Any ideas as to what species I'm dealing with here? There was 1 log of this in the entire load. I thought it was a softer wood so I thought splitting would be easy and quick. Wrong! Super stringy and honestly a total pain in the butt. I didn't take a picture of a split, but the splits are blonder/pale in color with some redder fibers in the middle core. I thought this could potentially be Elm but I don't know. The bark has a unique scaly pattern.
Beech. Great firewwod, but can be a PITA to split. Normally not scaly, but smooth. Thinking the cracking maybe a result of beech bark disease
