and yet another wood id....

[shawneyboy]

Attached are pics of bark, rings (70 year old 18 inch tree), and split, as well as my thoughts on what it is, but.... I will let the resident experts confirm it for me.

 

[Battenkiller]

I'll bite. Looks like bitternut hickory to me.

 

[Thistle]

My guess too. Shagbark & Shellbark is already separating into those loose shaggy plates before its this big.

 

[Delta-T]

if you'd only posted the first pic, I'd have said mozzarella.

 

[smokinj]

I'll bite. Looks like bitternut hickory to me.

Bitter nut pignut the same? looks like pignut to me!

 

[Thistle]

I'll bite. Looks like bitternut hickory to me.

Bitter nut pignut the same? looks like pignut to me!

According to all my books they're 2 separate trees. Can be similar with bark & leaves sometimes though.Nuts are smaller & not very good to eat either what others have told me.I'm happy to scrounge a 3 gallon bucket worth of shagbark nuts every Fall before the rodents do! ;-P Damn good eating,bake them in bread/cookies or toss a few in your morning cereal.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

I'll bite. Looks like bitternut hickory to me.

Bitter nut pignut the same? looks like pignut to me!

Pignut is the same as "smoothbark". Bitternut is a different critter.

 

[smokinj]

I'll bite. Looks like bitternut hickory to me.

Bitter nut pignut the same? looks like pignut to me!

According to all my books they're 2 separate trees. Can be similar with bark & leaves sometimes though.Nuts are smaller & not very good to eat either what others have told me.I'm happy to scrounge a 3 gallon bucket worth of shagbark nuts every Fall before the rodents do! ;-P Damn good eating,bake them in bread/cookies or toss a few in your morning cereal.

Sounds up my ally, will watch for some this fall. After doing 100 gallons of walnuts..lol :lol:

 

[shawneyboy]

I was going with a Hickory just didn't know which one, or an ELM (elmer Fudd) because of the stringy splits.

FYI....

Bitternut Hickory sometimes called "Pignut" .................. is Carya cordiformis....
Pignut Hickory sometimes called "Smoothbark Hickory" ...is Carya glabra....


Hence why common names sometimes suck.

Shawn

 

[iod0816]

Pignut in my book because I cut up about a 1/2 cord of that this year. Stringy!! Almost looks chippy like cherry yet sort like ash furrows. But the nice white meat and dark heartwood is what mine looked like.

 

[WOODBUTCHER]

A nut or leaf will tell, I've seen Shagbark around hear look just like that.

WB

 

[shawneyboy]

A nut or leaf will tell, I've seen Shagbark around hear look just like that.

WB

Tree has been down since before leaf out, I am just cleaning up what the crews left behind. Either way it'll burn.

Shawn

 

[WOODBUTCHER]

A nut or leaf will tell, I've seen Shagbark around hear look just like that.

WB

Tree has been down since before leaf out, I am just cleaning up what the crews left behind. Either way it'll burn.

Shawn

Either way:
It's heavy
It's dense
It will burn real nice
It will smell good that hickory

I have a half cord of shagbark and pignut left over from 2007, I'm saving it for JAN/FEB 2011..........

WB

 

[fossil]

...I have a half cord of shagbark and pignut left over from 2007, I'm saving it for JAN/FEB 2011...WB

Wow. You're planning to take a half cord of firewood back in time. Pics or it didn't happen! %-P Rick

 

[WOODBUTCHER]

Aww man, I will never forget memorial day weekend 2007. And I consider us the luckiest SOB's to get 2 grapple loads that year that was mostly Hickory.......about 80%.
We still had 4 cord of it in log form left over that we split in Feb. 2008 that we shared for 2009-2010

Well here's some old pics and we were all tired after that wood massacre .
I have about 1/2 cord of that stuff left stacked in the back of my rack. Otherwise my stove chow is mostly Ash, Cherry and red Maple.


WoodButcher