Identifying this kind of wood

[boo 84]

Being new I hope this is going to the right spot,once I go to my brothers house and take a picture figure out the procedure for showing you guys the photo .
He has this wood he got ,nice straight grain no knots to speak of ,but the 30 ton splitter just about dies trying to split it. Inside it has dark markings like sometimes maple has. Had a logger say it was rock maple.
Once I get the picture it will hopefully help out 8) 8)

[Magicman]

Hello boo 84, and Welcome to the Forestry Forum. 

Adding your location to your profile will aid with answering questions.

[boo 84]

Hello Magicman ,
I'm from beast central ohio east palestine ohio,45 miles north of pittsburgh

[Magicman]

OK, but adding your general location to your profile will help in the future.   ;D

[boo 84]

Hopefully these pictures come through to my gallery.
Really trying to learn my way around the forum
Thanks
I put the pictures of this wood in my gallery ,if there is a way to get it to be in the post please help :new_year:

[Ron Wenrich]

All you have to do is go to your gallery, and hit the insert image in post button.   Ends up looking like this:

 

Looks like hickory.

[WDH]

I am in the hickory camp, too. 

[Sawyer697]

Hickory! Wonderful Stuff to split, Good for handles.

[Weekend_Sawyer]

My favorite smoking wood!

[NWP]

Elm.  Does it stink?  If you have pics of the bark that would help. The way the grain pulled apart there is very indicative of elm.

[beenthere]

Boo has another pic, and assume it is the bark of the same piece. 

 

[OneWithWood]

Pignut Hickory

[NWP]

I'm still going with elm.

[WDH]

The bark does look like slippery elm. 

[Warped]

I believe I have the same wood, will see if I can get some pics today. One year I split plenty of shagbark, it was nothing compared to this stuff, what a nightmare. I split a lot by hand with a Chopper One, can't touch this stuff. Even with the hydraulic splitter it turns into a big stringy mess as the pieces are hard to separate so it goes in the stove as big chunks as my midnight wood.

[Warped]

Ok, here it is, been awhile since I split this. I do believe it was pretty rank smelling, worse than poplar I milled recently. I'm quite sure this is what they call pith elm around here, but could be wrong.

  

 

[Gary_C]

Ya, that's slippery elm, better known as pith elm. It's usually easy to split but almost impossible to get the pieces apart after they are split. 

[OneWithWood]

Upon further review I would agree with slippery elm.

[bodagocreek2]

Definitely elm.