Wood ID - Need Help

[wrjones224]

Can anyone help identify these woods. To my knowledge there are three types. These came one of my customers property in western Montana.

Photo 1. Reddish pink pieces. These do not smell like cedar and are not soft.
Photo 2. Darkish brown. Came from the log in the 3rd photo.
Photo 4 and 5. The wood seems hard. Very nice grain in it.

Thank you for the help.

 

[jrista]

I'm just gonna go out on a limb and call it "Beautiful!" Look at that grain!

 

[bsshog40]

Maybe pecan?

 

[showcaser]

The app on my phone says it's Black Locust

 

[egnald]

I think Patrick (showcaser) is spot on. The bark and cross section on the log sure looks a lot like Black Locust and the properties that you mentioned would fall in line with it too. - Dave

 

[jttheclockman]

The first photo looks like Canary wood.

 

[Edgar]

Maybe pecan?

Not likely in Montana

 

[derekdd]

The app on my phone says it's Black Locust

I grew up in S OK where both black and honey locust trees were ubiquitous. Just awful trees whose thorns would tear up the thickest tractor tires. Dense wood made for really hot firewood.

Toss in Osage Orange for the trifecta of trees from my youth that ruined both tires and chainsaws. Old timers used them for fence posts as they resisted rot and were so hard.

I'll be curious to see how the wood works out for you. Good luck!

 

[Aces-High]

Honey Locust.

 

[jrista]

The app on my phone says it's Black Locust

If it is, it'll react to UV light. Glows a greenish-orange.

 

[PreacherJon]

Montana has mostly conifers... this does not look like a conifer. So, you've got Sugar Maple, River Birch, Bitter Berry, Sycamore, and Quaking Aspen as suspects.

I'll go with Quaking Aspen.

 

[GaryMGg]

If not locust, possibly elm.

 

[wolf creek knives]

Coming from Western Montana it could be in the Russian Olive family or maybe tamarack (not sure of the spelling). It's not quaking Aspen, that I can say for sure.

 

[PreacherJon]

Coming from Western Montana it could be in the Russian Olive family or maybe tamarack (not sure of the spelling). It's not quaking Aspen, that I can say for sure.

It's not any sort of Olive, I've worked with all of them. This is undoubtedly a conundrum.