Little help with id

[Rebelduckman]

 

[TedyOH]

Bark looks like maple, red maybe? Wood looks kinda stringy though.

 

[Rebelduckman]

Don't think it's red maple. I've cut a ton of that

 

[Jags]

I think it is a maple of some sorts. Limb wood of Silver can look like that as well as Norway.

 

[jackatc1]

To me it looks like some kind of hickory.

 

[claydogg84]

Hickory.

 

[Jags]

Take a match and smoke some of the stringy stuff on those splits. That will tell you if you have hickory (smells like a BBQ house).

 

[Applesister]

Did you cut the tree off your own property?
Rebel you are gonna have to be the tree guy for down your way, you cut a lot of wood.
Mississippi is in an area where alot more species of trees are.
It looks like a hickory, does it have alternate twigs?
Leaves? Winter buds?

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Hickory and boy that is nice looking stuff !

 

[Applesister]

Maybe Pecan, maybe Red hickory.

 

[Rebelduckman]

Did you cut the tree off your own property?
Rebel you are gonna have to be the tree guy for down your way, you cut a lot of wood.
Mississippi is in an area where alot more species of trees are.
It looks like a hickory, does it have alternate twigs?
Leaves? Winter buds?

Yea mamn, cut it off my property. It got broken off about half way up due to a big red oak we fell. Didn't even look at the twigs or leaves. I kind of thought it may be pecan but wasn't sure, still ain't. Red hickory is possible too. Anyway, it's a hickory for sure. I'll try my best to be the southern tree guy! Need some help here and there though

 

[Rebelduckman]

I'm off to cut a fallen black cherry. Pics to come

 

[Applesister]

Sorry, do I sound like a drill Sargeant? To much coffee. ..
Pics are good.

 

[Rebelduckman]

Sorry, do I sound like a drill Sargeant? To much coffee. ..
Pics are good.

Not at all! Here's the cherry

 

[Pennsyltucky Chris]

I agree with some of the previous posters. That's a species of hickory. From my experience, it dries in 2 summers if you single stack it, but you probably could get that bone dry in 1. That's a lot of heat for Ole Miss.

 

[Rebelduckman]

I'm going with red hickory. Splits much better than pignut or mocker that I've cut. Thanks for all the input folks

 

[Rebelduckman]

I agree with some of the previous posters. That's a species of hickory. From my experience, it dries in 2 summers if you single stack it, but you probably could get that bone dry in 1. That's a lot of heat for Ole Miss.

Yes it is and when it's in the teens and low 20s in January I'll be prepared unlike a lot of others down here! Everything i cut this spring is dry due to the 100+ days of no rain and 90+ we had this summer. Drying wood was about the only positive from that stretch

 

[Soundchasm]

If it's Hickory, stack it out of sight and wrap it with a bow that says "Don't open till Xmas 2017". I have never had a wood that frustrated my patience and defied drying quite as well as that stuff. But once it dries, it really does its own thing, and it's a pretty neat thing.

Stack off the ground for sure, but I know you take good care of your stacks.

 

[Wood Duck]

I don't see why that is hickory. I see the dark center, but the wide sapwood seems too wide for hickories I have cut. The main problem is that the bark doesn't look like hickory, at least not any hickory that grows in PA. On the other hand, both the dark center and the bark look perfect for Red Maple, which is common in the south. I am not familiar with Red Hickory.

 

[BenTN]

I am thinking hickory too.

What about sweetgum? I haven't cut a lot of it but what I have seen looks similar. Were there a bunch of spike balls on the ground around it?

 

[smee]

I was about to post a new thread.
Is this the same?
So far the only stuff my splitter paused on.
Very stringy.

 

[Jags]

Is this the same?

Nope - not the same. Notice the difference in heartwood to start with. I would suggest a new thread.

 

[claydogg84]

I was about to post a new thread.
Is this the same?
So far the only stuff my splitter paused on.
Very stringy.

That looks like American Elm.

 

[Jags]

I would agree.

 

[smee]

Thanks.
Funny I tried splitting by hand but gave up completely when my maul bounced off this stuff.
I love the log splitter...