Is it normally this stringy? I haven' cut much of It down here but I thought it was supposed to split easily? this is ash right?
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The bark sure looks like ash but the splits look more like hickory or maybe elm. Ash normally splits so easily that they used to make baskets out of it
lindnova
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I cut down a big green ash in a backyard a few years ago. It was very hard to split. I ended up splitting it a year later with hydraulics. Most ash I burn is smaller unsplit, but the little I have done has not been easy to split. Burns great. One on the best woods to burn with little drying time.
BobUrban
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Not sue that is ash? Someone more knowledgeable than I will be along to confirm it though. All my ash has split rather easy but there are always exceptions.
A couple people said it was on the stove board but the stringiness is throwing me off.
Sinngetreu
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The leaves are the biggest key to determining the difference. I'm going to guess that you don't have any leaves laying around?
It looks like Ash to me. I have three large trees that had some pretty gnarly parts to them that made it really hard to split. Other parts of it split in flakes and made awesome splits for the stove. It just all depends on environment, conditions, etc how things are going to go.
There's leaves but from a dozen types of tress mixed in. I'll be able to figure things out a lot better in spring i think. Thanks for the reply
nrford
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Backwoods Savage
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If ash is cut from a fence row or a town tree or a roadside tree, it indeed can be very stringy. Otherwise it split super. That does look like ash but could be something else but not sure. A couple of the splits look much different.
Beer Belly
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Woody Stover
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mol1jb
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firefighterjake
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What do you mean "used to" . . . some of the Penobscots up this way still are making baskets from ash and sweet grass.
http://www.penobscotculture.com/ind...category_id=9&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=23
I have a large road side ash that I am working on. Today it beat the crap out of me. Your pics look like it could be willow which is stringy. Is there a small hole in the core of your round?
I only have experience with Oregon White Ash and your wood, barkwise and splitwise, looks about as un-ashlike as I can imagine. It's always split perfectly clean and smooth for me, and OR ash has thinner and differently furrowed bark.
The splits photo almost looks like one of the more difficult softwoods, but I know it's not that. Someone mentioned willow...? No idea on that, but seems plausible.
The splits photo almost looks like one of the more difficult softwoods, but I know it's not that. Someone mentioned willow...? No idea on that, but seems plausible.
BobUrban
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TimJ
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Paulywalnut
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Or Elm. Not ash bark.
mstoelton
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