Wood ID please?

[MagdalenaP]

Scored some free wood, not too sure what it is, any ideas?

Please and Thank you

 

[mcdougy]

I'm thinking swamp maple...aka silver maple??

 

[River]

I vote cottonwood.

 

[NickW]

Some variety of aspen/cottonwood...

 

[CincyBurner]

Based just on bark (thin bark with orangish tinge) I'd go with silver maple as well. Do you still have access to branches twigs. Maple is opposite branching habit.

 

[NickW]

It could be silver maple branch wood. I've never seen a silver maple trunk with straight grain like that. Regardless, it certainly appears to be a shoulder season wood and not a high BTU hardwood.

 

[patrickk222]

Its looks like hard maple to me (sugar maple) .... just 1 question is it heavy ?

 

[Dunmyermowingllc]

I'm guessing some sort of pine. The grain is all wrong for maple. Way to white of a wood and way to straight. I've seen similar bark on some evergreens here but I don't know the type (my evergreen knowledge is small)

 

[Simonkenton]

The wood looks like ash but the bark doesn't look like ash.

 

[MagdalenaP]

The wood when split has dark grey and red lines in it, hard to tell from the pics.

 

[NickW]

Red streaks often indicates box elder. I was thinking that but didn't see any red...

 

[Murray01]

Any forestry schools or arborists in your area? Without any leaves/branches it can be difficult to ID wood.

 

[Simonkenton]

I zoomed in on it. The wood definitely looks like ash. In the bark pic, the bark is damaged hard to get a bark ID. I say it is ash.
It isn't pine.

 

[ericm979]

Any forestry schools or arborists in your area? Without any leaves/branches it can be difficult to ID wood.

Yep. Leaves make it a lot easier to ID as does a pic of the whole plant.

There are phone apps that will ID plants from pics (of leaves or the whole plant) though of course they're not always right.

 

[Doublebogey]

I am 99% sure that's silver maple. I have several cords of it in my stacks. I have split tons of straight grain silver maple trunks up.

 

[Dunmyermowingllc]

I am 99% sure that's silver maple. I have several cords of it in my stacks. I have split tons of straight grain silver maple trunks up.

I have cords of silver to, I almost never see straight grain. Maybe a regional thing?

 

[patrickk222]

How heavy do this splits/rounds feel

 

[TreePointer]

Any end grain pics?

 

[Jags]

I am on the silver maple train as well