The Wood ID Thread ( or name this wood type )

[RI Chevy]

Was bark stringy?
Did it smell like horse crap?

 

[chaded]

No it wasnt stringy. It really had its own awful smell. The bark is kind of thick and is redish in color. The wood is fairly light but it wasn’t a huge tree either.

 

[RI Chevy]

Ok. I cut a tree that had stringy bark and literally smelled like horse chit.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Ok, got another one. My ignorance alone will keep this forum alive. Anyways, i was cutting down a bog dead/dying maple and glanced over and saw this tree. Wasn’t real big but big enough so i sawed it down too. The smell......awful. I feel like I need to give my saw a bath after that one.

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Pine Maybe Pitch Pine Pinus Rigida.

 

[chaded]

Red or white oak?

 

[CrystalRiver1]

Red or white oak?



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Looks kinda like a hybrid red oak.
Google some red oak firewood pics may help you.
Somebody will chime in with more experience than me.
Dang good firewood!

 

[RI Chevy]

Almost looks like maple.

 

[redoakneck]

Looks like red oak to me, should split nice and smell, well, like oak???

 

[chaded]

Maybe this photo helps. It’s definitely oak. I was thinking red myself but wasnt 100% sure.

 

[RI Chevy]

Gotta be red oak then. Last white oak I cut was completely blonde all the way to the middle. Not a hint of darkness in middle at all.

 

[chaded]

I did notice the darkness but i wasnt sure if it had something to do with disease or something pertaining to its death. I have another one about 30 yards from this one that im going to bring down that is dead as well.

 

[chaded]

I will have some pictures tomorrow of a maple I took down as well. I’m not sure what is going but I have a a lot of maples getting black trunks and dying. After examining them they all have sapsucker holes in them so I suspect that is what is killing them.

 

[redoakneck]

Nice dog!!!

 

[Coltont]

You guys aren't very good at wood Id. It's white ash that has got some stain.

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[Coltont]

You guys aren't very good at wood Id. It's white ash that has got some stain.

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Likely the stain is from the EAB eating the cambium layer and killing it. The sap sucker holes are from the birds pounding into the bark to get the beetle.

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[RI Chevy]

You guys aren't very good at wood Id. It's white ash that has got some stain.

I knew it didn't look like oak. At least not the oaks around me. LOL
Don't have much Ash around me here.

 

[chaded]

You guys aren't very good at wood Id. It's white ash that has got some stain.

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Well, that’s why I’m here. Lol. I have learned how to ID several trees now without leaves. The ash tree has a couple holes here and there but nothing major.

The sapsucker holes i am referring to is in a bunch of maples, well...supposed to be maples. Lol. I will post pictures tomorrow. But they have sapsucker holes all over in neat lines and the trunks are black now.

 

[Coltont]

Well, that’s why I’m here. Lol. I have learned how to ID several trees now without leaves. The ash tree has a couple holes here and there but nothing major.

The sapsucker holes i am referring to is in a bunch of maples, well...supposed to be maples. Lol. I will post pictures tomorrow. But they have sapsucker holes all over in neat lines and the trunks are black now.

100 percent beat way to ID a tree is bark and tree structure.

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[Lone Wolf]

I looks like Hickory to me!

 

[chaded]

Likely the stain is from the EAB eating the cambium layer and killing it. The sap sucker holes are from the birds pounding into the bark to get the beetle.

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I just got done splitting it up and there is s shape curves all over from the EAB larva. I have another ash tree pretty close to this that needs to come down and im sure there’s more but i havent been all through our woods yet.