Another whats this wood?

[Woodworks]

Been processing logs for a chap today. Had quite a few lengths of this mixed in the stacks and it was a new one for both of us. It's quite a hard and heavy wood when wet. Looks much like ash apart from the darker heart which is different from the dark heart of ash. Bark was more like sweet chestnut and stripped back fairly easily. No distinctive smell. 

 

Any thoughts?

[Big J]

From the bark, I would have been 100% sure it's hornbeam, but the dark heart isn't something we saw much of when we did 80-100t of the stuff in January. That being said, the odd tree had it. Also, the grain looks rather coarse, which suggests it isn't hornbeam.

 

I assume it's stupidly heavy? Try popping a lump in a bucket of water to see if it sinks. 

Edited May 4, 2019 by Big J

[The avantgardener]

It looks to me like it may be Rowan.

[Big J]

1 minute ago, The avantgardener said:

It looks to me like it may be Rowan.

Very strong smell from rowan though? Can't abide by it personally. 

[Woodworks]

Pretty sure it's not hornbeam as we have a fair bit here on the farm. The bark does have those sort of fishers but is much courser. It's heavy but not hornbeam heavy

 

Off to look up rowan but these were long clean stems and I didn't think rowan grew so quickly as this. 

 

Edit. pretty sure it's not rowan either having seen some pictures. 

Edited May 4, 2019 by Woodworks

[The avantgardener]

2 minutes ago, Woodworks said:

Off to look up rowan but these were long clean stems and I didn't think rowan grew so quickly as this

I’ve felled some pretty impressive Rowan growing on the edge of Sweet Chestnut coppice, gun barrel straight. It does have an odour when felled, not sure if this fades in the stack, it is hard and heavy, burns pretty good.

[Woodworks]

Another of the bark hopefully in focus this time. Can ash have bark like this? It was in a load of ash and sycamore but looked distinctively different but then I could be easily convinced the wood was ash if it wasn't for the completely different bark. 

[Woodworks]

11 minutes ago, The avantgardener said:

I’ve felled some pretty impressive Rowan growing on the edge of Sweet Chestnut coppice, gun barrel straight. It does have an odour when felled, not sure if this fades in the stack, it is hard and heavy, burns pretty good.

Definitely, no odor to speak of 

[Adam M]

Reckon that's ash but with some of the bark off and other bits discoloured by lichens and mosses etc. 

Edited May 5, 2019 by Adam M

[gary112]

Looks a lot like liquidambar to me,I cut some up recently and looks the same especially the split log