Found some recent free firewood posts and trying to see if I can ID them. I still have a tough time identifying while still in log form (without seeing leaves), was wondering if you all could help. Pic #2 looks like maple of some sort just judging by the bark and maple trees I've seen in my neighborhood. Not sure on the other photos. #1 #2 #3
I'd take it. 1st pic, far right has markings that look like red maple. Some of the silvery looking stuff, could be white oak. It appears to have the flaky/layered look of WO
First pic mostly white oak with some red oak far left. Second pic is white oak. Maybe some maple in third pic but looks like mostly if not all white oak.
Thanks for the feedback from everyone. Failed to mention that these are from three different facebook marketplace postings from three different people/locations, if that makes anyone re-think anything.
First two pics sure do look like white oak. Takes a long time to season in some/many areas. Dunno about the third pic. Interesting in the first pic that someone took the time to noodle the pieces down. Must really want the wood gone.
IMO...1st pic is a mixture...red oak front left, tulip poplar middle ground level, maybe 1 pine round with bark off, top middle...more tulip poplar, possibly sweet gum, far right. #2 pics are white oak. Very good wood. Get it all if you can. Tulip poplar makes great kindling or early season wood.
The photo #2 is a front runner to go grab it since it is conveniently located and appears to all be reasonable size and *hopefully* white oak. Going to run by this afternoon to take a look and I'll post updated photos then. I will go back to grab some tomorrow if there is agreement on here that it's good stuff.
Found a piece split on the ground when I went to take a look at it - the grain looks like oak to me. Grabbed 6 or 8 small logs ~3 ft in length. Let me know if you all agree whether it's oak.
Headed back tomorrow to get more! And probably will make more trips over the next week or two. The property owner said I could come back anytime. May need to tote the chainsaw along and noodle some of the big rounds to make them manageable. I have about 1.5 cords CSS of a mix of mostly poplar, some maple, a little oak, and I think some sweet gum (I’ll never make that mistake again) for this burning season, but want to start gathering some oak and other better BTU stuff for the years to come (better compared to what I have for this year).
Yeah, looks like a bunch of oak to me. Possibly some other stuff mixed in as well, but definitely grab it all.
Update - went back today to gather most everything I could handle by myself. Most stuff I grabbed ranged from 4-10" in diameter and up to ~4 ft long. I have a stack now back at the house between what I gathered yesterday and today ~5 ft long by 2-1/2 ft tall - and like I mentioned, some of those pieces are 3-4 ft long, so a pretty solid amount to start out with by my standards. There are a lot of large rounds there probably 24" in diameter which have been cut to lengths of ~18" (some a little longer some a little shorter). I only have a 16" bar on my Stihl 026 - if I wanted to noodle those rounds would it be safe to ease down into the round from one side and then before I fully bury the bar, switch to the other side? I have never noodled a round before so any advice would be appreciated. May try to take a crack at it one day next week.
If you live near Winston Salem I would let you demo a bigger stihl. Under close supervision of course. Haha Nice load of wood. You can noodle from both sides. You could get an 18” bar and chain for your 026. Good luck, be safe and get wood!
Appreciate the offer, too bad I am not closer to Winston. I have thought about doing the longer bar on my 026 but I had also read that the 026 is slightly underpowered for a longer bar, you think it could handle 18" from time to time? The rounds are already cut to length unfortunately. I usually aim for 18" length, give or take an inch or two either way.
