Wood Id.

[Gary_602z]

Trying to figure this wood out. Showed to our local mill and he didn't know. It is a hard,heavy wood, gets its leaves late in spring has no pods like locust. It is growing in a grove of about 30 of them from 3" to 20"diameter. The bark curls out and is quite sharp.

Thanks Gary

 

[bogydave]

What state/location?
Red elm is my guess.

 

[Woody Stover]

Can you get a closeup pic of the split and the end grain? Kind of looks Oak-ish but the bark doesn't look familiar to me.

 

[TreePointer]

But did the leaves have many leaflets, like a locust (honey locust)? Depending on the time of year, you may not see seed pods on the tree.

 

[Gary_602z]

Sorry,

Bogydave I am in Michigan. Good guess on the red elm but I know what they look like.

Woody, definitely not a oak.

TreePointer the leaves are not like a locust nor does the bark seem to indicate that. Sorry I don't have any leave pictures.


Gary

 

[TreePointer]

Pics can be deceiving. Have you ruled out black cherry?

Any pics of twigs with buds, branches, overall form of tree?

 

[nrford]

Pics can be deceiving. Have you ruled out black cherry?

Any pics of twigs with buds, branches, overall form of tree?

No Way.

 

[Beer Belly]

I cut into some rounds last week.....thought it was Locust.....not sure now.....split it, and it's like a Neon Green center...WTF !!

 

[smokinj]

Trying to figure this wood out. Showed to our local mill and he didn't know. It is a hard,heavy wood, gets its leaves late in spring has no pods like locust. It is growing in a grove of about 30 of them from 3" to 20"diameter. The bark curls out and is quite sharp.

Thanks Gary

Hackberry.

 

[gzecc]

Trying to figure this wood out. Showed to our local mill and he didn't know. It is a hard,heavy wood, gets its leaves late in spring has no pods like locust. It is growing in a grove of about 30 of them from 3" to 20"diameter. The bark curls out and is quite sharp.

Thanks Gary

More interesting than the wood is the splitter. It looks too close to the wheelhorse?

 

[blujacket]

Doesn't look like Hackberry I have. Hackberry has the white wood.

 

[smokinj]

Doesn't look like Hackberry I have. Hackberry has the white wood.

Yea I have a bunch milled and still my best guess......The splits remind me of hickory.

 

[lukem]

Im going with honey locust....or some cousin to it.

 

[kattpound]

Im going with honey locust....or some cousin to it.

+1

 

[nrford]

Im going with honey locust....or some cousin to it.

+2

 

[chvymn99]

Im going with honey locust....or some cousin to it.

+2

Yep, looks like the bark and the color of honey locust that I got this year.

 

[iod0816]

That does look like towards the tops portion of a honey locust... Heavy as heck is also a good indicator... Burnt Red Orange heartwood with lots if it. How does it smell? I think honey locust stinks...

 

[Gary_602z]

The trees do not crown out but rather any limbs grow pretty much straight up! I will see if I have a picture of them. The grain is straight and would almost make you think it was an oak. No oak smell no acorns and leaves are not oak shaped. If the bark of a Honey Locust and a Black Locust are about the same then it is not that (plus no pods any time of the year). The guy at the mill said it was not hackberry, I have never seen it. Definitely not Cherry although the bark has about the same curl only more pronounced and sharp.

gzecc: We don't know if that is a Lawn Splitter or a Wood Mower! :lol: If I remember right it takes large amounts of beer to make one! I will see if I have a better pic.

Gary

 

[Gary_602z]

gzecc here is a better pic of the splitter

 

[Gary_602z]

Picture of part of the grove of unknown trees! :lol:


Gary

 

[iod0816]

The trees do not crown out but rather any limbs grow pretty much straight up! I will see if I have a picture of them. The grain is straight and would almost make you think it was an oak. No oak smell no acorns and leaves are not oak shaped. If the bark of a Honey Locust and a Black Locust are about the same then it is not that (plus no pods any time of the year). The guy at the mill said it was not hackberry, I have never seen it. Definitely not Cherry although the bark has about the same curl only more pronounced and sharp.

gzecc: We don't know if that is a Lawn Splitter or a Wood Mower! :lol: If I remember right it takes large amounts of beer to make one! I will see if I have a better pic.

Gary

The locust varieties looks completely different. This is honey. It looks a lot like oak with all qualities cept growth rings, faster, and bark, chippy, as you see... Plus the smell of fresh cut is unique. Lots of thornless honey round me and came down this fall so far.

 

[gzecc]

gzecc here is a better pic of the splitter

I thought I was seeing what I was seeing. How do you like that setup? What are the benefits? Would you make it/ buy it again?

 

[tfdchief]

Trying to figure this wood out. Showed to our local mill and he didn't know. It is a hard,heavy wood, gets its leaves late in spring has no pods like locust. It is growing in a grove of about 30 of them from 3" to 20"diameter. The bark curls out and is quite sharp.

Thanks Gary

Hackberry.

Doesn't look like Hackberry, looks like Honey Locust to me.

 

[TreePointer]

The trees do not crown out but rather any limbs grow pretty much straight up! I will see if I have a picture of them. The grain is straight and would almost make you think it was an oak. No oak smell no acorns and leaves are not oak shaped. If the bark of a Honey Locust and a Black Locust are about the same then it is not that (plus no pods any time of the year). The guy at the mill said it was not hackberry, I have never seen it. Definitely not Cherry although the bark has about the same curl only more pronounced and sharp.

gzecc: We don't know if that is a Lawn Splitter or a Wood Mower! :lol: If I remember right it takes large amounts of beer to make one! I will see if I have a better pic.

Gary

Neither one of those statements rules out honey locust.

The bark of black locust and honey locust are NOT the same. Also, there is more than one cultivar of honey locust that produces no pods (sterile). Honey locust is different from black cherry, but it will sometimes plate with horizontal lenticels like black cherry...um,, well, very similar to your pictures.

 

[tfdchief]

The bark of black locust and honey locust are NOT the same.

Nope, not even close.