Is this timber beech or sycamore?

[TGB]

Beech a bit pink if that may any sense. So Sycamore for me too.

[predator]

beech for me too i was splitting some sycamore the other day only 2 years old and it was starting to rot in places beech goes with a bang through the splitter where sycamore splits very very easy

[Steve Bullman]

beech for me too i was splitting some sycamore the other day only 2 years old and it was starting to rot in places beech goes with a bang through the splitter where sycamore splits very very easy

 

You obviously haven't split hard bone dry sycamore before then....that goes bang alright!

 

Regarding id...its a tough one. My first guess based on the outer was Sycamore, but the inside looks like it could be either. I'm leaning towards Sycamore myself though

[danroker1987]

Sycamore spalts aswell ! Here is a sycamore table , look at the colors

 

 

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[kinderscout]

The table and benches are really smart.

Nice workmanship.

I was just showing the lady that owns the large beech tree, I am about to mill, how it will mill on a log in the field.

As I am learning I could not tell what tree it was.

[se7enthdevil]

i meant closer than that. i need to see the grain to give a positive id.

these pages should help you id it yourself.

 

European Beech | The Wood Database - Lumber Identification (Hardwoods)

 

Sycamore Maple | The Wood Database - Lumber Identification (Hardwoods)

 

 

if its beech you will see mudulary rays on the end grain

[kinderscout]

For those that said it was a sycamore, their right.

As the farmer walked up to me today and said."it looks well the sycamore, you have cut"

Its now beening used as a bench at the farmhouse.

[twmarriott]

sycamore

[agrimog]

that is beech, 7years on the ground for sycamore =gloop, not timber

[tommer9]

Beech. Milled tonnes of it that looks identical to that.