Weekends work. Wood ID Please.

I found this tree that had been standing dead for awhile (most of the bark had fallen off) and the property owner was more than willing to let me take it off his hands.

First load
Wood Grain


Wood grain and bark


A split showing how stringy this stuff is. This wood was VERY difficult to split. The below split is actually four different splits that would not seperate.



The pile that we made.


The pile under heavy guard



All stacked up (pile is 2 splits deep) some of the stuff on the left is a chinese elm and an aspen I had gotten previously.




close up of the grain.


If anyone could tell me what species of tree this is I would appreciate it.

some type of elm i,d guess

You got yerself some red elm. The stringiness, end grain, and difficulty splitting are characteristic of it. Hard as hell to split, but burns very nicely. Looks like that stuff should be seasoned next winter!

A lot of the trees with all the bark gone are Elm trees. Died from Dutch Elm disease.