would this be apple?

[mga]

i have to cut up about 30 of these. wood is very dense and heavy and dulls the chain rather quickly.

the branches are scraggly.

 

[bluesportster02]

shag bark hickory may be, hard to tell by pics

 

[lone wolf]

The grain sure looks like
Oak it it some type of scrub or swamp Oak i think. Need more pics of the bark.

 

[Chris-PA]

iWood?

 

[firebrick43]

Bark is too rough for apple. Apple is not that dense nor heavy either. It's more like cherry.

I would venture on the woods coloring that it is a species of hickory. The colors of hickory contrast greatly except for pecan hickory.

 

[mga]

they're growing in an abandoned orchard, which lead me to believe they were apple trees, and they were in rows.

when I go back, i'll take close ups of the bark. usually I can ID them pretty good, but this one was a tuff one because it was hard to cut thru. and the pieces were heavy from being so dense.

i'll probably be splitting it next week. when I do i'll put some pics of it split as well. usually, I don't care what kind of wood because it's all free (except soft woods) but before I load up with this I'd just like to know what I'm getting.

 

[lone wolf]

It ain't no apple its Oak damn it!

 

[066blaster]

It's probably some kind of crab apple. They plant them by orchards for pollinator trees., because of there longer blooming period they pollinate all varieties of apple tree's.

 

[BeatCJ]

From what I see from the shape of the crown, the bark, even the wood, probably not. Doesn't appear to have any pruning. It doesn't look that old to be in an "abandoned" orchard, around 30 years? Did they have any nuts in the orchard?

 

[066blaster]

It's looks like it was allowed to grow naturally and not pruned. So I doubt it was a production tree.

 

[Hedgerow]

Oak..
Looks like a young Pin Oak, but there's so many varieties, who knows..
Fast growing one out in the open like that..

 

[farmer steve]

pear wood, but i'll have to check my pear stash to look at the grain.i do know it is pretty dense.

 

[redoakneck]

NUTS, look for some nuts on the ground around that tree. I have never seen apple with bark that rough, but, I have not seen everything.

Odd ball oak species or hickory

Hickory should smell great when burning!!

 

[Hedgerow]

NUTS, look for some nuts on the ground around that tree. I have never seen apple with bark that rough, but, I have not seen everything.

Odd ball oak species or hickory

Hickory should smell great when burning!!

An oak that young may well not have acorns under it yet..

 

[tomtrees58]

that's a white oak I have some of them on 1 of my jobs trees came from down south

 

[Hedgerow]

that's a white oak I have some of them on 1 of my jobs trees came from down south

Would make sense with the scraggly bark. but wasn't sure if there were many true white's up there..

 

[blacklocst]

My vote is some kind of Hickory, doesn't look quite right for White Oak, at least not the ones that grow around here.

 

[treebilly]

I'm going with young white oak. Could be young pin oak of some variety also

 

[066blaster]

It does look like a smaller pin oak or white oak , but why would someone plant 30 of them in a row by a apple orchard. Also why are they being cut down?

 

[lone wolf]

Oak..
Looks like a young Pin Oak, but there's so many varieties, who knows..
Fast growing one out in the open like that..

NAW, APPLE!