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Fifelaker
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With the 3 X's it must be the poison red X ivy.:hmm3grin2orange:
Young beech...??
jhoff310
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Looks like honey locust to me
Jeff
Jeff
Turkeyslayer
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Blue beech, aka American hornbeam, aka muscle wood
I can see the picture now. It looks like Blue beech also or a kind of maple ? But it doesn't have aggressive bark on it.
AKA ironwood.
Steve2910
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Steve2910
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It's as hard as my head... BURN IT!
owbguy
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yep, looks like rock hornbeam aka musclewood
Turkeyslayer
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The only problem with it I know of is it never gets very big most is about 3"-4" and the biggest I have seen was around 16".
benp
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I dont know if that would necessarily be a bad thing. You dont have to split it then.:msp_thumbsup:
Isn't Ironwood waaay up there in teh BTU food chain? Like Hedge apple territory?
It all depends on how you scale it. I personally think it is very high.
Doc Hickory
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Looks like Ironwood to me too. They used it back in the olden days for mallet heads, anything that needed to stand up to a lot of bashing. If left out in the weather after cutting it will rot rather more quickly than you'd expect. It burns pretty well, though. It likes to grow near water.
What Doc Hickory said, Hornbeam is used for beautiful wood chisel handles.
Hedgerow
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Hold on there partner... Blue Beech? Yes... (Carpinus Caroliniana) Some do refer to it as "muscle wood" or "Ironwood" Bam!!! You got it!!! ~3,800 BTU
But...
Hop Hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana), is also referred to as (Ironwood) ~4,200 BTU
Yet they are not the same tree.
It's bark looks like this:
Edit!!! Turkeyslayer is correct!!! Blue beech IS referred to as "American" Hornbeam...
Learn something new every day... Guess that's why they have scientific names...:help:
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