Need Help With This Wood I.D.

[ReggieT]

Hey guys,

After several submits the jury is still out on this load of wood given to me by a local guy running an add for "Free Hickory". He told me this about the tree, "Yeah, it used to drop a bumper crop of nuts every other year fer many years yung feller...tastiest dern nuts this side of my scrotum???"!!!!WTH!!
I never saw any "nuts' lying around...

I've heard everything from White oak, Ash, Mockernut/Pignut Hickory, Butternut, and Popular!
Here are the best pics I could scrounge.
The last 2 pics are something else tossed in as a bonus...I could stand some help on it as well.
Appreciate it

 

[Del_]

Sure looks like a hickory.

 

[Deleted member 149229]

Amazing how many types of hickory there are, in my area only hickory is shag bark, that ain’t shagbark.

 

[ReggieT]

Amazing how many types of hickory there are, in my area only hickory is shag bark, that ain’t shagbark.

True that...definitely not a shaggy.

 

[4seasons]

Any hickory I have even dealt with has a dark core with light wood between the bark and core. From the third picture I would say ash as it looks just like one I cut next to my shed last year.

The second tree resembles chestnut oak top and limb branch bark.

 

[Jed1124]

Mockernut Hickory

 

[Saiso]

Looks like nice wood. I don’t believe we have any hickory in my neck of the woods.

 

[ReggieT]

****Updated Split Pics***
Split a few rounds earlier today and it was gnarly, stringy, and full of knots!
Here are pics...

 

[Hinerman]

Sure looks like a hickory.

That is what I said on the other forum...

 

[ReggieT]

That is what I said on the other forum...

Yes you did...no slight against it...

 

[Camper]

It looks like a elm I split last week.

 

[ReggieT]

It looks like a elm I split last week.

Do you know what type of elm it was...decent firewood?

 

[Camper]

Do you know what type of elm it was...decent firewood?

No not sure what kind of elm. I know it was stringy and hard to split. I burn it in my outside furnace it does pretty good but it’s not my first choice just because of how it splits.

 

[pauljoseph]

In one of the pictures it looks like Hickory, but then it looks stringy like maple, but the bark reminds me of oak. I am going with Chestnut mape-ickory.

 

[babybart]

Gum

 

[lone wolf]

Gum

Yup its gum alright.

 

[Jed1124]

Gum I’ve seen usually has a dark heartwood.

 

[lone wolf]

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Also resembles hickory !

Gum I’ve seen usually has a dark heartwood.

 

[pauljoseph]

I’ve had the unfortunate pleasure of splitting a cord of gum by hand, and it does have some semblance to what I was working with.

 

[jrider]

Looks like gum to me. Miserable stuff