OK, our first “name that wood” picture comes from a board out of an old barn. Friend who emailed me the picture said they were heavy planks (but didn’t tell me how big the planks were).
I’m not positive myself. Possibly some kind of pine/fir?
The picture is large, you might have to open it with a shift-click (hold the shift key down and then click on it…that will open it in a new window–unless you have popups turned off/blocked).
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. — Walter Percy Chrysler
Edited 3/2/2005 11:12 am ET by JohnT8
Edited 3/2/2005 2:05 pm ET by JohnT8
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Hey John,
Pretty tough call with just an end grain shot. How about a plain sawn look?
Tom
He doesn't have a planer to make a nice new-looking board out of the weathered old barn board. I doubt you'd be able to tell much from a weathered side shot.
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
That sure looks like Douglas fir,LeeMontanaFest
<<That sure looks like Douglas fir,>>That was my first quess as well, but it would help to know the location, or to see what the side of a board looks like.Tom
Does he have a hand plane? A chisel? A belt sander?
Does he have a hand plane? A chisel? A belt sander?
Probably all three. What do we want, a chip or a flat section? jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
John,
With all due respect we Want is a location. If the barn is from the east or south, more than likely SYP. If it's from the west, possible DF.......Dale
Dale, 4th post in this thread had his location: He is in SW IA (southwest corner of Iowa).
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Ooops, Thanks John,
Well in that case I understand that Jack and Red pine grows in Iowa. I looked at some Red pine a few months ago and recall the SYP/DF dark growth rings on the end grain, soooooooooooo that would be me guess.........Dale
Want to know with more punch to the ounce. Send a sample off to the Forest Product's lab in Madison, WI........Dale...I'm much better at eastern hardwood ID than softwoods.........Dale
Southern yellow pine, most likely. Fir just doesn't have that much contrast between early and late wood, and it's not very resinous, where this piece looks very resinous. SYP is also denser than fir. I hauled lots of fir boards as a construction helper when I was a kid, and never thought it particularly heavy, especially in comparison to SYP. Southern Yellow Pine has been commercially availble in Iowa for most of the past hundred years. It was often used for millwork in the early part of the 20th Century.
Michael R
Edited 3/2/2005 4:59 pm ET by Woodwiz
Up here (northern New York) most of the old buildings are made from Hemlock (Eastern Hemlock). Timbers can be anything from ash to pine to basswood. So since its evidently a softwood, hemlock is an alternative. Drive a nail in it, old hemlock is slightly harder than cast iron.
What part of NNY?? I'm from St Lawrence county..moved here a couple years ago.....was at a Woodcraft store a couple days ago and you ought to see what they charge for basswood...to think of all those BW trees we cut down to make way for the good hardwood trees......it's a small fortune...a 2x6x18 piece was selling for $10.99
>> What do we want, a chip or a flat section?Well, I've already registered my guess. :) But tms wanted to see a plain sawn section, or tangential surface, as the wood technologists would say.
I have passed on your request to the source of the picture. We will have to wait and see if he either posts a follow-up, or sends me one to post.
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
As requested, here is the followup pic. I'm still guessing pine.
Another big pic. Try the shift-click again.
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Edited 3/3/2005 12:05 am ET by JohnT8
On sight of the second picture, why, I'll be hawg-tied if that ain't plain ole Douglas Fir (Oregon pine). How about that?
Do Google image searches for "douglas fir" and "southern yellow pine". Very few of the DF pictures show that sharp a contrast, while many of the SYP pictures do. I'm not saying it's impossible that the piece in this thread is DF, I just think SYP is a better bet. Also, on most of the DF I've seen, the earlywood is redder.
hello Uncle Dunc,
I suspect I am about to stand corrected here.
My experience of DF is of reusing timber previously in use as roof trusses and the like. DF was and no doubt still is sent all over the world, and before the homegrown pine plantations came into production it was imported into Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), where I came into contact with it. As far as I know, I have never seen Southern Yellow Pine.
