Name that Tree????

[jotulburner]

Well I will be showing my ignorance with this but what the heck I have never claimed to be Einstein or Paul Bunyan for that matter. I am hoping one of the knowledgeable members of this forum will help me identify this tree. It fell after big storm last month. I am sure it is a maple just not sure what kind. I am just guessing but I think it is a Sugar Maple. I limbed it and started cutting so it can season over winter as I got into the trunk it has a very pretty grain wondering if it is worth trying to mill trunk or just continue chunking it up into firewood. Thanks for any help.

 

[Fifelaker]

Looks like sugar maple to me. I can't help on the mill?.If it were me I would C/S/S it then burn.

 

[firefighterjake]

Maple of some sort . . . any nearby leafs you can take a pic of would help identify the tree a bit better.

As for a mill . . . I don't imagine many mills would want to buy or take just one log . . . maybe a smaller mill might, but I would guess you would be on the hook to get the log to them . . . I would just cut it up and consider yourself fortunate in finding easy wood.

This might help with the identification.

http://www.umext.maine.edu/mainetreeclub/MTC.htm

 

[jotulburner]

thanks for info fyi leaf from tree in question thanks again.

 

[firefighterjake]

Looks like red maple to me based on the leaf . . . definitely not sugar maple.

Red maple isn't bad though . . . just not the primo wood of a sugar maple. I am/will be burning some red maple this year that I processed a couple years ago while clearing land for our fire department fire pond . . . it's not a bad wood . . .

http://www.umext.maine.edu/mainetreeclub/FactSheets/even-year-htm/RedMaple.htm

 

[cygnus]

Looks like red maple to me...

+1

 

[WOODBUTCHER]

Red Maple for sure!

 

[Wood Duck]

Yep, the bark and the leaf both say Red Maple. The bark is tricky by itself, but looks more like Red or maybe Silver than Sugar. The leaf is clearly Red Maple. The small teeth along the edges of the leaf are characteristic of Red. Sugar Maple leaves are strongly five-lobed (the leaf in the picture is three-lobed, more or less) and have smoother edges than Red Maple leaves.

 

[smokinj]

Looks piney to me!

 

[ChrisNJ]

Looks piney to me!

+1 that first and fourth pics anyway, those rounds from the same tree? Awfully scaly bark for a Maple.

 

[Joey]

+2, looks like a lot of pine we have here in NJ,,but the leaves dont match, very scaly. Dont see any pine needles laying around......

 

[Woody Stover]

Awfully scaly bark for a Maple.

Here's a Red that's in my yard...pretty scaly.
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h407/2bnator/Hearth/008.jpg

 

[Backwoods Savage]

The bark changes a lot as it ages and there is a huge difference between the young and older trees. Soft maple it is but I would not worry about milling that particular tree. Firewood only.