Any idea what this wood is?

[JSwigga]

We cut this today.  Not sure what it was.  The end grain was already sealed so I couldn't get a good photo of the end grain.

[Dieskyver]

Black walnut?

[NWP]

Have you got a picture of the bark?

[JSwigga]

I don't think its black walnut.   We saw a lot of walnut.  There is no yellow between the sapwood and bark.

[WDH]

Looks like hickory or pecan ( ).

[JSwigga]

I was thinking it could be  but it cut like  smiley_angel02_wings

[qbilder]

Eastern red cedar. With moderate weather damage on the surface, I might add  :D

[Autocar]

I ten to lean towards walnut also. I would say its a old tree thats seem alot of hard living and on a down word spiral.

[WDH]

Eastern red cedar. With moderate weather damage on the surface, I might add  :D

Nope.  Not walnut either  .

[qbilder]

If not cedar, then a badly discolored conifer. The branch knots are the giveaway, but plenty other hints. WDH, have you seen the wood in person to make a solid identification? OP, what did it smell like? Was it heavy? Hard? Or soft and light?

I'm stuck on cedar without seeing it in person to be wrong. The sap is severely deteriorated on the bark edge, and the left edge that's cut shows what looks to be fuzzed grain. Even the center heart near the pith that has a dense cherry look is indicative of a large cedar. The only thing that's throwing me off is the color. It's the color of oxidized cedar, not fresh cut. And I assume the pic was taken at time of milling. If the wood had been stacked a few days a little while, then it's spot on for cedar color.       

[ely]

red oak or blackjack. imo

[pasbuild]

If that was from up here I would say standing dead Black Cherry

[JSwigga]

This is the only other pic I have of the wood.  Tomorrow I get a pic of the bark. 

[JSwigga]

If not cedar, then a badly discolored conifer. The branch knots are the giveaway, but plenty other hints. WDH, have you seen the wood in person to make a solid identification? OP, what did it smell like? Was it heavy? Hard? Or soft and light?

I'm stuck on cedar without seeing it in person to be wrong. The sap is severely deteriorated on the bark edge, and the left edge that's cut shows what looks to be fuzzed grain. Even the center heart near the pith that has a dense cherry look is indicative of a large cedar. The only thing that's throwing me off is the color. It's the color of oxidized cedar, not fresh cut. And I assume the pic was taken at time of milling. If the wood had been stacked a few days a little while, then it's spot on for cedar color.       

That was fresh cut off the mill.   It is a hard wood for sure.   I had a guy offer me $800 for the whole milled log today. I guess it's a money tree.

[NWP]

For $800, the only reason you need to know what it is?  So you can get more of it!   ;D

[qbilder]

Nice! $800 is a nice payday. I stand corrected. That's not cedar. Not that second pic.

[LeeB]

I tend to believe oak myself, although I don't see any rays,

[mesquite buckeye]

Maybe butternut. :-\

[JSwigga]

Here is the best picture of the bark I can find.

[WDH]

I am still leaning to the pecan side of things ( ). 

Is it heavy and hard as Hades  ???/

[limbrat]

It reminds me of a sweet gum i cut once. It had a big hollow jump butt and the log for about ten feet above it was red almost to the bark.

[5quarter]

Looks like a type of Hickory to me.

[WDH]

Pecan is a hickory  .

[MIsawyer]

I agree with it being a Pecan

[Red Clay Hound]

I vote pecan too.  I'm just wondering where you found a pecan in New Jersey. ???

[mmartone]

I'd be looking for another log for the nice man... $800 would be sold!

[Seaman]

I don't know what it is, but those are worth $400 or $500 each I think.
Frank

[wetdog]

I cut a green ash once that looked itentical except for the knots. It had been dead for a few years.

[chain]

It reminds me of a sweet gum i cut once. It had a big hollow jump butt and the log for about ten feet above it was red almost to the bark.

I thought sweet gum myself but have learned in here sometimes what the eye can see is only what the mind wants to believe[which always is not true] :laugh:

But I second your opinion.

[WDH]

Sweetgum is diffuse porous.  This wood looks to be ring porous, not diffuse porous. 

[glassman_48]

Jswigga, I carved duck decoys for many years and built furniture too.  I got a butternut plank from a customer and used it for a base for one of my carvings, it looks exactly like butternut to me.