name that wood

[groundup]

Gee, I don't know but it looked like locust to me, clear as day.


Groundup: work on APG

You in the army or work for contractor? My mom and sister work for the govt over there

 

[luckydozenfarm]

Looks like standing dead RED ELM to me.

Sometimes the elm trees around me get some sort of disease and within a month from dying all the bark, curls off and falls on the ground. Its great as a fire starter wood, all stringy and loose..elm has a nice sweet smell that I like, but its a little light for keeping the fire going all night.

Also it pops and sparks a lot, but decent wood.

 

[Hedgerow]

It's Honey Locust... In its dead, barkless form can resemble a dead Red Elm and the splits can resemble the grain of a Red Oak. If he cut it with the bark on, there would be no mistaking it...
The wood should be salmon colored with a relatively pronounced cambium layer around the outside. Though I've seen that get spalted and gray after its dead for a while...
Miserable stuff it is, if the thorny variety... But burns good once dry... Slow drying wood...

 

[Hedgerow]

Looks like standing dead RED ELM to me.

Sometimes the elm trees around me get some sort of disease and within a month from dying all the bark, curls off and falls on the ground. Its great as a fire starter wood, all stringy and loose..elm has a nice sweet smell that I like, but its a little light for keeping the fire going all night.

Also it pops and sparks a lot, but decent wood.

Yup... Dry Elm can get that heat party started in a big hurry!!!

 

[milkman]

Bob you’re right, hopefully this will help.


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That bottom picture, the color and the way the grain is stringy looks to me like Elm, I've not seen Oak bark come off that clean unless it was handled a lot.

 

[BP021]

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How about this? It's all over the place, as in dead fall & standing dead. Never seen so much of it i this condition.

 

[Hansenj11]

Anybody know what wood this.

 

[milkman]

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How about this? It's all over the place, as in dead fall & standing dead. Never seen so much of it i this condition.

Pretty sure that's Ash, they're beginning to die around here too, Emerald Ash Borer.

 

[milkman]

Anybody know what wood this.

From the first picture, I'll guess Poplar.

 

[Hansenj11]

It looks like hickory to me. I didnt take the tree out so i dont have any leaves.

 

[lone wolf]

From the first picture, I'll guess Poplar.

Gumwood I think is it stringy to split?

 

[Hansenj11]

Gumwood I think is it stringy to split?

It split real easy and was filled with water.

 

[lone wolf]

It split real easy and was filled with water.

Maybe Poplar then:msp_confused:

 

[513yj]

Pretty sure that's Ash, they're beginning to die around here too, Emerald Ash Borer.

Looks like the ash we have dead all over around here thanks to those dang EAB bugs. But then again the first pics from this thread appear to be elm to me like the stuff I have cut from the Dutch Elm Disease. But then again, where I come from the only honey locust we have is on the internet so I'm not too familiar with it.

 

[Woodchucker Ron]

Looks like the ash we have dead all over around here thanks to those dang EAB bugs. But then again the first pics from this thread appear to be elm to me like the stuff I have cut from the Dutch Elm Disease. But then again, where I come from the only honey locust we have is on the internet so I'm not too familiar with it.

I agree ash. bin cutting a lot of it around here. good burning wood. I call it want a be oak.

 

[stihly dan]

Not ash if full of water. My guess would be poplar.

 

[Cheesecutter]

Full of water... Could it be black willow, it sure kinda looks like it.

 

[stihly dan]

Isn't willow kind of tough to split?

 

[Cheesecutter]

I don't remember right off the top of my head. Seems to me it didn't split to bad, or I wouldn't have split the crap. I just don't cut it very often, but I know it was full of water.

 

[stihly dan]

I know I scrounged some wood that looked just like that, it was next to ash that I also got. When I tried to halve it with the fiskers, the blade just sunk in with water pouring out. It needed the hydro splitter to split, and it was still tough. I went back to check other tree's in that location and there was a willow. So I am assuming this was a willow. Now dry the wood is light as a feather.