Help ID'ing Free Wood

[LukeDawg11]

Greetings from CT where we're "enjoying" temps in the 60's today.

Attached are some photos of free wood I've acquired over the past 6 months.

I'm having trouble identifying the wood, especially the rounds with the thick, knobby bark. Any assistance is appreciated.

 

[Jags]

Left to right descending:
Birch
Oak
Birch
Birch
Maple
Mix
Dunno

 

[WOODBUTCHER]

The WoodButcher loves Black Birch (Sweet Birch) which is pics 1,3,4,7
Smells like birch beer eh?

WB

 

[LukeDawg11]

Jags: Thanks for the IDs -- The rounds in Pic #5 (Maple, the one closer to the bottom with a little moss on the bark) are HORRENDOUS to split. Is Maple always that tough? Using an 8lb maul, 6lb maul, AND Fiskars, I can't get a good clean split out of them. The tree was taken down in June of this year -- maybe the rounds need to dry out longer?

Butcher: You are exactly right -- when I first picked up the logs, my yard smelled like birch beer for a good month. Now I get whiffs every time I split. Brings back memories of pizza and Foxon Park Birch Beer on Wooster Street when I was a kid. How is Black Birch for burning? The trees were taken down this past summer, so I was planning on using the splits next year.

 

[Jags]

Jags: Thanks for the IDs -- The rounds in Pic #5 (Maple, the one closer to the bottom with a little moss on the bark) are HORRENDOUS to split. Is Maple always that tough? Using an 8lb maul, 6lb maul, AND Fiskars, I can't get a good clean split out of them. The tree was taken down in June of this year -- maybe the rounds need to dry out longer?

Hmmm.... interesting. Maple is not typically on the "tough to split" list. And it doesn't have the bark for elm. I could be off on that one. Someone else will pipe up.

 

[Wood Duck]

I think maybe the first pic is Yellow Birch, the second WHite Oak, then birches and I agree maybe a maple in pic 5. Maple can be tough to split is you have crotches or an unusually knotty or twisted maple. I cut a Red Maple here in my yard that was about 50% tough to split, about 50% normal easy-splitting like a Red Maple should be.

 

[smokinj]

Looks like all hardwood to me nice mix as well....

 

[LukeDawg11]

That mossy piece in the 2nd picture is a piece split from the rounds shown in #5. Here's another pic of more splits from those rounds -- specifically the knobby barked pieces on top.

 

[gzecc]

Butcher, The black (sweet) birch I am familar with kind of looks like cherry bark.

 

[Tony H]

Most all the maple I have had splits pretty easy other than the normal tough crotch pieces. Also the real heavy bark makes me think it might be something else but not sure what.

 

[CarbonNeutral]

Black birch smells like peppermint, white birch like root beer or medicine, if that helps