Ok, I would swear this is ash but several others on another site say it's bitternut hickory... If it's hickory that would mean I have alot of it in my stacks that I thought was green ash!
:lol: :lol: :lol:Backwoods Savage said:Is that what you call a knot-hickory?
Doesn't look like Ash bark to me, either...mywaynow said:The flat faced bark grows in segments, not like Ash.
Woody Stover said:Doesn't look like Ash bark to me, either...mywaynow said:The flat faced bark grows in segments, not like Ash.
Hard to tell. The leaves are a little dried out and they're trunk leaves, but the leaflets look stalkless. Bitternut is a common Hickory, like Pignut is...smokinjay said:Woody Stover said:Doesn't look like Ash bark to me, either...mywaynow said:The flat faced bark grows in segments, not like Ash.
I guess the leaves are really messy with you. ;-)
Haven't seen a Bitternut yet, but Pignut? Oh yeah...smokinjay said:Known pignut hickory.
Woody Stover said:Haven't seen a Bitternut yet, but Pignut? Oh yeah...smokinjay said:Known pignut hickory.
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h407/2bnator/Hearth/001-12.jpg
http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h407/2bnator/Hearth/002-8.jpg
True, but the ring width is just an indicator of how fast the tree was growing. A woods tree that doesn't get much light is going to have less growth each year. I went out and looked at mine again...there were some pretty wide rings on some branches. Maybe those branches were getting more light. Look at the top (or left) OP pic. The branch with the dark heartwood has pretty tight rings. And I don't know how Bitternut compares with Pignut as to ring width.smokinjay said:The rings are much tighter on yours vs op pic's! :cheese:
Woody Stover said:True, but the ring width is just an indicator of how fast the tree was growing. A woods tree that doesn't get much light is going to have less growth each year. I went out and looked at mine again...there were some pretty wide rings on some branches. Maybe those branches were getting more light. Look at the top (or left) OP pic. The branch with the dark heartwood has pretty tight rings. And I don't know how Bitternut compares with Pignut as to ring width.smokinjay said:The rings are much tighter on yours vs op pic's! :cheese:
Anyhow, I'm waiting for more heavyweight wood ID nerds to check in.... ;-P
I've only seen White Ash here, but the OP's pics look like the Green Ash bark pics in the Field Guide, to be sure. BTUs look decent on the Green...nrford said:ASH no ifs ands or buts!!
None of the OP's wood has been split, there are pictures of Hickory mixed in with the ash for reference.DBoon said:This looks like Bitternut Hickory to me - I cut a lot of it on my father-in-law's property. The photo of the smoother bark gave it away for me. The photo with the round split in half had the bitternut dark streaks in it as well. If you could show a close up of the plainsawn grain when it is split, that would probably convince everyone it is Bitternut Hickory and not Ash.
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