Wood ID?

[ReggieT]

My eyes are not what they use to be.
Is this ash, hickory, or sweet gum...etc?
This is the best pic the guy sent me.
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[Mad Professor]

No see attachment

 

[ReggieT]

My snafu...

 

[lone wolf]

My eyes are not what they use to be.
Is this ash, hickory, or sweet gum...etc?
This is the best pic the guy sent me.
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Hard to tell, if its Ash it will split fairly easy, Gum it will be super hard to split and if it is Hickory you could smell it by burning a sliver and smelling it. Might be Gum though.

 

[svk]

Pics are pretty grainy on my phone. Doesn’t look like ash. Brown staining in center would suggest hickory but I couldn’t tell you with certainty, or which one it would be.

 

[stumpy75]

I'm going to guess hickory. Not quite right bark for ash or sweet gum(although closer to gum). The wood color is not quite right either for ash or sweet gum.

 

[milkman]

First I was thinking Ash, then I enlarged it and now I'm leaning toward Hickory.

 

[svk]

Pignut maybe?

I have been wrong on 4 or 5 of these ID threads in a row now though so don't mind the crazy man LOL

 

[lone wolf]

Pignut maybe?

I have been wrong on 4 or 5 of these ID threads in a row now though so don't mind the crazy man LOL

If the OP would split a piece of it and tell us how it split and post more pics we could nail it. Also cut a sliver hold a lighter under it and smell for Hickory.

 

[svk]

If the OP would split apiece of it and tell us how it split and post more pics we could nail it. Also cut a sliver hold a lighter under it and smell for Hickory.

Yup, if we have end grain, bark, and a fresh split we can figure out to 99 percent certainty pretty quickly.

 

[lone wolf]

Pignut maybe?

I have been wrong on 4 or 5 of these ID threads in a row now though so don't mind the crazy man LOL

Well you will learn sooner or later keep at it.

 

[lone wolf]

Yup, if we have end grain, bark, and a fresh split we can figure out to 99 percent certainty pretty quickly.

And clear pics yes.

 

[lone wolf]

I am thinking Gum, lets see more pics.

 

[stumpy75]

I am thinking Gum, lets see more pics.

I could be persuaded to say sweet gum also... Not ash, and not quite right for pignut either.

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[lone wolf]

I could be persuaded to say sweet gum also... Not ash, and not quite right for pignut either.

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Well lets see what he comes up with as far as how it splits and smells.

 

[svk]

Well you will learn sooner or later keep at it.

I was doing pretty good then we had a bunch of black birch/black cherry threads lol

 

[lone wolf]

I was doing pretty good then we had a bunch of black birch/black cherry threads lol

Hard to tell on the net.

 

[Deleted member 149229]

Bark appears as ash but the wood core isn’t correct.

 

[stumpy75]

Actually, it could be older box elder too, with the pink wood now changed to brown... By older, I mean the rounds have been sitting out for a while, not the age of the tree.

 

[Ikeholt]

Yellow Poplar maybe.