Large Hickory Branch?

[Pennsyltucky Chris]

It looks like it wants to be shagbark, but it's just not quite there. It's not a trunk. It looks like a large limb. It's very heavy and has that purplish hue you see in a lot of hickory trunks. Thoughts?

 

[Pennsyltucky Chris]

Could it be elm?

 

[Pennsyltucky Chris]

I'm leaning towards a decent sized hickory limb. It's too heavy for elm.

 

[Oldman47]

Not a shagbark but it could still be a hickory.

 

[Pennsyltucky Chris]

Not a shagbark but it could still be a hickory.

That's what I'm thinking.

 

[D8Chumley]

The small amount of hickory I have looks like that split piece, stringy

 

[Dascro]

Looks like hickory to me. I burn lots of it.

 

[Osagebndr]

Looks like smooth bark hickory .

 

[Pennsyltucky Chris]

Looks like smooth bark hickory .

It does. I have tons of shagbark in my piles. I have no idea where this lone piece came from. Bizarre.

 

[Applesister]

It looks very hickory. I save everything on those trees and the upper limbs are smooth barked. The fissures are just tiny indents. Like vertical painted stripes.

 

[Osagebndr]

Smooth and shagbark grow together here. Sometimes next to each other . I CSS 6 cord of it last year(both)