Wood ID

[NorthernFireplaceFool]

Just got a haul local, 2 streets over. Estimating about a 1/3 to 1/2 cord of wood plus more hopefully cut up soon. What kind of wood do you think this is? Maple? (Just the rounds on the ground). They were nice enough to get everything cut up to stove size just needs to be split and stacked. I can get better pictures during daylight later. Thanks!

 

[Jags]

Looks like it belongs to the soft maple family to me.

 

[weatherguy]

Looks like a maple to me too, nice score.

 

[rwhite]

Looks like a silver maple to me. I recall cutting one down in my yard a few years ago. Dang limbs drained water/syrup for 20 minutes. Once it dried it burned HOT. I'd have to mix it with other wood to prevent overfiring.

 

[spudman99]

Norway Maple (soft maple). Pic of what I cut yesterday

 

[Qvist]

Could be Norway maple. Silver and Red (especially Silver) normally have scaley bark at that size around here.

 

[lost in the woods]

now everyone just wait a minute. . . could it be basswood (tilia Americana) the reason I say this is #1 the bark #2 look how oblong the rounds are,...……………………………...

 

[hickoryhoarder]

now everyone just wait a minute. . . could it be basswood (tilia Americana) the reason I say this is #1 the bark #2 look how oblong the rounds are,...……………………………...

As far as the bark goes, it looks more like basswood than any maples. I've never cut basswood, so don't know what rounds look like inside.

 

[baseroom]

As far as the bark goes, it looks more like basswood than any maples. I've never cut basswood, so don't know what rounds look like inside.

I tend to agree basswood. One way to tell is it is lighter than maple.

 

[NorthernFireplaceFool]

The rounds seemed very heavy, They seemed stringy on some and split clean on others when pushing in through the hydro splitter if that helps. Tree was cut last week so it shouldn't have as much water in the rounds.

 

[mark cline]

Basswood is stringy to split, I have never come across any stringy maple

 

[PA. Woodsman]

From my experience Basswood has a very white grain inside, very clean looking, and when it dries it will be light.

 

[NorthernFireplaceFool]

Better daylight images of the split wood.

 

[BigJ273]

Maple