Wood Identification Help

[Thomas]

Hello Scotty.
I cut couple white oaks w/the same markings not to long ago...white oak kinda has the bark plus grain.

 

[Egon]

It surely looks like split wood to me!

 

[scott_vt]

It surely looks like split wood to me!

Good Afternoon Egon,
It surely is !!! It heated me once allready, and Im hoping for a repeat performance this winter !

Im thinkin sassafras.

Thomas,
Good to hear you back on old buddy, I was gettin a little worried you dissapeared on us !

 

[dsgsr]

It's Oak. Unsure if white or red, but it is Oak.

David

 

[atgreene]

It's not red oak, I'm positive of that. White, maybe, but it doesn't have some of the usual characteristics of white oak, with the exception of one edge of one piece that has the tell-tale checkering like oak would, yet the bark is not what I would usually expect from white oak.

Do you have any leaves from where the tree was cut?

 

[studor]

"it is not very dense or heavy" -- probably not white or red oak then
Also oak tends to lose its bark fairly quickly when dead -- this tree did not seem to One thing is for sure -- it is firewood now

 

[TedLaRue]

The more I stare at that photo, the more I think you've got two different kinds of wood shown there.

Those woodpecker holes were made by a Sapsucker, and around here, sassafras is one of their favorites.

 

[Thomas]

Thank you Scotty.
Last months you might say been a real eye opener.

Hope life been good to you and your family.

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evenin Guys,
A couple more closeups of my mystery wood ! I have been working with red and white oak for years in my workshop and this is not oak ! Its similar to ash but not as dense and the wood is more yellow and the bark is different, maybe some kind of poplar perhaps, but it does smell nice when burning !

BTW ash is on the right amd the mystery wood is on the left !

 

[Egon]

The bark is similar to some species of poplar. But that as far as I would commit myself.