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Wood identify

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  1. makey98

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    Still learning, new to this... can you help me identify these 3 woods?? Thanks. Two pictures of each.
     

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    This one should have been the first picture...

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    Not much to go on there.
     
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    Looks like silver maple. It's been down for a hot minute. All of my old silver maple that's been in rounds for two/three years and loosing bark look like that. The black lines too.

    The split pics is what solidified my hunch. The sheen looks the same
     
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    Maybe I will try again with some better pics. This is some old stuff that a guy dropped off. Still working on it, progress been slow with weather and all
     
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    The mottle with the black lines is what I see when I have a dead cherry
     
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    That spalting is beautiful... usually happens with silver maple here. But that’s not definitive proof either.
    Looks like that wood has been in some wet surroundings for a bit. The big split is dark on each cut face to about 3/8”-1/2” into th split face.
     
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    Some of the rounds in first post are red oak, either burned or just cut off a buried wood dump.
     
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    Looks like maple, cherry and oak, but its awfully hard to tell with those old wet rounds
     
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    I don’t see the rays typical of red oak... could be the wetness tho...
     
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    pics #2&3 are oak
     
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    It's FIREWOOD it is!!!
     
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    Yep. It's farwood.

    I'd definitely say there's some maple in there though.
     
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    Thanks all. I think the last two are red elm or some type of elm. No fun to split.... sound right? I will take some better pics when it dries up. They are all old and don’t have clean bark so that probably make it difficult.
     
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    Probably nothing to smell by either....
     
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    For a second there I thought you had some kind of pine. The middle that was a bright orange is typical of fatwood but once I saw that you split it, that’s good heartwood. Don’t wanna derail the topic here, just good wood for you.