Scored some wood but need to ID it. Pics

[nomak]

Im in southern IN and it looks just like silver maple that I cut earlier in the year..and the main trunk was the hardest wood I had ever split in my life.. I even bogged down a 30 ton splitter with the main trunk wood from it.. now the green smaller diameter branches towards the top split easy as pie but that old growth big rounds seemed to be hard as a rock.. now that its seasoned though it is light as can be sounds like the crack of two wooden baseball bats hitting when you bang them together.. It burns fairly good for maple not alot of coals left behind and the ash isnt that bad either but that bigger old stuff mainly the trunk part of the tree will fight u all the way for some reason.. good luck and dont kill yourself trying to split it by hand.. just a word of advice..been there and rented a splitter to do the job in the end..

 

[woodhounder]

my guess would be sugar maple but that should split pretty easily.

 

[nomak]

my guess would be sugar maple but that should split pretty easily.

I thought so to but like I said the limbs towards the top that were only anywhere from 10" in diameter to maybe 18" or so in diameter and were green split with ease but the main trunk of the tree wich in my case the main trunk of the trees I had cut were about 30 to 40 feet tall, that was the wood that game me the most problems and even stopped the 30 ton hydraulic splitter even after they had been noodled in to halfs on the large rounds... I dont know why but it just did and I know for a fact it was sugar maple...

 

[Ductape]

Looks like sugar maple that is starting to spalt. I burn a ton of it, and it normally isn't that hard to split. Noodle it with the saw and the splitter will take care of it.

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Sugar Maple is nice firewood, but can have alot of crotches, which can be bear to split.

 

[pwoller]

Its hard to noodle and split. I had my chain smoking at times. When its 1/4 up it can be split but it still fights me. I have a feeling that I'm going to get to 1/4 it up and split it with a splitter.

 

[nomak]

Its hard to noodle and split. I had my chain smoking at times. When its 1/4 up it can be split but it still fights me. I have a feeling that I'm going to get to 1/4 it up and split it with a splitter.

you'll be glad you did... on the plus side it burn good but you have to load the fireplace or what ever you may have more often and it seasons fairly quick if you cut it as soon as spring weather starts to warm and then have a nice hot summer like we have had in IN.. well my moisture meter says some of the pices are at 15 percent..so that means they are ready to burn..its a goos shoulder wood but not for over nighters and doesent put off the heat needed for the cold winter months of january and febuary but you will be happy with it.. my moto is if it burns then it cant be all that bad just some wood is better than others.

 

[davec]

Bark looks like elm. And the problem splitting tend to reinforce that...

 

[pwoller]

If it doesn't split, it's probably Elm. Pull a chunk of bark off that's at least a 1/2" thick, if it is striped with red and white it's American Elm.

No red and white on the inside of the bark.

 

[branchbuzzer]

I had my chain smoking at times.

Might be your whole problem right there. Chain smokers always have a bit o trouble using a maul.

 

[pwoller]

Might be your whole problem right there. Chain smokers always have a bit o trouble using a maul.

How about chain dippers? Every other time I've used the maul its split just fine??

 

[nomak]

It was a big tree the limbs started about 10 feet off the ground. I measured the stump at 5 foot across.

heres the best pic of a view of frsh cut sugar maple I have that can be viewed but today when I get home from work I think I still have one large round and definately alot of seasoned split rounds that you can look at and see for yourself that Id bet a beer on that wood you have beeing sugar maple or maple of some sort at least.. I will post my pics of split pieces later cuase they look just like yours and if I still have the big round left that I kept for my son to use for shooting cans off of with the BB gun I will snap a pic of it too cuase last time I was down back splitting all my maple rounds they were all checking like the ones you have are doing..

 

[buzz sawyer]

Got this off craigslist, home owner said it was maple. When I went to split it with a maul 8 swings and all I had was a bunch of dents. How do you split this stuff and what is it?

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Wood on the left really looks like elm to me. Wood on the right looks like sugar maple. Are you sure this is all from the same tree?

 

[nomak]

Ok got home for work and snapped some pics of silver maple round and split and have all been split for at least 5 to 6 months heres the round to see the checking on the ends of it first..
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heres some additional pics of sugar maple splits and the variations of colors they are...

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hope this helps you in identifying your wood...

 

[branchbuzzer]

Wood on the left really looks like elm to me. Wood on the right looks like sugar maple. Are you sure this is all from the same tree?

All the elm that I've ever split, that's been tough to split, has very stringy grain. I just don't see that on this one. Yeah, the grain is a bit twisty, but it just doesn't look like elm to me. I admit I've probably not seen all the different types of elm, JMHO.

 

[banshee67]

. I had my chain smoking at times.

clean out your bar and oil holes and sharpen the chain :greenchainsaw:

my guess is sugar maple that went a little punky, if left in rounds or lengths for a while, the inside of the wood can change a lot , without the outside or bark really changing other than splitting/checking on ends

 

[flotek]

it is definitely 100% maple

 

[pwoller]

Wood on the left really looks like elm to me. Wood on the right looks like sugar maple. Are you sure this is all from the same tree?

Those 2 pieces are off the same round.

 

[pwoller]

Ok got home for work and snapped some pics of sugar maple round and split and have all been split for at least 5 to 6 months heres the round to see the checking on the ends of it first..
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heres some additional pics of sugar maple splits and the variations of colors they are...

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hope this helps you in identifying your wood...

I think your right. Some kind of maple.

 

[bluestem]

I think these above pictures are of Silver maple (Acer saccharinum) not Sugar maple (Acer sacharum), here's some pictures to compare

Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum):

This is pretty typical of the bark of most after they grow larger than 16 - 18 in.

Sugar Maple (Acer sacharum):

Sugar maple bark is smoother but once the tree gets quite large it starts to shag off a bit and look like potato chips.

 

[nomak]

I think these above pictures are of Silver maple (Acer saccharinum) not Sugar maple (Acer sacharum), here's some pictures to compare

Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum):

This is pretty typical of the bark of most after they grow larger than 16 - 18 in.

Sugar Maple (Acer sacharum):

Sugar maple bark is smoother but once the tree gets quite large it starts to shag off a bit and look like potato chips.

thanks for correcting me up there for I had typed sugar maple instead of silver maple... I have since fixed good catch...