscape tree. It is also very hearty, and does well in urban and suburban settings - often planted in lieu of the elms that died from utch Elm. The road treatments that'd kill a sugar maple are less felt by the Norways.

 

[BucksCounty]

CC, I think it might be a Norway Maple. I found this website on a post and I was looking at all the different species of trees and I think it appears more to be a Norway Maple. I will take a pic of the canopy when possible and post. At the bottom, there is mulch around the tree, but not deep. It appears deep but that is because underneath of it, there is hard ground that rises above the grass. Very weird.

www.oplin.org/tree/name/commonname.html

 

[CrawfordCentury]

CC, I think it might be a Norway Maple. I found this website on a post and I was looking at all the different species of trees and I think it appears more to be a Norway Maple. I will take a pic of the canopy when possible and post. At the bottom, there is mulch around the tree, but not deep. It appears deep but that is because underneath of it, there is hard ground that rises above the grass. Very weird.

www.oplin.org/tree/name/commonname.html

By way of comparison, the tree next door is positively Norway. You can tell by the way it branches out from the trunk. It looks like the one in question tried to do that too but was trimmed several years ago. Given how beautiful they are as shade trees (though considered an invasive these days), the only explanation I can think of for the trimming is that the branches must've interfered with a driveway ot some other feature.

So how is it as firewood? A little less good than red maple, and way less good than sugar maple.