Wood id please

[husky345 vermont resolute]

Wood id

 

[bigbarf48]

Looks like some kind of oak to me

 

[WiscWoody]

I thought Oak at first but the growth rings don't tell me that. I'm only counting 19 from deadwood to sap?

 

[Hogwildz]

Not Oak, some sort of Maple maybe, not sure, but def not oak.

 

[WiscWoody]

Yeah, I'm thinking it's a Maple also from the darker heartwood color and the horizontal marks that Maple often has. That's some real gnarly bark on it for sure!

 

[Hilljack with chainsaw]

Sassafras

 

[AmarilloSlim]

Cotton bark to me. Bottom two pics are... Not a clue

 

[Hogwildz]

You'll smell right away if it is Sass. Looks a bit light to be Sass to me.

 

[WiscWoody]

We don't have any of it up here. I've only heard of it in a Aerosmith song if I'm right....

 

[midwestcoast]

Black Locust?

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Black Locust?

Yes, that's what I'm thinking too. As soon as I saw it I said "that's Locust".....

 

[nrford]

+2 on Black Locust.

 

[lindnova]

Could it be Siberian elm? That dark wood and fast growing rings matches. The bark is pretty rough, but I have seen it look like that in older ones.

 

[shoot-straight]

I agree BL or sass. Looks like BL bark, but heartwood should be more yellow than red. If it is very heavy, its likely BL. Sass is paper light especially when dry.

 

[gzecc]

It does resemble BL, but I don't think so. Post a picture of splits stacked. BL is distinct in a stack.

 

[Wood Duck]

That isn't Black Locust. Black locust wood has a differenet color and never has wide growth rings like the ones is the picture, at least not in a big tree. I think Siberian Elm is a good guess. The bark does look like Black Locust or Cottonwood, but lots of trees have similar bark, including Siberian Elm and most other elms, too.

 

[midwestcoast]

That isn't Black Locust. Black locust wood has a differenet color and never has wide growth rings like the ones is the picture, at least not in a big tree. I think Siberian Elm is a good guess. The bark does look like Black Locust or Cottonwood, but lots of trees have similar bark, including Siberian Elm and most other elms, too.

Black Locust can grow very fast. Around here if it has water (all trees in yards…) it will grow quick & have wide rings. The first Locust I got after moving to this area I thought was Cottonwood due to the wide rings. Luckily I was wrong .
The heartwood shows fairly yellow on my monitor, not dark enough to be Siberian Elm, at least from what I've seen around here. I've gone through several cords of each

 

[Lakeside]

I am with woodduck some type of elm.

See my post from a while back

https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/wood-id.108269/#post-1420081

 

[Paulywalnut]

Third pic looks like tight grain. Maybe BL.