Identify this wood

[medic8852]

Could someone identify this wood for me? A buddy got some dropped off at his place and I can't seem to place it. Thanks!

 

[mingo]

Looks like tulip poplar.

 

[coltont]

Not tulip poplar. Maybe some kind of aspen or cottonwood.

 

[sw oh logger]

Could someone identify this wood for me? A buddy got some dropped off at his place and I can't seem to place it. Thanks!

Most likely is Cottonwood, could be Sassafrass however.

 

[lfnh]

Peel off some bark. Sassafrass smells like, well sassaafrass. Black ants like sassafrass heart. Light weight.
Cottonwood smells often like cat piss.

Bark color and end shape on right pic sure lean toward sasafrass. idk

 

[U2bwolfb4]

kinda looks like chinese elm..

 

[treeslayer2003]

sassafras

 

[Oldmaple]

Cottonwood

 

[buzz sawyer]

I go with cottonwood. The bark looks exactly like the cottonwood bark I carve.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Cottonwood is poplar. The person that said chinese elm has never seen one. Unless he was thinking Siberian elm,
Jeff

 

[coltont]

Cottonwood is not the same as poplar.

 

[coltont]

The ridges on the bark are too flat for sassafras I think.

 

[treeslayer2003]

looks exactly like sassafras here. looks nothing like tulip poplar.

 

[coltont]

Our sassafras is much more tan to brown in color here. Rarely solid at that size. Normally if it was that big it would be a flying squirrel hotel.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Cottonwood is not the same as poplar.

They are both the same genus,,so they are.
Jeff

 

[coltont]

Haul a poplar log and a cottonwood of the same dimension..... Like 12 6 20 inches on the small end to a saw mill. Come back and tell me they are the same. That's like saying oak is the same as beech since they have the same genus.

 

[jefflovstrom]

That's like saying oak is the same as beech since they have the same genus.

Fagus and Poplar are not the same genus. You mean same family,,,
Jeff

 

[coltont]

I never said they were.

 

[treeslayer2003]

Coltan Jeff prolly does not mean tulip poplar, wich is a magnolia.

my biggest solid sassafras to date was 33"

 

[coltont]

Dang that's a brute for sassafras. Ever uproot a small one in the early early spring and peel root and make tea from it?