Wood ID 12-1-2017

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Everything about the pics says shag to me, except for the pic of the split round. I've never, EVER had hickory split that cleanly. Some of the stringiest wood I've split.

All of the shag and pig I've split, unless it's a crotch, splits fairly clean.

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Many woods seems to split a lot cleaner with a kinetic vs using a hydraulic. It appears caseyforrest is using a kinetic splitter. I split half a dozen pieces of shagbark last weekend to show a buddy how my splitter worked, so that he could borrow it. I could tell the shagbark was a stringy Wood compared to others, but it still split pretty cleanly with my kinetic. I am also able to split elm fairly cleanly, as compared to a hydraulic where you end up with a tangled mess that you have to fight to pull apart after the hydraulic is done with it.


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I agree that the mystery wood has similar bark to hickory but the wood, after splitting, looked and felt like oak except it didn't have any odor. First pic is two pieces of split hickory on the left and next to it, on the right, is the mystery wood (split and bark side).


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The pic below with my thumb is hickory... smells awesome




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The pic below is hickory freshly split
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The pic below is the mystery wood
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4th pic down, grain and bark is White Oak.
 
It's white oak. You hickory people are cracking me up. What is everything hickory!?

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Firewood, possibly. Whiskey barrels, possibly. It really sucks for lumber though;)

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Yeah, the important stuff. I'd rather have a house built of any kind of oak as pine but that's not happening.
When I was a kid I'd cut stave bolts and sell em to my cousin who had a stave mill.
 

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