ID this wood for my brother!

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Brother called me today saying this wood he had is really dry but super hard to split. He does it by hand and is fairly capable of splitting by hand without any problems so I believe him when he said it's really hard to get through.

Not sure of the leaf at all. I think he said it was a dead tree that he cut down the rest of the way.

Thanks!


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[Whitespider]

Looks like dead American Elm to me...
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[redoakneck]

Looks like FIRE wood to me, hard to tell with no bark or leaves. Had some maple that looked similar. The hard to split is usually elm or hickory

 

[haveawoody]

+1 on American Elm.

 

[066blaster]

It's a little punky but will still burn ok. You have to get after american elm the same year they die.

 

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Thanks guys!


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[unclemoustache]

I was thinking hickory, but I don't know elm very well.

 

[jrider]

Looks just like sweet gum when it sits around for a year or two and looses its bark.

 

[Herd8497]

Looks like Bitternut hickory to me. Not as familiar with Elm

 

[Evanrude]

Sorry guys, I'm going to have to go Cottonwood on this... Looks just like some I had here a month ago. It can be tough to split dry.

Another clue I see, is the holes in the ends of the logs (and the one split he's holding). Mine was infested with larvae from some weird looking wasp thing.

Ask him about the weight, I bet it's light.

 

[Whitespider]

Cottonwood??

Evanrude, take a look at the second picture, you'll see some of it laying in the background with some of the bark still on it (anyway, I'm assuming it's the same stuff).
No friggin' way that bark is cottonwood.
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[WoodTick007]

Box Elder

 

[OH_Varmntr]

Elm, elm, and elm. Absolutely no doubt about it.

 

[Evanrude]

I admit, I'm not that great at id-ing wood. But damn, those barkless rounds and splits look like the same thing I had here. Spidey, the log in the background I didn't pay any attention to before, I agree is not cottonwood.

I wish I had some pics of the garbage I had, hey, maybe it wasn't cottonwood after all. I could be completely out of my mind all together.

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Brother got pics of bark and trunk.

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[Whitespider]

Oooops, that ain't elm... bark looks like persimmon.
I saw persimmon when I lived in Oklahoma... that bark sure reminds me of it.
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[stumpy75]

First look, I said elm too, but, as Spidey said, that bark is persimmon all the way.

 

[ray benson]

Might be Blackgum.
http://treebarkid.com/index.php/blackgum

 

[lone wolf]

Looks just like sweet gum when it sits around for a year or two and looses its bark.

That's what it looks like to me.

 

[Whitespider]

Well... it ain't elm, and none of the others possibilities mentioned (including the persimmon from me) grow where I live.
I know when to quit... and that would be right now.
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