Gypo Logger
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Any guess? It's 42" high.
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Any guess? It's 42" high.
Johnny Yooper
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curly maple (sorry, just had to say it)
If that's really a tree then I'm confused lol
If you were in Mississippi it would be strangler fig. If it slides up and down the pole you need to return it to the local gentleman's club.
cuinrearview
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Charcoal snake
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Bottom half looks like Kardashian.
A piece of black spruce doing a pole dance ?
Wisteria
What do I win?
What do I win?
The background looks a little northerly for wisteria, but I'm with Uncle--it looks like a vine was encircling a sapling until both were topped.
Python on a stick?
how thick is the straight stick in the middle? I've seen wisteria and poison ivy trunks do that, bittersweet too.
Bobby Kirbos
Scrounger of Cellulose Based BTUs
Wisteria is satan's plant. Took me 2 years to finally kill one far enough that the roots stopped sprouting.
Bobby,
I've fought wisteria too, but satan's plant? No. That would be tree of heaven, ailanthus altissima. At least wisteria can be pretty, even if it's a biotch to eradicate. Nothing good can be said about ailanthus.
I've fought wisteria too, but satan's plant? No. That would be tree of heaven, ailanthus altissima. At least wisteria can be pretty, even if it's a biotch to eradicate. Nothing good can be said about ailanthus.
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So @Gypo Logger what is it?
Gypo Logger
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It's actually diamond Willow. The twisted part is live wood while the center wood is dead. Someone said it was worth 8 hundred, but I said they could have it now for 400 hundred. No takers yet. Lol
How it became twisted, I have no idea. Without having counted the growth rings, I'd say it is at least 80 years old.
Shall we call it Twisted Sister?
So it wasn't Grizzly bear poop with the runs at -40
Oprah Winfrey after she ripped off Weight Watchers.
Box elder might grow that way because it does not know if it's related to a soft maple, basswood, willow, wisteria, or a skunk.
Yeah a lot of haters of the Box Elder around here 
. I've burned 1-2 cords of it a year at our family cabin over the last decade since it is so prolific around here. Literally within 200 yards is more than I can/will burn in my lifetime. Yeah it burns hot and fast, so I just split it really large or not at all for 6-8 inch limbs. As for the smell, it is a member of the maple family and I frequently get a nice whiff of a sweet syrup like aroma from the chimney. Many people around the campfire have commented on how sweet it smells too. The Native Americans used to make a syrup from it. Milled some of it too, really nice figure like curl, quilting, spalting, and my favorite, lots of burls.
Anyway not trying to hijack the thread (sorry OP!) but had to defend my go-to wood. Yep I'm a wood snob, Box Elder and Cottonwood all the way
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. I've burned 1-2 cords of it a year at our family cabin over the last decade since it is so prolific around here. Literally within 200 yards is more than I can/will burn in my lifetime. Yeah it burns hot and fast, so I just split it really large or not at all for 6-8 inch limbs. As for the smell, it is a member of the maple family and I frequently get a nice whiff of a sweet syrup like aroma from the chimney. Many people around the campfire have commented on how sweet it smells too. The Native Americans used to make a syrup from it. Milled some of it too, really nice figure like curl, quilting, spalting, and my favorite, lots of burls.Anyway not trying to hijack the thread (sorry OP!) but had to defend my go-to wood. Yep I'm a wood snob, Box Elder and Cottonwood all the way
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