Wood ID

I'm struggling to believe it's ash. Too dark no?

I can't seem to find good pics of split green ash online.

Whatever it is I hope it burns well because it's a joy to split.

 

I recommend that a meter be made for identification of wood. Handheld. But this guy seems to have hit the nail on the head.

The Truth Behind Wood Identification | The Wood Database

 

If you could send smells through the net I would know for sure if it was red oak; I use to split that for Dad when he use to cut wood and I loved the smell of fresh split red oak.

 

It smells like rotten cheese to me. Like i cut into a skid and the smell of it was so strong it damm near knocked me down. I guess like Pacific northwesterners love the smell of cedar but smell other things a bit strongly. Vice versa perhaps.

 

That is not the smell I associate with red oak, so maybe not red oak; red oak does have a really straight grain.

 

It might help to have some more photos of the bark.

 

I'll put up some more pics. I found a few pics of split red elm and it could be a match. I just didn't know elm could be that easy to split.

 

I don't see that being red oak, grain looks close, but the bark looks like an ash of some kind. I have found that red oak green has the manure smell but once it is down for a few weeks it changes to a sweet smell.

 

Ok what I smelled from one red oak was not like another. I just picked up another large oak skid today and what it smelled like as i was just smelling upclose not cut into it yet. It almost had a grain like smell, maybe something akin to animal feed. Oats and corn mix. Then when I cut into it it smelled sour almost like a mild vinegar. Not displeasing at all. But that one skid I had cut smelling like cheese was just about the foulest wood Ive ever smelled.
But I guess tree to tree becomes entirely different. But I am curious how they even get the smell like that...

 

I often don't think about sap unless im dealing with pine or doug fir and cedar. Its a mess if you go to work without gloves.