Need help with a wood ID

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Ive got an idea on one of these but Im stumped(lol) on the other. NE Kansas is the region they are from.

The one with the dark heart wood is hard as a rock. Takes me about 6 or 7 swings to get it to crack. Once I do get through it it is stringy like hedge.

The all white one splits super easy like cottonwood but the bark is all wrong. This is a CL scrounge. Any help would be appreciated, so that I can put them in the proper stack.





 
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I would like pics from a little further away. My guess is norway maple, but not sure.
 
The top one appears to be Elm.. The bottom one could be box elder or Norway maple.
 
Elm and Ash. I'm wasn't 100% positive on the Elm until you said it was stringy. The Ash looks like the one I'm staring at through my living room window right now, but the bark pattern has fewer diamonds like box elder.
 
What type of elm are you guys thinking the top one is? It's absolutely not American Elm.
 
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Yep bottom looks like Norway Maple, great stuff....
I curious what the top is, where's Nfrd......
 
I'm looking at the range maps for Rock Elm and they don't name the states. I don't know where Kansas is. Lol
I think the top one looks like English walnut. And the bottom Chinese maple.
I have no clue.
 
I'm guessing on first one(first two pics) :[ ....First impression was Hard Maple, but OP says it is stringy leads me to Elm(not Red Elm for sure) perhaps Rock, is the bark stringy as well? Second one(pics three and four) is Norway Maple.
 
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Split it & burn it.

It's going to put out heat. And it's a hard wood, which is awesome.

Let it season, and move on, to the next batch.
 
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Applesister said:
I'm looking at the range maps for Rock Elm and they don't name the states. I don't know where Kansas is. Lol
I think the top one looks like English walnut. And the bottom Chinese maple.
I have no clue.
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As far as growing conditions, KS is more like PA than NY.
I have planted english walnut in my back yard. That is not it.
 
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I think the first two pics are Siberian Elm, and the second two are either Norway Maple or Ash. I can't always tell Norway Maple from Ash over the internet, but both are great firewood and pretty similar.
 
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I'm guessing on first one(first two pics) :[ ....First impression was Hard Maple, but OP says it is stringy leads me to Elm(not Red Elm for sure) perhaps Rock, is the bark stringy as well? Second one(pics three and four) is Norway Maple.
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Kind of? The bark is really attached. It was a fresh cut when I got it. And its been frozen since its been down so its been hard to get off to examine it. There are "stringy" qualities to the bark but hard to tell. What pieces I do get off bend and break.

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Bark and end grain from about 3 feet away. Get a few pieces in the shot.
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These are the only two pieces I have left. Its ease of splitting made it some of the first to go. LOL. I tried to clean the one up I was using it as a splitting stump.




Here is what they look like split.

 
Elm (2 pieces on left) for sure now!
 
So elm(possibly Rock), and Norway Maple. Its getting burned either way, I have a bunch of cottonwood as well, right now I'm not picky LOL, but this is to help me in the future. Thanks a bunch guys.
 
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