Wood id

[heimannm]

Looks like elm to me.

Mark

 

[countryhog]

The smell reminds me, more than anything, like what your hands amell like after eating boiled crawfish. Strange description i know but nonetheless. Also, i fairly recently split two large hickory trees but they didnt smell like this and they were more splittable with the fiskars and maul

 

[huskihl]

Yep. That's what it looks like here too. American elm.

 

[tickbitintn]

Elm for sure... Had one in the next door neighbors yard... he said i could have it... i said no thanks...
log is still lying there....

 

[Stump Shot]

The smell reminds me, more than anything, like what your hands amell like after eating boiled crawfish. Strange description i know but nonetheless. Also, i fairly recently split two large hickory trees but they didnt smell like this and they were more splittable with the fiskars and maul

Guys call that piss elm here, though I've yet to run into any.

 

[Hinerman]

I am in the elm camp. Definitely IMO.

 

[MustangMike]

As soon as I saw the bark and wedge sticking out the top it screamed Elm to me!

One year, back when I used to split by hand, and bought logs to heat with, they delivered a bunch of Elm logs to me.

After cutting them to length, I could not split them, so I rented a hydraulic splitter, and it would not split them! (back then the splitters were triangular heads w/o the cutter like they have today). That was the only year I heated by wood I could not split it all by hand.

I ended up noodling them all with the 044!

 

[danimal]

American red elm or Siberian elm.
Chinese elm,aka piss elm has darker bark w/deeper groove s ,yellower SAP wood, and it does smell like stale pee.
I like red elm, great fire wood.
Piss elm I won't even start a saw to cut it.