Need Help with wood ID

[mstoelton]

Scrounged this from a neighbors yard. Tree has been dead for a few years. I thought it was ASH until I started spitting it. very stringy and dry. Difficult to split.

 

[osagebow]

looking at a phone but spidey sense is saying black locust. yellowish wood? Smells nasty?

 

[johneh]

I have been known to be wrong but
it looks like Elm to me

 

[DoubleB]

Looks like elm around here too.

 

[cygnus]

To stringry for locust, it would splinter more and inside is not dark/yellow enough. Maybe gum?

 

[mstoelton]

It's not yellow inside, more slightly pink. No pith in the center. Fairly dense and stringy. Moisture is at 14.5%. It has been dead for a few years and the tree is huge, probably 85 feet tall. This came from a large branch that the power company cut off of it.

 

[Tom123]

I say Elm, bark, end grain and stringy splits all remind me of a good size elm I processed in spring 2015. It dried over the summer and burned really good.

 

[CincyBurner]

Looks like Am. elm. With knife cut and look for two-tone layered bark (light and chocolate).

 

[baseroom]

Elm!

 

[JA600L]

My first thought was elm too.

 

[Wood Duck]

I think it is Elm. American Elm.

 

[Stinkpickle]

Another vote for Elm.

 

[Jeffm1]

And one more vote for elm. Just cut some today that looks exactly like this.

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

Yep elm. Like Cincy said, should have a bacon layer bark, viewed cross section. My experience has been it gets easier to split as it dries. Still not fun, but fresh stuff looks like wood hairballs when split.

 

[moresnow]

Cut piles of that standing dead last winter. Split right away. Bit of a PIA to split. Less than 20% now. Burns very nice now. Glad to have it. Fencelines here are loaded with it. I vote Elm.

 

[StihlKicking]

Elm

 

[CheapBassTurd]

Post #14 Faithful,
I have some of that stringy stuff. It's insane to process by hand but burns great.
Splitter NP. EZ heat.