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Offline WDH

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Re: Uses for poplar
« Reply #40 on: November 24, 2009, 06:25:33 pm »
Take a close up picture of the end grain to show the growth ring structure and the color and post it.  I bet someone on here can ID it for you.
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« Reply #41 on: November 25, 2009, 11:25:54 am »
I never uploaded to an album before, so I hope I did all the right things to upload to  >  Heywood's album.
What’s left is a cross section about half way or higher up the tree.  Taken with a flash so I don’t know how true the colors are, but I added the one with the chips from the saw, and same shavings from a planer to give a better idea of color.  Even then, the light from the flash seems to reflect from the shavings.  A common tree that is hard to split around here is Gum and I know it’s not Gum.  Also Sycamore but it definitely isn’t that.  We have about six species of oak right here on my property and the red oak is really easy to split compared to this stuff.  I tried to count the rings and they’re pretty close together, but I can be pretty sure there’s more than a hundred.  The rotten part doesn’t show too well in the pics but at eye level it’s about half an inch or more.  Wish I could have got sharper detail, but I’m not a photographer.
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Re: Uses for poplar
« Reply #42 on: November 25, 2009, 12:00:16 pm »
here is HEYWOODs pics





I think he missed his links

It could very well be Black Walnut, but my system is not responding well for some reason...

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Re: Uses for poplar
« Reply #43 on: November 25, 2009, 12:29:10 pm »
That looks like some variety of white oak. It is very hard when it dries like that, even to the point where sparks fly of the chain saw when you saw it. But it will not rot like that. I recently dug out the remains of a burr oak stump that was in a cow yard and covered with manure for perhaps 15 years and there was no sign of any rot.

It also kind of has the color of Butternut, but that is not very hard.
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Re: Uses for poplar
« Reply #44 on: November 25, 2009, 01:55:09 pm »
A good ID would require a CLOSE UP of the end grain which clearly shows the rings, rays and pores.
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« Reply #45 on: November 25, 2009, 07:57:24 pm »
I know the close-up isn't the best, but it's the best I can get with that camera and the condition of the wood after using the chain saw on it.  I even had trouble finding the rings to count them when I'm six inches from them.  But I really appreciate the replys I got.  I'm leaning towards white oak even though it has the rot and the bark is missing.  (I have a white oak near my driveway but that's no help.) None of that oak odor that I really like, and unlike other oaks I've cut, hard to split.  I'm going to make a return trip to that little woodlot and check out the rest of the trees in it.  Seems to me that if it is white oak there should be quite a few smaller ones close by?  No telling how long it stood after it died but I think it was for a good long time.  The owner of that farm also died a few years ago and the farm was auctioned off and divided.  The owner was a gentleman who told me that he was still working in the woods at age 75, and I enjoyed some of his stories particularly the one about going down a grade with a load of logs and bad brakes.  I almost expect to see him leaning against a tree when I go over there.  If he is, I'll ask him what that tree was.  :-) If I get an answer, I'll get out of there in a hurry.
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