Another Wood ID

[richv70]

I was told this was Ash, it doesn't appear to be Ash to me, what do you guys think?


Thanks.

Rich

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[3fordasho]

Looks like ash to me, white, green or black I can't tell you.

 

[lone wolf]

How about Hickory?Take a lighter to a sliver or burn it to see if it smells like smoked ham.Then it is hickory.

 

[coog]

I think Ash.

 

[lone wolf]

I think Ash.

That is possible looking at the bark but the inside reminded me of Hickory the way it was stringy .The bark dont look like Hickory so maybe it is Ash.

 

[sbowman871]

i'm thinking ash as well, esp. if it split a bit stringy.

 

[coog]

I doubt there is much Hickory growing in Nebraska, but you never know!

 

[Whitespider]

Doesn't look like any kind of ash to me...

 

[howellhandmade]

Doesn't look like any kind of ash to me...

Same here. The contrast between sapwood and heartwood doesn't look ashy, but I've pretty much only seen one kind of ash around here, bark has finer fissures and wood is all light color. And straight as hell, not stringy.

 

[MN Ripper]

I'm voting ash. Looks a lot like what I've cut locally for firewood which from my own experience smells like the ash lumber I've bought from the lumberyard which also has had the brown and creamy white colors.

 

[Whitespider]

Went back and took another long, hard look at those pictures...
Sure don't look like any kind of ash to me... The bark is all wrong and the wood is too stringy.
If I was to guess? And it's just a wild azz guess based on what I see in those pictures... Siberian Elm.

 

[unclemoustache]

Persimmon is my vote.

 

[stumpy75]

I'm thinking hickory. The flat spots on the bark point to it, but I have not split enough of it to tell much from the wood. The bark doesn't seem to have the diamond shapes of ash bark.

 

[Whitespider]

I doubt there is much Hickory growing in Nebraska, but you never know!

See... now here's a thinking man. Once you leave the extreme southeast corner of Nebraska there just ain't a lot of tree varieties... heck, except for yard trees, there ain't a lot of trees. Once ya' get left of the Missouri River it's sort'a like landing on the moon (a really grassy moon).
I'm thinkin' that Hickory... or Persimmon (that's a joke... right?)... wouldn't be very likely... of course, neither would ash.

 

[ropensaddle]

Looks like elm to me.

Or pignut,

 

[zogger]

Doesn't look like ash to me, the bark is way too rough and irregular. Ash has nice neat bark fissures, very uniform and "tight".

 

[One Shot Will]

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Looks like Ash to me.

 

[lone wolf]

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Looks like Ash to me.

nice pics, camera or cell phone?

 

[richv70]

nice pics, camera or cell phone?

Cell phone, iphone 4.

 

[xraydaniel]

Green Ash (Fraxinus Pennsylvanica). Does the inner bark layer have a red color when fresh? Looks like it to me.