Need a wood Id

[272super]

I could use an ID on some wood I came across.I am from Northern In. The wood has very strange bark. It has these isolated raised ridges. The bark7 is also very thin.The tree was probably 18" at the base. It was not easy to split green. Preety tight growth rings with somewhat stringy white heartwood. It is heavy wood and seems like quality wood but I don't want to take too much of it without knowing what it is. Hickory of some type? Bark does not look like any hickory in the field guides I have.Thanks

 

[farmer steve]

hackberry. cut it/burn it when dry. i never knew the real name of it before i joined AS. dad always called it sugar nellie.

 

[mohick]

HACKBERRY ! Good after a year then goes south pretty quick gets really dry

 

[Woody912]

View attachment 491059 View attachment 491060 View attachment 491058 I could use an ID on some wood I came across.I am from Northern In. The wood has very strange bark. It has these isolated raised ridges. The bark7 is also very thin.The tree was probably 18" at the base. It was not easy to split green. Preety tight growth rings with somewhat stringy white heartwood. It is heavy wood and seems like quality wood but I don't want to take too much of it without knowing what it is. Hickory of some type? Bark does not look like any hickory in the field guides I have.Thanks

Hackberry is much easier to split if you take flakes off around the perimeter rather than going down the middle. It will be relatively light when it is dry, very high moisture content

 

[bitzer]

Hackberry

 

[cuinrearview]

Wow. I've never processed Hackberry but just from what I've seen here that was my guess too.

 

[Xjcacher]

hackberry. cut it/burn it when dry. i never knew the real name of it before i joined AS. dad always called it sugar nellie.

The southern variety that we have around here is actually known as sugar berry. About the only difference is it has fewer of the warts on the bark.
http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=275