I need help identifying a tree species

[whitepe]

SwampDonkey,
I took the pics on the way out of the driveway this morning
and I sent the pics to da Man.  Jeffy says it's basswood.  
I don't have a decent tool to resize pics here at work.

[SwampDonkey]

whitepe

cool, too bad you didn't have demand for it by local wood carvers. They look for it here, but mainly because its uncommon here north of Florenceville. Only here near the the Saint John river valley mostly. The pics I took were from trees I transplanted off the woodlot in 1992. They sure grow fast. Do you norice the wood is kinda stringy when coming off the saw? I had some band milled and I noticed that. I only found 1 on my woodlot and its a sucker. They seem to do well from stump suckers. They've gotta be the worst for that, well maybe poplar is worst with all them root suckers.

[whitepe]

Swamp Donkey,
I only got 8 boards out of the log and I agreed
to go halves on it with the guy who has the logs
so I only have 4 boards.  
I still have about 10 or 12  red & white oak logs
to saw for him. Right now he is focused
on getting his lot fully cleared so the builder
can get started digging his basement.
We got the final tree cut up last night but
since it is a 28" diameter oak, my little bitty
32 hp JD compact utility tractor is just not
enough to drag the logs out with the loader bucket.
I am going to get my friend with the propane
tank hauler to move the logs.

[SwampDonkey]

Now where's that loader truck when ya need it? A 25 inch oak is gonna be some dandy sawing. Its not that easy to get a 25 inch sugar maple and be sound in the middle also... in my area. And red oak that big has been cut and hard to find. Oak is only scattered along two river valleys here. I did visit a woodlot on the weekend that we were interested in buying, 300 acres, and I found two bur oak along the woodlot trail, side by side. One had acorns too. I remember one being there 7 years ago when I did the management plan. Boy did the woods grow alot in that time, after it was thinned out. Anyway, that bur oak is definately uncommon up here. There's another thread in Tree ID, I think? on that tree in NB. Happy sawing, too bad its too far away or i'de help stack it.

cheers