What say you gurus of wood ID
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The back story is. My neighbor had his woods logged, was supposed to be select cut but those guys made a huge mess and ruined this guys property. Piles and piles of slash everything from 10 to 15 inch branch wood all the way down to twigs. All twisted up together. You can barely walk through the place. With exception of skidder paths. I was cutting my way in to some big white oak buried in pretty deep and cut this branch in the process.
Video shows just one corner and doesn’t do it justice
Video shows just one corner and doesn’t do it justice
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Ok I was going with red oak based on the thin bark, tight growth rings, medullary rays, red color and red oak leafs visible in the pics.
Can you split a piece and post a picture of what it looks like 😎
Yeah those leaves are back at my property. I’ll spilt a piece tomorrow , I know 100% it’s not red oak.
I know you say not red oak, but also going with red oak based off those pictures.
That seems to be a very different round than the one with the red core, much thinner sapwood, and the medullary rays that you pictured above.
The 1st pics look like red oak to me too. Take some very clear close up pics of the end grain if you want to be sure.
My second guess for the first pics, if not red oak, is honey locust.
Second pics look like hickory to me. Being limb wood it's hard to tell. Pignut or shagbark .... the thin inner ''core'' of heartwood pushes the shag name. Shag has little shag up top.
Second pics look like hickory to me. Being limb wood it's hard to tell. Pignut or shagbark .... the thin inner ''core'' of heartwood pushes the shag name. Shag has little shag up top.
The black walnut I've had had less sapwood (too). Though I had trunk, and not branch wood, so that might be different (too).
Yes i agree, but that core is pretty similar.
The end grain is the fingerprint that should be pretty conclusive of whatever it is.
Very good, very close pics required though.
Give me a break🙄. It’s a small round from the same branch.
If you don’t know that’s OK , I don’t know either..
The heart and sap woods of both sets of pics are completely different....100 percent.
You asked for help in ID and we're here trying to figure it out. The site has a pretty good track record with this.
I'm going to stick with honey locust on the first set of pics and exclude oak. The 2nd set of pics I'm sticking with black walnut. My knowledge of trees comes from 25yrs of being an arborist.
The short answer is, especially in 1st set of pics, it's quality firewood. You mentioned it's slash from logging. This leaves dense hardwoods as the source of money logs.
You guys are entitled to your opinion. Since you basically call me a liar I really don’t care what it is at this point.
As far as the slash They took a lot of oaks red and white, A couple different types of hickory and a bunch of big tulip poplar, and some Norway maple. Surprised the poplar is a good money maker. The logger approached me about selling my timber, throwing an enticing $ figure my way. No way would I let that butcher on my land, though I wouldn’t mind getting rid of the Norway maple, it’s invasive anyway.
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They sell tulip poplar at Menard's and similar stores as "poplar" clear boards. When I first saw it, I couldn't figure out what it was because it sure doesn't look like the popple we have. Around here, we have quaking aspen and that is what people call popple or poplar and almost never call it quaking aspen. The stuff at the big home stores is tulip poplar. So, I think it is worth money because you can get some nice big clear boards out of it and sell it as milled hardwood for making shelves or whatever.
I'll be honest and say when I looked at your first pictures I thought red oak, and the one with the dark heart wood looked like walnut. I am not calling you a liar. Pictures can be misleading. If you know red oak you would smell it when you cut it, and it sounds like you have cut a bunch of it.
I have some property with lots of big sugar maple and a mix of hop hornbeam, basswood, and popple with a few red oaks thrown in. I would not let a logger in there to mess it up. It is not worth whatever they would pay, at least not to me.
We're not calling you a liar at all. You seem to know your woods some.
Sometimes pics can be very deceiving. We clicked on your thread to help with an ID request. From the pics, the separate sets of photos look completely different. The first set, doesn't display walnut bark at all while the second set of split face screams walnut.
Any more pics? Like I said we're here to help you with your ID request.
How about some side by side pics of both groups? ......or not.....
Sometimes pics can be very deceiving. We clicked on your thread to help with an ID request. From the pics, the separate sets of photos look completely different. The first set, doesn't display walnut bark at all while the second set of split face screams walnut.
Any more pics? Like I said we're here to help you with your ID request.
How about some side by side pics of both groups? ......or not.....
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