ID these 2 pieces of wood.

[Slacker]

I've got some guys that drop me off a truck load of unsplit wood from time to time. I'm not sure about these two pieces. Any ideas?

 

[TedyOH]

Tulip poplar on the top and maybe sugar maple on the split piece with the little brown streak running through it

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[shoot-straight]

1000% sure top is tulip poplar.

75% some type of hickory on bottom

 

[MaintenanceMan]

Tulip Poplar definitely for the top. Looks like about a 4-5" split round piece of mystery wood below that. Woodstove fodder non-the-less.

 

[Woody Stover]

Silver Maple and Tulip Poplar.

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

Never cut or burned Tulip so the first one is unknown to me. The second one has the yellow heartwood of mulberry, but the sap ring is too small and the bark is deff not a match. I'd have to go with a hickory without more pics.

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

sap ring is too small

Whoops. Correction......sap ring is too big for mulberry.

 

[TedyOH]

For some unknown reason the order of the pictures have been changed / edited...FYI's....Tulip poplar now on the bottom and or the last picture.

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[FaithfulWoodsman]

LOL. Now that makes sense. I thought the first one looked like a hickory, but since everyone was dead set on tulip (based on the pic order) I thought it must be so. Thought the second could be an odd hickory. Never seen any tulip. Does it always have that yellow interior?

 

[TedyOH]

Yes it does, trees in my area anyways... very colorful....ive seen blues and purples as well....I have a mill for my chainsaw, going to mill a few boards once it cools down.

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[Woody Stover]

For some unknown reason the order of the pictures have been changed / edited...FYI's....Tulip poplar now on the bottom and or the last picture.

In Firefox, the pics are displaying all in one row, left to right. First two are what I'm guessing is Silver Maple (or possibly Sugar, hard to tell with a lot of the flaky bark broken off.) Pic 3 and 4...classic Tulip bark and split appearance. I've gotten fooled more than once by the bark on Tulip, thinking it was White Ash.

Never seen any tulip. Does it always have that yellow interior?

We are not that far from each other...hard to believe you haven't seen Tulip over there yet. Yep, yellow center and often some blue or purple, like Tedy said.

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

We are not that far from each other...hard to believe you haven't seen Tulip over there yet. Yep, yellow center and often some blue or purple, like Tedy said.

Well I know there around. Burned about every tree in our area at one point or another, just doesn't seem like there's many in my local area. I know what the leaves look like and have kept an eye when in the bush, but never found one. At least I know what to look for now. This site never fails to educate.

 

[Woody Stover]

At least I know what to look for now.

With the other woods we have available, I just split any Tulip I get into kindling or fire-pit wood. I prefer using soft Maple or Black Cherry splits for shoulder wood since they burn longer and coal better than Tulip.

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

Right. I meant that in more of the sense of avoiding it as I've always heard it's one of the lesser soft woods. More ash around me than will be able to burn before it goes to rot.