Can someone identify this wood please?

[Citydude]

I have not seen a piece of Ash in a long time, so I do not know.

Haaa!

 

[mjw357]

looking at the leaf picture, hard to tell if everything I see there is on the same branch or not. But if it is, definitely basswood. Those thinner leaves you see above the large leaf are called bracts, and you can see the remnants of the flowers as well. Cottonwood has neither of these. The leaf is hard to I.D. by itself because it is kind of dried and curled up, but looks right for basswood.

 

[Fossil Farm]

Yep, looks like basswood more from the seed cluster than the leaf. Leaf is usually more slanted on one side than the other, but since it is so dried up, kinda hard to tell. One of the "softer" hardwoods. Still better than conifers for burning. Nice wood for carving, better than green ash if you plan on burning in a fireplace. Fine for outdoor furnaces. Mix it with other hardwoods. Not much, if any timber value anymore.

 

[tcartwri]

Looks like a Manitoba maple to me. We have (had) four large ones in and around the house. They grow with a lot of defects that make them susceptible to wind as they age.

 

[DieselnHooters]

Yep, looks like basswood more from the seed cluster than the leaf. Leaf is usually more slanted on one side than the other, but since it is so dried up, kinda hard to tell. One of the "softer" hardwoods. Still better than conifers for burning. Nice wood for carving, better than green ash if you plan on burning in a fireplace. Fine for outdoor furnaces. Mix it with other hardwoods. Not much, if any timber value anymore.

Basswood is deciduous sure but definitely no hardwood, I think you have the two terms mixed up. Also hemlock and tamarack, both conifers , are preferable to basswood for heating.

 

[Gary Fowler]

If it were around my neck of the woods with that leave pattern and the little fluff balls, it would be a cottonwood for sure. Some folks here call trees with that type leaves sycamore.

 

[mjw357]

Basswood is deciduous sure but definitely no hardwood, I think you have the two terms mixed up. Also hemlock and tamarack, both conifers , are preferable to basswood for heating.

Basswood is an angiosperm, thus it is a hardwood.

 

[jix]

Manitoba Maple is also called box-elder. That is what it well may be to judge by the stranded grain. It is a quite useless wood, soft, rots fast, crinkety grained junk, short life span, likes wet feet Wouldn't use it to build an outhose for a tramp. The bark is wrong for silver maple.

 

[MossRoad]

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Here are the pictures of the canopy and the leaf, or remnants of.

Hanks everyone for your replies and assistance! Looks like it's getting pushed into the woods, or maybe posted on Craigslist :laughing:

Here's some pictures of basswood leaves. I think the others have nailed it.

 

[DieselnHooters]

Basswood is an angiosperm, thus it is a hardwood.

Good to know, next fall I'll bundle it with rock maple and advertise it as 100% hardwood.

I am done with dumping an angiosperm in the swamp.