Wood ID pic.

[JP11]

Super super stringy. In fact would fold a string right in the heartwood that would RIP down the middle of the log. Had a real orange tint to the heartwood when I split it. That seems to be going away fast.

Not all of it split quite this bad.. the real small stuff would split cleaner. Seemed to be 3x stringier than my red oak.

Ideas?

 

[osagebow]

I'll take a stab at white oak, but got any more pics?

 

[Wood Duck]

That looks like Elm.

 

[clemsonfor]

Definitly not white oak, it splits easy unless its a crotch or some crazy grained thing. thats also not WO bark, its definitly elm, the way it splits and that bark. Id say American.

 

[nrford]

Elm!

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Looks like some nasty elm to me too. That split is the reason we don't cut elm when it is live. We wait for it to die and then wait some more until most of the bark has fallen. Then is splits pretty darned good, which also makes it burn much better. The split you have will be like kindling because of how it is torn apart and will burn super fast.

 

[firefighterjake]

Best guess is elm . . . does the wood have any smell to it when split? To tell the truth my first gut instinct was for a different type of wood . . . but I suspect if it was this other wood you would have known while cutting it.

 

[smokinj]

Looks like pignut to me.

 

[Wood Duck]

Shouldn't Pignut have two-toned wood, with a darker center and lighter sapwood?

 

[blujacket]

If it smells like crap it's Elm.

 

[smokinj]

Shouldn't Pignut have two-toned wood, with a darker center and lighter sapwood?

It can take a few days to show up. Thats as fresh as it gets right there.

 

[nrford]

Shouldn't Pignut have two-toned wood, with a darker center and lighter sapwood?

So does elm. And, Oak, Maple, Ash, Cherry, Birch, Hickory, Beech,.....etc.

 

[TimJ]

Pignut is significantly two-toned .......and it gets richer in a few days after splitting

 

[Woody Stover]

Shouldn't Pignut have two-toned wood, with a darker center and lighter sapwood?

So does elm. And, Oak, Maple, Ash, Cherry, Birch, Hickory, Beech,.....etc.

Huh. I haven't really noticed that yet on White Ash or Red Maple, or maybe the lighter-colored sapwood is a very narrow layer....

 

[ScotO]

The bark sure looks like elm to me. Stringy, tough as hell to split....kinda sounds like elm too. To verify what it is, take a sliver or splinter and burn it, smell the smoke. If it smells good, it aint elm......probably a hickory. Either way, some good BTUs!

 

[ScotO]

Huh. I haven't really noticed that yet on White Ash or Red Maple, or maybe the lighter-colored sapwood is a very narrow layer....

Ash is really hard to tell the difference, but all the red maple I cut this summer (and I cut a LOT of it) had a very light pink/salmon heartwood, and very white sapwood.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Ash is really hard to tell the difference, but all the red maple I cut this summer (and I cut a LOT of it) had a very light pink/salmon heartwood, and very white sapwood.

And most maples tend to have a small heart. The smaller the better for lumber.