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Was bark stringy?
Did it smell like horse crap?
 

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No it wasnt stringy. It really had its own awful smell. The bark is kind of thick and is redish in color. The wood is fairly light but it wasn’t a huge tree either.
 

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Ok. I cut a tree that had stringy bark and literally smelled like horse chit.
 

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Ok, got another one. My ignorance alone will keep this forum alive. Anyways, i was cutting down a bog dead/dying maple and glanced over and saw this tree. Wasn’t real big but big enough so i sawed it down too. The smell......awful. I feel like I need to give my saw a bath after that one.

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Almost looks like maple.
 

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Maybe this photo helps. It’s definitely oak. I was thinking red myself but wasnt 100% sure.

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Gotta be red oak then. Last white oak I cut was completely blonde all the way to the middle. Not a hint of darkness in middle at all.
 

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I did notice the darkness but i wasnt sure if it had something to do with disease or something pertaining to its death. I have another one about 30 yards from this one that im going to bring down that is dead as well.
 

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I will have some pictures tomorrow of a maple I took down as well. I’m not sure what is going but I have a a lot of maples getting black trunks and dying. After examining them they all have sapsucker holes in them so I suspect that is what is killing them.
 

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You guys aren't very good at wood Id. It's white ash that has got some stain.

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Likely the stain is from the EAB eating the cambium layer and killing it. The sap sucker holes are from the birds pounding into the bark to get the beetle.

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You guys aren't very good at wood Id. It's white ash that has got some stain.
I knew it didn't look like oak. At least not the oaks around me. LOL
Don't have much Ash around me here.
 
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You guys aren't very good at wood Id. It's white ash that has got some stain.

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Well, that’s why I’m here. Lol. I have learned how to ID several trees now without leaves. The ash tree has a couple holes here and there but nothing major.

The sapsucker holes i am referring to is in a bunch of maples, well...supposed to be maples. Lol. I will post pictures tomorrow. But they have sapsucker holes all over in neat lines and the trunks are black now.
 

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Well, that’s why I’m here. Lol. I have learned how to ID several trees now without leaves. The ash tree has a couple holes here and there but nothing major.

The sapsucker holes i am referring to is in a bunch of maples, well...supposed to be maples. Lol. I will post pictures tomorrow. But they have sapsucker holes all over in neat lines and the trunks are black now.
100 percent beat way to ID a tree is bark and tree structure.

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Likely the stain is from the EAB eating the cambium layer and killing it. The sap sucker holes are from the birds pounding into the bark to get the beetle.

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I just got done splitting it up and there is s shape curves all over from the EAB larva. I have another ash tree pretty close to this that needs to come down and im sure there’s more but i havent been all through our woods yet.
 
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