Need Help, What Wood is This

[Burnit]

Hi All,

 

My home is heated by log burners so I get through plenty of wood a year, which can become expensive. What I have tried to do is buy in most but top it up with wood that I can get hold of.

 

I am in the lucky position of having access to acres of freshly cut woodland and have started to go on weekends, but I am having trouble identifying the oak and ash. I picked a big tree that I thought was oak but im now thinking it may be Elm.

 

Here are some photos of it, if anyone can give advice on the best way to ID oak and Ash it would be appreciated.

 

Here is the wood I have so far

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Edited February 17, 2015 by Burnit

[Hodge]

That's Oak

[s.varty]

that's Oak

[Burnit]

Awesome thanks mate, just need to figure out Ash now

[woodwizzard]

A couple of the whole round logs in the back of the picture look like ash.

[spandit]

If you look at the end grain of ash it looks like tiny straws in a bundle

[woodwizzard]

They will be out in leaf soon, so get yourself a good ID book and get used to what the leafs' look like and also the bark patterns and textures.

[Hodge]

Ash are usually the last to burst into leaf. Big black buds.

[Stubby]

That oak will have its very own distinctive smell as well . Have a good sniff of a fresh cut lump and log it in your mental data base

[briquette_seller]

That oak will have its very own distinctive smell as well . Have a good sniff of a fresh cut lump and log it in your mental data base

 

Love the smell of fresh oak