I have a nice stand of Bitternut Hickory, a great wood for burning, but I try not to. I want to burn someone elses wood. The easiest way to tell Bitternut is it's the only Hickory with yellow buds.
Box Elder is also known by the name of Ash Leaved Maple due to the compound leaves, I grew up with tons of it. I could recognize it driving by it. A bunch of the other trees you guys mention I wouldn't know at all.
I would've had your back Dennis, I've handled a lot of both and knew right away it was Popple, it just looks it. When I'm sure of stuff around me I'll say it. When it's kinda of rare to my neck of the woods I'll toss out a guess, but will readily defer to those more knowing of what's in their own area.
Any idea what this is? Picked it up at the local state park campground where they are cutting out the ash (EAB) and other storm damaged trees. I’m relatively inexperienced at identifying firewood. Most generally I’ve been scrounging the dead ash trees from
Welcome JHAGG I see you've been around a while but are new to posting. I'm not great at tree id yet either but if I had to venture a guess I would say some kind of maple?? I'm sure someone with more knowledge than I will be along soon to give you a better answer.
Welcome to FHC posting JHAGG Recently cut on something similar and settled on ID’ing it as pignut hickory. If you care to sniff your new-to-wood, it should have a pungent, almost astringent scent... unlike many other woods. Try it.
I’ll have to let these sinuses clear out before I can give it the sniff test. I haven’t cut much wood other than ash. It’s been easy to get after the EAB swept through here. I was leaning towards hickory since it had the dark center.
haha before I read your post I saw the wood and immediately said in my head "that's popple!" I just dealt with a bunch 0f it myself. Familiar wood there.
I would say mainly bark type/color, wood grain and color, and the fact that it is a very tall, straight tree with almost no branches coming off it near the base and up a ways. Like perfectly straight telephone poles often.
Awesome thread! I find walking in the woods and identifying trees great fun! Always an interesting topic talking about tree ID
You should have been on that other forum. Believe it or not not one other member posted that it was popple. That surprised me.
