I can certainly see why someone would guess Oak...but as Eric said, no medullary rays. Anyone else think the grain looks a little like Ash?
I think Eric's went the way of the Dodo bird... Never encountered any snakes while hunting firewood...ran into plenty while fishing....my 410 or my .9 mm loaded with bird-shot is a formidable deterrent. lol
Yeah, I wouldn't describe it as sweet, more like the classic wood working shop smell. But then I don't think Oak stinks like some people do though either...
And thank goodness for that! The shagbark I grabbed 3 years ago was split and stacked that same summer/fall and smelled like nothing but manure! Unbelievable! You can still smell it a little if you try hard enough.
You guys and your nose for manure.... neither Shag nor any oak ever struck my axons of olfactory receptor cells with such indications. I simply smell btu’s.... in rather high amounts, mind you.
If that is elm it has to be the easiest-splitting elm on earth. Don't know what it is, but judging by the splitting, I think we can eliminate sycamore, elm, and the ever-fun sweet gum. Although gum does seem to ease up some after sitting a few years before splitting. What trees are near it? Something dropped the seed it came from. There's always a bird or a squirrel that can get involved but the neighboring trees might provide a clue.
That stuff is a dead ringer for Ugly wood. Don’t matter as I bet it will give off BTU’s just as good as pretty designer wood.
It was lying next to a small black locust, and a lot of briars, best I can recall. I'll guess I nab the rest of it when I'm close again. I was predicating that upon what it was though...lol
I see some guesses of red maple but its nothing like any we've every had and we have lots of it. Cherry? Maybe. And yes, it does look a lot like oak but more likely cherry.
I was originally leaning toward red oak, but after looking at the pics some more I would have to say its Cherry.
