Wood ID please! Couple types.

[anymanusa]

No leaves to look at but I did take a few pics, I think this might be american beech:

Here is what the 'fruit' on the twig ends looks like:

And what might this be? It has the 'shagbark' look to it.

Is that enough to make a determination? I'll get a 10x mag and look over the cell structure if no one has any ideas.

Thanks.

 

[freemind]

Block one looks like poplar.
Block two is shag bark hickory.

At least block one doesn't look like any beech I have ever seen.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Block one looks like poplar.
Block two is shag bark hickory.

At least block one doesn't look like any beech I have ever seen.

Doesn't look like any poplar that I have encountered in my area. I would lean towards maple on Exhibit 1 and agree with your assessment on Exhibit 2.

 

[flotek]

1 appears to be soft red maple
number 2 is not hickory ,it is white oak

 

[komatsuvarna]

Its hard to go by bark alone. The first is probably maple, and it could be beech as well. Beech does have that smooth mouse grey bark.

The second one does look like shag hickory. JMO

 

[Woodcutteranon]

#1 looks like sycamore
#2 looks like silver maple

 

[anymanusa]

Thanks for the replies. The block one was next to a sycamore tree and they looked different, so I ruled that out, although it may still be sycamore. The shagbark example is from a pretty small tree, so if I did luck out and get hickory, there's not much of it. There is also a chance that block one may be sweetgum as well, but it looks a little different, but not by much.

 

[appalachianarbo]

1 appears to be soft red maple
number 2 is not hickory ,it is white oak

Exactly right.

 

[bluestem]

:agree2: although I'm not convinced either way on the second. But on the other hand you have either oak or hickory firewood!!

 

[branchbuzzer]

1 appears to be soft red maple
number 2 is not hickory ,it is white oak

:agree2:

On #1, Beech, while smooth and gray, usually doesn't have the mottled look of that bark and is more of a solid gray. It usually also has a few small twigs at random places coming off the lower trunk. The dark patch in the heartwood is also pretty common in red maple, and the color of beech is more golden than the whiter red maple.

The "shag" on shagbark usually comes off the trunk more than that, can be almost 6" or more on some trees I've seen. Looks more like a white oak.

 

[coog]

#1 could be almost anything. #2 is not White Oak...way too scaly. Shagbark more likely. End grain pictures would be nice.

 

[banshee67]

my guess is a soft maple for the first one and shag hickory for second, some shots of the wood grain would be good!

 

[anymanusa]

Okay, end grain photos:
1 still looks and feels a little green, but it's much heavier than the green sweetgum that I have:

2 (dead for a really long time, sawdusty when cutting:

 

[banshee67]

Okay, end grain photos:


2 (dead for a really long time, sawdusty when cutting:

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what the hell is that spalted punky crap?

 

[anymanusa]

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what the hell is that spalted punky crap?

^I don't know exactly what you mean.

 

[msvold]

#2 is Shagbark Hickory. Although it may be a little punky, split it and look at it. I recently was disappointed when running the saw, thinking it was too punky to worry about, but decided to split it and try burning. I was pleasantly surprised to know the wood was still in decent shape, and although slow to start, burned very hot. I set it aside for next year, but I'm still keeping it.

 

[anymanusa]

I managed to find one small, intact leaf on tree number one.

I don't know if that helps, because the leaf looks immature and could probably be something much different looking when mature...

it's definitely not sycamore, based on the sycamore right next to it.

 

[banshee67]

^I don't know exactly what you mean.

those arnt the same pieces
first one is some nice shagbark hickory from the looks of bark, that cant be the meat from it in second picture?

punky meaning in the second picture that wood looks like it would crumble if you split it, rather than split
and spalted the dark black rings in the wood

 

[anymanusa]

those arnt the same pieces
first one is some nice shagbark hickory from the looks of bark, that cant be the meat from it in second picture?

punky meaning in the second picture that wood looks like it would crumble if you split it, rather than split
and spalted the dark black rings in the wood

same trunk, pieces may be a foot or two apart, and it didn't crumble when I split it, it split easy and burned slow and made good coals.

 

[anymanusa]

trees laying down:

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