I lost about five trees during the wind storm a couple of weeks ago and just got around to chopping up this one. It had been standing dead and completely uprooted in the storm. On the way down it got wedged between some trees so it was hanging in mid-air, practically begging to be bucked! I got lucky because it could have clipped the garage if it hadn't come apart on the way down. It could have landed on my shed, too, if the wind had been more from the west. Anyway i whacked off a few chunks with the maul and it kinda looks and splits like hickory, although it doesn't have the horse barn/manure smell I associate with hickory. I've got shagbark and pignut around here and the bark doesn't look anything like the former so could it be pignut hickory? Or is it something entirely different? The wood that hasn't started to rot is very hard. And it's definitely not oak or poplar, which are the other common trees here. I also noticed a pink stain (visible in the last picture), but I'm guessing that isn't unique to any species...
