Is This Ash?

[Vangellis]

Got a few pics today. Should be the same kind of wood.

Heres one on the ground.

Here's a live standing one. Rough bark on the bottom getting smooth on the way up.

Leaves. Looks like maple?

Dead standing one.

Also a nice day for a walk. This is my wife with her seat on some future heat. A nice big black cherry top that is next on my list.

We've been spotting some foxes around the same spot on occasion.

Fox food?

Anyway, I hope some of the pics help solve the ID, but the leaves do look like maple?



Thanks, Kevin

 

[PA Plumber]

Looks like Maple to me.

We are currently splitting some that looks very similar to what you have in your first picks. Very straight grain and bleached.

It's been a couple of years since I cut it down, but I believe it was Red Maple.

 

[gink595]

Yep, Looks like a maple, maybe a Sugar Maple.

 

[slabmaster]

Those leaves have sugar maple all over them.Red maple has small serations around the edges sugar doesn't.Sugar maple is real nice wood.Especually if it has figure in it. Great find.

 

[huskystihl]

Yep, Looks like a maple, maybe a Sugar Maple.

Deff maple...

 

[ericjeeper]

Red Elm

It will stand without the bark and be solid as a rock for many many years.

 

[OldHickory]

FYI for identifications:
During a recent search to ID some wood, I found this excellent comparison photo of the different maple leaves:

Also I found an excellent link for identifying wood without leaves by Firewood Identification at Univ of MN, forestry, extension.
http://www.forestry.umn.edu/extension/forest/firewoodID.html
There are quite a few pages on this site with very pertinent info. about identification and storage of firewood.

 

[Vangellis]

It will stand without the bark and be solid as a rock for many many years.

The dead standing ones do look pretty solid and should be an easy drop.
I appreciate everybodys input and help. I'll update with pics when I get a chance to get up there to cut some more.

Speaking of sugar maples, I have a very old, large one right out in my front yard. I'll have to get a pick of that.
Nice.


Thanks again,




Kevin

 

[ropensaddle]

Looks like well seasoned hackbury to me!

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Got a few pics today. Should be the same kind of wood.

Heres one on the ground.

Leaves. Looks like maple?

Here's a live standing one. Rough bark on the bottom getting smooth on the way up.

Anyway, I hope some of the pics help solve the ID, but the leaves do look like maple?



Thanks, Kevin

Nah. Not maple. Foxfur, or maybe cottontail.

 

[kubota00]

I got a say that looks like maple to me and elm looks like hickory? What ever it is it look ready to burn.

 

[Vangellis]

I got a say that looks like maple to me and elm looks like hickory? What ever it is it look ready to burn.

Nice part is, there is a lot of it.

Funny part about this photo is after I took It I said to my wife, "geez dear, I don't know what I love more. You or that big black cherry log your sitting on".

Good thing she has a sense of humor.

Kevin

 

[LumberjkChamp]

Vangellis, from the looks of the grain in the last picture, I would say it is Maple. I just cut a pickup load the other day that had sat for 2 years and the bark fell right off and looked like what you have pictured.
Carl

Yeah, I am going to agree. The best I can do without actuaally seeing it. I cut some stuff two falls back that had been sitting off the ground and looked similar to your pics. Red Maple maybe.