Wood ID help please

[hitter]

I found this blow down from last yrs ice storm but I can't id it and would sure appreciate some help. Its heavy and split very easily. I'm in SE Pa

 

[mark cline]

wow, the round looks like maple, the split looks like pignut hickory. I would say , pignut hickory

 

[hitter]

If it's hickory I'm thrilled. It was a blow down in a area loaded with ash and oak. I couldn't find anything else like it in the area

 

[fireview2788]

It's not hickory, not enough color. I think it might be poplar.


fv

 

[Andy S.]

I see Maple but the pics are a bit grainy on my screen. We'll know for sure when Mr. Ford logs in.

 

[hitter]

I'm far from an expert but I've cut popular and this was harder to cut and much heavier than any popular I've handled

 

[hitter]

I've posted more pics if that helps including a twig with a bud on it, tx

 

[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

My wild guess is chestnut oak....
You posted 7 pictures and they all look like a different tree to me.
I can see why we are getting a range in answers.....
Got to wait for Nford........

 

[mark cline]

Is it stringy when you split it?

 

[blades]

it is not maple, voting for chestnut or hickory families.

 

[Applesister]

Mr Ford might say hard maple.
The pics are very low resolution.
You have a twig that looks like it has opposite branching. But I cant really see it.

 

[hitter]

Mark, Ive only spit a few pieces and most cut clean a couple splits were a little stringy but nothing like elm

 

[hitter]

Ok I hope this does it. I went back to get the rest today and I found what I believe is the dried up leaves from this as well as pics of the base

 

[fireview2788]

Leaves make it clear, maple of some sort.


fv

 

[hitter]

Yea thats my fear, though it wasn't shaped like Norway maple or something similar It was growing tall and thin among a lot of oak and ash

 

[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

Top right bark with the green in it kinda looks like red oak, looks like there are different trees...

 

[hitter]

Yes this was knocked down in front of the red oak and ash I was after

 

[Pellet_Pete]

the log pic sure looks like rock/hard/sugar maple to me

 

[hitter]

Well that would be an unexpected surprise. Thank you all for your efforts