Wood ID?
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yanksforever said:
Thanks for agreeing with me, you probably would agree with me on who will win tonight too I would venture to say.
peterc38 said:yanksforever said:
Thanks for agreeing with me, you probably would agree with me on who will win tonight too I would venture to say.
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That's what I think about that!
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It just looks like good heat to me.jleyland said:
This last Winter I burned a big Chinese Elm.
That was some tough stuff to split.
That borrowed 35 ton splitter didn't have any problems at all.
Good thing it liked to go vertical.
Those 54" rounds would have been a real bugger to lift onto a horizontal splitter.
I think that is Norway Maple. The furrowed bark of Norway Maple looks a lot like ash. That tree looks like it was a shade tree with lots of branches, crotches, etc. that make it tough to split. Norway Maple is very common as a shade tree, along streets, and escaped into woods near houses in PA.
Almost looks like Hickory with the diamond bark pattern, but I don't see any blood line in the heart wood, looks a lot like the wood I was splitting this weekend?
It's "Mash" -- what you call wood when you're trying to ID it by bark alone and aren't sure if it's maple or ash . . . either way it should burn fine once cut, split, stacked and left to season.
1 - Could be bitternut hickory
2 - sometimes you just get a few pieces with crazy grain or the pieces from the bottom of the tree - they are a pain...
2 - sometimes you just get a few pieces with crazy grain or the pieces from the bottom of the tree - they are a pain...
It looks to me like it is "curley" meaning that if it were a straight log and of 8" long it was worth some coin for sure no matter what species...If it is hard maple, would have been alot of coin
The bark, white wood, and wood figuring all look like Norway Maple to me. I took one out of my FIL's yard- looked zackly like that
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That's ash. I can see where the pix in the OP would lead folks to maple. Particularly the figuring in the grain. I have had some curley ash. Not a lot. I seem to remember the curliest wood coming from right at the base of the trunk...but that was years ago and don't trust my memory that far back
CrawfordCentury said:
Some of the stuff I split yesterday from this pile was much easier to split. I guess I just happened to split the curly pieces first. I'll be sure to post better pics from the start next time to make it easier for everyone!
thanks
Jon
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