Ash ID??

[ValleyCottageSplitter]

I went exploring in the woods behind us. There's 4 or 5 trees that uprooted from flooding. The difficulty back here is finding stuff that isn't punky.

I found one that looked pretty fresh. Was thinking locust by the bark but found opposite branching. Could this be ash? It doesn't look like any of the maples back there. Bark is thick and furroughed. I took a sample and gave it a split.

Excuse the marks from the dull Husky 450 I just picked up.

Thanks.

 

[supersparks]

The first and last look like ash the middle pic looks funny but if the trees down and wet the bark can look funky. Ash also splits very easy.

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[PA. Woodsman]

Look in the middle of a cut side and you'll see a little pinhole if it is Ash, and that looks like Ash to me....

 

[ValleyCottageSplitter]

Sweet. That will be a good chunk of ash for me. It must be close to 1/2 chord. Once I get a new chain and it warms up a little I will go cut it up.

@PA. Woodsman
What do you mean by pinhole? Like from an ash borer or something about the knot?

 

[Jags]

Directly in the center of the heart.

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

The bark is very deeply furrowed and sharper ridged than what's normal for ash, but if you found opposite branching then its either ash or horse chestnut, cause it's certainly not maple or dogwood. Chesnut can have that deep furrowed bark, but don't remember what grain looks like.

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

Almost every ash round, no matter how big, will have a white BB sized pith hole like this. If it's ash it should also have signs of EAB damage under the bark.

 

[PA. Woodsman]

@PA. Woodsman
What do you mean by pinhole? Like from an ash borer or something about the knot?

I can see it on the cutside of the piece with the black burn marks on it, there is a little round "pinhole" that you can see which Ash has and just a few other trees, I have seen it on Hickory but usually it is just on Ash.

 

[ValleyCottageSplitter]

There are definite green ash leaves on the ground in the area. The other common ones are red maple, sugar maple, swamp white oak (no leaves in the tree though), and american elm.

I'm going with green ash.

Anyone heard of these? They pulled up using the VT Dendrology site.

• Catalpa bignonioides - southern catalpa
• Catalpa speciosa - northern catalpa

 

[hickoryhoarder]

Opposite branching says MAD -- maple, ash or dogwood. Looks like ash to me, though I'm no good at photos.