Tree identification

[qbilder]

Certainly elm if it was tough to split. Nice pics by everybody

 

[boostnut]

I cant decide, its either cottonwood or elm. Did it smell like horse$h!t when you split it open? If so its cottonwood. I'll never touch that stuff again, once was enough.

 

[AaronB]

I cant decide, its either cottonwood or elm. Did it smell like horse$h!t when you split it open? If so its cottonwood. I'll never touch that stuff again, once was enough.

Well now that you mention it....it does have a distinct smell to it. I have never got to smell elm fresh cut either though so I wouldn't know the difference.

Either way I will probably just mill it and if I come to find out its cottonwood I can use it for some drawer sides or something.

 

[betterbuilt]

cottonwood doesn't smell to much when its dry. its when its green or when it gets wet. It has a urine smell.

 

[Timberframed]

I remember as a young lad in Colorado Springs the downed Cottonwood trunks on the eastern side of Pikes Peak Park El Paso county. Bark long since gone but the trunks themselves shining bleached silver white in the sun. This was back when Academy Blvd. was a dirt road.

 

[classicfarmer]

what kind of wood at the church

Looks like Bavarian Elm"Chinese Elm" that grows here in ND. v good wood if not rotted.

 

[Cstratton]

Is box elder more stringy than this elm? I just cut a tree and it worked the crap out of my 34 ton splitter. I know elm is stringy but this tree was a!!!!