Cant split it !

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woodking

woodking

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Help me with this tree id.
Cut it in winter, it has a rough bark, very white inside, and was about 30 feet tall.
The issue is , I can't split it with an 8lb. maul! pieces 18" long and 4" in diameter just bounce the maul back at me.
After pounding 6 or 7 times it will go, but its very stringy and twisted inside.
The only other id feature is it seems to have small limbs growing every so often straight out of the center of the trunk, the whole lenght of the tree.
any ideas???
 
My best guess from the very limited information is ELM - based on color and stringy. Need photos to be sure.

All branches grow from the center of the tree - that is what makes knots.
 
30' sounds like a young tree. Your description though does not sound like elm, but "rough bark" is pretty vague. The straight out limbs are what is strange. Really need a picture.
 
heres pic. This ones about 4-5" in diam. You can see the mark were i bounced a maul off of it. I just remenber having to run the saw along the whole tree to remove all the little limbs/twigs. They were spaced randomly about every 1-2 feet, pencil sized...
 

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woodking said:
heres pic.
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If it's elm, certainly not American elm, and doesn't look like red elm either. Looks to me like smaller rounds of white ash. Cheers!
 
Are you at least using an 8 pounder. Light mauls will fail due to lack of force.
 
Yep, 8 pounder, i get alot of red oak and locust, so my splitting is usaully easy, these little rounds stopped me in my tracks!
 
Not sure on this one. Could it be willow ?
 
Pecan?
 
Looks Piney to me.
 
swampy69 said:
smokinjay said:
Looks Piney to me.
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Almost looks like Hemlock.


Swampy
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Zap - its gonna take me a long time to get used to this "Swampy" monicker.
 
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Not a conifer for sure, My guess would be Gum
 
I'm leaning the conifer way myself......I need a stanback picture, were there lots of radial branches on the tree?
 
I am gonig with White Oak. Stringy for sure, and looks like that type of bark.
 
nrford said:
My guess would be Gum
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Hmmm, hard to split, lots of branches...
We've got a couple of Sweetgum in the yard and the bark looks similar; Were there any of the spiny porcupine balls in the vicinity? The leaves are very distinctive as well.
 
new pics, a little dark out. had to split with wedge, the split piece was about 6" in diameter, took ten good whacks! There are no pine/hemlock or ever green trees within at least 100 yards of this stuff, and there are many 2foot diam trees like this one in the area i was cutting.
 

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