Tree ID Help
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smokinj
Minister of Fire
onetracker
Minister of Fire
cygnus said:
looks like basswood.
worthless firewood, although makes fabulous kindling when its dry.
great for using as firemaking apparatii such as bow drill hand drills pump drills
great to use for burning bowls and spoons
stringy inner bark makes excellent and copious cordage
OT
Jay beat me. Same tree. They also have an issue with how their branches are connected. Look at the top of the branches where they connect. Most trees have a coller around the top of the branch. Callery pears don't. This means bark and moisture are trapped as the tree grows. So you have a weak spot with debris and moisture trapped in it. It's a bad condition and leads to what you saw.
Matt
Matt
wood-fan-atic
Minister of Fire
onetracker said:
Both Tilia species that you see around here, basswood and littleleaf linden have a distinctive seed pod that doesn't look like that.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...cordata_0004.JPG/800px-Tilia_cordata_0004.JPG
See how they hang off the wing? This is a pic off littleleaf lindin... Tilia cordata
Matt
I replaced a bradford pear that got old and had the branches snapping off at the multi notch problem.
The Cleveland Select is supposed to stand up to wind and ice better because it doesn't have that multi-stem notch on the trunk. We'll see.
The Cleveland Select has longer thinner leaves than the old bradford did.
Dunno if mine is grafted and it's the graft stock, but it grows root shoots like crazy.
Both have a bazzillion small branches to get rid of.
+1 vote for bradford pear
The Cleveland Select is supposed to stand up to wind and ice better because it doesn't have that multi-stem notch on the trunk. We'll see.
The Cleveland Select has longer thinner leaves than the old bradford did.
Dunno if mine is grafted and it's the graft stock, but it grows root shoots like crazy.
Both have a bazzillion small branches to get rid of.
+1 vote for bradford pear
Wood Duck
Minister of Fire
I have loads of Callery (Bradford) Pear in my stacks. I think it seems pretty dense, sort of like apple. It is a pain to process the trees into firewood because they are very branchy, but it burns nicely. My pear is all the result of storm damage too.
onetracker
Minister of Fire
I really like Pear as fuelwood and I take it anytime I can get it. Burns real nice, throws good heat, but like others said it's a little "tempremental" to split and most of the tree is branches but it's good stuff nonetheless...
I got a fair amount of bradford pear in my stack. I just cut the limbs and branches now, the trunk was a pain. The nice thing about them is theyre all branches
I cut way too many of them growing up in VA Beach during hurricane season, I have an unnatural hatred for them so burning them just seemed like the right thing to do when I got the wood stove :D
I cut way too many of them growing up in VA Beach during hurricane season, I have an unnatural hatred for them so burning them just seemed like the right thing to do when I got the wood stove :D
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