Looks,like tulip poplar to me. I say that based on just the first pic with that thick brown underlayer of bark. Soaks up water like a sponge and holds it forever. Hate that dang layer of brown. If it is indeed tulip
I toss a welding magnet behind the diamond blade and it’s mess free. Relatively speaking anyway LOL. House looks like a cabin and I treat it as such
It not heavy. I’ve got hickory and ash, and this isn’t them, imo. The wide growth rings make me think softer hard wood.
M2theB the end cut color, growth rings, center core of soft pulp, and split look like ash, but the bark doesnt too much. I cut a fair amount of ash and without looking at bark i would bet good money it is IMO! Ive seen ash with wide growth rings as pictured. When they have ample light with no competition from other trees thay can be fast growing. Was this cut from the blow over tree pictured? The branches/twigs on that didnt look like ash. Was there any evidence under the bark of EAB infestation? There is an occasional tree round these parts that they havent gotten yet.
yup, thats ash! I studied a couple of the other logs pictured as well as the two shoots coming from the other log underneath.
That's because they are actually in different families. That's one reason I most times refer that as yellow poplar, which is the right name for it. Much different than aspen. Also, yellow popple makes excellent lumber but not aspen for sure.
Yeah, it came from the blow down. It’s wedged next to the cherry to its left and there was another to it right until last year. It’s in a tree line between fields. So it was cramped to it east and west but field to north and south. Ash was my first guess. It probably is. But I’m still thinking about the rings and how lite it is. The split does look like ash
Thanks Slocum I consider everything ash around me white ash, mostly because I’ve never heard of black ash. I’ll check into it!
The black ash I have on my property (well I believe it is black ash) has more loose and shaggy bark than white ash, and it has larger growth rings and isn't as heavy as white ash.
