Wood ID 12-1-2017

[Woodcutteranon]

Hello Everyone...

I thought I was cutting up a silver maple log based largely upon the appearance of the bark. However this wood is MUCH heavier than SM, it split nicely, but has zero aroma. Can you ID this for me? Feels like oak but I am unfamiliar with this bark. The moisture content was 30-33%.

 

[svk]

Shagbark hickory?

 

[Ikeholt]

Looks like White oak to me.

 

[CaseyForrest]

Shagbark.

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[unclemoustache]

Yes, that looks like Hickory all right. The bark can look deceptively like silver maple.

 

[johnnyballs]

pignut hickory

 

[CaseyForrest]

Pignut Hickory bark is much smoother than shagbark....

 

[Ikeholt]

Third pic shows a dozen or so wood rays. Rays give quartsawn oak the tiger striping appearance. Hickory doesn't have visible rays. It's excellent firewood either way.

 

[milkman]

White Oak, good wood

 

[CaseyForrest]

That is not white oak. The bark is all wrong for white oak in that diameter.

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[CaseyForrest]

This is white oak. Notice the lack of distinct difference in color between the heart wood and sapwood.

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[CaseyForrest]

Here is a trailer load of mostly shagbark

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[CaseyForrest]

Here's a piece of shagbark.....

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[grizz55chev]

Locust?

 

[cuinrearview]

Everything about the pics says shag to me, except for the pic of the split round. I've never, EVER had hickory split that cleanly. Some of the stringiest wood I've split.

 

[CaseyForrest]

All of the shag and pig I've split, unless it's a crotch, splits fairly clean.

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[Hinerman]

Another vote for hickory. Not white oak, for the reasons mentioned above, and white oak would have a distinct aroma.

 

[Woodcutteranon]

I agree that the mystery wood has similar bark to hickory but the wood, after splitting, looked and felt like oak except it didn't have any odor. First pic is two pieces of split hickory on the left and next to it, on the right, is the mystery wood (split and bark side).




The pic below with my thumb is hickory... smells awesome







The pic below is hickory freshly split



The pic below is the mystery wood

 

[Streblerm]

I think what you have there is Mockernut hickory.

 

[milkman]

I still think White Oak.