Wood Scrounging ID?

[ReggieT]

Hey Guys,

Nabbed these up from a blowdown in the neighborhood.
The reddish big rounds I thought were Cherry, yet they smell sweet, but lack the dark red heartwood of cherry.
Here are pics of bark, a slabbed split, and the rds.
The other looks like some type of oak...pin, red..???

Any help would be great.

Thanks,

Reg
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[mike_belben]

The sweet one looks like some type of sick or i guess diseased, dying soft maple to me...  They smell sugary and attract ants and flies too.  


Last one looks like some type of oak to me also.  Maybe scarlet oak by the long straight vertical bark channels but thats just a guess.  Color seems a bit off so may not be. Idk.

[WDH]

Yes, red oak. 

[ReggieT]

The last three are definitely red oak...unmistakable after I split a mess of it!  :(


The reddish rounds just maybe an older Bradford Pear...I think! lol 

[mike_belben]

One heck of a big fruit tree

[ReggieT]

A friend of mine an Agriculture guru for a local university says it is, "definitely something in the Prunus genus, which includes cherry, plum, and other fruits and ornamental trees. But I can't give you a specific species". :P  :

[Don P]

That does resemble fire blight on pear in one of those pics. @WDH

[ReggieT]

Thanks.
Reckon it would make for decent grill or smoker duty? food2 digin_2

[Don P]

If that is fire blight the best thing is to burn it all immediately and don't move or bring any more of it home, burn it right there on their farm. If Danny doesn't pipe up I'll get my boss to look at that pic in the morning.

[ReggieT]

Hmm...ye old fire blight.
I'll do some empirical research on that malady.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Got it staged outside in the open sun with about 40% already split & stacked.

[Don P]

The boss said she had never seen fire blight on old bark like that so not at all sure about that one. Hard to tell. She reminded me of what the black bark looked like on seriously ambrosia'd maple and beech bark diseased beech... dunno  ???.

[Sunbeard]

Some of that is Black Cherry

[WDH]

I agree.