what is it?

[woodmills1]

I know I didn't get no leaves ina picture, but what is it?

[Tom]

  ...................hardwood lumber ...... :-/

[Jeff]

I dunno, but ya really ought ta go spend some time with Brian Bailey.

[Stephen_Wiley]

  .......Giant size tongue suppressors.......

Oh.......you meant what kind of wood........hopefully not styrafoam with contact paper.

A closer pic. is needed for  id !

[woodmills1]

Random length flooring strips justa sprouted up in the studio so I couldn't make a neato Brian style pile.  Don't know if the shot is clear enough but here is a closer picture.

[Jeff]

Woodsy are ya installing it or storing it?

[OneWithWood]

Hard to tell from the pic but I'll guess a whack o beech.

[L. Wakefield]

   for no good reason I'm thinking red cedar.  lw

[woodmills1]

It is planed to about 7/8 and I brought it inside to let it have a week or so in heat then I will finish plane and tounge and groove for a customer.  I will not install it but the customer does want me to sand it for him.  Don't have much cedar and only one little beech grove but it is a white wood except for the spalty pieces.

[Brian_Bailey]

Looks to be swamp maple. The knot in the 2nd board from the bottom looks kinda familiar  .

I won't be giving any hands-on (your hands) demos in the fine art of lumber stacking until next spring, cuz I put the mill to bed for the winter. It's time to neander back into my nice warm shop.

Just FYI, I'll discount my usual stacking course fee to any Forestry Forum member that wants to partake. The last course filled up fast, there were 3 of us. They were me, myself, and I and we didn't get much done .

[woodmills1]

Maple it is, there is some soft and red but also some nice hard white probably sugar maple as well, some curly and some a little spalty.  It is funny though it all tends to get maple colored after time.

[Phorester]

Lumber is best identified by the end grain. You need to get a good clear, sharp picture of the end of a board.  The closer the better.

[Jeff]

I can I.D. it best if you grind all the bark off, then roll it by my right side as I view it through a plexiglass window. I know what every log is that way. Put me in the woods with the bark on and I have a tougher time.

[SwampDonkey]

HI:

Just making an observation about the wood pile, which ends up in specialty wood product ID and a word on wood theft  

Here goes.

Was your maple lying on the ground long? Its hard to be sure from your picture, but it looks like sap staining fungi had hit the sapwood, turning it grey.

I'm not sure what people are calling swamp maple because it can refer to 2 species here. One is the silver maple found locally in bottom lands of the Saint John River Valley  and the other is much more common which is the red maple (or white maple) which often times has curl or tiger stripes in the grain. Thus, curly maple and tiger maple are added to the nominclature. Then, sugar maple is "not so often found" with 'birds eye', worth its weight in gold. We marketed 1 log with a 18 inch top and 12'6" length fetching $1600 CDN. Then we've found some bird's eye only on the outside 3 inches of logs with 18 inch tops. It was only worth pulp price ($110/cord locally= $22 bucks).   The buyers look for the depth of the wood rays which eminate from the bird's eye figure. If the rays extend to the pith and the figures are found on 3 faces its a winner. You can see the figures in the bark, with a sharp eye. Its not common on private woodlots here because of cutting history. Its found mainly on public lands with no past harvesting. In recent years we have some serious wood theft happening on our crown lands as a result of high valued species and forestry workers having a hard time making a living because the land is controlled by industrial giants with exclusive control. Often 'would-be' thieves hack the tree boles are large diameter sugar maple searching for the elusive anomaly. We now have a Coalition on Wood Theft in the province made up of industry, government, police, and private woodlot owners. Find it on my website below, under Timber Inventory. It's still difficult to convict wood theives, since 1) they have to be caught in the act, 2) the courts don't comprehend the value of the stolen wood products, and 3) its hard to prove intent.   We now have a wood tracking system in place for private wood in New Brunswick, since 2002. I worked on implementing and customizing the tracking system for 3 marketing boards in the province, by programming a MS Access database for the purpose (TransCert).