Hi guys! I'm no good at all at identifying wood by the bark, leaves I can look up online but bark is confusing to me and most of them look too similar to tell apart. #1 This stuff has been putting up a heck of a fight, the tree was standing dead and has been cut into rounds for a year now. It seems to have some serious separation anxiety. I refuse to give up, but so far I haven't had so much trouble splitting anything else. When it does finally split it comes apart in wierd ways. Feels kinda light also. #2 I do not know what wood this is, have several of them down from cleaning out fence rows. A couple years ago wood was wood, I knew a few apart but mainly based upon what kind of trees I knew to hunt around. Then I started lurking around on sites like this one and learning about the different burn qualities of different woods. I figured I should learn me some different woods since I move a fair amount and don't want to give other people junk wood and waste my time when I could be getting better wood. Let me know what you think they are! Thanks!
My guesses #1 Maple #2 Ash Was # 2 still alive as it looks so. Most all out ash in Ohio is gone if it wasn't treated.
1= elm- based on thin bark and minimal furrows in the bark 2= most definitely ash- you can usually tell ash by the pinhole at the very center of the tree. Yours has a rather large pinhole. Most are about the size of a pinhead hence the name (you have to look real close to actually notice it)
I see 2 kinds of bark in the top pic. Top center looks like ash, front center appears to be different. Elm? (Maybe even a walnut in the upper left corner of the pic.) 2nd pic looks like ash
Red oak is in the top center and you are correct on that piece of walnut in the top left of that pic, I have a big pile of walnut to the left of what's in the picture. I had believed that to be elm as well, I thought it was some variety of maple at first but after reading threads on the difficulties of elm and then experiencing this stuff for myself I started leaning hard towards that direction. I will say I'm not a huge fan of it, but it will get split or I will die/injure myself/break every splitting tool i have trying. Thank you for the information and opinions everyone!
Yes it was, I haven't noticed an irregular amount of dead trees around here. We had a good drought a few years back that claimed several, but I haven't seen or heard of a big impact from the ash borer around here. It could just be me though, I tend to be in my own little world most of the time.
In the top picture, the big rounds in the back are. There's some smaller splits of it to the right side, the color isn't showing up very strong in the picture. That one has been down for a good while as well, finally got around to splitting the rest of it up today
I'm just west of Dayton, Ohio and I'd say we're at least 95% standing dead on all sizes. If you have some you want to save better start treating it now. Once you start seeing damage, it's generally too late. It's expensive though. I'm trying to save one in the yard and so far it has worked. This one's gone. This one too STUPID BUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm going to take a different stab.....#1 kinda looks like it could be tupelo (black gum). Miserable to split. #2 is definitely ash.
