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Posted: 27 June 2008 03:44 PM   [ Ignore ]
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I picked this up yesterday anybody know what type this is?  I tried looking it up but had no luck.

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Posted: 27 June 2008 03:52 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Got any leaves? Hickory?

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Posted: 27 June 2008 03:56 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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This one has even me stumped but I will take a guess. If it has thorns on the upper limbs it may be chinese oak or I will second what BG said hickory.

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Posted: 27 June 2008 04:09 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Here are some leafs the best I had.  I tried looking it up I kept coming up with different types of ash or poison sumac

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Posted: 27 June 2008 04:14 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Are those leaves from the tree, or from something that was growing up/around the tree?  Rick

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Posted: 27 June 2008 04:20 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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I’ve never seen the tree but the leaf seems to identify as the Blue Ash. You can tell if the twigs and stems are squared and if it’s flowers are purplish.

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Posted: 27 June 2008 04:20 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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I will guess shagbark hickory.  It should be as heavy as concrete and make the saw squirm, then I am right!!!

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Posted: 27 June 2008 04:27 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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What you have there is Honeylocust. We have a lot of it here in PA. It’s a decent fuelwood, but not as good as Black Locust. It’s heavy when wet.

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Posted: 27 June 2008 04:28 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]
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I don’t think its shagbark, but it does look like a hickory to me.

Edit: take a look here: http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/forestry/trees/hickory_shl/tabid/5375/Default.aspx

And see if that matches your tree.

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Posted: 27 June 2008 04:30 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]
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I don’t think this is locust. It has a really different leaf and bark.

http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/trees/handbook/th-3-121.pdf

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Posted: 27 June 2008 04:32 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]
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He did not say it has thorns, those would be hard to miss!  If it has thorns then yes honey locust.

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Posted: 27 June 2008 04:34 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]
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Those are leafs that I took off one of the logs. It is heavy maybe this weekend I’ll cut it up.  I didn’t think of Hickory, But Blue Ash was one of the trees I came up with.  The wind blew it over yesterday during a storm.  Theres about 20ft of this tree I can’t get to. It’s down this little raven if I cut it it will probably fall on the house below.  I didn’t see any thorns

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Posted: 27 June 2008 05:19 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]
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Here are some seeds I found from the tree

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Posted: 27 June 2008 05:20 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]
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I’m telling you guys that it is Honeylocust; my Father-in-law has two decent sized ones in his yard and I’ve worked with it before. I would be SHOCKED if it wasn’t that-and his trees have never had the thorns.

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Posted: 27 June 2008 05:26 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 14 ]
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I’m telling you guys that it is Honeylocust; my Father-in-law has two decent sized ones in his yard and I’ve worked with it before. I would be SHOCKED if it wasn’t that-and his trees have never had the thorns.

I’m not familiar with this species but I would have to agree. We have black locust here and the bark looks similar as well as the sweeping growth of the logs in the pics.

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Posted: 27 June 2008 05:36 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 15 ]
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Link to honey locust: http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/forestry/trees/locust_hny/tabid/5381/Default.aspx

Not a lot of likenesses that I can see.

Hey - No Man, your closer.  Does your examples match the above??

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Posted: 27 June 2008 05:59 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 16 ]
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I really am stumped!!!!!  I have cut chinese oak that looked similar to these pics.  Also the bark and crook look like locust. The sap wood and grain look like cherry but the bark is way to wavy.  Maybe its a hybrid cherry.  I don’t know .

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Posted: 27 June 2008 06:05 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 17 ]
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Seeds look about right. Locust pods are long and flat. According to the docs, the clue for blue ash is to look at smaller twigs. The stems will be squarish, the woody stems will have little cork like ridges on them. I’ll dig up a picture.

The honey locust we have out here has many more leaves per stem, often alternating, and a deep ridged bark. But maybe it’s different back east.

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=FRQU
http://www.inspire.net/trees/fact pages/ash_blue/ash_blue.html

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Posted: 27 June 2008 06:19 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 18 ]
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Over here in PA it called ( burn me untill it wont be burn no more )Great scrore
Honey locust the seeds will turn brown in the fall and drop also known to be a dirty tree alot of clean up through out the year
Season like oak Also you will get longer burns with that locust
G reat score you win the grand prize of splitting it and loooking at it until;; it seasons

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Posted: 27 June 2008 10:11 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 19 ]
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Sure looks a lot like the hickory I just cut today.

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Posted: 27 June 2008 10:52 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 20 ]
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There are many ornamental cultivars of honey locust and most of them are thornless though many of those are also fruitless (though burning them isn’t cheese ) I’ve never had the opportunity to cut any up for firewood though I’ve cut up plenty of black locust smile.  like Lee said, the bark and crook sure look like locust.  Leaf fits too though seems a bit course for locust.

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Posted: 28 June 2008 01:02 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 21 ]
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Honey locust leaf pic. Seems quite another plant to me. The seed pods look wrong too. Blue ash or mockernut hickory maybe.

http://www.state.sc.us/forest/tidcom.htm

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Posted: 28 June 2008 01:18 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 22 ]
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I finally figured out what it is!!!!!

IT"S WOOD !!!  Burn it !  All of it !  LOL

My dad went to NY Ranger/Forestry school and has a book of every species known to man. It’s about 3 inches thick.
I have leafed (no pun intended) through it several times .  The number of species of every tree is unreal.  If I remember there were well over 1000 diferent species of conifer (softwood).

Whatever it is cut ,split,season,stack,burn and enjoy the heat and savings it provides you.

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