Help to identify this wood please?

[DavisL.]

I was offered free range to cut wood from a pile of logs after a clearing and am trying to identify this wood. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[Del_]

Hickory

 

[DavisL.]

That's what i suspected. Thank you

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[Ikeholt]

Is that rot in the center? Bark looks like willow to me.

 

[DavisL.]

Is that rot in the center? Bark looks like willow to me.

No open old. The wood was wet. This is it after splitting and drying a bit.
I suspect it is hickory. Do you still think it looks like willow?
Thank you for your help.

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[Brushwacker]

I don't cut much Hickory but that doesn't look like any hickory I have cut. I think it looks like Willow. Both are very different. Willow is soft and would cut very easy and is a much wetter and rot prone wood. Hickory is 1 of the very hardest woods in these and most parts and you can tell as it works your chainsaw much harder. I don't think it rots that easy either. If I had almost any thing else I don't think I'd waste time cutting willow for firewood. Not near the heat and a ton of ashes. May be ok in an outdoor woodburner. Hickory on the other hand is 1 of the very best.

 

[DavisL.]

I don't cut much Hickory but that doesn't look like any hickory I have cut. I think it looks like Willow. Both are very different. Willow is soft and would cut very easy and is a much wetter and rot prone wood. Hickory is 1 of the very hardest woods in these and most parts and you can tell as it works your chainsaw much harder. I don't think it rots that easy either. If I had almost any thing else I don't think I'd waste time cutting willow for firewood. Not near the heat and a ton of ashes. May be ok in an outdoor woodburner. Hickory on the other hand is 1 of the very best.

Brushwacker this is the wood after it has dried some.
There is no rot......it was wet and almost black now it has lightened up some.
I thought I sent that image to you earlier. Your thoughts now.......thanks Buddy.

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[DavisL.]

Is that rot in the center? Bark looks like willow to me.

No Sir it is not rot Open old. It was dark as beck though. Here it is dry some. You opinion now Buddy?

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[DavisL.]

My phone keeps adding the words "open old" after I push send?!?!?!? It is really aggravating.

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[DavisL.]

Walnut?

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[DavisL.]

Here is Black walnut...... Looks a lot like what I have.

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[Woody912]

Is that rot in the center? Bark looks like willow to me.

looks more like willow to me, did this come from high ground or a marshy area?

 

[Woody912]

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Here is Black walnut...... Looks a lot like what I have.

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bark does not match in my opinion. I know for a fact there is very little walnut in south MS, don't know about LA

 

[DavisL.]

It come from high ground. But I'm beginning to think willow now myself.
3 people have suggested it and who am I to question that? Thanks guys

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[ReggieT]

Basswood?

 

[DavisL.]

Ohh goodness now I'm really torn! Lol

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[duckman]

Basswood?
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the grain and fiber looks like an oak

 

[DavisL.]

the grain and fiber looks like an oak

The wood in the original post I put up also has the red tint to the bark.
Many say willow but I have never seen willow with the pith so dark unless it was rotten. I Googled a bit and came up with something called willow oak but still I'm more confused than when I started.
The bark does not quite match basswood.
The grain is straight and it is a heavy wood. I burned a piece yesterday and it smelled sweet.

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[ATH]

Is the bark hard or soft?

 

[Woody912]

The wood in the original post I put up also has the red tint to the bark.
Many say willow but I have never seen willow with the pith so dark unless it was rotten. I Googled a bit and came up with something called willow oak but still I'm more confused than when I started.
The bark does not quite match basswood.
The grain is straight and it is a heavy wood. I burned a piece yesterday and it smelled sweet.

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Basswood does not show heartwood, even textured and not much grain. I have never cut a willow because they are not worth cutting. Hickory usually has a very pungent odor. I live in Indiana, spent a great deal of time in Mississippi, there is a great deal of difference in the same tree from here to there. Hickory cuts like iron, willow like paper