Wood ID request

[Turbo89]

Anyone know what this? One of my neighbors wanted it gone, so I grabbed it, probably a 1/3 of a cord.

 

[Mutineer]

Maple

 

[Dieselhead]

Def in the maple family

 

[back2basics]

First pic looks like alder or maple. But all the pics showing the bark - honestly looks like cottonwood to me. I'm pretty sure it's cottonwood and/or poplar.

 

[Turbo89]

Thanks! Based on responses / google, I’m pretty sure it’s red maple.

I just cut a similar sized poplar tree down and these rounds are noticeably heavier than the poplar, even though this is very dry and that poplar is green. I’m drying that stuff in a separate stack so I don’t get mixed up.

 

[Dieselhead]

First pic looks like alder or maple. But all the pics showing the bark - honestly looks like cottonwood to me. I'm pretty sure it's cottonwood and/or poplar.

Poplar out our way has a much thicker bark, almost black locust like.

 

[Turbo89]

Poplar out our way has a much thicker bark, almost black locust like.

The poplar I cut up looks almost like ash, whose bark is on steroids. Similar pattern, but 3-4X as thick as you point out.

 

[ScottLewis]

Could be ash. Looks like it was dead standing and all the ash around here is dead standing.

 

[bigealta]

Not seeing any diamond bark so probably not Ash.

 

[NickW]

I agree with maple. Bark doesn't quite look like the red here in the Northwoods. I had a similar maple conundrum on some maple logs from a tree service last fall in SE WI and came to my best guess was black maple, which looked similar to what you have.

 

[hickoryhoarder]

I'm thinking sugar maple.

 

[BigJ273]

That’s 100 percent maple

 

[MRD1985]

I have a red maple that looks very similar

I’d say red maple.

 

[Turbo89]

Thanks guys, l stabbed this long ago in the “mystery maple” stack.

 

[gzecc]

Another maple.

 

[Turbo89]

lol, this is an old thread… but that wood is still sitting where I split it in that pic. I’ll check moisture in a few weeks and maybe burn it if it’s dry, after I work down the stack I have beside the stove.

 

[burning VC]

i'm going against the grain.

Flowering Dogwood.

 

[StihlKicking]

I believe what you have there is honey locust.

 

[Turbo89]

I split some of this today between stain coats on my wood project. The fresh splits were 17-18% moisture, so they got stacked beside the shop stove.

This stuff was stringy to cut, I’m still going maple.

 

[Woody Stover]

This stuff was stringy to cut, I’m still going maple.

Straight limbs and trunks of Maples will split pretty easily, but if the grain is twisty, as in a yard tree, it can be a bear to split. 😖
That pinkish center in the early pics says Maple.

 

[Turbo89]

Straight limbs and trunks of Maples will split pretty easily, but if the grain is twisty, as in a yard tree, it can be a bear to split. 😖
That pinkish center in the early pics says Maple.

Yea, this is almost certainly a yard tree. I had a much larger one last year from a tree service that split this exact same way. Even my big gas splitter had a tough time.

 

[ScottLewis]

The tree guy was taking down a big maple at the girlfriend's rental house, a yard tree. I told him I wanted a truckload and he was happy to oblige, that much less wood for him to get rid of. I drove right up to it and wacked it up with the Stihl, one Nissan load in 20 minutes, easy.
Damn that maple was hard to split. Blue Ridge Mtn. maple near Asheville, I don't know what species. I don't mess with maple any more.

 

[NickW]

The tree guy was taking down a big maple at the girlfriend's rental house, a yard tree. I told him I wanted a truckload and he was happy to oblige, that much less wood for him to get rid of. I drove right up to it and wacked it up with the Stihl, one Nissan load in 20 minutes, easy.
Damn that maple was hard to split. Blue Ridge Mtn. maple near Asheville, I don't know what species. I don't mess with maple any more.

Soft maple yard tree's are probably worth avoiding, but I personally would never turn down hard maple. Huge difference in BTU's between sugar and silver...