Red oak. You can tell because the heartwood looks like someone notched slits into it with a razor blade. This pattern or more prevalent in the inside of the bark
Black birch on the left, gray birch on the right. There’s white birch mixed within this forest too, and some yellow down in the lowlands near the streams. I used to easily confuse white with gray birch. The way I tell them apart is that gray has a dirtier look, and the bark doesn’t exfoliate like a white birch will.
Oh sorry no Canuck here, although I do have some Québécois way back in my family I’m just showing some solidarity for that convoy descending on Ottawa right now. I’m rooting for you guys
Thanks for the support. The man in control here has sold out to the orbalists. Somehow, I made it down there, 4 hour drive one way...I didn't put myself in the middle of the zen-sorship eye so I didn't make a full video for my youtube channel, plus my fingers would freeze, it was -4F FFS. A few stiff gin and tonics helped keep me from turning into an icicle. I did make a catchy youtube shorts video to aid the cause My regular videos never do well as shorts videos can and my viewers don't like non-firewood or semi-related-to-firewood videos. I think the youtube firewood community likes to watch a wedge split wood like how people like to watch their grass grow....good people nonetheless, in that community and right here on this forum as well!
Good afternoon fellas... Im new here in the group, and thanks for all the information that y'all share. I have a question about this wood. I cut it down a month ago. This tree was dry before I move to this house... Any information? Thanks in advance
Jorge Maza Welcome to the site. Great place to hang out with other firewood hoarders. That wood almost looks like popple. I am a bit north of you, so there is that. The popple I have here has the same kind of inner bark. Built in kindling.
Thank you for your help. I'm comparing it with other pictures online, and this does not look like people. Maybe I'm wrong. Any other sugerence?
Not sure what I'm looking at here. It's in a pile of hickory and oak tops. Could be poplar but doesn't look like the other poplar around it.
Reminds me a little of a young black gum. If you buck a piece off and it splits difficult and stringy, there you have it.
Did these with the isocor real quick. I think your right on gum. The one I tried to split before just crushed and splintered, wouldn't split at all.
Oh yeah that definitely looks like it. There’s not too many other species that split like that. Take what you already split and leave the rest
Today I took a hike up a section of a local ridge that I’ve never been on before. I ended up coming across a large grove of these trees that I’ve never seen in person before, except online. Striped maple. Definitely easy to recognize with that striking bark, despite the leaves not being out yet. Like all maples, it’s got opposite branching.
The other day I was hiking in some hills, in a mixed habitat of mostly mountain laurel and chestnut oak, with a few stands of black gum wherever there were low spots that retained water. In places where the soil was thin, I kept coming across some small scrub form oaks. I assumed they were growing shrub sized with strange leaves because of the harsh conditions, but it turns out what I found were bear oaks. Notice the fine teeth at the end of each lobe of the leaves. I think the largest “trunk” I saw was only an inch in diameter. The trails were fun to walk, and the mountain laurel was in bloom and smelled amazing too.
Hey guys, newbie here! I was offered some rounds today by a neighbor across the street. Not sure what kind of tree this is. I was hoping you guys could provide some insight?
Welcome to FHC PAsuburbburner ... .... I see red oak (pin oak?) in the top pictures...but that picture not sure...
