Wood ID- Should I grab it?

[Dobish]

Any idea what type of tree this is? I pulled the pictures of the leaves and full tree off google street view, so i can't grab a better shot of it. Trying to decide if its worth my time to do more than one load, since the ole wood hauler is in the shop.

 

[TedyOH]

I think it is a birch species

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[Dobish]

after looking at the leaves and the smell, it is sort of like birch. we don't have a ton of birch around here, which is weird. I will probably grab a truck full or something, but leave the rest for others.

 

[byQ]

Quaking aspen - the little leaves are the give away - they flutter as the wind blows through them. It is 'paper' wood - i.e. low btu's. It could be used for starting fires or maybe during the start or end of the burning season.

 

[Dobish]

the limbs made me think that it was an aspen of some sort, but the bark on the bigger part threw me off....

 

[Jags]

Yeah - some flavor of aspen. BTU on the low end of the scale. Pretty easy stuff to work up into firewood, though.

 

[English BoB]

Aspen here 2.

bob

 

[CincyBurner]

Populus of some sort. From distance leaves appear like it could be P. tremuloides (quaking aspen), but the furrowed older bark looks more like cottonwood/ hybrid poplar.
I can't recall aspen having dark or orange wood. Seems it's been light/ white. But, it's definitely not Betula (birch).
When I was a kid we had a hybrid poplar in our yard. The wonder tree. http://www.frysvillefarms.com/hybrid-poplar-trees.php It's good for windbreaks, screens and land reclamation. Now male cultivars grown for production. You definitely wouldn't want a female hybrid poplar in your yard. Our hybrid poplar grew ~10'/ year. It slowed down at ~100'. Cut it down at 110'+ after 14 years. While the leaf margin serration is similar to quaking aspen, the leaf was more triangular than aspen.
It'll burn like aspen/ cottonwood.

 

[Wood Duck]

Poplar of some type. Maybe a White Poplar, a European species that is planted in yards sometimes.

 

[Dobish]

i grabbed a few pieces, but the wood hauler is still in the shop, so I wasn't able to grab more. if it is still there on the way home from the shop, I may grab a couple of pieces. Its not like I need the wood right now (since its 70º)