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Started by Fmartinconst, November 11, 2018, 09:02:56 PM

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Fmartinconst


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Welcome to te forum.
Any chance you live in MI?
Helps to know what state you are from to help out with what kind of wood.
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Brad_bb

Just the color of the wood looks like walnut, but the bark doesn't look like typical walnut. Could be though as there is variation. The two chunks to the left are Ash.  The small diameter piece on the right looks like it could be a maple.  Yes, please tell us what state you are in or put it in your profile so it shows up by your name in each post. 
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Fmartinconst

Thanks Guys, Im in upstate NY,Rochester.
The bark is white gray,flat with valleys.
I thought maybe BW but the home owner says it is some kind of nut tree.
The leaves are about 4-5" smooth edge,football shape.
Thanks,
Frank


Hewer of Wood

Looks like it could be Butternut. In the walnut family, but lighter color and softer wood. Absolutely beautiful lumber.
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Remle

Quote from: Fmartinconst on November 12, 2018, 06:57:38 AM
Thanks Guys, Im in upstate NY,Rochester.
The bark is white gray,flat with valleys.
I thought maybe BW but the home owner says it is some kind of nut tree.
The leaves are about 4-5" smooth edge,football shape.
Thanks,
Frank
Being that it may be nut tree, would lead me to believe it could be a hickory tree , a kin to the walnut.

mike_belben

See the wire mesh X's to the bark?  That narrows it into hickories, walnut, ash and maybe a few others i dont know.  A leaf, bud or nut would really help get closer.  
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Hewer of Wood

The flat gray bark, narrow sapwood, tan color, and yellow cambium sure fits Butternut. No pecan in upstate New York that I know of. Seems too dark for cottonwood. Generally the cottonwood in these parts has a more yellow/pale green heartwood. And the bark on larger logs like that tends to be more deeply furrowed. Butternut is also quite soft. Much like Basswood.
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Skipper11A

Not enough sap wood to be pecan.  Way too dark for Cottonwood.

terrifictimbersllc

Probably could still find some nuts from it, myself I'd look, might be the only way to ever know. 
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mike_belben

Id say hickory too.  Pignut, mockernut and bitternut pics on google show some samples with that lighter color buttlog and greenish tight furrow bark on the top wood. 

Hickory has a very tough bark even long after it comes off the tree.  If that loose birdpeck bark wont unwrap and wants to coil right back on its a further nod toward hickory.
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esteadle

Changing my answer. This doesn't look like hickory I've seen before. 
The bark looks similar, but doesn't have the 'sheaves' that hickory usually has. 
Also, the sapwood isn't prominent and white like hickory usually is. 
I think this is Walnut. 

Ask the homeowner if they can describe the nuts. 
If they have 4 segment husks, it could be hickory, but if they are not segmented, I think its Walnut. 




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Based on the OP's location I think it's safe to rule out Loblolly pine and Live oak.   ;D
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Hewer of Wood

I'm still in the Butternut camp. If you tried to stick a pocket knife or something sharp in the end that would help. Butternut is very soft, walnut not quite so much. And hickory, well, we all know about that stuff.
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Ron Wenrich

I agree with butternut.  The texture of the wood doesn't look like hickory. 
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SwampDonkey

Butternut, it is looking yellow green on the end between bark and wood and it ain't choc. brown. Is light brown, but maybe that is just the light exposure. ;D

Not that great for a yard tree, wind and ice take down the limbs quite easy.
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