WoodTick007
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Anyone know what kinda wood the longer logs are? Thanks in advance for your help!
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I'll take a wild guess and say from the bark it looks like some kind of ash but the heartwood looks a little dark. Have you tried splitting any yet?
WoodTick007
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Honestly... I don't know. . .I was hoping is was oak. . .but it could be some kinda elm. I have to decide weather to take it or not. I am all about the oak and not so all about the elm. There has not been a live ash tree in that area for well over 10 years 
Can you get a closer photo of the bark and end grain? Elm is not a good firewood as oak but it's better than a lot of others.
You could be right. If so, excellent firewood.
looks alot like the oak we have around here. but I'll need a close up of the end grains. oak has holes in the end grain near the bark. thats an easy way to tell.
it sure doesn't look like any elm I've ever seen. elm logs will usually shed their bark in a few months. but oak will hold its bark for years.
it sure doesn't look like any elm I've ever seen. elm logs will usually shed their bark in a few months. but oak will hold its bark for years.
WoodTick007
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My buddy sent me a text with that picture attached. It said.... bring your trailer on Monday and I can load this wood for free. When I initially looked at it in the picture I thought it was oak but after looking for it at it for a longer time I'm thinking that's not Oak. Right now I am fat with wood so I'm not going to be scrounging around for some kind of piss elm.
WoodTick007
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Around here we get these elm trees... I don't know if they're called Chinese elm. . they sprout. And in a couple years you have a poor quality tree that is 20ft tall .
Box elder??
panolo
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I would guess chinese elm. Bark doesn't look deep enough for green ash.
I would take it if its elm, even if you are full up with wood. Decent heat.
WoodTick007
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I know what you're saying... My problem is then I've got this old ghetto backyard log splitter and it just struggles through Elm. The only time splits Elm well is when you split it when it's - 4 degrees Fahrenheit outside. I don't know what that is in Celsius for you people in Canada... I think it's a hundred degrees Celsius in Canada either way it splits well at -4 degrees Fahrenheit
WoodTick007
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And if it was Elm that's great but that Chinese own is crap it's on the level of boxelder and Poplar. If you season it too long it turns into this air like almost is styrofoam type wood. I would much rather cut and split Pine and burn pine
+1 for Streblerm. Norway Maple. Color is right, bark and heartwood. Decent firewood.
If it is Norway Maple it'll be good, but if it's Box Elder it's pretty crappy stuff and I have passed up tons of it over the years. They call it Manitoba Maple here, it's just crap.
Hope it's one of the better firewoods.
Hope it's one of the better firewoods.
panolo
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Doesn't look like box elder. That has a much tighter bark pattern. In all honesty I am a leaf identifier on many types of trees but I have cut so much box elder because of blow down it's pretty tough not to miss. Box elder does burn ok but when dry it's fast and ashy. Plus it sucks to split. It sure could be a norway. I don't see many around my parts.
Gypo Logger
Timber Baron
My first thought was bitternut hickory, but I think it's red elm.zogger
Tree Freak
Some kinda elm-guess
