Wood ID?

[alex grams]

Any ideas on this wood? It was from a trunk I can't identify. North/Central Texas area. Very dense, and was stubborn to cut with the chainsaw (see picture for tight growth rings?)

It turns smooth, has a medium/dark brown heartwood, and a light sapwood.(white, not yellow, the pieces are anchorsealed, so that causes the yellow you see in the pictures)

[Fred Belknap]

Looks like maple to me.

[alex grams]

It could be. I am not familiar enough with maple (90% of what I see i north texas is oak and pecan/hickory)

[Adrian Anguiano]

http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/person...cs/hickory.htm
now that I look at it, looks more like the hickory page.

[Adrian Anguiano]

and while I'm guessing how bout elm? http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/person...20american.htm

[Adam Blanton]

If it stinks when you cut it, it's probably cedar elm.

[alex grams]

There was no odor at all when I was turning it or chainsawing it.

Adrian, It could be elm, but it has such tight growth compared to most elm I've seen (I know that isn't a function of the tree as much as it is the rain/environment, but is something to consider).

I am leaning towards a maple, but it is a dang hard maple, but if that other tree we cut Adrian is maple, this one is a heck of a lot denser and harder.

[Adrian Anguiano]

The only maple Ive had "that i knew what it was" was silver maple. And it was soft and light. no where near that heavy and dense.

[Reed Gray]

Grain and wood color look like osage orange to me. When fresh, the smell kind of reminded me of tire rubber. It is very hard.

robo hippy

[alex grams]

Not osage, I've done a good share of osage. The yellow tinge you see is from the anchorseal.

[Richard Coers]

another vote for maple

[Mike Cruz]

The thing is, there are SO many species of maple... I, too, think it is a maple...but which one? Yeah, Silver Maple is very soft (for a maple) and grows quite quickly. The stuff I have in my woods is what we refer to around here as swamp maple...kinda medium density, but the ambrosia beetle loves it, so, I don't care. Some maple, mostly what you find as lumber is hard maple. Very tight grained, quite dense, sometimes even has that dark green coloration nearer the pith. As a flat workers, we always hated seeing that green. As a turner, any coloration is good... When you find birdseyes, I think that is almost always hard maple. But any of the maples with get burls and curl.

[Greg A Jones]

Red Elm, perhaps?

Color/Appearance: Heartwood is a light to medium brown, sometimes with a hint of red. Sapwood is a pale white or cream color.

[curtis rosche]

deffinatly not maple based on the endgrain picture. Maybe elm or locust?

[Steve Trauthwein]

Hickory, dulls blades as if cutting stone.