Not sure what this is. Been down awhile and bark is gone. Little bumps on the trunk see pics. Color leads to think oak?. Just not sure. I know someone on here knows. I am not good at wood id without bark. Got a good size truckload of large rounds.
Split it , I think it is elm. I just did about a cord of elm with the sharp little burs as in the picture. I noodled every one a bear by hand.
I couldn't say for sure but that darker center could be elm or walnut. If it has red streaks in the middle when split, boxelder. Hard to say without bark or a leaf.
From some of the descriptions on here I was wondering about elm. Is it elm that has an odd smell? I unloaded it today after a hard rain. Seems it smelled odd but I could be imagining it. Gonna split in a week or so will confirm then.
Yeah, it stinks some until it dries a while. Definitely doesn't smell as good as apple. I just got some of both and noticed the difference. Its good firewood though, gets a bad rap for its splitting qualities.
I agree with bogydave - oak tends to be slow growing - those would be large rings even for an open grown tree. The growth rings do make me think elm, but then again, that knot at 3'oclock makes me think pine. The best way to get a positive ID for something like that, is to look at the trees that are growing nearby, and try to gather additional clues. Maybe there's another downed tree nearby that looks similar, but still has some bark, and you can match that up to other living trees in the area. In the absence of other info, I'm going out on that radial limb, and say red or lodgepole pine. Or maybe that's not a limb at all - hard to tell from the pic - if its a radial crack, then that certainly favors elm.
Seems heavy and dense for pine. But again not good at wood id. Will split soon and report back with pics
I've cut plenty of elm with those nubs like are in the picture. I've also cut a lot of red pine up north, and I don't think is red pine. I don't think lodgepole pine is in Ohio, or much beyond the western states.
If you respond with a bunch of swear words and gnarly splits it's probably elm. Pine of any kind would be very light in weight and very easy to split with an old fashioned Axe.
I don't have any red elm here - white seems to stay pretty smooth. Perhaps nubs like that are particularly characteristic of red elm. I've seen some black cherry with partially rotted sapwood - didn't quite look like that, but it had some interesting topography to it. My point was, once you know the 3-4 kinds of trees in a stand, the stuff without leaves or bark becomes much easier to identify.
