Wood ID please

[Theonion]

I got a load of free logs from a tree guy. He said it was cherry.
It's 2 kinds of wood.
The first looks like cherry but it's very hard to split, lots of strands cling together making it impossible to get a clean split.
The other wood is almost white, almost no grain, splits very easily, it's quite heavy, maybe heavier than the cherry. At first from the bark I thought it was soft maple which is prevalent in my neighborhood, but it's not that.
Thanks

 

[Duds13]

Cherry and Ash

 

[Theonion]

Cherry and ash

 

[Theonion]

I'm surprised, I haven't seen a living ash tree in years. The ash borer pretty much killed all of them in michigan, or so I thought

 

[Duds13]

Could be Poplar that is a little wet. Your comment about the weight made me think Ash

 

[stoveliker]

I second cherry and ash

 

[Theonion]

Whoever said cherry is easy to split? The stuff is terrible

 

[Heart Rot]

I agree with the others, Cherry and Ash.

My experience is that when you get a mid-to-large Cherry that has grown straight (like in a timber stand) they tend to split easier. When you get ones with lots of lower limbs and knots, like grown at the edge of the woods, those tend to be very gnarly and hard to split in my experience. Perhaps this one was limb-heavy.

 

[MRD1985]

That bottom photo looks an awful lot like sugar maple to me especially with the dark center heartwood. That looks much more like sugar maple than ash. Ash won’t have that dark heartwood AFAIK. I split a lot of white ash the past couple of months and it was white just about throughout. The sugar maple can almost look slightly white but has the dark heartwood/center. That bark looks a bit different than ash too JMO

Cherry should have a very distinct smell when split.

I recently split this and it is sugar maple. Looks just like that wood in your photo JMO

 

[MRD1985]

For comparison this the ash I split a couple months back

I’m actually picking some up tomorrow and I’ll take some pictures so you can see the difference

 

[Theonion]

For comparison this the ash I split a couple months back

I’m actually picking some up tomorrow and I’ll take some pictures so you can see the difference

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Yea it don't look like that! This wood is almost pure white, kinda like a cream color

 

[patrickk222]

First pic your split looks like hickory based off description and photo and in 2nd hickory , maple n ash

 

[Duds13]

That bottom photo looks an awful lot like sugar maple to me especially with the dark center heartwood. That looks much more like sugar maple than ash. Ash won’t have that dark heartwood AFAIK. I split a lot of white ash the past couple of months and it was white just about throughout. The sugar maple can almost look slightly white but has the dark heartwood/center. That bark looks a bit different than ash too JMO

Cherry should have a very distinct smell when split.

I recently split this and it is sugar maple. Looks just like that wood in your photo JMO

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Good call, could definitely be sugar maple

 

[ScottLewis]

Cherry and ash. That cherry looks familiar, it is so stringy it is hard to split.

 

[Geezer77]

I'm surprised, I haven't seen a living ash tree in years. The ash borer pretty much killed all of them in michigan, or so I thought

Yeah, same here, pretty much wiped out. My cousin 20 miles away has a moderate sized one tho. Be interesting to see how long it lasts. You can still find the rare American Elm too but the beetle/fungus catches up to them eventually.