Wood ID

[Tocramed]

Can anyone help ID this? My first thought was hickory, but it is really lite and cuts extremely fast.

 

[Tocramed]

 

[jackatc1]

Tree of heaven. It grow's in Brooklyn.
AKA. Ailanthus.

 

[BenTN]

Top pic looks like young black walnut, bottom pic could be tree of heaven. Doesnt look like the same tree as top.

 

[Woody Stover]

Top pic looks like young black walnut, bottom pic could be tree of heaven. Doesnt look like the same tree as top.

I dunno but the two rounds on the sawhorse in the first pic sure look different..

 

[BenTN]

I dunno but the two rounds on the sawhorse in the first pic sure look different..

Agreed, i was speaking to the log centered in the pic. It appears there are several species here.

 

[Woody Stover]

I got that, just sayin' about the top pic stuff. Woulda been nice to have an end-grain pic of the bottom round, or maybe Tocramed can describe it..dark heart like the top pic?

 

[PA. Woodsman]

I'm thinking Walnut and Ash, see the little pinhole on the end of the cut side on the piece on the bottom in the top picture?

Whack it open and post a picture of the grain to be sure.....

 

[CincyBurner]

Top log looks like walnut (check bark with a pen knife - soft, chocolate-colored bark). Dark heartwood with light/ white sapwood. Smell of walnut is distinctive and pungent.
Ash has opposite branch habit, while walnut is alternate.
Bottom one could be ash. It's tough to see from pic.

 

[Tocramed]

In the top pic, the bottom log is ash. Ash is 90% of the wood I have been cutting in the last 2 years. We don't have much black walnut or ailanthus around us so I am not familiar with those; however, I am starting to lean towards black walnut as there are a few others found in the area this one came from.

Both pics are taken of the same log.

I haven't had a chance to split any yet, but I will post some pics of the splits when I do.

 

[jackatc1]

Starting to look a lot like Black Walnut.