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Is this a oak tree? 3/23
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cuinrearview
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Without better pics I'm guessing, and I'm guessing no.
cuinrearview
Red saw lover
Pretty sure not oak
no oak, almost looks like soft maple...
hackberry????
I’m starting to think black walnut. A neighbor helped out and took a sample to another neighbor. It is giving colors of walnut
Nope..it’s Hackberry...that’s a hell of a boom lift!
Looks like a big silver maple
Looks like this on this inside?
I'm going with @duckman.poplar of some sort.
When I zoom in on the first couple pics of the whole tree the bark looks very much like Hackberry..has the very pronounced raised “veins” that make Hack distinct. Most of the time the grain is very stringy but I have seen them be smooth like Maple inside.
After the last misidentification, I'm going to be careful on this one! 
First of all, it's in the Pacific NW, in Portland, Oregon, not the midwest.
I don't think it's hackberry, as the hackberrys I have around here have an almost pure white wood. If we could see an end of a piece of wood, that would rule oak in or out. Tuliptree usually is straight and tall and a long ways to the 1st branch, and very rarely multistem. If it's a black walnut, a tree that size would be putting out a LOT of walnuts, and I think it would be obvious on the ground.
However, the seeds above the righthand piece of wood on the pic with 3 pieces on the tailgate look like ash. The form of the tree reminds me of the multistem ash we have around here. The wood looks similar to the other ash that stumped me. However, if those are not seed pods, but are leaves, then I'll say some type of willow.
That's my 2 cents sitting here in the midwest!
First of all, it's in the Pacific NW, in Portland, Oregon, not the midwest.I don't think it's hackberry, as the hackberrys I have around here have an almost pure white wood. If we could see an end of a piece of wood, that would rule oak in or out. Tuliptree usually is straight and tall and a long ways to the 1st branch, and very rarely multistem. If it's a black walnut, a tree that size would be putting out a LOT of walnuts, and I think it would be obvious on the ground.
However, the seeds above the righthand piece of wood on the pic with 3 pieces on the tailgate look like ash. The form of the tree reminds me of the multistem ash we have around here. The wood looks similar to the other ash that stumped me. However, if those are not seed pods, but are leaves, then I'll say some type of willow.
That's my 2 cents sitting here in the midwest!
woodhounder
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My guess would be hackberry. That is a big tree, good wood. Usually it is not easy to split.
This is the base and trunk. I don’t think it has the warts that hackberry has
he sent me this photo
he sent me this photo
That’s the Oregon ash. Possibly! This one actually has some wart things compared to that bark tho. Tree does look like it grows similar
Try this site, and look at the bark pic. Bark on most trees show a lot of variability. https://landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu/plants/fraxinus-latifolia
Do a search on netleaf hackberry (the only native hackberry in your area that grows to any size). The bark is a lot different.
Do a search on netleaf hackberry (the only native hackberry in your area that grows to any size). The bark is a lot different.
