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old greybeard

Burning Hunk
Oct 29, 2018
181
PA
splitting a bunch of this wood, fairly large 20” tree in northern PA, very white with a darker 3-4” center. Straight grain, extremely stringy. Fairly heavy, rough bark. Really stands out in this stack mixed with wild cherry and red oak.
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One piece that is tan grain looks like maple, but another that is white does not..at least to me.
Maybe it's a mix
 
No leaves, fell last summer. Would maple have that rough a bark? I have usually cut 8-12” maple up here and its not that white. But being a big tree it may that I hadn’t seen it yet.
Here's some maple
 

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I’ve had some red maple look very similar (bark wise). Though the wood itself in that photo looks silver maple white when green. The bark isn’t quite a match for silver to me though 🤔. The silver maple I’ve dealt with can be stringy when it’s green.

I’m not familiar with cotton wood doesn’t really grow around here
 
I vote cottonwood.
I don't know cottonwood but some looked like sugar maple, and the really white stuff like poplar