ID this wood please...

[JamesGuido]

found many pieces of this mixed in with my "All Oak Wood"
I like it, it's heavy, seems to burn very long, like oak...
I'm not complaining, never will. But i haven't an idea as to what it is.
Do You?

Thank you for your help & time!

 

[MongoMongoson]

That looks like shagbark hickory to me.

 

[gzecc]

Also guess hickory

 

[spuldup]

Hickory, mostly debarked. A little hard to process but it's a great burning wood!

 

[JamesGuido]

That looks like shagbark hickory to me.

Also guess hickory

Thanks! the more i look at it, the more it looks like the hickory i use in the smoker... the shagbark i guess threw me off.

 

[Eman85]

Thanks! the more i look at it, the more it looks like the hickory i use in the smoker... the shagbark i guess threw me off.

I've got a bunch of it and plenty of the trees, if I get a chance I'll take some pics.

 

[Eman85]

Sorry for the delay posting. Here's some pics of Shag Bark hickory.

 

[JamesGuido]

Sorry for the delay posting. Here's some pics of Shag Bark hickory.

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That’s it! I’ll set aside a few with the higher mc for the smoker

 

[Eman85]

That’s it! I’ll set aside a few with the higher mc for the smoker

I keep the scraps from when I split for my smoker. Have cut trees down and given to a friend with a commercial smoker. Can't beat the smell of burning hickory! It will pop in the stove and you have to be careful in a fireplace as it will throw embers out. Trees are pretty but the nuts are huge as they have a big hull like a black walnut. I've had them break a windshield when someone parked under one.

 

[Woody Stover]

Hickory will sometimes have a darker center like that..

 

[Echo Parking Lot]

Hickory, mostly debarked. A little hard to process but it's a great burning wood!

stringy and hell to split with an ax?

i had a bunch of wood that looked like the OP’s first picture this year, but figured they were some kind of birch. i see the occasional shagbark on my walks…

 

[spuldup]

stringy and hell to split with an ax?

i had a bunch of wood that looked like the OP’s first picture this year, but figured they were some kind of birch. i see the occasional shagbark on my walks…

It's dense when wet. Dulls chains faster than most wood, and need a sharp chain to cut. Splitting I have only done with a machine which I would say doesn't load more than oak. Upside is the tree is usually quite straight until the very top. Very high BTU content and good coaling, don't pass it up.

 

[Stove Cricket]

that old hickory is good around the sides of the charcoal grill too.

 

[JamesGuido]

that old hickory is good around the sides of the charcoal grill too.

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you ain't telling me something i ain't known for the last 35 years erso....

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