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Looks like some sort of nut tree..chestnut?
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i've seen, and cut, cherry with bark like that,,, i had one from a friends yard a couple months ago that had three different looking types of bark on teh same tree,,, maybe the difference in our locations make the difference? i'd still like to see a pic of it split....
banjobart
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The orange color looks like fresh cut black locust but the bark looks like oak.
Fechmup
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I cut up some Locust in August - the earlier suggestion suddenly rang bells and looks very similar to what I cut.
Jimfound
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Could it be mulberry?
Oldtimer
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I know Maple when I see it....split....
That makes sense, there's a lot of maple around here. Can you tell what kind, like sugar maple?
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woodgrenade
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I second Maple.
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It's red maple. The bark grows thick, and can fool even us oldtimers because it varies so much from site to site. It can be smooth, shaggy, "oak like", and all kinds of texture in between.
But the curl and the look of the white wood inside leaves no doubt.
But the curl and the look of the white wood inside leaves no doubt.
now it looks like maple before was hard to tell the bark almost looks like oak.
trax
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I've been cutting cherry for 30 some years and it does look like any cherry i've ever cut. My first guess was hickory or hard maple. I just fell 3 nice cherry's last night, I got 4 nice saw logs and I'll be splitting the tops tonight.
now i don't think its cherry, from the split,,
I'm sticking with Hickory.Take a few splinters and burn them; I'll bet it has the tell-tale odor of your local rib joint.
I split the rest of the logs today, and they were no joke. Took some real force with the maul to crack the big ones, had to use 2 wedges on a few. About half of the logs were a real gnarled grain, made it even more difficult. Water was oozing out on each hit. It stacks erratically and inefficiently since it's so gnarled and twisted.
Oldtimer
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You just described old ugly swamp (red) maple to a "T".
Go down to the bottom of this website, where it shows clocks made from Hickory.
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...=400&w=400&sz=70&hl=en&start=20&um=1&itbs=1&t
Looks like a match.
http://images.google.com/imgres?img...=400&w=400&sz=70&hl=en&start=20&um=1&itbs=1&t
Looks like a match.
Oldtimer
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Dude.
It's not Hickory. It's Red Maple. It has worm track, the typical brown rot, CURL, and it oozed water when being split. Red Maple.
PS, the link doesn't have anything, just a google search page?
It's not Hickory. It's Red Maple. It has worm track, the typical brown rot, CURL, and it oozed water when being split. Red Maple.
PS, the link doesn't have anything, just a google search page?
Toddppm
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I agree on Maple looking at the grain and description of how it split and stacked but those first pics had me thinking Chestnut Oak from the bark. Very weird, never seen a Maple with that bark.
Dude, don't be so sure.All we have seen are pictures. Nothing about that bark looks like Red Maple, or any other Maple.Here's a picture of a Hickory clock.
