Wood ID please

[aandabooks]

What have I got here? Had to take this down to get the entangled American Elm down. This tree will come in right about 1 cord and had about a 20" trunk. Fell it right into the field yesterday. Gave the 044 a real nice workout.

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[rayvil01]

Looks like a gum of some description from here. Did you do that with a hydraulic splitter?

 

[aandabooks]

Hydraulic. 21 ton that split right through most of the straight grained stuff easily. This piece had a branch off of it. The wood doesn't even seem wet. I threw one nasty split on the fire tonight and it didn't hiss or water at all. Just caught fire and burned.

 

[Turkeyslayer]

black willow??

 

[bluestem]

I'm going to say Siberian Elm, just from the mossy bark. It would be nice to see a split with the end grain.

 

[jimbojango]

looks like some sorry elm (all elm is sorry, sorry guys)

 

[Chuck Diesel]

Cottonwood.

 

[esshup]

If it smells something like rootbeer, and was alive, then I'd say maybe Sassafras, but if it's standing dead for < a year, then I'd go with cottonwood.

 

[cat10ken]

I second that it is cottonwood.

 

[ericjeeper]

aspen. popple.. Poplar family.

 

[aandabooks]

It's not cottonwood. I have cut and split live cottonwood in the past and this is not it. There was no water at the ram when the wedge entered the wood. Split kind of like elm due to the stringy quality of the wood and it held together. The bark was real heavy at the base of the tree and got thinner as I worked up into the branches.

 

[branchbuzzer]

It's not cottonwood. I have cut and split live cottonwood in the past and this is not it. There was no water at the ram when the wedge entered the wood. Split kind of like elm due to the stringy quality of the wood and it held together. The bark was real heavy at the base of the tree and got thinner as I worked up into the branches.

Got any other splits we can look at? Any twigs or leaves? The more info, the easier it is to i.d.