I am keen to know the final diagnosis- maybe Uncle Bruce Hoadley can be consulted....
It looks a lot like yellow pine to me. Same contrasting groth rings, same grain pattern.
Dr Dunc, you concur?
Wicked Decent Woodworks
Rochester NH
" If the women dont find you handsome, they should at least find you handy........yessa!"
Yep, that was my guess, too.
It's SYP, 98% probability.
In the UK, imported SYP is called pitch pine, and this example shows why. I've used it, looks exactly like this piece. Too resinous for douglas, IMHO
MalcolmNew Zealand | New Thinking
Well there's no doubt in my mind that is Southern Yellow Pine or what we call here in the south "fat heart pine". I currently have about 3k bf of this wonderful wood and look long and hard for it all the time. It's growth rings are not as close as the best stuff is but it's still all good.
My grandfather worked in the "log woods" as a teenager back in the 1920's. He said his company shipped all the pine they cut then "up to the Yankees". He also said that the trees they were cutting then were 2nd growth trees already. About 90% of the virgin tree were gone by 1910 or so, but replanting and volunteers were already being harvested.
I actually have some virgin type boards. The growth rings have to be counted with a magnifying glass. 20-30 per inch.
Another interesting fact about SYP are the stumps. Back during WWII they were also harvested for the resin to make gunpowder. There was a plant in New Orleans where they were shipped by rail. My dad said there would be 100 car trains with nothing but stumps.
Now the stumps are prized by folks for the "fat lightered". It can be started with just a match and makes a very hot, but short lived flame.
I would say that east of the Mississippi River it would be a better chance of it being SYP than Douglas Fir. The logistics of shipping back when this barn was built just makes it a better chance of SYP.
Ok sorry about the history lesson. Good luck.....PS almost forgot, does the wood, as you are cutting it give off a turpentine type smell? That's a another clue to SYP.
Jimmy
as always I wish you enough
I will confirm my beliefs once again, that HAS to be Southern yellow pine. I've worked with SYP and douglas fir and the difference is able to be seen here, how the grains show up nicely along and the resinous surface look.
B Near
To distinguish SYP from Doug Fir, one needs to look at the end grain. SYP will have large resin canals, Doug Fir will have small ones (other Firs lack resin canals).
I went back to the original image to see if there was a clean cut of the end grain, and it look like there were a few places that were good enough. There are definitely resin canals present, and they appear "large." This suggests SYP, but to be conclusive I would prefer a higher magnification and a reference image of each (SYP and DF).
It's called Heart pine. Also known as longleaf heart pine. Not SYP! Original growth Heart pine is no longer commercially available. It grew in the south up until the early part of the 20th century, when the old growth stands were finally exhausted. It is commonly found in old construction in northern states along the Mississippi. I have 200bf from a barn in SW wisconsin. It is commonly mistaken for SYP, however, heart pine has weathering characteristics closer to cypress, and it is denser.Tell your friend to get as much of it as he can. It's worth a fortune.
Edited 3/3/2005 1:36 pm ET by woodhoarder
Southern yellow pine is not a species, but a group of species. Heart pine aka longleaf pine aka Pinus palustris is one of the four main species that make up the group. The others are shortleaf, loblolly, and slash. According to this site, "Lumber from all four is marketed as Southern Pine (or Southern Yellow Pine) and graded in accordance with the grading rules of the Southern Pine Inspection Bureau (SPIB), approved by the American Lumber Standard Committee."
WELL, DARNIT. I WENT AND LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY. ;) GOOD TO KNOW.
TONY
Better watch out when he starts whipping out the latin on us!
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
WELL, DARNIT. I WENT AND LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY. ;) GOOD TO KNOW.
Yeah! Here, too! got to go home and rename some wood!
B Near
Looks like the general consensus is that we're dealing with SYP on this first sample.
