White Ash

[yukiginger]

Tree identification

I love these tree I.D. threads because I'm always amazed at how bad we are at tree identification! I guess in the end - since we are firewood cutters - if it's hardwood, it's hardwood. Your first pictures certainly are of a different species than the selected tree on the trailer. The tree on the trailer is definitely an ash in my opinion, and my guess would be white ash.

MarkG

 

[Ed*L]

Another vote for White Ash.

Ed

 

[Wood Scrounge]

Yea, that sure looks like ash, it kinda has a smell to it too after you split it.
Wow that cherry should have been logged and sold.

I agree, but after 3 phone calls last year to local mills, I have come to the realization that there is tons of cherry in this part of PA. I hope someday to have the time to learn how to mill myself.

 

[TreePointer]

I agree, but after 3 phone calls last year to local mills, I have come to the realization that there is tons of cherry in this part of PA. I hope someday to have the time to learn how to mill myself.

Yeah, where I am in PA, black cherry grows like a weed. It's everywhere.

 

[woodbooga]

Yup. Ash.

I was fairly certain from the 2nd pic in the OP. Look at the rings as well as the bark.

The pic of the ash in the trailer clinches it for me. Look at how it's splintered. The Indians up here used to make baskets from ash. Once the bark was removed, they pounded the log along its length, creating perfect strips one growth ring wide.

The strips were then cut to size, soaked to the point of pliability, sometimes dyed, and woven into baskets in a variety of shapes and sizes. Really very beautiful.

 

[farmer]

I say ash on the trailer and cottonwood in the first picture.

 

[Joshlaugh]

Speaking of the price of cherry logs: I recently checked the local sawmills and what they were accepting etc. Pretty much every species of tree except walnut, of course, is down at least 20% from last year. I think they were paying around $650 for 1000 board feet for cherry. It sucks and I know a lot of people who have a nice number of logs laying around hoping to have them milled and make some money in this tough economy. Doesn't look like that will happen anytime soon here in Ohio.

 

[dingeryote]

Speaking of the price of cherry logs: I recently checked the local sawmills and what they were accepting etc. Pretty much every species of tree except walnut, of course, is down at least 20% from last year. I think they were paying around $650 for 1000 board feet for cherry. It sucks and I know a lot of people who have a nice number of logs laying around hoping to have them milled and make some money in this tough economy. Doesn't look like that will happen anytime soon here in Ohio.

A buddy of mine is a big shot with a lumber company.

I asked him what stump prices are running lately.
He just looked at me and said "About the same as BTU values, but mostly less".

Times are tough for the lumber foks right now.
Pulp and cribbing wood is all that is moving, and that is slow.

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

 

[willsaw4beer]

That is ash, I would bet a 12 pack of Yuenglings on that... White ash is less dense than black ash, and the bark is lighter colored. At least around here.

 

[Bowtie]

That is ash, first pic and arrow pic. I cut ash all the time. It DOES have darker heartwood in some trees. Just because it has a pinkish to brown heartwood doesnt mean its elm. Ash has almost a dust odor when split (I love the smell, reminds me of Oak). lm has a sulphur to piss smell, unless it is Red Elm, good luck finding Red Elm anymore.



That is Ash!

 

[Wood Scrounge]

OK I threw you a curve ball quite unintentionally. I have two different kinds of wood in that pile, sorry fellas.

This I'm pretty sure is Green Ash now:

This I am not so sure, cotton wood maybe?

 

[outdoorlivin247]

OK I threw you a curve ball quite unintentionally. I have two different kinds of wood in that pile, sorry fellas.

This I'm pretty sure is Green Ash now:

This I am not so sure, cotton wood maybe?

The second looks like pignut or bitternut hickory...

 

[Wood Scrounge]

The second looks like pignut or bitternut hickory...

I would love for it to be hickory because there is quite a bit of it, but I am not so sure.

 

[BIGBUCK]

Looks like ash to me.

 

[flotek]

the bark looks different in both pics and the ash and cottonwood both have similar bark .the second pic has got to be cottonwood i know this much

look at this link for reference
http://search.aol.com/aol/imageDetails?s_it=imageDetails&query=cottonwood+bark&img=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cirrusimage.com%2FTrees%2FSalicaceae%2Fold_cottonwood_bark.jpg&site=&host=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cirrusimage.com%2Ftree_cottonwood.htm&width=116&height=87&thumbUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fimages-partners-tbn.google.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AjXEkpvgSiXDZtM%3Awww.cirrusimage.com%2FTrees%2FSalicaceae%2Fold_cottonwood_bark.jpg&b=image%3Fquery%3Dcottonwood%2Bbark%26page%3D2%26s_cs%3D-6664628147673774471%26s_it%3Dtopsearchbox.image%26imgsz%3D&imgHeight=225&imgWidth=300&imgTitle=Old+%3Cb%3ECottonwood%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cb%3EBark%3C%2Fb%3E&imgSize=59278&hostName=www.cirrusimage.com

 

[coog]

Not a chance is that anything but Ash.The darker piece may well be Black Ash.Cottonwood has much deeper furrows, and it looks absolutely nothing like Poplar.

 

[Hlakegollum]

The second looks like pignut or bitternut hickory...

Pignut hickory has a smooth bark, almost like white birch.

 

[Hlakegollum]

The second looks like pignut or bitternut hickory...

No way #2 is hickory, looks like black walnut, but I don't think it is.

 

[willt1981]

from the way that the log in the trailer was busted (split) when you cut it its ash. the first pics threw me off though. on white ash it helps to look for the white splotches on the bark - which are clearly visible on the trailer pics.

 

[Joshlaugh]

I think both are ash. At least in Ohio we have 5 species of ash and the bark can look different on all of them. Shoot, some tree bark looks different when the tree is younger vs older. Think of shagbark hickory or cherry. They don't always get that distinctive bark until they are so many DBH.