Tree/Wood Species?

[Andy's Shed]

There are a few large pieces from a felled tree that I've spotted while out dog walking, I have no idea what type of tree it was though? I do vaguely recall that the leaves growing from a small twig that was still attached weren't very big, probably around 6 cm or there abouts and I 'think' oval shaped.

Does anyone have a clue as to what wood it might be?

 

[alex robinson]

Sweet chestnut? Timber ought to be like a paler version of oak, and incredibly full of tannin.

 

[Andy's Shed]

Thanks Alex.

 

[pgrbff]

I cut about 10 tons of sweet chestnut this year and I live in the middle of mainly chestnut woods. The bark does not look like Italian sweet chestnut.

 

[Stigmorgan]

What leaves are on the ground around it? That will help identify the wood.

 

[Fitzroy]

Have it away, get it cut and dry and ask again in a few years when you can plane a bit.

 

[Tris]

My guess is elm, probably just got to the stage where the beetle gets it

 

[Richard_C]

It looks elm-ish to me. Once dried it's fairly open grained, can be tool bluntingly hard to turn but the finished product can be magnificent, one of my favourites.

 

[Yojevol]

There are chestnut leaves lying around

 

[Phil Pascoe]

A bit of steel on the cut ends for 24 hours will show whether it's chestnut.

 

[Andy's Shed]

Thanks all. It's on a council verge, but to get car access, I think I'll need to drive down a short concrete drive which could be privately owned. I'll have to make enquiries.

 

[Stigmorgan]

Borrow a shopping trolley

 

[Stigmorgan]

Currently walking along Basingstoke canal which is lined with many oak, horse chestnut and sweet chestnut. Both chestnut trees have a grey flat/ smoothish bark, the oaks all have bark very much like that in the pictures


Just found a hornbeam with similar looking bark

 

[Suffolkboy]

Looks like lime to me.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Lime shows next to no annual rings.

 

[Rob D]

That looks a lot like whych elm to me, quite reddish in colour

 

[isaac3d2]

Lime shows next to no annual rings.

I have quite a bit of lime wood (linden) and it does have annual rings, though colour variation in the rings is not strong.

Linden/lime is generally quite pale in colour so, I'd guess that it's not linden/lime.

 

[stuart little]

There are chestnut leaves lying around

And ivy leaves!!!!

 

[Suffolkboy]

Lime shows next to no annual rings.

No. That's definitely not been true for me. I've felled hundreds of lime trees so I've seen a fair few freshly cut stumps.

I was just going off the little bits of epicormic growth you can see off the main stem.