Another name that wood

the utility company cut down three of these right across the street from my house. Easy score . But not sure what it is

 

Bark sorta looks like pignut hickory, but the end cuts look like either black walnut or elm. If it smells like iodine its BW. Split a few a post more pics Dave.

Great and easy score. Cant go wrong with that.

 

I was thinking walnut looking at grain. But bark kinda got me

 

Elm what was first come to mind for me, not sure though. Lots of oak leaves on the ground there...

 

Black oak?

 

First picture got me thinking hickory. Second picture black walnut.

Final guess is black walnut.

 

My guess is black walnut.

 

Black walnut my guess

 

It’s free, it’s close by, it’s btu’s

That makes it firewood, unless you have plenty then it becomes garbage.

 

Can I use that as a future thread title?

 

Looks like some of the mockernut or pignut hickory I've cut/split but those growth rings look huge. Pick up a piece or try to and you'll know if it's hickory. See any walnuts or huge compound leaves on the ground? Sometimes the BW leaves are gone but there's a ton of stems left from the compound leaf.

 

Looks like black walnut but there is a LOT of white sapwood, though the growth rings look wide, i.e. the tree grew VERY fast or not black walnut.

Black walnut is easy, scratch the bark ridge with a knife or chain saw, if the interior of the bark ridge is dark chocolate brown then it is black walnut. A hickory log is a lot heavier and harder than black walnut and the weight is usually very noticeable.

 

BW has a chambered center pitch too.

Any split pictures yet Ohio dave?

 

Finally started splitting it. This is what it looks like
only about a third the way done right now

 

That bark doesn't really look like the BW around here Butternut maybe? How heavy/dense is it?

 

Its pretty light. Actually surprised at how light. Think silver maple or cherry light. And the ms250 ripped through it. Not hard like hickory.

 

The split in the second picture says black walnut to me

 

Black walnut it is. Last pic has the chambered pith. It split very easily and wasn't heavy from the one big score I had of it. Most of the time its a piece here or there.

 

Tulip poplar. Heavier when green, light as a feather when dry, in about 6 months. Has a weird color inside sometimes green or purple. The color darkens after a couple of hours in the air, just like your split picture. Tulip would also explain the large growth rings and the weight. I burned a big tulip tree 7 or 8 years ago after almost a year in the stacks. Burned better than a stove load of icecycles. Worked well for the shoulder season and for starting black locust and white oak.