sajnaj
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cutting tree tops here localy dont know what this is and it is heaver and burns for ever
wood id help please
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smokee
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cutting tree tops here localy dont know what this is and it is heaver and burns for ever
Not sure I can help you with this but there's some pretty knowledgable guys on here. I'm sure they're going to ask for an end shot showing the growth rings.
sajnaj
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Slow-growing, whatever it is. Must be good stuff.
darkbyrd
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That last pic gave it away. You're definitely dealing with firewood here. :msp_biggrin:
Turkeyslayer
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white ash.
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That be Ash, good wood.
Dave Boyt
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Hedge (aka Osage orange, bodark, Maclura pomifera). Best firewood there is. My wife filled up our wood stove with it a few years, and darn near melted it down (it was actually glowing). Tree is thorny and a pain to deal with. Most durable wood I know of, makes great fence posts, also used for archery bows. I cut it on my portable sawmill for musical instruments and custom furniture. Beautiful wood. Here's what the boards look like.
http://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/ff490/dboyt54/Sawmill/Hedge_10.jpg
http://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/ff490/dboyt54/Sawmill/Hedge_10.jpg
smokee
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We have a lot of Osage in southern pa. In Sw pa where I grew up we called them monkey ball trees. Had to take the wife's car to the body shop ten years ago when one hit the sheet metal between the windshield and sunfoor. That is good, hard wood. Tough to get cause farmers use up all they have around here.
Hedgerow
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Is it yellow???
Or is that just the lighting?
Or is that just the lighting?
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End grain and bark looks like hedge to me - plus it burns forever.
Does it pop a lot and throw sparks?
Does it pop a lot and throw sparks?
Bark does not look like osage orange to me, looks like ash but too yellow.
Turkeyslayer
Smells Great
Do they harvest hedge for timber? He says in the op that he is harvesting tops. Also I think it may be the lighting that makes it look yellowish in some of the pics, but I have been known to be wrong before.
2treeornot2tree
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Looks like ash to me.
smokee
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Photos look like they were taken with an iPhone. They tend to be yellow when the flash is on.
WadePatton
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i don't see the osage color. nor have i ever seen osage large enough to leave "tops" beyond impenetrable/rot resistant brushpiles.
just learned that the i-just-took-my-vitamins yellow color of bodock is water soluble such that it will bleed out in some water. another check.
osage has a smell, but it's hard to describe. ash has practically no aroma, but the bark is soft to the touch-for treebark that is.
just learned that the i-just-took-my-vitamins yellow color of bodock is water soluble such that it will bleed out in some water. another check.
osage has a smell, but it's hard to describe. ash has practically no aroma, but the bark is soft to the touch-for treebark that is.
Rsquared
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Looks like ash to me. However, I have cut so much ash in the past 3 months everything looks like ash to me..
Hedgerow
HACK
Looks like ash to me. However, I have cut so much ash in the past 3 months everything looks like ash to me..
...And smells like Ash...
...And tastes like Ash...
...And...
oppermancjo
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I'm going to go with Ash as well. Up here in MI you can tell easily because the are all dying from EAB. Peel the bark back or look at the cross section and you can see where they burrow just underneath the bark. You can also see their bore holes coming through the bark. Hard to tell from that first pic as it is a bit blurry. The shot of the end doesn't seem to show any evidence of EAB. At any rate, if it burns forever, who cares? Just get more!
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