The Canadian Elm in Ottawa is soft and pliable. It prefers the groves (read: grovels) of the Chinese Elm (word has it that the current Elm is a...
Judging by the wood in the shed and the trees that surround it, crotches & uglies are a foreign species
Alright, that settles it. I'm telling him it's a Canadian Elm. He cut the large limb off cause it was getting dangerous. There is a row of them...
You've got it down to Elm, so that's lots of help. I'll see if I can get a pic of what's still standing tomorrow.
My mechanic cut a limb off a tree and was wondering what species it might be. I read through some of Tree ID tips for newbies and Googled Elm ID....
Whatta score :) The bark on the ash looks good, like the EAB never touched it. All the ash up here is either pale grey with no bark or at least...
Even longer than some species of oak? I've seen brown leaves on oak at Christmas.
We don't get a lot of beech up here so I'm not on the lookout for it. But if I drove past something like what your picture shows, I would have...
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Tuck into it, mate! That beech will keep you warm and cozy for all of 2025 :campfire:
Perfect!
Nice, very nice. That is the kind of folk-art that people love. We'll see it on American Roadshow in 2040!
I'm surprised they're not cutting the twisted cull wood and bundling into firewood bags.
Is that a beech on the left side of your pic?
Cutting, hauling, bucking, splitting and stacking it will produce plenty of BTU's :axe::coldfire:
Nice score. That's Long Island?
I'm a bit late to the party but, that's a lotta wood!
Thanks for answering. Would love to see what eventually becomes of it.
Beautiful. What plans do you have for it after it dries?
Thumbs up, for many reasons.
