Log Identification - Any ideas?

[sspearos]

I was given a load of long lengths of this stuff, and split it for home use, but would really like to know what sort of wood it is?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[MR TREEBUS]

Ash me thinks

[Python]

Yep 100% ash

[sspearos]

Thanks for your responses.

 

Can you tell me how you recognise it as Ash, what are the identification features?

[sspearos]

Thanks for your response mate.

 

Can you tell me how you recognise it as Ash, what are the identification features?

[Bob The Dog]

I have some ash in my log store with the same markings as that in pic 1. Not sure how or why those marks appear. Still burns well!

[log on tommy]

Thanks for your response mate.

 

Can you tell me how you recognise it as Ash, what are the identification features?

 

the texture and colour of the bark are the biggest clues, young ash saplings have a completely smooth grey bark which gradually transforms into a more fissured texture with a more golden tinge. I think those logs have come from a tree which had honey fungus before it came down, which is where the black lines in the timber come from.....or so I was told by an educated man!

[Python]

More likely to be inonotus going by the black stain in pic 2