Another Tree ID

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Oct 20, 2009
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Sorry, not too much to go on here. I'm so curious about this one because it's so tough, both the Fiskars and my regular Truper axes both bounce off this thing. Even if I use the Truper as a maul and bang it in with a 4lb hammer, it'll just pop out. I thought it was black ash as the bark is very similar but after splitting some black ash I don't think they're the same, the ash pops apart pretty easily. Another thing is that it's heavy as hell, the round in the photos must weight 40 lbs. Stringy too.

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I'll go out on the limb "black ash" the trunk is going to splitt a lot harder
 
I will be interested. I had some rounds of that. I ended up bucking the rounds again so they were super short, then splitting. They were about 8 inch thick rounds, I still could hardly split them. They were intensely wet too. I wish I had a moister reading for them. I probably would not have picked them up if I knew how much trouble they would be.


Todd
 
Growing in some pretty damp ground, northern MN. There's plenty of red maple around, I've split a bit with no problems. With this round I'm using a fiskars ss but I may as well be using a rubber mallet.
 
looks like maple to me ,its super heavy because green maple retains a ton of water in it
 
Any type of tree can have some tough splitting rounds in it, usually near the base, a hard-to see old knot, etc. I can't see the bark clearly in your picture, but the dark center of the round looks to me more like black ash than red maple.
 
I recently had a delivery from a tree guy and the wood looks very similar and he thought it was red elm. haven't bucked or split any yet , but my understanding from this sight that elm is a pi$$er . sounds like yours
 
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