Nothing like scrounging Shagbark

[WOODBUTCHER]

More free stove chow for next year.......Last week I was throwing good sized cherry rounds over a stone wall buried in thorns and bittersweet, not with this stuff.
Another couple of scrounges and I'll be all set for 2010-2011.

WoodButcher

 

[rphurley]

I don't think that wood in the two right pictures are shagbark. Unless you are saying that the scrounge was much easier than scrounging shagbark!

 

[WOODBUTCHER]

I don't think that wood in the two right pictures are shagbark. Unless you are saying that the scrounge was much easier than scrounging shagbark!

It's defiantly Shagbark ...I just felled it today..... it had a medium sized crown that forked at about 12' and those younger branches sure can be smooth like a baby's a--.

WoodButcher

 

[Archie]

Can't beat that. I've noticed that some of the hickory I've cut also has the dark center spot. And after splitting, usually have a few crazy 'Alflalfas" like your left top pic :lol:

 

[rphurley]

I've never cut any young shagbark, so it almost looked like Ash or something. You're right, there is nothing like free Shagbark!

 

[JustWood]

Me tinx it B pig !

 

[WOODBUTCHER]

Can't beat that. I've noticed that some of the hickory I've cut also has the dark center spot. And after splitting, usually have a few crazy 'Alflalfas" like your left top pic :lol:

Yes I had my Hatchet when splitting, GD stringy stuff!

WoodButcher

 

[WOODBUTCHER]

Me tinx it B pig !

Don't make me post a lower trunk shot with nuts :lol:

WoodButcher

 

[rphurley]

Me tinx it B pig !

Don't make me post a lower trunk shot with nuts :lol:

WoodButcher

I posted some Shagbark pics once. The shaggy bark had come off because I had to roll the monster rounds out of the woods to the truck, but you could tell what it was. Somebody insisted it wasn't Shagbark, so I posted pictures with leaves and nuts. He still said he didn't believe it was Shagbark! I think something gets lost in the pictures!

 

[WOODBUTCHER]

Me tinx it B pig !

Don't make me post a lower trunk shot with nuts :lol:

WoodButcher

I posted some Shagbark pics once. The shaggy bark had come off because I had to roll the monster rounds out of the woods to the truck, but you could tell what it was. Somebody insisted it wasn't Shagbark, so I posted pictures with leaves and nuts. He still said he didn't believe it was Shagbark!

I remember the pic of your hand holding leaf and nut right next to the rounds.
I was fooled on a grapple load a few years ago.
Some of the Shagbark and Pignut trunks were hard to ID for that reason.

WoodButcher

 

[Russ in Chicagoland]

Heads up while working with that shagbark, bats love to nest in that loose bark.

 

[rphurley]

Heads up while working with that shagbark, bats love to nest in that loose bark.

I should plant more then, to keep them off my house! It only bothers me because they roost (and Sh_t) above my front door. Lots of poop to sweep, every week!

 

[CowboyAndy]

i thought shagbark was called that because the bark looks like old shag carpeting?

 

[burntime]

Its like white birch trees that are not white when smaller... Smaller shagbark is smooth and developes the rough outer exterior with age...just like a wood burner :lol:

 

[JustWood]

i thought shagbark was called that because the bark looks like old shag carpeting?

Dat not shag either.

 

[CowboyAndy]

i thought shagbark was called that because the bark looks like old shag carpeting?

Dat not shag either.

so it would be........ ?

 

[rphurley]

i thought shagbark was called that because the bark looks like old shag carpeting?

Dat not shag either.

This is!

 

[Wet1]

^ That's shag!

WB pics look like pig to me too. Although, some juvenile shag can also look like pig, the bark doesn't get shaggy until the trees get larger.

 

[WOODBUTCHER]

Ok, who wants to place bets........I will post trunk pics, nuts and leaves tomorrow after work.
I will bet my entire stash of wood on my property.

WoodButcher

 

[JustWood]

i thought shagbark was called that because the bark looks like old shag carpeting?

Dat not shag either.

so it would be........ ?

looky like elm or hornbeam. Leaning toward elm.

 

[JustWood]

i thought shagbark was called that because the bark looks like old shag carpeting?

Dat not shag either.

This is!

Heartwood/sapwood looky diffy in pics.MayB ur wood ain't shaggrilific!
Never ben 2 Connect Ticut! MayB shag is dif there!

 

[WOODBUTCHER]

Cowboyandy,
Post some pics of that stuff split, elm is easy to ID once split. How does it smell ? Elm smells nasty!
That wood sure does look dense.


WoodButcher

 

[CowboyAndy]

Cowboyandy,
Post some pics of that stuff split, elm is easy to ID once split. How does it smell ? Elm smells nasty!
That wood sure does look dense.


WoodButcher

it IS dense... equal sized splits, weighs more than sugar maple. heavy and stringy. doesnt seem to have a nasty smell, slthogh i havent burned any yet. ill take some pics of some splits when i get home tonight.