Reqest for wood ID please
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Scooter422
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Scooter422
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I cannot tell the difference from the bark between red elm or white elm. the heartwood is quite distinctive though. Red elm makes pretty lumber... You can often tell the difference if splitting by hand. American/white elm doesn't split and red will...lol
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nrford
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My bad: This is SC TN, not sure if Elm is around here or not.
Did MM test and got the highest readings I've ever seen on my moisture meter: 50.2%! It was heavy mo-fo wood for sure!
The three pieces in the first pic I set aside for future unspecified wood working projects.
The rest I put up for firewood:
Yea, it is pretty. I saved the three rounds shown in the first pic, they are from the trunk and should make some nice wood rolling pics a couple years from now.
BTW, this is the wettest wood I've ever measured! 48-50% moisture according to my General MM!
Did MM test and got the highest readings I've ever seen on my moisture meter: 50.2%! It was heavy mo-fo wood for sure!
The three pieces in the first pic I set aside for future unspecified wood working projects.
The rest I put up for firewood:
Yea, it is pretty. I saved the three rounds shown in the first pic, they are from the trunk and should make some nice wood rolling pics a couple years from now.
BTW, this is the wettest wood I've ever measured! 48-50% moisture according to my General MM!
How can you tell it's not red oak?
I do need to get a good tree book. I know my shagbark hickorys, walnut, pine, cedar and poplar, but I'm not much good on the rest.
Scooter422
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I think elm has a more of a brown/reddish look for the heartwood. Elm splits seem grainier/more stringy than red oak splits.
How can you tell it's not red oak?
This is just one way:
Red Elm almost always has 2-3 growth rings of sapwood(white ivory) and the heartwood is the remaining red wood that you see. Three years max of sapwood before the color changes.
Red Oak has roughly 9 maybe...11 to 14 sapwood rings. Always. The heartwood is a pale salmon pink and it stays that color.
That 50% water is probably more like 78%. Red Elm germinates and grows in wet soils. It loves wet ground. And those rounds are gonna lose alot of weight. But the good part is it will lose all that water within a year.
When dry it weighs about the same as Cherry.
shoot-straight
Minister of Fire
How can you tell it's not red oak?
I do need to get a good tree book. I know my shagbark hickorys, walnut, pine, cedar and poplar, but I'm not much good on the rest.
Bark simply looks wrong as does the wood. Can't cite specifics, but just don't look right to me.
nrford
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Osagebndr
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Elm not sure if it's red or Siberian either, but I got a cord of it. Not great btus but burns really nice
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