So, it must be time for ROUND 2 of Name that wood:
From my scrap pile, three pictures from two boards. Should be an easy one.jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Hey John,Are you trying to trip us up deliberately? This is not the same wood as before. My guess on this one is Red Oak.Tom
Most folks seemed to think the first one was SYP, so I declared a ROUND 2 of "name that wood".
Round 2 is a different wood from the initial posting. And it was obviously too easy. I'll try to make round 3 more of a challenge.
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Thanks,I was hoping that I hadn't been hallucinating.I think it's a good idea to toss in the familiar ones, once in a while. It not only gives us perspective, but it will help fledgling woodworkers understand the properties of what their working with.This could be alot of fun too.Tom
Looks like red oak to me. Higher magnification would be helpful.
Okay, now this sample is doable from a digital photo since it's a deciduos wood.
Judging from the large rays, diffuse porousness, and very large early wood cells - I'd say with fair confidence that this is oak. I also am not seeing any tyloses in that earlywood, so I that leads me to .... Red oak.
Where do I collect my prize?
Judging from the large rays, diffuse porousness, and very large early wood cells - I'd say with fair confidence that this is oak. I also am not seeing any tyloses in that earlywood, so I that leads me to .... Red oak.
Where do I collect my prize?
Yeah, but you were the 3rd person to come to that conclusion. And as I consult the official prize list, I don't see any prizes for third. ;)
Here's a side view of the "2b" piece.jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
John,
Too bad those samples didn't get quartersawn, it looks like they would have beautiful figure in those strong rays.
Woody
Too bad those samples didn't get quartersawn, it looks like they would have beautiful figure in those strong rays.
Picked them up locally from a guy who does lumber part time (mills and dries). He had them planed, but the edges were still rough cut (which doesn't bother me). I liked his prices. $2.50/bft for the clean boards and $1.50/bft for boards with any significant /knots marring. Shoot, on a 9-11' board, even with a few knots, you can still get quite a bit of usable wood.
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Edited 3/3/2005 5:39 pm ET by JohnT8
Yeah, but you were the 3rd person to come to that conclusion. And as I consult the official prize list, I don't see any prizes for third. ;)
Blah, blah, blah ..... there's always someone trying to put the screws to me. For what it's worth, it looks like I was the second person to say red oak and I said it with the most conviction :) This is fun, kinda like Stump the Band with Johnny Carson. I like it better when the poster knows the true identity of the wood, that way, there's a clear winner and second place runner up.
BTW, Walter P. Chrysler's boyhood home is down the road from me.
you get a chocolate covered acornWicked Decent Woodworks
Rochester NH
" If the women dont find you handsome, they should at least find you handy........yessa!"
"Looks like the general consensus is that we're dealing with SYP on this first sample."Are you kidding me? Consensus is what you're after? I thought you'd get a positive ID before you awarded prizes...Oh well, I'm out....LeeMontanaFest
I thought you'd get a positive ID before you awarded prizes...
Should we start sending in samples to the lab for positive verification? ;)
Well I thought I had a couple pictures with some harder to guess woods, but heck if I could find them last night. So round #3 will have to be another easy round. If I have time over the weekend I'll try to take a couple more pics.
ROUND 3, Name that wood:
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Edited 3/4/2005 2:31 pm ET by JohnT8
Can we get one with sharper focus? Hard to tell the pore size and distribution from this one...
Can we get one with sharper focus? Hard to tell the pore size and distribution from this one...
Must be a bad pic, cuz otherwise this one would be nearly as easy to guess as the red oak was.
Light colored woods seem to be tougher to photograph with the digital. Maybe some day I'll actually crack the book on the camera and find out how to work around light colored surfaces.
