Hoping FHC folks can help me with this one. This tree was growing about 50' into the woods by my shed. A year ago over a foot of heavy wet snow from one of the Nor'easters snapped off the upper half which i later CSS. Gave it to my stepdaughter to burn in her fireplace back in January. The wood burned great despite only 10 months seasoning. I cut the 25' stalk down this afternoon. Very light in weight, texture that reminds me of EWP even though its a hardwood. No smell, splits straight and easy, it actually "spit" when i split it...rather saturated. It was growing on a rocky hill and not wet,swampy, ground. When cut it generated sawdust as if i was a softwood. The dead part where it broke off seemed to decay a lot in a years time. Whaddaya think?
I thought so maybe but my mom had those growing in her woods and didnt look like them from what i remember.
picked up some roadkill last winter that had bark similar, but it was very heavy and split like stringy elm...i hated it!
Not willow I'd say green ash or box elder but since box elder is more shrub like I'd say it's a variety of ash
Might possibly be russian or autumn olive. Most of what you find is quite small and grows in clumps but some will grow to become singles then grow to be quite large.
The tree is very flexible as well. This one had arched with the weight of the snow. There was this tree was 10" BHD , heavy leaner, had an arch too from the snow load. Never spring back to shape. There was another one that bent over the trail almost like the St.Louis arch. There are more ive seen in the woods but not in groves or clumps.. Ive been wondering on this for a year. May have to wait for leaves.
did you see the pic of the sawdust? Sawdust was looking like i was cutting some type of softwood. Chain was very sharp
yes, i agree. the second pic shows 2 different kinds of bark. heavily fissured on top of pic and a sort of flattened bark on the bottom side of the log. this resembles poplar. wood splits easy/straight and is light weight, also like poplar. what i dont see is the green center like poplar. ash almost always has a pin hole in the center. the top pic looks to have that. but ash wouldn't cut easy or be light weight.
