Wood ID please

[nmcqueen469]

What am I?

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[FirewoodAddict]

At first glance the bark looked like ash but the dark heartwood is throwing me off...

 

[CenterTree]

Looks like Black Locust to me.

 

[Jeff2009]

Maybe tulip??

 

[FirewoodAddict]

I'm gonna say bur oak, final answer...

 

[Osage]

Bark looks like cottonwood.

 

[Clyde S. Dale]

Maybe tulip??

+1 tulip

 

[Fifelaker]

Some kind of poplar.

 

[Jeff2009]

Some kind of poplar.

Yeah. Tulip poplar.

 

[Osagebndr]

Sassafras

 

[D8Chumley]

Sassafras

Does it have any smell? I cut some dead sass and it had thick bark like that. IIRC was it a vanilla kinda smell?

 

[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

We are at 9 guesses with 7 different answers..... Where's Nford....
My guess is Sassafrass tooo....

 

[XJcacher]

I'm gonna say bur oak, final answer...

What he said.

 

[claydogg84]

Close up picture of the end cut?

 

[Jeff S]

cottonwood

 

[Osagebndr]

Where is nrford , we need to clear this up

 

[Andy S.]

Another vote for Poplar here. That narrows it to one of the other choices.

 

[tigeroak]

I turn it down every chance I get, cottonwood.

 

[Jearley35purdue]

What ever you want it to be! I find asking about wood Id to be like requesting my old ladies opinions! They are never the same day to day! Burn it !

 

[Hogwildz]

Any sass I ever had was reddish orange on the inner bark area.

 

[Osagebndr]

Could be cottonwood after a closer look at the bark, too rough for poplar tho.

 

[nmcqueen469]

Lol I figured this would be a tricky one. It's not ash, that I'm sure of.

Cottonwood was my first thought, or some kind of oak, but the dark heart wood isn't usually found in cottonwood, right?

I'm in northeast Indiana, if that matters. Not much sassafras around here that I'm aware of.

They are pretty large, probably 36-40" at the base.

Just trying to decide wether it's worth it to go after. It's on a construction site, so it's tore all to hell...and now all the ruts in the mud are frozen solid.

 

[FirewoodAddict]

If there are any branches around from the crown you would see dead flowers attached to them if its a tulip poplar. I have 2 here and the crowns still have a bunch of the dead tulips on them.

 

[nmcqueen469]

That's what I'm going to go with, tulip poplar.

The tops are all wadded up in a big, snowy, mud-covered pile...the trees were uprooted/dropped with a big ass excavator during the site demo.

 

[FirewoodAddict]

I have some css but havent burned it yet so cant give any sound advice on it. Im sure theres plenty of guys here who have burned it that could tell if its worth it.