Yeah we have a lot of it around here as well....its worth processing.....good for shoulder season....the main reason I don't think it's Tulip poplar is a tree that size should have the blue and purple streaks in the heartwood
Good point about the color of the heart wood. I've had varying levels of that coloration in different specimens. And it all turns brown in time.
Could be green ash or some other ash species in not familiar with.....im just glad ash around hwre is much denser then what OP has posted....hopefully the OP can let us know in the fall if the splits have any weight to them or not.
No not really, the ones in the forest where I scrounge behimd my house are big and straight as an arrow....i usually don't mess with larger rounds though as I can be pretty snobby on what I process due to the plentifully beech, hickory, oak, ash and maples that are back there that blow over in storms
I like it!
