Identify Wood Species

[zaroot]

Can someone help me identify this type of wood? Trunk base was approx. 30” diameter, in the Baltimore MD region. I am guessing some sort of oak, ash, or locust? Possible a Hickory? It was pretty tough on my chain when cutting. Slowing down an ms440 with a 24” Bar. Thanks!

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[AbrK]

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[zaroot]

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[BenTN]

Looks like locust to me

 

[Jags]

Looks like an oak variety to me. I don’t think I have ever seen a locust that big around my area. A couple of pics of some split wood would help immensely.

 

[CincyBurner]

Looks like ash to me (regular furrows in bark). Wow, we're all over the place.

 

[jrems]

Possibly locust, could also be chestnut oak. They both have that thick bark with ridges.

 

[zaroot]

Looks like an oak variety to me. I don’t think I have ever seen a locust that big around my area. A couple of pics of some split wood would help immensely.

Just got it all unloaded, will split some pieces tomorrow and upload. Thanks to all suggestions


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[hickoryhoarder]

Looks like ash to me. Couldn't say for sure with the photo.

 

[Dobish]

just hope it isn't elm!

 

[zaroot]

Here are split chunks. Any insight? 4 responses with 4+ species suggestions

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[Easy Livin’ 3000]

Just as I suspected. It's firewood.

Either that, or tulip poplar.

 

[zaroot]

I’ve burned poplar in the past, and these chunks were much denser, harder to split, and overall heavier to move around. Is tulip poplar the same as cottonwood?


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[Easy Livin’ 3000]

I’ve burned poplar in the past, and these chunks were much denser, harder to split, and overall heavier to move around. Is tulip poplar the same as cottonwood?


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Tulip poplar is not cottonwood, which some folks call poplar or even popple. If I could see where you hail from, I'd have a better sense of things.

Tulip poplar is a giant, ultra-fast growing member of the magnolia family that grows prolifically in the Mid-Atlantic region, and probably up and down the east coast, if not elsewhere. It is a very common first stage forest regrowth tree, designed by mother nature to grow quickly to the sky in poor soil, and then fall over to provide shade and nutrients to the later stage, slower growing hardwoods. Found often in places that were cleared out for farming in earlier times, but are now suburban neighborhoods or just abandoned from farming. Often found among other first stage species such as dogwood, sassafras, black birch.

 

[nrford]

That's ASH

 

[Woody5506]

definitely looks like ash to me

 

[Stinkpickle]

Yep, looks like ash.

 

[zaroot]

PITA to split, super burly with knots galore. I can agree with the Ash classification.

Thanks again to all!


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[Woody5506]

That's how most of the ash is that I have, and I always cringe when people say it's the easiest splitting wood around.

 

[ValleyCottageSplitter]

Ya, Ash is easy when it is straight but still a pain like most hardwood when it is knotty. My first Ash was 22"x 40' perfectly straight rounds. There were zero uglies. I later got a bunch of ash logs from a tree service and was disappointed to find a few uglies that I couldn't split. Half of the splitting effort is just dependent on how straight and knot free the logs are, the other half is the wood type. Some wood types tend to grow straighter as well but that varies a lot on the location of the tree.

 

[littlalex]

That's how most of the ash is that I have, and I always cringe when people say it's the easiest splitting wood around.

Amen to that!

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[Woody5506]

Don't worry though, it burns just as good!

 

[TedyOH]

I've never seen white ash with such large/wide/fast growth rings like that....probably Basswood....you will know when it's seasoned...probably will be pretty light

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[zaroot]

Here is another photo I had of the wood, prior to splitting it

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[Easy Livin’ 3000]

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I've never seen white ash with such large/wide/fast growth rings like that....probably Basswood....you will know when it's seasoned...probably will be pretty light

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I'm with you Tedy. Those growth rings are big.

I'm not familiar with basswood, but tulip poplar in fertile soil near a good water source would look and behave exactly like pictured and described. Lots of tulip poplar in MD.