Scrounged this skinny tree with the birch i grabbed on Monday. Couldnt ID it. Slow growth as the rings are tight. Whaddaya think FHC?
Bark somewhat reminds me of hop hornbeam.. but I'm not sold on that. I hope someone has a more definitive answer.
No. It had been felled and limbs chipped several months ago. Im now thinking basswood based on the brown under the gray bark and the wood color/texture.
Same here. It's heavy when just cut/ green. But there's so much water in it that it dries out to be really light. That wood is so porous that even bucked it dries very well even without splitting. I've got a feeling that tree Brad has is something that we don't have here in the upper midwest.
Color of bark looks similar to ironwood just not flakey as the stuff I scrounge here. Also seems ironwood doesn't turn punky very fast at all. Sure hope it is ironwood though.
What you have here Joe is definitely ironwood ( hop hornbeam) That's exactly the same that we have here. The stuff buZZsaw BRAD has looks different than this, both bark and the wood core.
What does the inside grain look like when you split it? Oak-ish? The bark almost looks like a swamp chestnut oak, although according to the map that would place it slightly north of its native range. Not entirely outside the realm of possibility... Swamp Chestnut Oak (Quercus michauxii)
buZZsaw BRAD, this could be wayyy off, but... (as opposed to on but? lol).... Anyway, Around here we have some HUGE groves of honey suckle that grow up pretty tall and they get thick. We had to clear some of it off the back property and it looked just like the pics you posted. Idk, theres my .02! Lolll ~Lissa
Looks a lot like basswood I see around here. Basswood is a funny tree in that it has at least 3 very different types of bark depending on the age of the tree. It is smooth and gray when young, it looks like your photos when middle aged, and it gets large ridges when old. I cut about 20 hophornbeam last year out of the understory of my forest -- ranging from 3" diameter to about 10" diameter -- and this looks nothing like the ones I cut in SE Michigan. The grain on hophornbeam is extremely tight to the point it is hard to even see growth rings. And the bark has smaller, more flaky strips that the ones in your photos. Just my 2 cents.
I have yet to buck or split it. Got tossed into the skinny pile to be cut. Wasnt heavy enough to be oak and didnt have an "oakey" grain IMO. Is this the same as the skinnies you scrounged there Eric?
No, not at all. I know I got some small Tulip Polar there but actually I’ve been leaving the stuff under 5”... unless it’s birch, which I’ll gladly take whatever I can.
This was IDed as hop hornbeam last year. It was a skinny growing in my stacking area i had to cut down. At the time i didnt know what it was.
Yes, could very well be honeysuckle. I cut one down like this as well a couple years ago. The rounds were big enough to burn as firewood, so I did. Low BTU, but BTU's nonetheless
