Is this oak?

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Got a new to me stick burner and the load of hickory I had delivered was not as dry as advertised. Not too mad about since it sets me up nice for when The cool weather rolls back around. In the meantime I’m trying to make sure my more immediate needs are dealt with. Tree identification for me is much harder when there are no leaves, looking at the bark. Pretty sure it’s oak but too ignorant to say for sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Can you make a clean cut across the grain and post a pic?
 
The bark doesn't look like maple. I can't tell what it is from the pics sorry.
 
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Appreciate everyone’s responses. This shows just how much of a dark art this is without a mass spec or masters......
 
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I have not piped in mostly because I don't know stuff but it looks like a poplar to me.
 
Unless your planning to cook with it, does it make a difference?
It’s sometimes hard to determine species without the leaves or grain pattern to look at.


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dbracin said:
Unless your planning to cook with it, does it make a difference?
It’s sometimes hard to determine species without the leaves or grain pattern to look at.


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That's what hes doing, cooking on a stick burner as to the op. I'm going to say poplar as well.

Its definitely not red oak. it would be red with a whitish sap band
 
I would have guessed poplar as well.

Chop it up, split it, season it and burn it this fall. ;)
 
Poplar got its name from burning it... it pops a LOT and throws a lot of embers. Burns like newspaper wrapped around firecrackers. Splits really easy tho
 
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When I used to burn wood for heat I learned to really like maple. It does burn pretty fast, but you can almost light it with a match when it is dry and it makes very little smoke and leaves very little ash. With a maple fire burning you could hardly tell there was a fire going from looking at the chimney. Poplar did make a fair amount of yellowish smoke and left a lot of ash.
 
Bark resembles a willow oak and they usually have the moss growing on them.


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Morning wood? :rolleyes:
 
Need better pics, that standing tree trunk looks like oak, but the down sections look kinda like beech.
 
Oak is more stringy when broken. A mature Poplar can have rough bark at lower trunk like the bottom pic. Bark that holds together like a sheath at a break like the top pic, and non-stringy impact-break splinters like the middle pic, and the top and middle pic bark color and texture still looks a lot like Poplar to me.
 
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