We are looking at another round of lake effect snow here so wanted to try to get something done. Didn't do as much as I would of liked but I was working solo. My father in law usually helps but he went to Florida for 3 months, how dare he! Got a little over a face cord split and stacked. My new splitter worked great, so happy to have bought it, also doesn't hurt I got a ridiculous deal on it! Could of done more but I was getting cold and all the while watching my chimney smoke away pretty good, Mrs. g60 is getting better with the stove but I gotta keep the lessons going. Here's a few pics for you guys. All this wood is from a recent scrounge. The guy said this is ash. I have a lot of ash in my stacks and have cut a lot both out of yards and from the woods and have never seen ash like this. All ash I've ever seen is much more deeply furrowed and splits very easy with straight grain. This wood was pretty stringy and the bark isn't furrowed. I looked around his yard and saw ash trees but no more trees like this. Anyone have any ideas? Maybe it is ash, maybe it's a different strain of ash, maybe it's something really cool that no ones ever seen before? Any guesses? Last picture is a side by side comparison of ash bark I'm used to seeing and this wood I recently got.
Horkin hit it right on....American Elm to be exact. I like it but it can be a little work to split at times
Yeah, it's a bear with no hydro's, but you fixed that problem. I burn a lot of American elm. I've got some inside right now.
Horkn is spot on. It also looks like there is some red maple in there. I see a round in the first picture with smooth grey bark. The second shot has more and the ends show the classic red maple finger blots, whatever they are really called.
Good eye. Yeah, there is red maple and as I just learned from Horkn, American elm. All free, all good. The maple splits so nice, might actually put some aside and use the fiskars, gotta work off the wings and beer somehow.
I was only looking at the last couple of close up shots. After looking at the first 2 pics, Paul is right. There's other stuff in there. Looks mapley to me as well.
Got another rack done. Starting to snow pretty hard here now. So great to own a splitter now, I'm on my time, not the rental shops. Time for football, Sunday sauce and a bottle of red. Go Bills, oh wait, that's right, been a year or two for us. Go Denver then I guess.
You have some elm and maple but I see some ash in there too. And you need to set that splitter upright!
That last pic with the ash is just to show the elm next to it seeing as the guy I got the elm from thought it was ash and I knew it wasn't but had no idea what I had. How long to season elm backwoods? Also, as soon as I can find a milk crate I'll flip that sucker up the right way!!!
