Tree Identification?

[gfugal]

So I'm at my grandparent's place and they sold some of their land to some developers. The developers cut down the apple orchard as well as some other trees. I saw these nicely cut branches. Anyone know what tree this is, and whether it would be worth it to take some?

[PEARL DRUMS]

Poplar

[willie]

or often called aspen in the west, not the tuilp tree poplar. many arrows on the mary rose were a closely related euro aspen

[DC]

Couldn't get any apple?

[PEARL DRUMS]

Might make some nice split wood shafts.

[Springbuck]

  Yeah, that is just poplar, unfortunately.

Hard to see from the pics, but it could be a cottonwood, which is just as bad.

Poplar does make pretty nice shafts.

[gfugal]

So I asked my father to look at it, and he said it was a cottonwood tree as well. So I just left it.

Couldn't get any apple?

Unfortunately, most of the Orchard was cut down and already processed into firewood before I got there, or even knew what was going on. My grandma kept some trees though and she graciously allowed me to cut off a branch of one apple tree, and take out a cherry shoot that was growing next to her ancient cherry tree.

Here's the apple tree. I took the longer branch to the right and on the bottom.



Here's the cherry shoot I was able to get