wood ID

[Boom Stick]

Just scrounged some wood recently and I cannot positively ID them. One I believe is Poplar and the other is still in the back of my truck. I think it may be willow. I may have just wasted my gas and time getting a load of Willow. Dumb Me. Seems very light, my Fiskars x25 popped the big round in half with about 1/8th the power I would normally swing it at. Please check it out. As soon as I hit it with the saw and there were huge flakes flying I knew something was amiss.

 

[Wood Duck]

I think you DO know what type of wood you've got. Looks like willow and poplar to me. Not the greatest firewood, but I have burnt some of both and they do burn. i prefer poplar to willow - poplar seems to burn better.

 

[ryanm527]

Thanks for posting that...my dad gave me a few pieces of 2 unknown species to identify. I identified one as persimmon and the other I couldn't figure until now... I think it may be willow. All I knew was that it split ridiculously easy, had a weird, almost sour smell, and was pretty unimpressive in the stove.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Both willow and popple can smell terrible. We had a crew cutting this past week and I had them clear a bunch of popple. Some was not bad but others you could smell a hundred yards away. Terrible stuff it was. Willow I've never burned except on brush piles.

 

[ikessky]

Maybe it's just me, but the second pictures looks like the soft maple that we have around here.

 

[Boom Stick]

Funny thing is I stop at this ladies house and ask her about the fallen trees in her woods and she says I can take them. Go home, change, grab my stuff and go over there to score. As soon as my saw hits the willow I start thinking something is not right here. So I buck the tree up and load my truck with rounds. Way too light. At least now I know what no to take. Oh well I'll split it and bring it to my folks camp in the spring time. Was spraying water when I hit it with the axe. HA HA on me.

 

[bogydave]

Be good for day fires to take the chill off in early fall.
Fast burning & not over heat the house all day.

 

[Fifelaker]

Maybe it's just me, but the second pictures looks like the soft maple that we have around here.

That is my thought also.

 

[smokinj]

That first pick looks kinda piney to me.

 

[nrford]

#1 on left I believe is your willow. #2 on right is Aspen (popple). Some folks call this poplar, aspen is not a poplar!

 

[Oregon Bigfoot]

These look similar to Douglas fir or Lodgepole pine, but I don't know if those species grow in NY.

Oregon Bigfoot

 

[JustWood]

#1 on left I believe is your willow. #2 on right is Aspen (popple). Some folks call this poplar, aspen is not a poplar!

The following species are called aspens:

* Populus adenopoda: Chinese aspen (China, south of P. tremula)
* Populus grandidentata: Bigtooth aspen (eastern North America, south of P. tremuloides)
* Populus sieboldii: Japanese aspen (Japan)
* Populus tremula: Eurasian aspen (northern Europe & Asia)
* Populus tremuloides: American aspen (northern & western North America)

 

[remkel]

Maybe it's just me, but the second pictures looks like the soft maple that we have around here.

+1- looks like silver maple if you ask me.

 

[Boom Stick]

That first pick looks kinda piney to me.

Has that straight grain doug fir look but. Leaves had dropped and had a bunch of knobby growths on it with small shoots coming out of them.