Another wood ID request

[Rangerbait]

This stuff looked like mahogany, and was super heavy, so I figured it would be a bear to split...stuff flew apart like it was scared of me! What do I have here? Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, btw.

 

[Learnedtoburn]

Ash


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[CincyBurner]

black walnut ?
dark heartwood with light sapwood; chambered pith; bark should have chocolate color when you cut into it with knife. Is branching habit alternate (it's opposite on ash) ? How does it smell ?

 

[Flame On]

+2 on black walnut. Leaves alot of ash in the firebox, but burns pretty nice.

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

Could be walnut with the stringy underbark. But heartwood isn't right, should be dark too. That purplish interior looks like cottonwood and those growth rings would match a fast growing softwood.

 

[NateB]

I would guess walnut also.

 

[Firefighter938]

Walnut

 

[Rangerbait]

Could be walnut with the stringy underbark. But heartwood isn't right, should be dark too. That purplish interior looks like cottonwood and those growth rings would match a fast growing softwood.

I thought it split awfully easily for a wood like walnut.

 

[Firefighter938]

Walnut is an easy splitting wood

 

[husky345 vermont resolute]

Black walnut


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[Dobish]

looks just like some walnut I got the other day....

 

[Wood Duck]

I think it is Black Walnut. In one photo the heartwood has a lighter color than typical Black Walnut, but that could be a little bit of rot. No other wood in the east is as dark as Black Walnut.

 

[woodsHAM]

If you're around the Shepardstown area I pass through when I travel that way,i'd say it is definitely walnut. Area is full of pastures and hedgerows thick with walnut and locust.

 

[Rangerbait]

If you're around the Shepardstown area I pass through when I travel that way,i'd say it is definitely walnut. Area is full of pastures and hedgerows thick with walnut and locust.

I actually live right in Shepherdstown...recently relocated from the west coast, so trying to figure out these local trees.

 

[Rangerbait]

Ok, two more for you...the first is super yellow on the inside, and very dense but splits easily. The second is very light and also splits easily.

 

[Rangerbait]

Ok, two more for you...the first is super yellow on the inside, and very dense but splits easily. The second is very light and also splits easily.

Ok, I am fairly confident that the yellow one is black locust

 

[Firefighter938]

Mulberry and hackberry. The mulberry will start to turn a dark shade of purple. I'm guessing on the hackberry, because the picture is a little tough to tell. It's easy to destinguish because it has very wortey/corky bark. It's not too light though. About the same as ash.

 

[Rangerbait]

Mulberry and hackberry. The mulberry will start to turn a dark shade of purple. I'm guessing on the hackberry, because the picture is a little tough to tell. It's easy to destinguish because it has very wortey/corky bark. It's not too light though. About the same as ash.

You think the yellow one is mulberry, eh? Man these deciduous trees are hard to tell apart...especially in the winter!

 

[CincyBurner]

Mulberry and hackberry.

+1

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

Mulberry and hackberry

X2. Bark is a bit diff from the mulberry on my prop, but locust is much more furrowed and thicker. Not many trees with stark yellow wood like that. Second pic of bark is a bit blurry, but looks like kackberry to me.

Man these deciduous trees are hard to tell apart

Yep they can be real characters some times. Only a few have dead giveaways that are species specific. Like the thorns of wild honey locust.

 

[Stinkpickle]

I agree with mulberry (although the bark is a little different) and hackberry.