WTF (what’s this wood?)

[metrowlogger]

Can you ask experts please tell me what kind of what I got here when I hit it with the actually hurt my fillings

 

[PA. Woodsman]

Ash, no doubt in my mind! Usually a very straight grained easy wood to split but if the grain is twisted it can be a bugger!

 

[jatoxico]

If it's as hard as you say then I'm guessing hard maple. Sometimes I can't even get a Fiskars to penetrate that stuff.

 

[peakbagger]

Could be red oak, does it have a distinct odor when you split it?.

 

[Kevin Weis]

Agree with Ash. Should split fairly easy except if maybe it's frozen.

 

[weatherguy]

Its ash, seasons quick, can burn it next year.

 

[jatoxico]

I've only split ash once. It was easy as pie, certainly did not shake my fillings loose.

 

[Ctwoodtick]

Ash

 

[PA. Woodsman]

That is Ash believe me. Let me tell you a story...I had a woman who had Ash cut down in her yard years ago and I figured I could just go over and split it by hand since Ash USUALLY splits very easy. Well, this was a yard Ash and was so twisted and gnarly I couldn't make a dent in it and had to take it home and use the splitter and even then a few pieces fought back! That's what you have there believe me, twisted, gnarly ANGRY Ash!

 

[weatherguy]

Any tree can get twisted and gnarly, that a twisted and gnarly ash, good BTU's.

 

[Jags]

Yep - ash.

 

[Stinkpickle]

Another vote for ash.

 

[wooddope]

Doesn't look like ash to me need few pics of end grain.

 

[Tar12]

It is Ash with out a doubt...yard Ash can be very twisted and hard to split...wood lot Ash is a dream to cut and split...nice and straight.

 

[Espartaco]

Not trying to go off topic but.....yard Ash? Lot Ash?

 

[ohlongarm]

Can you ask experts please tell me what kind of what I got here when I hit it with the actually hurt my fillings

As already mentioned ash ,i've noticed air dried dead standing trees to me seem harder to split,some feel like petrified wood,i mean really hard.

 

[weatherguy]

Not trying to go off topic but.....yard Ash? Lot Ash?

Yard ash can get affected by the wind and get twisty, any tree can. Lot ash has trees around to protect it and usually grows nice and straight.

 

[hickoryhoarder]

White ash? Generally very easy to split, if the logs are not twisted.

 

[Ben Stark]

Bark looks like ash, color is right for ash. Twisted so it’s a bear to split. That will season fast and burn hot.

 

[lindnova]

That is Ash believe me. Let me tell you a story...I had a woman who had Ash cut down in her yard years ago and I figured I could just go over and split it by hand since Ash USUALLY splits very easy. Well, this was a yard Ash and was so twisted and gnarly I couldn't make a dent in it and had to take it home and use the splitter and even then a few pieces fought back! That's what you have there believe me, twisted, gnarly ANGRY Ash!

I helped a guy cut down a yard ash and same thing - really tough to split. I let it sit a year in rounds and split with the hydraulic splitter a year later and it still was tough.