What kind of tree is this?

[blakey]

Saw this ad tonight on kijiji, I think he is off on the type of tree, anyone recognize it?

Healthy, Ash tree blown down in Saturday's storm. 15 inch diameter trunk. You bring chainsaw, cut and remove and the wood is yours for free.

 

[welder15725]

yeah I don't think it's an ash.

 

[ericjeeper]

LOL Its free

All one arm load of firewood and two truck loads of brush.. Maybe we should all email them and offer to pay them for this valuable gift they are trying to bestow upon a sucker.

 

[Ductape]

Hard to tell by the pic, but it looks like the beech around here. Not much firewood there though.

 

[aandabooks]

Whatever it is, with all those limbs in the top it is not worth the work that would be involved in harvesting the little bit of firewood in it.

 

[blakey]

I agree, I have no interest in cleaning it up for them. I was just curious what it was because it sure isn't an ash. I was expecting a huge ash tree from the description and the pic didn't quite match.

 

[bonker81]

Eastern hophornbeam (Ironwood) would be my first guess but maybe American hornbeam (blue-beech or water beech)? It looks like a young ironwood.

 

[Jon E]

Possibly could be sorbus americana or American Mountain-ash - the growth pattern looks correct and the bark looks similar. Only other thing that looks like is ironwood (hornbeam).

 

[split4fun]

American beech

 

[PaulP]

Just for fun....show up and cut it right before it branches and take the first three feet. Then leave.

 

[Wood Doctor]

Just for fun....show up and cut it right before it branches and take the first three feet. Then leave.

Even that prank is not worth the gasoline.

 

[savageactor7]

The bark looks like basswood...but I never saw one get so bushy like on top. If it is basswood it's total crap to burn ...I'm told it's a good carving wood.

 

[tamadrummer]

Could it be a standard Crepe Myrtle? Very similar canopy on trees that have had little to no pruning.

 

[smokinj]

bradford pear by the shape and top heavy

 

[Steve NW WI]

Eastern hophornbeam (Ironwood) would be my first guess but maybe American hornbeam (blue-beech or water beech)? It looks like a young ironwood.

The ironwoods here are nowhere near that bushy, just tall skinny looking critters that grow straight to the canopy, then usually fall over and wait for me to cut em up.

 

[Guarddog1]

Holy crap and I hate pines I would choke myself if I had to cut that thing up.

 

[andosca]

better prank: take the first three feet and throw the top in the chipper with the chute aiming into the yard.

 

[Blazin]

Looks like an American Fuctus...if you bit on cleaning it up, Other than that I'd say beech.

 

[Guarddog1]

:agree2:

That is to funny

 

[buzz sawyer]

I'm putting in a vote for magnolia.