Sweetgum or hickory

[Dereks]

Have gotten a lot of this wood in the past few days and it's extremely green and hard to split. Is it sweetgum or hickory because I have seen a forum where someone asked about black hickory and it looks Similar to this until it's sat out for a few days in the sun.

 

[gary courtney]

SG

 

[Dereks]

SG

I have tried burning 1 of them and it burns with a sweet smell

 

[Marley5]

Almost positive it's sweet Gum, not hickory.
I won't even attempt splitting Gum by hand and it's barely adequate for firewood, decent heat but bunches up when using a splitter.

 

[moondoggie]

Gum

 

[Dereks]

Some of the leaves from the dump site I got it from. Those were on top of most of it

 

[moondoggie]

From here those look like red oak leaves. The wood at the beginning of this thread is not red oak though.

 

[Dereks]

From here those look like red oak leaves. The wood at the beginning of this thread is not red oak though.

The pile they were pulled out from under and it was devoid of any gumballs

 

[moondoggie]

Black gum.

 

[jimdeere]

I can’t answer the question, but I’ve found that if you block out stringy wood and leave it for a year, it splits a lot easier.

 

[Country bumpkin]

Gumball for sure. Jimdeere is right let it age out & it’ll split better.

 

[moondoggie]

I can’t answer the question, but I’ve found that if you block out stringy wood and leave it for a year, it splits a lot easier.

Black gum will never split easily.

 

[gary courtney]

those pics are red oak and water oak

 

[Ronaldo]

Never been around sweet gum but the first pics look exactly like the Hickory we have here in iowa, right down to the black center and light outer wood. Hickory is tough to split when green too.

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[sb47]

Just because it's all pilled together doesn't mean it came from the same tree. The first pic looks like maybe red oak.
The second pic is red oak leaves. and the third is water oak leaves.

 

[jchipps]

The very first pic isn't redoak or hickory, it's gum

 

[4seasons]

Non of those leaves are from the tree yo are splitting. Gum twist as it grows making it nearly impossible to get a straight split.

 

[jrider]

Those split pieces are sweet gum. It doesn't split, it tears. Miserable stuff.

 

[lone wolf]

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Have gotten a lot of this wood in the past few days and it's extremely green and hard to split. Is it sweetgum or hickory because I have seen a forum where someone asked about black hickory and it looks Similar to this until it's sat out for a few days in the sun.

That wood is Gumwood no doubt about it .

 

[BusyBeaver]

I don't find any of the gums to be good for firewood. But Black gum is especially useful just because it IS hard to split.
Pioneers used to make wagon wheel hubs out of BG because it was so tough. Good stuff for that.
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