What type of wood is this? w/pics!

[Dan_IN_MN]

Is this Ash?

Thanks:greenchainsaw:

Dan

 

[beerman6]

Looks like firewood?

 

[xcr440]

elm??

 

[blakey]

I vote elm too.

 

[mowoodchopper]

ash

just letting you know I cut alot of firewood in NE and alot of it is ash.
It looks ash to me.

 

[Dan_IN_MN]

Good answer! Tell me something I don't know!

Looks like firewood?

Good answer! Tell me something I don't know!

 

[flotek]

the bark looks very much like ash the wood grain is tight and resembles elm though but elm has shaggy jagged bark ,i would vote its likely ash

 

[Dan_IN_MN]

I thought so!

just letting you know I cut alot of firewood in NE and alot of it is ash.
It looks ash to me.

I thought so! I like the smell of the smoke! It's so dry that it lights in mts when put on a bed of hot coals! :greenchainsaw:

Dan

 

[KsWoodsMan]

Elm

The difference between trying to split Ash and Elm ( by hand ) is like day and night. Ash will pop apart, Elm ... doesn't. It more gets ripped apart, even in a hydraulic splitter it dont come out pretty.

 

[Dan_IN_MN]

This stuff splits straight.

Elm

The difference between trying to split Ash and Elm ( by hand ) is like day and night. Ash will pop apart, Elm ... doesn't. It more gets ripped apart, even in a hydraulic splitter it dont come out pretty.

KsWoodsMan

This stuff splits straight.

Dan

 

[xcr440]

defiantly ash then.

 

[Mkarlson]

I'd vote for ash. But the grain as well as the pieces missing bark do resemble the elms

 

[Mkarlson]

Also noticed at least one piece of spruce, fir, or, pine there. Or maybe thats a square ash tree.

 

[rocky226]

My vote has to go to ash also. Definitely not elm if it splits good.

 

[TreePointer]

Ash.

Sadly, elms that big around here don't have any bark (disease). Also the grain will twist as it goes the length of the trunk/branch in an elm--should be easy to see under the bark.

 

[chainsawaddict]

I thought so! I like the smell of the smoke! It's so dry that it lights in mts when put on a bed of hot coals! :greenchainsaw:

Dan

looks like ash, especially if it smells good
elm doesnt smell nearly as good.

 

[trimmmed]

Elm

The difference between trying to split Ash and Elm ( by hand ) is like day and night. Ash will pop apart, Elm ... doesn't. It more gets ripped apart, even in a hydraulic splitter it dont come out pretty.

Aside from the word Elm, I agree completely! But it's ash

 

[KsWoodsMan]

KsWoodsMan

This stuff splits straight.

Dan

Then it doesn't sound like Elm.
But it still doesn't look like Ash, not in my eyes.

 

[smokinj]

willow

 

[blakey]

Usually I don't see ash go punky around the outside like that closeup piece.