Any ideas? I get my logs from a land clearing company and every once and a while I'll get a log that is different from what I usually get. Relatively smooth bark, stringy split and it did work the 25 ton spliter more than normal, and the round was not heavy at all for the size..
That is what first crossed my mind. The bark was way wrong for the Maples growing on my grounds An internet search did show a photo of a smooth barked Maple that looked similar. I couldn't take the bark picture back to a particular maple species. I know I have seen the bark before in the woods.
With the way you can see where the borers have been then the look of the inner split, looks a lot like hickory. Butternut can have rather smooth bark sometimes.
Hadn't considered butternut. Could very well be. Use to squirrel hunt under a large butternut tree when I lived in NE Ohio. May well be why it looked so familiar. Butternut isn't prevalent in my immediate area, but who knows how far the logs were hauled. One internet image was extremely close to what I have. Hickory? The only hickory that I have processed is Shagbark and it is not that.
Really Thanks for the question it distracted me from a job I wasn't looking forward to doing. The log was about 1/3 of the way down my log pile. I noticed that the bark was different and tried to pull it out. The Mini objected after 4 feet so I cut three rounds off. Went out and unburied the rest of the log. Bucking and transporting the rounds as I went. Here are the pictures. I am pretty firmly in the maple court. After bucking the top logs and dragging out this log, I decided to have a beer. I looked up at my mature yard Maples and the younger limbs displayed the same kind of bark. Have a personal rule, "If I have suckled at the beer teat the saw doesn't run." So will buck the log in the next day or so. Thanks
Yeah Im looking at maple too. Maturity and immaturity of the bark shows in your pics so i second that.
