Found this wood pile on vacation. what is it???

[truckerdave]

I spent a week in Old Forge, NY in The Adirondack State park. Next to our cabin was this wood pile.

I took a small (10" in diameter, maybe 12" long) log of what I know is birch and a log of this beautiful red colored wood.

My question is:
What is the red colored wood?

It doesn't smell like oak and the bark is more ?shaggy? than oak.
I thought it might be cherry but it is a very bright, vivid red and I think way too thick of a trunk to be cherry.
Any ideas???

 

[Drstrangefart]

Well, the color of the timber matches up with Bradford Pear pretty well. Maybe a pear tree?

 

[Florida Marine]

I spent a week in Old Forge, NY in The Adirondack State park. Next to our cabin was this wood pile.

I took a small (10" in diameter, maybe 12" long) log of what I know is birch and a log of this beautiful red colored wood.

My question is:
What is the red colored wood?

It doesn't smell like oak and the bark is more ?shaggy? than oak.
I thought it might be cherry but it is a very bright, vivid red and I think way too thick of a trunk to be cherry.
Any ideas???

Looks like cherry.

 

[truckerdave]

My fiance has been going to that cabin for 25 years and never remembers seeing any fruit on or around that tree. (It was cut down as it fell on the fence this year. So it is still wet.)

 

[hewunch]

Bradford Pear doesn't bear fruit. I have no other help to offer than that tidbit of info.

 

[Finatic]

I'm leaning toward red oak.................

 

[thewishman]

Looks like maple bark, but might be oak.

 

[firewhatfire]

Elm or ash

 

[arioux]

Is there redwood in the adirondack region, looks a lot like it to me

 

[RDH79]

Red Oak http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...=0CEMQsAQ&q=red oak tree bark&biw=911&bih=384

 

[arioux]

Is there redwood in the adirondack region, looks a lot like it to me

I meant redheart

 

[keithlong]

It looks like wild cherry to me, judging from the looks of the bark on it.

 

[low_48]

Make a fresh cut or split one of the pieces and let us see that. Many woods will oxidize to that red color after the sun hits it.

 

[Chris Bar]

Having similar bark and the red coloration on the end, it looks like a piece of log I found on a roadcut in the mountains near here, that was either a common balsam or hemlock. The red color made me think it was otherwise and prompted me to bring the piece home.

 

[srf1114]

2nd the Bradford Pear idea.

On side note we vacation in Old Forge, NY every year. Wife's aunt and uncle got a cabin on White Lake, just down rt28 form Old Forge.