Help identify my wood!

[Drewtree]

I have an idea of what it might be based on the smell.. but please any help would be great, I'd like to get a firm identity to these pieces..

They are from a 100 year old glass factory in Southern Ontario, they were pulled from the cribbing of a loading dock, grain is very very tight.

Sorry, no endgrain shots right now because they are coated in a thick layer of pitch.

 

[Worthaug]

Looks like some southern yellow pine (longleaf, shortleaf, pitch, or loblolly)

Reed Wortley
CTSP #01739
ISA CA #SO-6953A

 

[JeffGu]

...southern yellow pine...

That would be my guess, too... color can range from yellow to quite red, and sanding or planing old wood will bring the color right out, again.

 

[Drewtree]

Don't go by colour alone, colour is not true in the garage light.. I'll take some more in daylight tomorrow.

 

[JeffGu]

What do you think it might be? Douglas Fir? That would also make sense for post/beam construction. Or does it smell like Redwood?

 

[Drewtree]

I thought it was Doug Fir initially.

 

[Drewtree]

Doubt its redwood, colour doesnt fit at all. It's either Doug Fir or some kind of pine, maybe Eastern White.

 

[oldoakman]

Looks like hemlock.

 

[JeffGu]

The problem is, all of these woods can have nearly identical grain and color from one board to the next, and especially when it is weathered, it can be real hard to tell them apart. Pictures make it even harder.



Framework of this dog kennel I built is all pressure treated yellow pine. The infill is all salvaged lumber from other projects, including a deck with 3' railing and horizontal infill that my father and I built more than 40 years ago. It was built entirely from redwood. The remaining infill on this kennel is a combination of pine, spruce, hemlock, and cedar. Hard to tell them apart, now. The small wing on the left, the infill is redwood. That's the only one that I can easily identify from the rest, although I can figure out the others just by scratching them with my fingernail. Sometimes, you just can't be sure without a DNA analysis....

 

[Worthaug]

It's not Eastern Hemlock. No way it's EWP either. Doug Fir, maybe, but I doubt it.

Reed Wortley
CTSP #01739
ISA CA #SO-6953A

 

[JeffGu]

Just ask any real estate agent. They'll tell you... it's oak!
"Look at this beautiful oak woodwork!" (it's yellow pine) or "Look at these beautiful oak cabinets!" (it's birch) or "And it has this beautiful oak mantelpiece!" (it's mahogany)...

 

[Treezybreez]

Pine usually has that turpentine smell when you cut it, so maybe cut off a cookie and smell? How heavy is the wood?

 

[Drewtree]

Pine usually has that turpentine smell when you cut it, so maybe cut off a cookie and smell? How heavy is the wood?

Quite heavy, although bone dry.

 

[Boomslang]

Likely southern yellow pine, possibly doug fir, definitely not anything else.

 

[oldoakman]

Not southern pin in a 100 year old Mill in Ontario. Hemlock, look at the knots. Fresh hemlock would be very blonde color, but 100 year old would be this color.

 

[Oak Savanna]

Hemlock or red pine.

 

[Worthaug]

Not southern pin in a 100 year old Mill in Ontario. Hemlock, look at the knots. Fresh hemlock would be very blonde color, but 100 year old would be this color.

Ford shipped southern pine to its plants at the turn of the century....

But you could surely be right.

Reed Wortley
CTSP #01739
ISA CA #SO-6953A

 

[Boomslang]

Hemlock or red pine.

You would never use red pine for permanent cribbing.

Not southern pin in a 100 year old Mill in Ontario. Hemlock, look at the knots. Fresh hemlock would be very blonde color, but 100 year old would be this color.

Southern pine was a very common building material in southern Ontario at the turn of the century.

 

[RopeShield]

Hemlock

 

[Drewtree]

Does hemlock have a distinctive smell when cut?