Just curious what y'all think this might be.....it was cut about 3 or 4 weeks ago. I'm just now getting to split it. It's kinda stringy like elm but not as bad. Plus I'm not sure we still have any live elms around. Pics below....
I'll put a fiver on sugar maple. Was that round just cut? Usually after letting the rounds set a while you'll start to see a dark stain spreading out from the center.
I'm thinking white oak. It's a bit stringy but there are a couple of knots in the split piece. It looks like the give away sign of medullary rays in the cut end, but I'm not sure, it could be marks from the chain. My second guess would be elm. Edit: the more I look at it I'm going with elm and Jack Straw. I things I thought were rays are marks from the chain.
It’s elm. Talk about timing, I just burned the last of my American elm yesterday. I would have sent you a picture of a split, looks identical. It’s worth the hassle of splitting.
After continuing to split I confirmed it was elm for sure. I shoulda taken some pics. My kindling supply is good for a while It threw me off cause I dont recall seeing a live elm for a long long time now. I thought DED wiped them all out.
Elm, there's a split in the firebox right now, I burned a cord and a half last year. Very common here, in fact I have tree on the ground needing bucking.
I have a few elm rounds I saved from a tree we removed, they look exactly like those. I'll try and get a pic today.
Yep I see that on elm all the time. Sometimes I see it and think its ash and then get corrected when I try splitting it.
Right on Marvin. That looks just like the elm we have here. It usually does not grow very large here before it dies. Quite often the normal is around 12" or less in diameter before it dies off. But occasionally we get a few bigger ones. I usually cut some every year and have a few scouted out to cut this winter or maybe yet this fall. Here is one of the bigger ones but this had been dead for a bit longer than I usually wait. Still burned nice and split super easy. btw, notice the date on that picture! No snow!
yup elm. Notice the exit end of the split. Typical of elm. Not even close to as straight as the entry end.
