Please ID this wood - SE Michigan

[bajafx4]

Can anyone ID this wood?  This tree was cut down green from a few houses down and dropped off to me.  When I split it, almost every piece of bark came off and there were little larvae living in the ~1 inch long burrows in the bark.  The wood is light colored, very stringy (required hydraulic splitting ram to run through entire log), and pretty heavy (much heavier than maple).  How does it burn?  Is it ok to burn because of the larvae that were under the bark?

Thanks!

[WDH]

Behaves like hickory.

[beenthere]

Welcome to the Forestry Forum.
From the pics reminds me of elm, and some cherry, and some hickory. ;)
If all the same tree, then I do not know for sure.
Is it real heavy wood? If not, rules out hickory.

[WDH]

Good call, BT.  It does look elmy. 

[CCC4]

Hickory. Looks like it split typical for hickory, stringy and wavy grain.

[SPIKER]

that appears to be slippery elm and those appear to be bugs that kill the elm by dutch elm disease.   left standing it makes some really nice lumber great for horse stalls and floors.   I have some recent lumber photos in my gallery.   There are also OLD photos when I got IDing for them as a species they are in the Red Elm family but have a few particular characteristics.   Makes Really good firewood last long, contains a lot of BTUs, dries pretty good and will hold up to wet/dry cycles.   




Mark

[Peacock]

Sure looks pignut hickory to me.

[NWP]

Elm. Also, hickory bark will be stiffer when it comes off and elm bark will be more flexible typically.

[WDH]

A close up pic of a clean slice of the end grain will tell the tale.  The latewood pores in elm are arranged in wavy bands.  Not so with hickory. 

[petefrom bearswamp]

My 2c for Elm.
American is very stringy and hard to split,, Red elm splits OK.

[bajafx4]

Here's a photo of the end grain and also all the bark that fell off as I was splitting it.

[goose63]

Gota be Elm

[SwampDonkey]

elm by look of bark and twisty grain

[bajafx4]

Thanks guys!  I did some comparison photos to other confirmed Elm and I believe it to be American or Slippery Elm.

[enigmaT120]

Those fibers make me tired just looking at them (I don't have a splitter, just a maul).

I recently cut down a pine tree in my yard that was almost that bad for splitting.