Could this be ash?

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DeckSetter

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I thought it was black walnut, as I have several other black walnut trees and it was taller than most ash. Cut the tree down 2 years ago and should have identified it then but didn't. Milled it a month or so ago and now a friend is telling me he thinks it's ash.


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I'm thinking white oak from the bark and the grain, the block with the claw hammer stuck in it looks like ash.
Definitely not oak, we don't have any oak trees on there property. Several other walnut trees, so I assumed it to be walnut.
 
Also the block with the hammer in it was just a few feet from this one, I dropped them the same day. I still have about a 5ft log from that tree, I'm try to get pics of it first of the week for comparison.

Do ash trees grow that tall? I was always told they branch out lower and won't grow a long tall trunk like a walnut.
 
I've bucked up 40+ feet of straight, branchless forest grown ash trunk.
I was gifted an ash ,city tree that branched about 10 feet off the ground. Forest trees gotta reach up threw existing canopy to reach sunlite. My best guess as to how come. The lowest I could cut off the stump is on edge in my avatar as the reference I've got. Got to slice the log because owner's saw was too small ,after paying tree service to drop.
 
We have plenty of very tall straight ash here. Many easily 40ft plus with no branches. Unfortunately the ash borer is killing them faster than you can cut them down. There are many tree services in my area that exist solely because of the ash borer epidemic we have. They work 5 days a week removing nothing but standing dead ash trees. I sell firewood and have sold almost nothing but ash for 3 years at least now.
 
We have plenty of very tall straight ash here. Many easily 40ft plus with no branches. Unfortunately the ash borer is killing them faster than you can cut them down. There are many tree services in my area that exist solely because of the ash borer epidemic we have. They work 5 days a week removing nothing but standing dead ash trees. I sell firewood and have sold almost nothing but ash for 3 years at least now.
The log/stump I was gifted was not infested or sick. It was removed because 1. it overhung & shaded the home 2.A tree in Alabama (owners other house) had blown onto the house making mama nervous. Smaller tree in front yard looks sick, one I'd have taken out. But glad to have wide live edged planks, and the stump table tops. (-;
 

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