What tree or wood is this?

[Russel Nash]

Hi all,

Take a look:

http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt112/gryphon1994/807B4E4E-8C11-4E2C-B130-312EB12BD04F-175-0000012080AC9A3A.jpg

This is at my town's dump. Do it is some sort of domestic species that would grow in town.

On a different note there might be some maple trunks there. Just sitting in the dirt. It looks like spalting has started with some of them:

http://i603.photobucket.com/albums/tt112/gryphon1994/4702EC7E-8B3A-4A96-A4FB-37A81F85CC93-157-000001200B247112.jpg

Thanks!

[wv109323]

I agree ,the second looks like Maple. The end grain of the first appears to be red oak. It is difficult to be certain and I may be in error.

[Hickory]

Bark says maple.

[Spector]

I agree.......Maple...............Mike

[shotman]

Sugar maple. tight rings and by size 100yrs . wood is darker than a silver. bark is course.
Makes good smoker wood

[LUCKYDAWG13]

yep maple

[KYCaster]

First pic looks like Black Cherry to me.

Jerry

[badgeredd]

Looks like sugar maple to me...a log that size would have some nice gun stocks in it. I should have stopped on the way to town a month ago when I saw one down. By the time I came back through it was fire wood.

Edd

[wlc]

I'll also say maple. I would love to have the chunk where all those limbs and trunk intersect. That would make some beautiful bowls. You are correct that the second is starting to spalt. Also a wonderful bowl material. I can't believe those went to the dump instead of to the sawmill or someones shop or at least firewood. I'd think that i'd died and gone to heaven with either of those. Our only "hardwood" here is birch..... Lots of possible uses for that wood.

[DCM]

Do you have a better pic of the leaves that were attached to that tree?

[Just Duke]

Maple

[waksupi]

[smilie=f:Fire.....

[Superfly]

Looks like the tree in my yard, Box elder a damn old one too

[BoolitSchuuter]

Bark and leaves say Maple to me. Color of the wood says Red Maple.

[dragonrider]

I am thinking Black Birch

[Alan in Vermont]

I'm thinking cherry. The bark looks a bit small "scales" for maple. A sugar maple that big the scales would be long and narrow. Grown in close quarters cherry grows tall but if it's out in the open it will spread out like that one was. It must have some interesting figure in all that crotch wood but it will bend all out of shape as it dries.

Never seen red maple but the mystery wood is darkening where the sunlight is getting at it, one of trademark tendencies of cherry.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

MY 2¢

The Bark isn't like the sugar (hard) maple that grow in MN.

The bark does kinda look like a silver maple (or other soft maples),
But in the end view, there isn't enough white (sap wood)
in the outer rings to be a soft maple?
and the Dark center confuses me also.

while it is bumpy, lumpy, and curvy like a Box Elder (Maple's ugly cousin)
I don't think it is, Box elder always has a ruby red stripe in the white sap wood.

I wonder if there is a hard maple variety that has Bark like a soft Maple ?
Jon



edited ...
PS. I cut up a large black Locust a couple years ago, it had similar bark, a similar thin ring of sap wood...and hard as heck !
were any leaves from this tree nearby...the Locust has compound leaves.

[Hardcast416taylor]

My vote is a Maple log.Robert

[1911sw45]

I say choke cherry.

[Reverend Recoil]

It could be hickory.

[mkf350]

Black Cherry.

[KCSO]

Maple, I've cut a bunch of that stuff.