Tree ID?

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Is tulip tree bark really that thick? I processed a tree last year with bark identical to OP's. The leaves on it were compound.

Anyway, throw it in the stove in a year and you'll know if it was tulip or hickory.
 
Norway Maple

I don't see any of the faint cross grains in the splits that maple has. Does this species not have that?

Thanks,
Bruce
 
I don't think that's tulip, but I've been wrong before. It kinda looks like a young tulip, one way to tell is tulip and popple (poplar) has a distinct smell to it (hard to describe, it's different than other wood).

Here's some pics of the tulip I cut and milled this summer:

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Well I'm gonna "stir the pot" up again as this isn't sitting well with me; I just was right next door staring at my neighbor's Tulip Poplar and yes I KNOW that's what it is; then I stared at the bark on the rounds of Hickory I have in next years pile and again I know that's what it is and I can't believe that what is pictured is not Hickory...the bark on the Tulip next door has more deeper ridges in it, no size or part of that tree has the tight bark on it like the OP pictured, but the Hickory has supertight bark with those lines on it. And looking at the way that the grain has those little "strands" that you can grab and peel off are just like Hickory I've had in the past. Sorry guys and you may still prove me wrong but I still say that is Hickory.

Original poster, again what does it smell like? Hickory has a faint almost manure-like smell. Better yet take a piece of it to someone local who knows firewood and ask them what it is. And I STILL see some variances from picture-to-picture; are you sure that this is all from the same tree?

I wish I could get my hands on it and feel it and smell it as I'd know instantly what it is....:confused:

Some one needs to create smell-a-vision :).
It has a faint aroma. Not offensive at all and this is all from the same log. I have a buddy coming over who should be able to shed some more light on the issue.

Thanks for the input!
 
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I don't think that's tulip, but I've been wrong before. It kinda looks like a young tulip, one way to tell is tulip and popple (poplar) has a distinct smell to it (hard to describe, it's different than other wood).

Scotty, thanks for the info. Nice rig you got there;)
 
The growth rings look wide, and the bark looks way too thick for Hickory.
I'll rule out both Hickory and defiantly the maple species.
I do see a good sized Shagbark Trunk, some oak and maybe some ash in your pile..... Good stuff.

I just lugged out big Poplar rounds out of woods yesterday and they were heavy and the suckers felt dense.
My 5100s was rooster tailing big fluffy "hamster" shavings....
Once the rounds are split and dry they'll feel like pine......
I've never run Tulip through my splitter...... so you bark pics sparks my curiosity.

Buck up some of the Shagbark in your pile and split it, look at the growth rings. Natures Concrete.

Woodbutcher
 
The growth rings look wide, and the bark looks way too thick for Hickory.
I'll rule out both Hickory and defiantly the maple species.
I do see a good sized Shagbark Trunk, some oak and maybe some ash in your pile..... Good stuff.

I just lugged out big Poplar rounds out of woods yesterday and they were heavy and the suckers felt dense.
My 5100s was rooster tailing big fluffy "hamster" shavings....
Once the rounds are split and dry they'll feel like pine......
I've never run Tulip through my splitter...... so you bark pics sparks my curiosity.

Buck up some of the Shagbark in your pile and split it, look at the growth rings. Natures Concrete.

Woodbutcher

Already bucked some...here https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/log-3-id-i-think-i-got-this-one.91416/
 
Please make sure to let us know what he says about it-this is very interesting....:)

Ok, he couldn't make it over today. He has been in the field one way or another all his life.
 
O--My, You guys have been busy because of little ol' me!

I scooted out of work early to split and get some close up's of this one (1 of a bunch coming), but you folks are way ahead of me. Wish I posted way back when I was lurking a year before joining. I thought I was getting to know a bunch of you, and you didn't know me, but I was so wrong! You all are just awesome....period. WoW, Thanks!

I am going with maple (no idea what type) after splitting this. Attached are the close-ups with the bark dry split. Is Norway Maple hard or soft?
I have another log I worked on today and will post that in another thread. (looks similar but bigger)

I am amazed and humbled at the knowledge here..Thank you!

My Regards,
Bruce


I'm looking at this on my work computer-the other times were at the home one, and I see a color variation from picture #3 which looks very yellow grained as opposed to pictures 4 and 5 in which the grain looks very white. Is that just lighting causing that shading do you think? Picture # 3 DOES look like Poplar but 4 and 5 still look too "white" to me.
 
I'm looking at this on my work computer-the other times were at the home one, and I see a color variation from picture #3 which looks very yellow grained as opposed to pictures 4 and 5 in which the grain looks very white. Is that just lighting causing that shading do you think? Picture # 3 DOES look like Poplar but 4 and 5 still look too "white" to me.

The sun was in and out that day and might be playing tricks with pictures. I can take more.
 
Hey Bruce,

Did your buddy ever come over and give his one a posiitive ID??

Just curious....
 
Hey Bruce,

Did your buddy ever come over and give his one a posiitive ID??

Just curious....

No not yet Woodsman. I'll have to change what I have in the beer fridge I guess. That'll work;)
 
hickory for sure
That's what I've been saying since the start. There's no way in my mind that I can look at the pictures of those half-splits in post #26 and see anything BUT Hickory...the OP is supposed to be getting someone to come and ID them that knows wood but we'll have to see if that ever happens.

I guess we'll have to ask him to pick the splits up a few months from now-if they are light as a feather it's Tulip Poplar if they're heavy like a rock they're Hickory....
 
IT"S HICKORY :)

I split up the other 6 logs of shagbark hickory from the grapple load to get familiar with the color, smell and workablity then went to this log.
It has the same color and smell as the shagbark. I knew right away. The only thing different, it was the toughest of the bunch to split. Real narly and stringy.
Gave me a whoopin'.

Thanks again everyone for you help. This one was fun to follow through.

~Bruce
 
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IT"S HICKORY :)

I split up the other 6 logs of shagbark hickory from the grapple load to get familiar with the color, smell and workablity then went to this log.
It has the same color and smell as the shagbark. I knew right away. The only thing different, it was the toughest of the bunch to split. Real narly and stringy.
Gave me a whoopin'.

Thanks again everyone for you help. This one was fun to follow through.

~Bruce


Okay, go back and read what post # 2 says and send me my prize-what did I win lol!!! ;lol

I just knew there was no bleepin' way that was Poplar....
 
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