Tree Identification

Get your best guess up, I do have a picture of the leaf.

 

shagbark hickory or possibly white oak?

 

It does look like a conifer forest in the background - if so you are holding out on the "leaves"

Hemlock?

 

Is it dead wood standing by any chance?

 

No, it's a healthy tree.

 

No, there are Hemlock in that area but it's not Hemlock.

 

Is

isolated?

 

.....so a big old maple

 

No.

 

Lots of different Maples.

 

a hard variety - sugar or black

 

I promised myself this would go up after the race was done, here's the picture.

Basod, you had the correct group.
http://www.waterfordvillage.org/nature-garden/trees-maples.htm

 

persistence brother Zap I'll put a few up this week that you won't be able to guess(one the first try anyways)

 

I'm not very good at tree identification, getting better on what's on our property.

No hickory on our property, I did plant 6 red oaks last year, other than those we have nothing for oak on the lot either.

 

Sugar maple would be my starting point.

 

A couple of post up, it's a Red Maple.

 

Looks like Sugar maple, if there are not helicopters on the ground now
Sugar maple is the only maple that seeds in the fall