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Title: What did I mill today?
Post by: Delawhere Jack on July 18, 2015, 03:56:03 PM

Hey folks, need some help identifying what I milled today. Pardon the dried up leaves, it was the only sample available.
Pictures are worth a thousand words, right.

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/29506/IMG_1165.JPG)

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/29506/IMG_1166.JPG)

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/29506/IMG_1168.JPG)

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/29506/IMG_1167.JPG)

Leaves (blades?) have fine serrations, the points of which align with veins. Not heart shaped, no lobes. There was an empty husk which had split open, no nut. The husk was very small and spiny.

The bark was similar in color to that of tulip poplar, but courser with more random ridges. The wood was diffuse porous, bright white, and cut very much like poplar. The heartwood (at least that portion with different color), contained yellows and caramel browns, and only accounted for less than one third the diameter of the log.

Thanks,
JC

Title: Re: What did I mill today?
Post by: scsmith42 on July 18, 2015, 06:03:21 PM

Can you post a photo of the lumber or end of the logs? The leaves resemble chestnut white oak.

Title: Re: What did I mill today?
Post by: Delawhere Jack on July 18, 2015, 06:13:04 PM

Sorry SC, didn't get any photos of the log or wood.

Some further research here keeps leading back to beech. If that's the case, then those leaves didn't come from the same tree as the log I milled. ::)

Title: Re: What did I mill today?
Post by: WDH on July 18, 2015, 08:33:20 PM

The twig and leaves in the pic are beech.

Title: Re: What did I mill today?
Post by: Delawhere Jack on July 19, 2015, 09:00:47 AM

Thanks Danny.

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