Mystery wood! What is it???

[rms61moparman]

I cut some firewood today and ran across this tree.
It was down and I thought it was an ash. The bark looks exactly like an ash.

When I cut the dead off, it had a dark center like a hickory only bigger. As I was splitting it it is real stringy like an elm. This stuff smells faintly like a horse.

Has anybody got any Idea what it is???
I think it may be an Ashbark hickoryelm!!!LOL

It is heavy as lead and I'm hoping it will burn and I didn't waste an afternoon.
That is the good thing about these OWBs tho'.
When the blower kicks on they will burn darned near anything.


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Mike

 

[rms61moparman]

Here is some more pics.


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[wigglesworth]

Boy that bottom pic sure looks like hickory.

 

[larman]

ya got a pic of the wood??
ok now you got more pics lol looks like a hickory

 

[John Ellison]

Boy that bottom pic sure looks like hickory.

My guess is Hickory too.

 

[rms61moparman]

I never saw a hickory with bark like that.

 

[HARRY BARKER]

looks like dead hickory to me

 

[PA. Woodsman]

I see what you mean because the bark does look like Ash but the inside looks like Hickory. I'd say Hickory, especially since you said that it is very heavy. If it smells like manure it's Hickory....

 

[wigglesworth]

I never saw a hickory with bark like that.

Me either

 

[rms61moparman]

I see what you mean because the bark does look like Ash but the inside looks like Hickory. I'd say Hickory, especially since you said that it is very heavy. If it smells like manure it's Hickory....

Doesn't smell like horse manure just the horse itself!!!


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[55chevyparts]

I cut and split several trees just like that in the last couple of years. Definitely hickory. The MO Department of Conservation has a list of types of hickory with pictures for IDing.

http://www.mdc.mo.gov/forest/IandE/oak_hickory/hickory.htm

 

[ericjeeper]

Pignut hickory..

Or bitternut

 

[outdoorlivin247]

:agree2:

 

[Curlycherry1]

Another vote for hickory. Ash splits like butter, hickory gets stringy like the photo shows. Dark heartwood is too dark for ash.

 

[slinger]

Looks like Pignut to me too. Any nuts on /around tree?? Good year for Hickory nuts in our area... Acorns too.

 

[coog]

I cut a lot of wood that looked just like that in MN, where we don't have local Hickory.We call it Black Ash (fraxinus nigra)

 

[Iska3]

I cut a lot of wood that looked just like that in MN, where we don't have local Hickory.We call it Black Ash (fraxinus nigra)

That has the bark of a Butter Nut but the tree looks to be too tall and straight. Our Butter Nut Trees like to fill our more, soft and smell. I cut a lot of firewood in the past 30 years and Dad would have called that tree a Black Ash. I'll be cutting soon, I'll look for a Black Ash and split one. Maybe next week. They say that other trees do not like to Grow around a Butter Nut. Something about the roots and the oil in the tree. ??? Have a Great Day, John

 

[beagledog]

Looks like elm by the lichens on the bark and how stringy the wood looks and the dark core. Maybe a little dutch elm disese thrown in by the looks of the bark.

 

[jcappe]

Or bitternut

:agree2: I'd say its bitternut hickory. I have quite a bit of it in my timber. Makes good firewood.

 

[stackwood]

looks like elm to me , do you have any leaves .use this link helps me Tree I.D all the time.

http://www.fw.vt.edu/dendro/forsite/key/intro.htm