wood identification
Jack Guzman from Maine
Freshly cut green firewood. What is the species? It is too brown to be red oak. Too dark for white oak. 
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Hank Knight
Looks like white oak to me. I've seen some very dark white oak.
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John Veerkamp
stringy wood looks like Hackberry and Elm.
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Elm it is
Jack Guzman from Maine
I looked up Elm and I'm pretty sure it is what I have. I run into this now and then. Usually small trees. There isn't alot of it around here. When cutting the green wood it gives off a smell like urine.
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Dale Stansbery
I agree on elm. I hated splitting that stuff by hand. Plus it always seemed to dry slower than other woods and I usually let it dry for at least a year before burning. I heard a few times it didn't make good firewood, but it does well when fully dry.
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Don Stephan
The elms and hackberry have distinctive end grain, in I think the late season wood larger pores form wavy lines, almost like sine curves.
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Bruce McCrory
I remember that smell from Dutch Elm Disease days. Not awful, just not pleasant.