what is this wood?
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What's the serial number? I can look it up....
earlthegoat2
ArboristSite Guru
Leaf?
The bark looks like ash. Send me a 4' length and I could verify it for you...
cus_deluxe
Commie Satan turd
Hard to say, looks like it could be ash. As said above, leaf description would help. I was just in tennessee and im not sure i saw a single ash tree, are they common there?
cus_deluxe
Commie Satan turd
Hard to tell for me, its been so long since ive seen an ash tree that hasnt been molested by woodpeckers lol.
you mean Hash?The bark looks like ash. Send me a 4' length and I could verify it for you...
***** willow
Send me a 4" length and I can verify it.
Send me a 4" length and I can verify it.
Yep, at least they are in the middle of the state. I drove up I-65 last week and saw plenty of dead ones in Kentucky.
SmellslikeCedar
ArboristSite Lurker
having a hard time finding any leaves. trees are all dead from the ash borers,I have found them while cutting.
SmellslikeCedar
ArboristSite Lurker
the reason I was wondering is it looks like bitternut hickory too.
cuinrearview
Red saw lover
Ash=opposite branching, hickory=alternate. It will be easy to rule out one or the other. If it's dead and I had a guess just from the single pic of bark it would be green ash.
Some of the BIG tulip poplars here in our neighborhood have a bark very similar to ash. But this pic definitely looks like ash to me. We just finished up our family wood cutting day last Saturday. We all spent the whole day working on one tree....an ash that had started dying due to borers. Tree was near 100' (located in a very tall, high canopy part of the woods) and we got approximately 12 ricks of 21" firewood out of that monster. Won't have an exact total till we finish splitting it. Already put 8-1/2 ricks in the shed and there is still a big pile of bottom blocks left to split...my guess is 3-4 more ricks. Before I felled it, my Dad stretched his tape measure around the base at about 2ft above the dirt. 135 inches circumference!!! The bark looked identical to the photo above!!! Wish I had videoed it going down!!! Shook the ground when it hit! Had to stand watching the sky for 15-20 seconds just to be sure nothing was going to fall on us from the surrounding trees flinging limbs a half mile high!!!
