Log ID help

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Charles
Corporate Member
Anyone know that this is? The grain is tight and stringy, but it's not very dense or heavy. Just a bit heavier than poplar. Sorry, no foliage. This was a blow-down log that's been down a couple of years.
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TIA
 
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KenOfCary

Ken
Staff member
Corporate Member
Looks a little like gum to me. If so, the grain will be very twisty, making it hard to split for firewood or plane smooth.
 

kelLOGg

Bob
Senior User
It looks like it split too smoothly to be sweet gum which splits smoothly around the perimeter but not through the heart. Perhaps it is elm. Usually it splits roughly too but I have had some elms that split very smoothly. (I was splitting elm logs decades ago for firewood but they split so smoothly I planed the faces and used them as beside lamp end tables.)
 

AllanD

Allan
Corporate Member
Looking at the bark I would say maple also. And considering the odds, probably regular red maple
 

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