I'm thinking hickory?

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I think the ones here on my property are Mockernut Hickory. But unfortunately there are only a handful of local trees that i can identify.
 
Have you guys every used an app called LeafSnap on your phone.
I have had pretty good luck with it in the woods.
The only downfall is the background has to be white so I usually take a pic of the leaf on white paper.

Hopefully at some point ill be able to recognize them with out the app but where I am at I burn primarily ASH, OAK, and Maple with a few other mixed in for sholder season.
Ash is plentyful in the farm fields around here :)
 
Its Hickory. The last couple years ive cut about 15 standing dead hickorys. Last winter its all i burned.
Are the leaves shown in the third photo part of this tree, or not? I've never seen a leaf arrangement on a hickory that looked like that, but maybe it's just an odd angle for the photo... or maybe those are leaves from a different tree than the wood shown?
 
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I was looking at the wood. But i think your right that the pic of leaves may not go with the wood. We need pic of leaves of a mature tree. But im not familiar with a cucumber tree. Does its wood look like hickory? The pics i posted i know a 100% are hickory.
 
The wood definitely looks like hickory, but I've never seen hickory leaves growing in a whorl around the branch like the leaves in the pic you provide. So if those leaves come from the same tree I'd say it was not hickory.
 
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I was going by the leaves, which looked like the horse chestnuts I have here. Later pic of bark do look like a Hickory.
 
Sorry guys left ya hanging on this one, haven't had a chance to get some better leaf and bark pics, I def will this weekend. Seems to be a mystery tree haha! Thank you again.
 
If you really want to screw with them, post leaves, bark, and open-faced splits from three different trees.
 
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If you really want to screw with them, post leaves, bark, and open-faced splits from three different trees.

Hehheh . .. thought about doing that on April 1st . . . posting a split and a round from two different trees and then attaching a leaf or two from yet another tree . . . or better yet taking a large leaf like a basswood and making my own unique leaf shape with a pair of scissors. In the end though . . . I was too lazy to do such a thing.
 
I was going by the leaves, which looked like the horse chestnuts I have here. Later pic of bark do look like a Hickory.

Horse chestnut leaves (shown below) have serrated margins and are palmate. The leaves in the picture provided by the OP are not palmate, and appear to have smooth margins.

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