The Wood ID Thread ( or name this wood type )

[Ontario Firewood Resource]

OK fellas here we go. Fairly spalted, no pink, seems fairly hard, my thought is maple.

Looks like elm

 

[Ontario Firewood Resource]

Red Elm? Heavy, wet, and stringy as hell.

Agreed, Not Siberian Elm

 

[Ontario Firewood Resource]

Heavy as all get out, smaller trees, 2' diameter is about as big as I've seen here on this property. I have no idea what it is. I thought maybe walnut ? I need some help fellas.

I've had a bit of this before and I don't know what it is, but its 100% definitely not honey locust

 

[Flying_Dutchman]

The bark is easily crushed relative to other tree bark. The wood is a yellowish, not Osage yellow, sort of a dirty yellow. Strong odor, pleasant in my opinion. The wood is somewhat light weight and easily rots in the center. Splits good and straight, easy to split.

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Sassafras

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[Ontario Firewood Resource]

Sassafras

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Are you sure? Sassafras has thick ribbed bark. I've only seem branch diameter of that wood but it doesn't look the same, the wood in the picture has a reddish purplish bark

 

[PissRev]

I just had to post this .

 

[Flying_Dutchman]

Are you sure? Sassafras has thick ribbed bark. I've only seem branch diameter of that wood but it doesn't look the same, the wood in the picture has a reddish purplish bark

Pretty sure... When the bark peels a bit, and especially in the second picture where part of the end of that log is split off, looks just like it too me. And the bark usually looks more like this when it gets bigger. I just don't see much of it that big here in SW MI.

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[Flying_Dutchman]

Plus everything else he said sounds like sassafras.

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[Nutball]

Maybe some varieties don't get very big. Look up the largest sassafras

 

[Flying_Dutchman]

I kinda figured it was a location thing. Also they're very weak, so if they're not protected, they like to snap off. Maybe that's why they're not usually very big?

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[Ontario Firewood Resource]

I downloaded the Virginia Tech Tree App but almost no pictures for any of the species wtf? not available

 

[Flying_Dutchman]

I didn't even know that there were different types of sassafras... I really don't know much about trees other than kinda being able to identify the ones that are common around here.

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[Nutball]

Couple more pictures from when I cut some to try smoking with.

Very unique smelling wood. These pics are scratch n sniff by the way.

Looks near 100 years old.

 

[Lee H]

Can anyone for the life of me tell me what the eff this chit is. It just don't split
it rips and tears apart. A 6 inch diameter log will stop my splitter dead in it's tracks.
My splitter is the Special Edition Super Split, 18 ton with a 9 horse Honda and
the 100 pound flywheels.

 

[Nutball]

Probably balsam. Ours looks different from MN to TN as far as I know (black bark).

I have a pic somewhere how to split such wood. Elm will do that too, and sycamore.

Best yo use a hydraulic splitter.

 

[jed1124]

Going by the last picture on the bottom I would say Elm.

 

[Coltont]

Can anyone for the life of me tell me what the eff this chit is. It just don't split
it rips and tears apart. A 6 inch diameter log will stop my splitter dead in it's tracks.
My splitter is the Special Edition Super Split, 18 ton with a 9 horse Honda and
the 100 pound flywheels.

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Its black gum.

 

[Lee H]

Never heard of black gum

 

[Coutu]

Never heard of black gum

Hey Lee Coltont is right that’s Gum. Couldn’t think of the name yesterday. Elm is similar but the elm around here has a noticeable heartwood and it’s more stringy. That seemed to be a lot less dense than elm too. Bark is different too.

 

[jed1124]

Its black gum.

I stand corrected. Gum for sure. We only have Sweet Gum around here, and it’s a pain to split as well.