Wood ID please

[Roundgunner]

Pretty sure this is Black Birch, How is it to dry & burn?



I'm not sure what this even is, oak? maple?

 

[claydogg84]

I believe you have Black Birch and Sugar Maple. No personal experience with the Birch, but the Sugar Maple is a 2 season type of wood. It's also my favorite type of wood to burn.

 

[Applesister]

I cant really tell, it looks more like maple.
Black birch will dry in a year if you make medium splits. It benefits from a longer drying time if you split bigger splits which I recommend. BB and Sugar maple are good overnight woods. It's self defeating to split them small.
BB has a dark gun metal gray color with the lenticels very pronounced. Like Cherry.
If you cut the tree you should smell the mint oil in the bark. Its wonderful.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

I cant really tell, it looks more like maple.
Black birch will dry in a year if you make medium splits. It benefits from a longer drying time if you split bigger splits which I recommend. BB and Sugar maple are good overnight woods. It's self defeating to split them small.
BB has a dark gun metal gray color with the lenticels very pronounced. Like Cherry.
If you cut the tree you should smell the mint oil in the bark. Its wonderful.

I also was questioning if the top one was Black Birch, doesn't really look like it but the picture is not the best view; like you said the smell will tell.....

 

[paul bunion]

No Black Birch at all. Hard to tell with light and shadow but #1 looks more like Aspen.

 

[Applesister]

I think you are right Mr Bunion

 

[Roundgunner]

I will get another photo later today, lady has at least one more large one to drop.

 

[Roundgunner]

 

[Applesister]

Not that the pics are any clearer but its a definite on Aspen, it could be ready by winter if you decide to take it. If its free I'd take it.
But your second pic wasnt, that looked like maple. If its sugar you'll have to skip this winter, even if you split it now.

 

[Roundgunner]

Thank you all for the info, I will be getting more of the aspen and maple too. I'm clearing out a horse pen for them. I just needed to know how long to let them dry, I'm getting it all within the next couple weeks if everything works out right.

Applesister, I see the photo as being sharp and clear, what is wrong with them?
I take photo's for a living. Check out my website.
http://starshinephoto.com/

 

[Applesister]

Thank you all for the info, I will be getting more of the aspen and maple too. I'm clearing out a horse pen for them. I just needed to know how long to let them dry, I'm getting it all within the next couple weeks if everything works out right.

Applesister, I see the photo as being sharp and clear, what is wrong with them?
I take photo's for a living. Check out my website.
http://starshinephoto.com/

Oh...I'm on my cellphone...maybe I was in traffic...lol...or outside.
You know those tiny screens. Or maybe its my eyes. On that phone way too much.
I'll visit your website. Love pics.

 

[husky345 vermont resolute]

Hard maple

 

[nrford]

Aspen and Soft Maple

 

[Applesister]

Impressive website!!
Its hard to tell some pics that are submitted here, if they came from CL Ads or what. Also people who get wood from scrounging dont have options to go back and shoot better detailed photos.
Im a fan of Bruce Hoadley when it comes to Wood ID. And his work all happened on a microscopic level.
Also...I dont know if you heard this or have read it but the coding that's used for jpeg photos abbreviates the digital image and each time the image passes from one URL to another. Becoming more and more distorted.
Its interesting and sad at the same time.

 

[Applesister]

Your photos are probably 10 times more detailed than what Photobucket does with them after they are loaded.
And then there's the quality of the digital screen in which its being viewed...
I read about jpeg in a book on Graphic file formats that I bought at a computer convention in NYC.

 

[Roundgunner]

I had sinus surgery a couple years ago so I can't smell anything, how can I tell soft maple from hard maple?

Today I took portraits at the Coast Guard Academy, an OCS class.

 

[Applesister]

It takes a special kind of person to do portrait photography, I think its the most difficult discipline of all. Kudos to you.
Split your wood and in a years time if the wood is still really heavy then you got Sugar maple. Silver and Red will lose a lot of their weight in water.
The next easiest way is to find some leaves(I think this is the most accurate).
On the tree is best...but dead shriveled up ones on the ground is close enough.
If the leaves have saw toothed edges its Red maple. Smooth is sugar.

 

[D8Chumley]

Split your wood and in a years time if the wood is still really heavy then you got Sugar maple. Silver and Red will lose a lot of their weight in water.
The next easiest way is to find some leaves(I think this is the most accurate).

Or ask nrford

 

[Applesister]

Or ask nrford

What's the matter Chumley? Dont want me drinking whiskey at the Ol Boys Club?

 

[paul bunion]

Three ways to tell sugar from red.

1. Leaves. The base of the sinus will be rounded on a sugar and cut in at an angle on red.

2. Helicopter season. Red and silver seed immediately in the spring as the leaves come in. Sugar seeds in the late summer

3. Hit it with an axe. The difference between soft and sugar maple is quite obvious if you try to chop chunk out of a piece.

 

[D8Chumley]

What's the matter Chumley? Dont want me drinking whiskey at the Ol Boys Club?

No that's not it at all. I simply meant he knows. Not meant the way you might have taken it, honestly. And I'm not implying you don't know because you do know a heck of a lot more than I do

 

[Oldman47]

I was getting a flood of samaras from my silver maple yard tree today. My norway maple will be dropping samaras in another week or two. My sugar maples don't even show the samaras developing much less falling so far. In October I will be cleaning my car off daily due to the samara drop from the sugar maples located near the driveway.