Oh, Man. you're leading a great life. That tree is a plague. I've cut up and split way too much of it. It's a quick-growth tree. This area is saturated with them. It'll have twists right under the bark. This looks like Sweet Gum to me. It's "OK" wood. But, it won't keep for 3 years. It can to styrofoam. It's best to burn that the second winter after it's cut.
It is a type of poplar; I cut a lot of it here, mostly what I burned during the remainder of the winter after I got my stove and still have a good stack of it. It has lots of sap when cut in the spring with the leaves coming out. I have also cut sweetgum here, plan on cutting more as it is not that hard to split with my little 5 ton electric splitter and it is pretty good burning wood. Yes, poplar burns fast but it does get off some nice heat; it is not a slow burn wood at all. If you have poplar, by all means cut and burn it, it dries fast and you can mix it with some slower burning woods.
Which can be a good thing if you are cutting wood from your own woodlot, you want trees that can quickly renew the woodlot. A hickory can take forever to grow; I have a few hickories on the lot that haven't changed much in 10 years.
It looks like some of the big ash I've cut. The bark ridges are flat like the big dead white ash here in Ohio. The wheelbarrow pic looks like my ash splits, same color and inconsistent stringiness. Idk how prevalent EAB is in Arkansas yet as it was only 2014 that they started finding them. iirc Ive never cut a live ash as it's been in Ohio for a decade so idk if it saps like that when cut. Just My 2 cents. If not I vote poplar.
Is this yellow poplar? Only one I know of out that way. Right on. We have the same situation here. Several young shagbark hickory. They grow slowwwwww.
Here's some pics I got today so many different trees around and looks like it's been down since last year.
Not really. There's a fair amount of spread in how twisted it can get. Some of it can be fairly straight. I was told used heartwood from Gum for gunstocks near the end of WW2. But, I don't know that for a fact. Then again, some of it is twisted so badly it is awful! That last pic, where the brown spots are around the edge of the heartwood, that's Gum.
O YEAH!! I rub down with ivy pre treatment and then shower as soon as I get home. That tree landed in an ocean of ivy and is covered the only reason i cut those 2 rounds is because i thought it was oak
Looks like basswood to me. If it is basswood it will get pretty light when dry. Trees of Wisconsin: Tilia americana, American basswood
Looks like poplar. Probably a white poplar/big tooth aspen or yellow/tulip poplar. Not sure what is common in your area. If you peel the bark off what does it look like underneath, does it have a strong aroma?
