Wood identification help

[Tman]

Any thoughts on the wood specie?

 

[SabertoothBunny]

Bark, rings and light colored wood implies pine to me.

 

[Tman]

It feels like a hardwood to me. The bark is also very intricate with deep grooves unlike the usual pine I see.

 

[SabertoothBunny]

It feels like a hardwood to me. The bark is also very intricate with deep grooves unlike the usual pine I see.

Is there a better closeup of the end grain? It could be oak but a better image of the end grain will help differentiate that.

 

[bowman]

I'm thinking it's sweet gum.

 

[Tman]

Is there a better closeup of the end grain? It could be oak but a better image of the end grain will help differentiate that.

Sure. please see attached. The big log on it's side is pine.

 

[Rjgooden]

Red oak

 

[SabertoothBunny]

Sure. please see attached. The big log on it's side is pine.

Most likely oak.

 

[creasman]

It looks a bit like sweetgum. Try to split a piece. If it's oak it will split fairly easy. Sweetgum will not.

 

[McRabbet]

I agree with @creasman, it looks like Sweet Gum to me as well. Ease of splitting will reveal if it is not because SG has gnarly, complex cross grain.

 

[Bill Clemmons]

Red Oak!

 

[Guiding Hand]

Elm is an option. Would need a smooth end grain photo to be sure.

 

[RobS.]

Looks like sweet gum.

 

[awldune]

With sweetgum you would normally see a big color difference in the heartwood, no?

 

[Whitfield]

+1 for gum. The bark's a giveaway, and I think the heartwood's consistent with gum.

 

[kreisdorph]

That end grain looks like elm. As far as I know, only elm, hackberry, and sugarberry have that wavy end grain pattern, but I would be happy to be corrected. The bark is wrong for hackberry/sugarberry.

 

[bob vaughan]

Whatever it is, the annular rings are hugh, typical of a fast growing trash tree like catalpa or paradise. The end grain does look like paulonia but the bark is wrong.