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Kneerat

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Aug 26, 2008
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Central PA
What do you guys think?
 

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Looks like ash - but I don't see too many trees with trunks that assume the shape shown in the 3rd pic. Interesting to see what other responses you get.
 
Never personally processed it but it looks like cottonwood.
 
hackleberry
 
Heard of Hackberry, not hackleberry, doesn't look like that.
One of those splits does look like ash (interior wood) Bark is too rough, to random for ash. Its tough though, beause it looks like a knotted section.
 
Thanx for all the replies so soon. Here are a couple more pix, maybe they will help a little more.
 

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Wood is turning rotten, its hard to tell, could be some sort of rotten maple. Is a split heavy or light
 
The more I look at it, the more convinced I am of my first hunch - ash.

I usually sell the prettiest of my firewood and keep for my own burning the uglier and somewhat punky pieces. I've handled quite a bit of marginal ash that's been a dead ringer for what's shown in the second pic posting.

The grain's right. The bark's right - even the way the small but of it's been chipped away from the round.
 
Never heard of a river ash. Could be a punky funky ash. Or maybe a hybrid silver maple ash, look at the bark in second picture. What ever it is its partially rotten.
 
WOODBUTCHER said:
Thats Ash.........

WoodButcher
The WoodButcher has spoken......
 
I would think the bark would be off (if it was ash)by this time, with the rot this tree is showing.
 
Bark does not look anything like silver maple does look like ash bark .
 
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