A little ID help here please-thank you in advance

Bottom picture, the round on the far left looks like ash but then some of the others make me question that.

 

You know Locust Post , I felt the same thing-and here I am the Ashwatcher---the wood just looked a little too dark to me to call it ash-I really dont know-I was really thinking chestnut oak?

 

The bigger it gets, the rougher the bark. I think its all hickory.

 

I agree with you Eric VW

 

The bark on the trunk of a big hickory is harder for me to ID (except Shagbark). I have to glance up the tree to look at the bark on the limbs about this size.

 

The only hickory we have here is shagbark, but this does have the look of a hickory to me too.

 

Pig nut hickory 1st guess

Hard to tell in pic but could be cottonwood, 2nd guess by the 2nd pic far left small round
( near water or wet ground ? )

closer to pignut hickory IMO

getting/got any leaves ?

 

Thanks-Im convinced its hickory-a friend came by and asked, said his dad had plenty and that I would be welcome to it if interested-they just dropped like 60 trees around their 2 houses---has some beech and white oak too-guess I'll trade one day of cutting this weekend to go haul from there-and they thanked me for helping them to clean up??? Good people around here, good people all on here-I am blessed and appreciative for sure

 

bogydave -Do we even have cottonwood here? I've never heard of one unless we call it something else-It is real heavy wood for sure-I'll get a look at a bigger piece in a day or so-Thanks again

 

Thanks Chvymn99 I dont know all the hickorys that well, shagbarks the easy one-I need some elm education too-otherwise I do ok, watching for pretty ashes and puttering along...always appreciate learning more

 

It's pignut. The bark should feel really hard. You can pretty much identify a hickory tree blindfolded by the feel of the bark alone.

 

Pignut and mockernut are very similar, pignut having better defined ridges in the bark, giving it more of an ash type of look.

Elms took me a while too. They are super easy to identify whe growing out in the open just by their shape so I never learned to id them up close. When I came across some in the woods I couldn't figure it out. It drove me nuts till I found a sapling that I could get leaves from.

 

Paul bunion thx-pignut it is then-have a great day all