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[D8Chumley]

One of the guys that is working for me has a load of wood in back of his truck he cut upstate this weekend. Naturally I go see what he has. He says hard maple, and I do see maple, but I'm thinking red oak for this, maybe I'm wrong as I'm no expert but I think I see the medullary Rays

 

[DougA]

Neither the bark nor the wood look like any of my hard maple. Closer to red oak, I agree.

 

[Jags]

Red Oak.

 

[D8Chumley]

That's what I thought. I'm meeting resistance, he says there's no red oak on his property upstate. I said apparently there is... Haha. Thanks for the quick reply

 

[Jags]

he says there's no red oak on his property upstate.

If it ain't red oak - I don't even have a second guess.

 

[DougA]

I hope he wasn't trying to get maple syrup from that oak.

 

[D8Chumley]

They still won't believe me, so I said we agree to disagree. I'm not arguing with them all day

 

[barmstrong2]

Douga had a great idea. Tell your friend to tap some of them next spring.

 

[Scooter422]

What about red maple? Do you have any pics of the end grain?

 

[claydogg84]

Definitely Oak.

 

[D8Chumley]

What about red maple? Do you have any pics of the end grain?

 

[paul bunion]

The person who gave you the wood was correct, it is Sugar Maple.

Here's another piece for cross reference.

 

[MaintenanceMan]

Red Oak has a fairly distinct smell. I have split some hard maple that was pretty close to that color all the way through. But I do agree that the grain does resemble oak somewhat. I'd be leaning toward hard/sugar maple from the pic. Hard to tell without more to go on.

 

[D8Chumley]

It doesn't smell Oaky but I thought maybe since it was standing dead. Either way it's hard wood even though he is gonna burn it this year

 

[Applesister]

Its Sugar Maple, Im sure of it.
All wood has those 'rays'. Its just some patterns in the pores are very big and easily visible. Like American Chestnut, Black walnut, Butternut, mahogany. ....

 

[Applesister]

Sycamore has interesting ray flecks too.
But Oak really does.

 

[cuttingedge]

Sugar Maple is what that is