Wood Id help.

I sent pictures to an old logger in the area and he said yellow oak, I'm my part of the woods they have different names but I’m leaning more toward sourwood. I spilt a bunch by hand but it got rough. I will have to split the rest with the gas splitter. I don’t believe oak would split that rough

 

The picture of bark makes me think it's somehow related to Groot.

 

Well I don’t believe it’s a valuable wood on the market. The loggers around here are pretty selective own what they will cut and load up for the mill. The log landings around here are full of but ends, Seems like the wood has to be a certain length or the mill will not take it. I will post some pics of some log landings around me and let you guys see some of nice wood that gets left behind.

 

I would definitely grab Sourwood and Persimmon. In my travels yesterday I saw a few land clearing piles that were ripe with firewood.
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Bark looks like persimmon.

Never heard of yellow oak..... Best i could with a quick search was black oak is sometimes called yellow oak.

 

The split texture reminds me of Bradford pear buts its not. If it were cottonwood the axe would've buried itself like splitting a block of clay.

I've only seen sourwood once in these parts/ Posted a thread here to ID it.

What does Chud say?

 

This was the sourwood that was IDed here. It was in the Summer so easier to ID
Here's the full thread Mystree #2

 

We definitely have sourwood in the eastern mountains of Kentucky. They are people that will buy sourwood honey off the locals that have bees. I guess I need to educate myself a little better on tree bark identification.

 

That’s looks to be the same bark. Thanks for sharing this information with me.

 

Glad to help! Part of what I enjoy about being a member here.

Hang around and get educated. I thought I knew a lot, but have learned quite a bit in the nearly six years I've hung around here.

 

It looks more like Sourwood to me. Persimmon bark is more cubed and big Sourwood is deeply furrowed.

 

I don't know what it is. I know what it is not (or at least I think it is not; I am fallible); it is not oak, hickory, cottonwood, or persimmon. For those saying persimmon, it does not look like any persimmon I have seen around here. Persimmon bark is darker, the wood is yellow, and there is usually a black core running through the middle of the log.

I have no idea what sourwood is; if it exists here, I wouldn't know.

 

Persimmon bark in my stack

 

Bark looks like it could be persimmon but the color of the wood isn’t right in my opinion.