Is this pignut hickory?

Hard for me to tell by those pic's. Split one and if the center is darker than its pignut. Those pic reminds me of elm!

GAMMA RAY said:

Chit, I knew it would be hard to tell without a split pic. I tend to think you guys have "xray vision" because you are so good at id's. I was on my way home from work and had nothing with me to split.
If it is elm eff that...
I will try to get back and split one.

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GAMMA RAY said:

Chit, I knew it would be hard to tell without a split pic. I tend to think you guys have "xray vision" because you are so good at id's. I was on my way home from work and had nothing with me to split.
If it is elm eff that...
I will try to get back and split one.

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If its elm you may not!

Grain screams oak, bark kinda looks like butternut. I dunno for sure.
I see some oak leaves so maybe it is oak.

GAMMA RAY said:

I think it is but may be wrong. I am still trying to learn wood id.
There is a lot of it and it is free. Should I be excited with this score?
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I agree with SJ, Gamma........I say that's elm, looks exactly like the elm I get off of the farm here......Not a bad wood (till you split it)

If you can't split it, you'll know it is Elm and that you should leave it there to rot.

I do not think it is elm from the pics but I also am no expert. It just does not look like any of the elm I have cut. Regardless - it is free and it looks like some really decent hardwood. My guess is oak but that is just a guess. The splits will smell like oak if it is. Also, I find elm burns HOT with very little ash so I would take all the elm I can get but I have a splitter. If you are spliting by hand that is certainly a different story.

GAMMA RAY said:

Maybes Lee is right, I did see some brown "pods" on the ground...
I don't recollect reading here about burning butternut....I will do the search...

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Butternut is fairly soft & light weight,similar to most white pine.Getting scarce now because of Butternut Canker,a fungus disease that's killed up to 90% of trees in most eastern states.If those are butternuts,save them,plant a few & let local DNR/Forestry division you have them.They might be from a blight-resistant tree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butternut_tree

The bark on the long trunk section ( center right pic) looks like it could be hickory. So does the curved branch in far left pic. If hickory, it is probably either bitternut, pignut or mockernut, judging by the bark. Mockernut is the most common and it has very little dark heartwood, even in big diameter pieces. Some call it white hickory. Your pic shows cross sections that look like pale wood, so I suspect mockernut might be your tree. It's excellent firewood — can be knotty and stringy to split; the "strings" are very strong. But other pieces will split fine. I'm whacking up a fair bit of it now, thanks to the Halloween snow.

Gamma my guess by looking at the bark would be Elm.

Policenut Hickory
zap

My guess, have 3 raisons and see if that chit will split. Otherwise I am going skiing tomorrow. Give me a report! DAMNIT


KC

PS, just might be the last time this season, that groan muther nature!!

However Lake Tahoe is getting hammered...............road trip!!

I don't know what it is, but more importantly is how do I get the wife to look for wood scrounges?

I am with Zap on this one

Pete

I have no experience cutting willow, but could it be that?

Otherwise, I'd say the bark does look elm-ish.

Red Oak, no doubts in my mind!

I think it may be oak as well. Not elm in my opinion, but you can check a cross-section of the bark for alternating light and dark layers (vanilla and chocolate) - see the attached photo - I don't see them on the last photo, but a fresh piece of bark would tell you for certain (this is the best and easiest way to check for American elm (not red/slippery). Cheers!

nrford said:

Red Oak, no doubts in my mind!

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Thats what I thought too and I see the brown oak leaves. A split will decide fir sure.

weatherguy said:

Thats what I thought too and I see the brown oak leaves. A split will decide fir sure.

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look at pic 2...lol

smokinj said:

look at pic 2...lol

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And what does that mean?? This is Red Oak and only RED OAK, I would bet my families lives on it!

nrford said:

And what does that mean?? This is Red Oak and only RED OAK, I would bet my families lives on it!

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I would not go throwing my familys lifes over a piece of wood. I see slinder leaves not oak leaves.

smokinj said:

I would not go throwing my familys lifes over a piece of wood. I see slinder leaves not oak leaves.

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I see pine needles too, lol, but its not pine.The split will decide if nrfords family lives or not

I'm with the Oak, the leaves, the bark, and end cut appears to point that direction. The bark just doesn't look to be Elm like.