Anyway, here is the same scrap of wood again (Round 3). I made a small cut in it.jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
The image is sharper, but the magnification is too low to distinguish between a ring porous sepecies and a semi- or diffuse porous one. It is clearly not a hard maple. I suspect that there are little pores hiding in the latewood. If I had to guess, I would say sycamore, but I have little confidence in that guess. Anyone who would be confident looking at these pictures alone is deluded!
Cherry. Let me make that a question: Cherry?
Edited 3/5/2005 10:23 am ET by workinhard
The pores are too big to be cherry.
3B is a nice photo of the end-grain of some Honduras Mahogany, my friend. Are you doing this just to make us miss Jon Arno? When do we get to the Championship round? Why not throw up some difficult woods like Dogwood or Australian Silky Oak (my favorite exotics du jour)? It's way too easy so far.
Wow! That must be a bad picture, because NO ONE has hit it yet!
Somewhere I've got a book by Bruce Hoadley, "understanding wood" I think is the title. Can't find it at the moment (maybe it was a library book, can't remember), but seems to me he had a picture in there that was VERY close to "3b".
Attached "3c" is a side view of "3b". There are some definite saw marks, but it gives you a better idea of the color of the wood. 3a & 3b look a bit yellower than the wood really is. "3d" I'm pretty sure is from the same plank (one corner rounded and exactly the same w/h). 3d was laying outside and has some growth along the edges.
This is not an exotic wood. jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
In the immortal word of Homer Simpson, "D'Ohhh!" Thought I had it for sure. This must be the reason they kicked me out of the wood technologists' club and made me turn in my merit badge. Been meaning to buy that book by Hoadley - I checked it out once before from the library.
John,
Looks like eastern white pine to me...
Cheers,
Ray
If we're going to keep playing this game, I think we should ask for a scale in the pictures, and demand that any pictures posted must be in focus.
Osage Orange
I would guess, southern yellow, I have made a number of larger cabinets with it.
I have not seen other woods that match its instensity (contrast) of banding. It is probably one of my favorites to work with also.
Thanks,
Donkey
Southern Yellow Pine
My money says its Fir because of the pink colour.
Beech
DPR
You know, I think you're right.
I still say the pic in post #20 is fir. The early AND latewood growth rings are broad almost equally sized. Something I see all the time with fir. However some of the other pics in later postings look like something else entirely. Perhaps Beech.
But would fir check like that? I seems to be a hardwood. I'm stumped.
It seems to be a hardwood.
My one and only clue for round 3: Your assumption of hardwood was VERY correct.
And this is NOT old wood. Probably was cut down within the last year or two. This is a leftover scrap from a project from....hmm, maybe spring 2004? Pulled it out of the scrap bucket in the back of the shed.
And to Unc, here's your scale shots.
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
My guess (and my last one) is cherry. To do this right, there should be 15-20x magnified shots of a clean cut end grain. I'm only guessing because your comments make it sound like an "everyday" wood.
My guess (and my last one) is cherry.
No, its not cherry. I've never worked with cherry; it tends to be an expensive wood. Nice looking when finished, but I can find other wood that I like just as well that don't cost quite as much.
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
With out going to the book, I'm not sure. But, I will say you've got a HONEY of a picture their, : ' )......Dale
Your assumption of hardwood was VERY correct.
Sooo..... It's a VERY hard wood? huh?.
Okay.
Honey Locust?
You are in the hardness forest, but wrong tree.
I have given a link to this thread to someone in Breaktime who I know has worked with this kind of wood. If he shows up and can't guess it, I'll release the answer and move on to the next piece.
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Edited 3/7/2005 12:41 pm ET by JohnT8
Edited 3/7/2005 4:00 pm ET by JohnT8
Hickory. final answer. The end grain of the two look similar, and Dale's "Honey" comment threw me.
If I'm still wrong, I give up! :-)
Tony
Hickory. final answer. The end grain of the two look similar, and Dale's "Honey" comment threw me.
So your final answer is... hickory? ..... hickory you say?....
CORRECT!
Wheeeew, thought we'd never get that one guessed.
