Wood ID

[PA. Woodsman]

It is not walnut or hickory or locust if the leaves shown come from the same tree. All three of those have pinnately compound leaves.

http://www.dof.virginia.gov/trees/walnut-black.htm

http://www.dof.virginia.gov/trees/hickory-pignut.htm

http://www.dof.virginia.gov/trees/locust-black.htm

Hackberry does have a serrated leaf like that, but the bark is all wrong and the heartwood can be dark in hackberry, but not like this piece.

http://www.dof.virginia.gov/trees/hackberry.htm

Mulberry doesn't have a leaf like that and the bark is off.

http://www.dof.virginia.gov/trees/mulberry-red.htm

The leaf IMO is classic Elm with the one side of the base of the leaf margins being a little lower than the other side and the serrated edges. From the description on the DOF website the bark sounds right for both the slippery elm and the american elm. Check the underside of the leaf. Slippery elm should feel fuzzy.

http://www.dof.virginia.gov/trees/elm-amer.htm

http://www.dof.virginia.gov/trees/elm-slippery.htm

The only thing that doesn't fit for me is the way the PO said it split. Could just be lucky and got an elm with a straight grain.

I don't get Elm here-does it smell like cow manure when split? He said this wood does...

I'm kind of thinking like you guys that it IS something other than what we've been guessing. Nice looking wood, though....

 

[bsearcey]

Elm off the web. Looks right.

http://lumberjocks.com/Daren/blog/8796

Another good site with some pics of leaves and bark. Covers all the trees we've discussed except mulberry.

http://www.arbordoctor.net/Homeowners.html

Smell is subjective. I agree it does look like nice wood. Wish I had some in my stacks.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Elm off the web. Looks right.

http://lumberjocks.com/Daren/blog/8796

Another good site with some pics of leaves and bark. Covers all the trees we've discussed except mulberry.

http://www.arbordoctor.net/Homeowners.html

Smell is subjective. I agree it does look like nice wood. Wish I had some in my stacks.

I think that you nailed it with those pictures; man that is nice looking wood!

 

[Kneerat]

Those leaves where diffently from that tree, i broke them off myself. They do match with the pictures of elm leaves.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

Not hickory, walnut, butternut, or locust. They all have compound leaves.

Hackberry has weird warts all over the bark. Very distinctive.

Mulberry is one of the few trees where you will find 2-3 leaf shapes on the same tree- if you see that, then it's a tell tale sign. Sasafras has that multi-leaf thing as well (but those aren't sas leaves).

It could be an elm- there are many varieties. If the leaves have a really rough side and they are sticky, or everything under the tree is sticky- that's a quality of some elms.

 

[bsearcey]

Elm off the web. Looks right.

http://lumberjocks.com/Daren/blog/8796

Another good site with some pics of leaves and bark. Covers all the trees we've discussed except mulberry.

http://www.arbordoctor.net/Homeowners.html

Smell is subjective. I agree it does look like nice wood. Wish I had some in my stacks.

I think that you nailed it with those pictures; man that is nice looking wood!

When I saw what that guy was doing with that crotch of elm it made me think that I shouldn't be so quick to split mine up. What ever he was going to make with that is going to awesome.