Log 6 ID Please..I have no clue!

[Bacffin]

The saw cut real easy through this stuff and the rounds were a little on the light side. The chips were kind of fine too. I had to check the saw, thinking it was dull, but it was fine. After a couple of splits, I got a very faint oak smell. Pretty straight grained too. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Bruce

 

[JOHN BOY]

Looks like sourwood to me. cut some today. Its a pretty decent wood to burn.

 

[schortie]

Ash.

 

[Bacffin]

Looks like sourwood to me. cut some today. Its a pretty decent wood to burn.

Talk about being such a newbee, I have never even heard of sourwood.

 

[JOHN BOY]

It mite be ash.. but i would'nt know. Hav'nt ever had any down here from the area's i get my wood from. The bark and wood splits there look exactly like the sourwoods we cut.

 

[flatlandr]

Looks just like the ash I cut this morning.

 

[steeltowninwv]

yep...ash

 

[scotvl]

Ash

 

[Wood Duck]

That doesn't look like Ash to me. Ash usually has very white wood, while this wood is more of an oak color. Sourwood is a southern tree that doesn't grow in Mass. I'd say this is a Chestnut Oak except that I can't see any medullary rays in the end of the rounds. All oaks have medullary rays which can usually be easily seen in the end grain of a round. Maybe the rays are there but just not evident in the pictures. The thick, deeply ridged bark looks like Chestnut Oak and also like Sassafras. Now that I think of it the thing looks a lot like Sassafras. Sassafras generally has a smell to it, kind of a fruity smell.

 

[Thistle]

Possibly Black Ash. Wood is a warm tan or light brown,occasionally w/ small pin knots/cluster burls.A bit softer than the White or Green Ash that's fairly common around here.

 

[Bacffin]

Looking at the grain, my initial thought was Douglas Fir, but I have no idea what the bark looks like on fir.

 

[fishingpol]

I vote basswood. Ash second, but it does not look quite right.

 

[Woody Stover]

Possibly Black Ash. Wood is a warm tan or light brown,occasionally w/ small pin knots/cluster burls.A bit softer than the White or Green Ash that's fairly common around here.

Hmmm. I haven't seen the other types of Ash, but that doesn't look quite right for White Ash bark...and White is heavy. Green Ash maybe?

 

[Wood Duck]

I vote basswood. Ash second, but it does not look quite right.

Basswood will have a white wood color, right? This doesn't look like Basswood to me but I have never cut a Basswood.

 

[Thistle]

Hmmm. I haven't seen the other types of Ash, but that doesn't look quite right for White Ash bark...and White is heavy. Green Ash maybe?

Green is almost identical to White,both in wood color,density etc.Bark varies a little,can be difficult to tell them apart sometimes.Lots of Green around here,planted for shade 20-40 yrs ago,to replace the massive old American Elms killed off by DED in the 60's & 70's.One out front next to street in front of sidewalk in that grassy area the city 'owns' yet I have to mow it...lol

 

[ScotO]

The end grain sure looks like elm, but the bark and split looks like an ash. I'm leaning towards an ash species.

 

[onetracker]

That doesn't look like Ash to me. Ash usually has very white wood, while this wood is more of an oak color. Sourwood is a southern tree that doesn't grow in Mass. I'd say this is a Chestnut Oak except that I can't see any medullary rays in the end of the rounds. All oaks have medullary rays which can usually be easily seen in the end grain of a round. Maybe the rays are there but just not evident in the pictures. The thick, deeply ridged bark looks like Chestnut Oak and also like Sassafras. Now that I think of it the thing looks a lot like Sassafras. Sassafras generally has a smell to it, kind of a fruity smell.

+1
sassafras

 

[smokinj]

Very tight grain and I have never cut one but Its Oak and probally Chestnut Oak.

 

[fishingpol]

+1
sassafras

My neighbor camped with his family on Cape Cod one summer, and he did mention Sassafras growing in the campsite area.

Yeah, not basswood, grain is not right.

 

[Woody Stover]

Green is almost identical to White,both in wood color,density etc

Huh. The BTU lists I've seen generally have White at 23.6 or 24M, and the Green around 20...about like Black Cherry...

+1
sassafras

Wood is lighter-colored than Sass I've seen here. Sass would also smell like a Halls Mentho-Lyptus, so the OP can rule it in or out pretty easily...

 

[TimJ]

Huh. The BTU lists I've seen generally have White at 23.6 or 24M, and the Green around 20...about like Black Cherry...
Wood is lighter-colored than Sass I've seen here. Sass would also smell like a Halls Mentho-Lyptus, so the OP can rule it in or out pretty easily...

Just curious, what does OP stand for

 

[oldspark]

OP orignal post
Green Ash

 

[nrford]

1000% ASH

 

[PA. Woodsman]

I believe it IS some sort of Ash and here's why; look at picture 8/9, that's 8 of 9, the one that shows the end cut, blow it up and use the little magnifying tool and you will see in the center of the cutside there is a small little hole; I don't know if any other trees have this hole in the center but I've always found it in Ash.

Bruce, you are going to cause a rumble here soon with all these ID's!

DON'T FORGET to tell us what your friend decides that other one is, Tulip Poplar, Hickory, Maple or whatever-we need to get a "final answer" on that one!

 

[Bacffin]

Huh. The BTU lists I've seen generally have White at 23.6 or 24M, and the Green around 20...about like Black Cherry...
Wood is lighter-colored than Sass I've seen here. Sass would also smell like a Halls Mentho-Lyptus, so the OP can rule it in or out pretty easily...

Definitly does not smell like mentho lyptus.