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Edited 3/7/2005 4:01 pm ET by JohnT8
I think you wood salesman sold you pecan! : ' ) ....Dale
And on that note, we must be ready for:
ROUND FOUR
Multiple pics of the same type of wood. Name that wood.
The samples don't have this color when initially cut.
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Edited 3/9/2005 12:47 am ET by JohnT8
Osage Orange. Could possibly be Mulberry, which is in the same family as Osage, but my money is on Osage.
Ha! I'm first this time.
I'll challange the last post and be first with Osage orange only, : ' >....Dale
I'm making farting noises with my mouth in your general direction.
Osage Orange. Could possibly be Mulberry, which is in the same family as Osage, but my money is on Osage.
Ha! I'm first this time.
Correct ! They are pieces of Osage. There I thought the hickory would be easy and the osage hard...and it was just the opposite.
Has anyone used Osage in projects? If so, what did you do with it?
And with round four settled, I guess we need to move on to ...
ROUND FIVE
This picture comes from an identification box of a fellow woodworker here in town. He keeps samples of various woods for reference and identification. (Sorry Dunc, forgot to put my tape measure down).
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Edited 3/9/2005 4:27 pm ET by JohnT8
I'll have to guess that's a hunk of black cherry.
As far as using Osage Orange. I've used it quite a bit. It's harder and heavier than hell, as I can see you have already experienced by the sawblade burn marks on one of your photos. One of the most dense North American woods. Right up there with Live Oak. It's hard to work with handtools. The grain often switches direction and tears out easily. It is extremely rot resistent. More so than white oak, mahogany, or anything else that I am aware of. Starts off yellow and oxidizes to a warm tea color with sun exposure. Very stable wood. I've used it to make alot of handplanes and made an outdoor bench out of it.
Aw man,I didn't even get a chance to play round three. Osage orange the premier bow wood east of the Rockies (Yew is our fav over here in the Great Pacific Northwest).C'mon John, give us a closer look, From this distance, I can't tell whether it's a hardwood or a softwood. If hardwood, I second Black Cherry. If softwood, I'll say Eastern Red Cedar (both mediocre bow woods)Tom
I didn't even get a chance to play round three. Osage orange the premier bow wood east of the Rockies (Yew is our fav over here in the Great Pacific Northwest).
I would have accepted "bodark" or "bois d'arc", but you would have to be a CDN ;)
If softwood, I'll say Eastern Red Cedar (both mediocre bow woods)
CORRECT! It is red cedar. Wood for folks who want their closets to smell like gerbil cages.
I'll have to dig up another pic.jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
ROUND SIX
This one might be hard to guess from these pics. Maybe I should get the close-up lens for my camera and carry around a flourescent light. :) This is another pic from across town (otherwise I'd retake them).
Two pieces of the same kind of wood. On piece "a" you can kinda get a size estimate from that benchtop-groove on the "6a_side" picture (it is a radial arm saw mark..about 3 kerfs wide).
One of the "b" pics has a scale. Very small piece.
If this one isn't guessed fairly quickly, I'll assume its because of the bad pics and move on to the next one.
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Popular.?
You're in the neighborhood. It is a soft wood. Not something I'd probably use on a project.
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Hey John,Is that soft wood, or softwood?Tom
Hey John,
Is that soft wood, or softwood?
Yes.
Trialnut was the closest.
Those pics are no where near good enough, so I'll give the answer to this one:
Cottonwood
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Edited 3/11/2005 10:49 am ET by JohnT8
ROUND SEVEN
Hmm, interesting wood. I've never used this wood, but the guy across town seems to like it. He has several different samples of it. Here is one, approx 1x6" in size.
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Some sort of ash?
Some sort of ash?
Correct.
He had several varieties of ash. That was the clearest pictured piece. I was surprised by the varied look of the different pieces... some of it could almost be used as faux oak, while other pieces looked more like pine.jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Round Eight.
