Wood ID help - three trees

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DiBurn90

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Chillicothe, Ohio
Found a guy with a lot of blow downs from a storm last year that was looking to get the trees cleared off his property. Was able to get a good variety of trees but I'm not sure what several of them are. Have gotten a few of them split and wanted to see if people may be able to help with what they are. No leaves on them since they had been down a while, any ideas would be appreciated.

First one had a little bit of a spice smell to it when cutting and splitting it. Guy on site said he thought it was maybe some kind of chestnut?

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Second one is pretty light, thinking maybe something like basswood maybe?
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Third one is also pretty lite, the wood has a yellower heartwood and some purple streaks in some splits that aren't really visible in the pictures. Two pictures on this one as I didn't realize I didn't take one with both the bark and split showing.

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I'll take a stab:
1) Kentucky coffeetree
2) Tilia - basswood/ little-leaf linden
3) tulip-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
 
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I'll go with Tulip on 3 as well, but I'm not familiar with the other two.
That Tulip bark is a little different than what I see here, where it can look very similar to White Ash.
 
1st is cherry. At least one of the types we have here. Dunno wich species of cherry. 2nd I know if split before but don't know type possible ash? 3rd is tulip poplar
 
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Cherry on #1 I agree. The reference to purple for #3 has me trying to recall what that is as I have seen it before, some sort of soft maple?? #2 Basswood would (no pun) be my best guess…
 
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1st cherry, 3rd poplar, 2nd look like its painted gray.
 
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I'll take a stab:
1) Kentucky coffeetree
2) Tilia - basswood/ little-leaf linden
3) tulip-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
Thanks I was kind of thinking it was similar to the other poplar I have that was taken down live but the bark was different so I wasn't sure. I know there's a few species of poplar.
 
Cherry on #1 I agree. The reference to purple for #3 has me trying to recall what that is as I have seen it before, some sort of soft maple?? #2 Basswood would (no pun) be my best guess…
Thanks, yeah I know I have seen the reference to purple on here before, but couldn't remember if it was specific to the species or not.
 
Basswood. 13.8 million BTU/cord
And poplar? Liebe Gott, no wonder he gave the wood away.
 
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Basswood. 13.8 million BTU/cord
And poplar? Liebe Gott, no wonder he gave the wood away.
Not the best wood I know but I like to have some low BTU stuff in the stacks for burning coals down and for shoulder season. The other loads I got were a lot of hickory and oak. He said he had probably ~100 trees come down and had already had loggers come and take when he could get paid for, place was a mess honestly. Was right off the drive way with some of it already cut to get to better stuff so I grabbed it, wouldn't have got out of my way for it though.