Ash

[Rebelduckman]

Is it normally this stringy? I haven' cut much of It down here but I thought it was supposed to split easily? this is ash right?

 

[fullofbaloney]

The bark sure looks like ash but the splits look more like hickory or maybe elm. Ash normally splits so easily that they used to make baskets out of it

 

[lindnova]

I cut down a big green ash in a backyard a few years ago. It was very hard to split. I ended up splitting it a year later with hydraulics. Most ash I burn is smaller unsplit, but the little I have done has not been easy to split. Burns great. One on the best woods to burn with little drying time.

 

[BobUrban]

Not sue that is ash? Someone more knowledgeable than I will be along to confirm it though. All my ash has split rather easy but there are always exceptions.

 

[Rebelduckman]

Not sue that is ash? Someone more knowledgeable than I will be along to confirm it though. All my ash has split rather easy but there are always exceptions.

A couple people said it was on the stove board but the stringiness is throwing me off.

 

[Rebelduckman]

How do you tell white from green?

 

[Sinngetreu]

How do you tell white from green?

The leaves are the biggest key to determining the difference. I'm going to guess that you don't have any leaves laying around?
It looks like Ash to me. I have three large trees that had some pretty gnarly parts to them that made it really hard to split. Other parts of it split in flakes and made awesome splits for the stove. It just all depends on environment, conditions, etc how things are going to go.

 

[Rebelduckman]

The leaves are the biggest key to determining the difference. I'm going to guess that you don't have any leaves laying around?
It looks like Ash to me. I have three large trees that had some pretty gnarly parts to them that made it really hard to split. Other parts of it split in flakes and made awesome splits for the stove. It just all depends on environment, conditions, etc how things are going to go.

There's leaves but from a dozen types of tress mixed in. I'll be able to figure things out a lot better in spring i think. Thanks for the reply

 

[nrford]

I say not Ash.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

If ash is cut from a fence row or a town tree or a roadside tree, it indeed can be very stringy. Otherwise it split super. That does look like ash but could be something else but not sure. A couple of the splits look much different.

 

[Beer Belly]

Not saying that it's not Ash....but it looks a lot like the Hickory I had

 

[Woody Stover]

I say not Ash.

I don't know about the other Ashes, but that doesn't look like White.

 

[mol1jb]

Can you get us a better shot of the bark?

 

[firefighterjake]

The bark sure looks like ash but the splits look more like hickory or maybe elm. Ash normally splits so easily that they used to make baskets out of it

What do you mean "used to" . . . some of the Penobscots up this way still are making baskets from ash and sweet grass.

http://www.penobscotculture.com/ind...category_id=9&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=23

 

[STIHLY DAN]

I have a large road side ash that I am working on. Today it beat the crap out of me. Your pics look like it could be willow which is stringy. Is there a small hole in the core of your round?

 

[Rebelduckman]

Can you get us a better shot of the bark?

If ash is cut from a fence row or a town tree or a roadside tree, it indeed can be very stringy. Otherwise it split super. That does look like ash but could be something else but not sure. A couple of the splits look much different.

It was cut from a fencerow

 

[PDXpyro]

I only have experience with Oregon White Ash and your wood, barkwise and splitwise, looks about as un-ashlike as I can imagine. It's always split perfectly clean and smooth for me, and OR ash has thinner and differently furrowed bark.

The splits photo almost looks like one of the more difficult softwoods, but I know it's not that. Someone mentioned willow...? No idea on that, but seems plausible.

 

[BobUrban]

I don't think it is ash from that last photo but,again, no expert. Does it stink?

 

[TimJ]

that looks a whole lot like a gum tree

 

[razerface]

i just did an ash tree yesterday. I had split the bottom of the tree last month, and it split clean. The part I split yesterday was more stringy. You can see the difference in the stack,,,where both splitting sessions are stacked together.

 

[Bocephous]

Can you give us a close up of the wood grain from about the same distance as the bark shot?

 

[Rebelduckman]

Doesn't look like any sweet gum I've ever seen. What type of gum are you saying?

 

[Rebelduckman]

I don't think it is ash from that last photo but,again, no expert. Does it stink?

No I didn't notice if it did

 

[Paulywalnut]

I think Willow Or Elm. Not ash bark.

 

[mstoelton]

Bark looks like elm