This is the last sample I have with fairly clear pics. Anyone else with good pics, feel free to post pics for 'round nine' and so on.
It is NOT osage orange/hedge. I like the color/grain on this piece and would be interested in using it for a project.
jt8
Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers. -- American Proverb
Fire Cherry or maybe Black Birch. I want to smell it. It's hard to know how true the color is on my setup.
The Professional Termite
Edited 3/15/2005 11:33 am ET by Trialnut
black locust?
He has the sample marked down as:
Honeylocust.
I'm not familiar with the wood, but based on the feel of it and the checking, I would wager a WAG that it is probably around the hardness/density of hickory?
OK, I'm now out of samples... I open the stage for anyone who has a piece to show us.
jt8
Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers. -- American Proverb
It kinda, sorta looks like Tupelo. But I thought I was the only one that wouldn't use it on a project....lol. I Had some a few years back when I thought I was gonna be a carver....
Luaun (Philipine Mahogany)? And yes, these pics are bad. They are so bad, that...
Black Willow?The Professional Termite
Cherry, with sapwood.(He wrote, making a bit better than a WAG.)Leon Jester
Looks like one of the Western white woods, possibly PP, as in pondererosa pine.
As far as working O.O., I was shocked on how easy it worked, hand planed nicely. My first flag case was built out of O.O. orange. Rounded over the edges w/ a router, don't recall any problems. I think we used a 5/16" lag bolt in my mother's wall to hold the case from, : ' >. I also recall trying to check the moisture content of some O.O. after drying for several months, bent the pins.
Looks like Eastern Red Cedar (aromatic) to me. What say you?
Jimmy
as always I wish you enough
I thought we were going to start putting scales in the pictures.
I thought we were going to start putting scales in the pictures.
I fergot... so all the pics I took across town are without scale. But they are all fairly small. In the "round 5" pic it is maybe 1" or less thick. The "round 4" osage pic was about 1" square.
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Whoa!These shots look a whole lot different than the first (orange) photos.I'd like to change my answer to Red Elm.Tom
John, thanks for posting these. I've guessed both wrong and right on them, and learned a bit.Regards,Leon Jester
Those boards are probably older than I am. Just looking at the cut I would have to say Douglas Fir. We grow a lot of it here in the NW. and it looks like boards that I used to take from an old hop house.sappy
a nice new-looking board out of the weathered old barn board..
Make something 'AS IS'.. Well, I like it but maybe not you...
red pine
definitely
A location might be helpful, too, on the assumption that old barns are usually made of local wood.
At first glance, southern yellow pine of some variety.
A location might be helpful, too, on the assumption that old barns are usually made of local wood.
He is in SW IA.
jt8
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. -- Walter Percy Chrysler
Edited 3/2/2005 12:02 pm ET by JohnT8
It's a conifer, no doubt, but making a positive species I.D. from an internet photo just isn't going to happen, even though your photo is pretty good. Conifer woods are much harder to I.D. than deciduous woods.
But if we're just having fun guessing...... I say it's southern yellow pine.
"Doug Fir" was the answer that came to mind immediately.
BTW, Doug's sister is Connie :-)
When I first saw the picture, I said Douglas Fir and I still think that's right - even if it is in Iowa. How old was this barn? They've been shippng Doug Fir all over the country for several years.
As an aside, you wouldn't believe the redwood that comes out of old barns around here (northern CA). In the late 1800's and early 1900's, there were some serious logging operations in the Santa Cruz mountains and lots of that old growth lumber was used in house and barn construction. I've seen 12" x 12" mud sills that have laid on the ground for over a century and look almost like new.
Edited 3/3/2005 12:27 am ET by Dave
It sure looks like southern yellow pine to me, thats nice stuff!
John,
I am no expert, but that sure looks like SYP to me!
Sure not OLD wood unless thats a Electron Microscope!
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