Wood ID help...again!

[bwise.157]

Thanks in advance for any help you ask can provide. This was a dead standing tree I took down at a neighbor's house today. Haven't run across one of these before. The bark basically fell off when cutting, but was stringy.
(broken image removed)

(broken image removed)

 

[AmbDrvr253]

Does the heartwood have a yellow hue to it? Might be locust.

 

[husky345 vermont resolute]

I'd say polar

 

[dafattkidd]

Split it and show us the inside. Seeing the grains and color will be helpful.

 

[claydogg84]

Cottonwood?

 

[Eagleknight]

I was going to say popular because bark is smooth. My cottonwood in the yard only the bark on branches look similar. Trunk is deeper grooves. My popular tree in yard has smoother bark like that on trunk. Not 100% certain.

 

[Clyde S. Dale]

I'm going with poplar - last photo stringy underside of the bark and first 2 photos can still see some green/purple like poplar has.

 

[bwise.157]

I will split some this weekend and post another pic or two. The upper part of the tree had smoother bark than the base. Even though the tree was dead, it is very heavy and seems to be holding lots of water. Guess I will put it in the shoulder season pile if poplar.

 

[bwise.157]

Here are a couple pics of a piece split.
(broken image removed)
(broken image removed)

 

[turn_n_burn]

That stuff is American Elm. Poplars don't have that stringy stuff under the bark, and Locust bark will have deeper furrows when matured to that size. We took down 3 Am. Elms this spring when the elm seed bugs invaded Idaho, and the wood in those pics matches perfectly. Ours were mostly dead too, and they still held a TON of water, and were very heavy, and the heart wood is a dead ringer.

 

[Wood Duck]

Not Elm. Elm would have a darker color to the wood, and the wood would probably be very stringy. This wood seems to split cleanly. This is Bigtooth Aspen, which has appeared in several recent :name that wood" threads. The bark is dead-on for Bigtooth Aspen, including the orange color and stringiness to the inner bark. Aspen has light colored wood like the pictures show. If this was a dead tree some initial decomposition would explain the colors in the wood. A healthy live Bigtooth Aspen would have white wood.

 

[turn_n_burn]

Guess I'll go invest in some new glasses, then. Looked pretty stringy to me.

 

[bwise.157]

I have split elm, and definitely not elm. This split fairly easy.

 

[claydogg84]

Not Elm. Elm would have a darker color to the wood, and the wood would probably be very stringy. This wood seems to split cleanly. This is Bigtooth Aspen, which has appeared in several recent :name that wood" threads. The bark is dead-on for Bigtooth Aspen, including the orange color and stringiness to the inner bark. Aspen has light colored wood like the pictures show. If this was a dead tree some initial decomposition would explain the colors in the wood. A healthy live Bigtooth Aspen would have white wood.

Although I don't have any first hand experience with Aspen, Duck is right - been a run on ID threads for very similar wood.

 

[turn_n_burn]

OK guys, I get it. I was wrong.