Wood ID help

[Wood-row Wilson]

Took advantage of a big downed hardwood that I'm curious to what it is. Speculation what it was in 80 degree heat wasn't the best fun, but it was easy enough to get at and quick work resulted in a full trailer.

Thanks for your help!

 

[bag of hammers]

I say maple 'cause everything looks like maple to me....

 

[gzecc]

I'd go with maple too. Any leaves available?

 

[Applesister]

Looks kind of Norway-ish. But Ive never seen bugs in it.
Can you find any leaves?
And what are the big gashes? Some kind of bucket wound?
Did you use a bucket loader?

 

[Applesister]

Brown staining looks Abby normal.

 

[jeff_t]

Box elder

 

[Jags]

Box elder

Missing the tell tale blood red.

Me thinks a flavor of maple.

 

[sequoia]

I just cut up a BIG soft maple. This looks very much like it.

 

[Wood-row Wilson]

You know, I would have first guessed maple, too. There were no leaves on the tree and I didn't fell or push down the tree. Very likely a bucket wound you see there @Applesister, as the tree was uprooted and pushed instead of cut.

I kept looking up and around the area for the tree's likeness, and the best I found were forest trees with only up-high leaves and they looked quite rounded, not any form of maple leaf which I would know well by their jagged edges. I may swing back and take a picture of the tree in it's likeness. I tried to associate what I could remember from the leaves, but could only come around to poplar, cottonwood, and dogwood. None of the bark seemed to match up, though..

 

[claydogg84]

Hickory.

 

[blades]

I agree with the norway type maple ID - kinda looks like the beginnings of dry rot/ fungal infection. - bark doesn't look right for hickory nor the interior. no pink/red that I can see for BoxElder( which is normally pretty much confined to the central area of any give branch, trunk , junctions)