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Offline 1crowfarm

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What type of log is this?
« on: January 12, 2012, 11:59:47 am »
 

  

  

  I have a tree that I cut up into logs this morning only problem is I dont believe it is a Poplar tree at all but maybe a Ash but Iam not 100percent on that either.
I drug this log out of a pile of logs that where left behind from a pipeline ROW so I didnt see the tree standing . here are the pic

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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2012, 12:07:41 pm »
Looks to me at first glance like a soft maple.

Bark doesn't look right in the last pic for soft maple, but pics are hard to get the "feel" of it.

Doesn't look like ash however.
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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2012, 12:12:53 pm »
More pictures

  

 

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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2012, 12:16:34 pm »
The last pic is of the stump cut and the other pic where the bark has kinda of a slightly smoother bark in places and a diiferent look  are the third and fourth logs I cut one 16' log and two 12' logs and two 8' logs  the top log being 14" on the small end  and the stump cut being about 22" on the small end. So we are looking at a log that was almost 60' long and only 8" inches between the first log and the last log.
I know its not a pine log theres no sap

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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2012, 12:55:53 pm »
What part of the world?  Also, upland or lowland?  Looks to me like red maple too, but I need more clues.

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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2012, 01:03:16 pm »
Oh sorry about that Iam in South western PA  The heart of hardwood country

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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2012, 02:51:27 pm »
The one with the smoother bark looks like it may be an upper log from an oak!
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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2012, 03:02:11 pm »
pin oak i my guess.

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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2012, 03:10:12 pm »
I cut all the logs in the picture from the same tree this morning

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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2012, 03:13:51 pm »
I cut all the logs in the picture from the same tree this morning
and it isnt a Oak I'd say its even a lighter log than a Poplar but close to same weight as a poplar

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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2012, 04:04:04 pm »
Basswood ain't it? Rougher on the but log, gets smoother on up.

Pre-commercial thinning pays off. :)

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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2012, 04:05:22 pm »
Looks a lot like basswood to me too.
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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2012, 04:33:59 pm »
im guessing basswood or cottonwood.. would need a picture of it cut apart to tell

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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2012, 04:48:16 pm »
The middle log in the second picture looks quite fibrous like basswood would be. You should be able to rip long strips of bark off. It's what they used to make rope from. I know the bark is kind of orangey when exposed.

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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2012, 05:04:17 pm »
Looks like Aspen or Cottonwood to me.
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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2012, 05:16:01 pm »
Id say almost certainly aspen.  That second photo, middle log of the log end with the knot showing on the cut end to me screams aspen,
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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2012, 05:43:16 pm »
Here's an upper log from a  basswood in the barn. It's covered in dust. Has orange marking paint on the end grain there.



Our mature aspen have flattened ridges to the bark and they're around and 1" wide. Mature balm goes that way to.

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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2012, 05:56:54 pm »
There's a strip of bark laying on top there about 3" wide and a couple limbs there to the right. The flashlight is shining a spot on another basswood log.




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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #18 on: January 12, 2012, 06:30:56 pm »
quacking aspen,cottonwood,poplar they are all sisters !! dosen't look like basswood to me !!

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Re: What type of log is this?
« Reply #19 on: January 12, 2012, 06:37:04 pm »
Nope, doesn't look a think like basswood to me either.
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