I cut some today, help with tree ID Thanks.

[Fastcast]

Looks like Sassafras,burns good but throws sparks pretty bad.

:agree2:..... Sure looks like sassafras to me.....We have a lot of it on our property and it cuts like a hot knife through butter.

 

[tomtrees58]

locust

yup that it tom trees

 

[tomtrees58]

:monkey:

Looks like Sassafras,burns good but throws sparks pretty bad.

:monkey: o man you better look again tom trees

 

[willt1981]

locust. color, bark, even rings look right. if you have your chain good and sharp on a bigger saw you can fly through locust. we have a lot around here.

 

[Work Saw Collector]

locust. color, bark, even rings look right. if you have your chain good and sharp on a bigger saw you can fly through locust. we have a lot around here.

Thanks guys, I have ran slam out of rep.

 

[gregz]

Here is a photo of sassafras

 

[Freehand]

Supercabs,I'm here to tell you you've got a dead ringer for Mullberry...they get quite large.

 

[Freehand]

Did it smell like "root beer" when you cut it?

 

[miking]

Locust have many small thorns on the branches and twigs as well.

 

[gregz]

Here is locast

 

[Work Saw Collector]

Did it smell like "root beer" when you cut it?

I look that one up thanks. I don't remember a smell at all.

Locust have many small thorns on the branches and twigs as well.

The only thing left of it was the trunk.

 

[Freehand]

Than it was'nt sassafras...it has the most distinct aroma....stihl leaning Mullberry....

 

[lone wolf]

I look that one up thanks. I don't remember a smell at all.



The only thing left of it was the trunk.

well to refresh you locust =yellow, deep bark, burns slow and hot and smells a Little funky. does it fit?

 

[Work Saw Collector]

well to refresh you locust =yellow, deep bark, burns slow and hot and smells a Little funky. does it fit?

Fits fine, I'm not very good with the trees just taking all the info in.

 

[jra1100]

My guess would be Oak also, but hard to tell from a photo. I confess that I have no experience with Locust, so it well may be. The only Locust we have around here is has WICKED long and sharp thorns. Most of is is called Thornless Locust, and whoever named it must have been blind or crazy. JR

 

[howellhandmade]

Locust. Not hard to split, and not that hard to cut when it's green. It can toughen up when it's dead for a while, but the stuff in the picture looks like what I burn 75% of the time.

Jack

 

[lone wolf]

Fits fine, I'm not very good with the trees just taking all the info in.

oh yes and when you see a locust growing they tend to have small branches and some have hoof shaped fungus growing on them also deep furrowed bark and thorns on the branches.

 

[tomtrees58]

locust will last 200 + years and is a lighting rod that's why you see them at very old homes tom trees

 

[Banacanin]

Wonderful book on the subject

I've got a copy of Trees of the Northern United States and Canada, and it looks an awful lot like locust to me. I checked mulberry out too and although there is definite similarities to white mulberry however, I am almost positive that the last picture shows the bark pattern of a black locust. But i would not stake any money on this

 

[lone wolf]

locust will last 200 + years and is a lighting rod that's why you see them at very old homes tom trees

i cut one that was hit and it hit two people under it hit em in the head exited on their feet and left big round burn marks and through them abot 8 feet.