the bark stuff is definitely mulberry. the mystery wood looks just like cottonwood. but there is no way you split thru the center of a cottonwood so cleanly. especially by hand. BL, mulberry and hedge are all yellow in color when fresh cut. BL is the lightest yellow. Mulberry is in the middle and hedge is so dark its almost orange. they all turn dark brown with time.
Im amazed that even the skinny limb wood is solid. I havent been taking any from my score. Mostly buried in the tangle. Nice work BTW!
Yup. I was taking some of the thinner limbs that were solid. It all burns. I had some vines to deal with. Bittersweet, grape, and briars. Not to the extent your pictures indicate.
I was working it today and a pricker vine swiped my ski hat as i was carrying a round out. Mustve scratched my chin at one point and didnt realize until i looked in the mirror this evening. Ive got bittersweet, vines, thorns, saplings, limbs from fallen trees and again thorny saplings from the locust, plus all the dried up weeds and grass. Luckily i had hacked all the way to the first rootball yesterday. Started in on the one next to it today. The tornado knocked down quite a bit of it in the area farther back. I discovered more as i worked my in. Broken limbs underneath. Once im done getting what i want (actually want all the down stuff) i may contact the local DPW and see if i can get the okay to go in farther. Maybe six decent trees over/snapped off. Posting more follow up in my thread shortly.
Verdict is Locust-less. MikeInMa was nice enough to come up this morning and help me squeeze a few rounds out of the Cold Ash wood, bring me some BL for show and burn, which I’m watching now, and scout the property for some BL. We hiked to the back of the property and saw a nice diversity, Mike’s words, of trees but no Locust. Early in the return we saw this, Decided it wasn’t locust, not sure what it is.
Never had a clue about Sassafras. I think closest was some one making tea out of it on the Walton’s. Thanks buZZsaw BRAD !
Your welcome! The twigs on it are green and it has a very pleasant smell to it. One of my favorite splits to sniff. Good SS wood, spits a lot, seasons fast. Actually very rot resistant too. Recently found out your can buy decking/exterior lumber made from it..black locust too. VERY pricey though.
2 thoughts - Wait until league out and check the canopy for sassafras leaves. Very distinctive. Take a bow saw to that tree to scratch the bark. It should smell like root beer. Either should prove out sassafras.
My cutting area needed to be cleaned up. Some scrounged ash, and some maple. Some of it is overripe. Most is decent solid wood. It'll get it stacked on a shoulder rack. Oh... This is a thread about BL. I moved the bl pieces I had, from my staging area, to the cutting area. Heavy stuff. It's green. I'll get it cut as soon as I get more, from where this came from. There's a two-trunk blow over. I hope to get it early next week.
Lots of sassafras down my way but no big ones worth becoming firewood. Mostly they come up in gardens, in stone walls or under fruit trees , places where they are weeds needing elimination. They can be persistent though. I have one in a stone wall that I chop off close to the ground as I can and it comes right back when I'm not looking.
I got the poplar rounds split this morning. Great day to be outside wooding! Wasn't too squishy underfoot. I then moved the stuff I cut the other day and stacked it with the poplar. It's between two trees, on some branches. I then went looking for a cover. I took it off a rack that still has a way to go before burning. I'm guessing just shy of a 1/3 cord. I'm still planning to get the bl Monday morning. It's not a lot, but I'll take what I can.
Sure hope so. It's about a year past its prime. It was spitting back at me when I was splitting with my x27. I'll get it dry, and see if it's woodstove-worthy. If not, then campfire wood it will be.
