08-25-2020, 07:27 AM (This post was last modified: 08-25-2020, 07:28 AM by mound.)
A friend of mine sent me these pix. He recently took down a 100+ yr old barn in Upstate NY and most of the wood looks like this. He cut off these small chunks and cleaned them up a bit. The chunks on the left of each pic are dry and the right are wet with water.
We're thinking it's Chestnut. Anybody know for sure?
Looks more like poplar than chestnut to me. The lighter bands on chestnut tend to be wider than the dark bands on face grain. If he has longer board shots, that would help. Chestnut tends to have a lot of worm holes.
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