Hoping to get back there later today, I'll take pics of what's on the ground. I'm not a wood worker but it almost seems like a shame someone wouldnt come take these to mill!
That's super straight grained beech. Get the beech and hickory first, then get the ash, if there's any chance that others can scrounge too. Ash is great firewood too, but hickory and beech are the best you'll ever get.
Great score, that first pic is definitely hickory, probably pignut, upper part of the tree. Not sure of the second, beech for the win on the third.
I love ash but this stuff is definitely a different kind than what I usually get. Probably good for a white/green/black ash comparison. It seems less dense than what I usually get which I've always thought was white ash. I'll try and post comparison pics at some point. Lots of black locust too but I already scooped most of that up. Others will scrounge here but luckily it's only posted on a guy's facebook page, not marketplace or CL. and one other thing I've learned is most people are too lazy to put the work in for this stuff that requires cutting and moving! So I'm not overly worried about it all disappearing.
More pics of the scrounge site. I'm not ballsy enough to mess with the black locust on the edge like that! This "beech" has me a little confused now and I'm back to not being so sure about it. I cut up another smaller one with pretty much identical bark and the heart wood and smell reminded me a lot of the dreaded sycamore. Never really seen one with this type of bark but who knows, as said before there are smooth bark maples as well. The heartwood pics at the end are what I suspect to be sycamore - the plus side is the stuff we all figure is beech doesnt have that same heart wood or smell....but identical bark
The latter pics are definitely beech. Why wont you touch the locust woody5506 ? Its propped enough off the ground to buck a few rounds off. Your 261 will cut that no problem. Ive bucked big locust with my 261 wearing a 20" bar.
Hard to tell from the pic but the reason the trunk is angled upward is because the rest of the tree is halfway down a cliff. That's the only reason! Trust me I've buried my bar in plenty of that stuff before but that one would be some work to handle carefully.
That's one of those little walk behind Bobcats you're seeing. That's soft and muddy ground back there, I bet I'd sink my truck pretty quick. This whole site will continue to be picked away at and theres still a lot of stuff to come down including some massive red oaks. Wish I could just take it all but I'm super piled up at home now.
I agree that it looks like hickory limb wood. The bark is much smoother. Just cut one like it the other day!
I’ve found that green beech splits harder than beech that’s been down for a while. Had this tree been down?
I’m with you on the second. Thought it looked like ash bark but then the splits weren’t as convincing. I haven’t cut any ash in a while, but thought the grain in the example was pretty wide.
Do any leaves offer a clue to whether it is sycamore or not? Should make it pretty clear . I see a lot of oak leaves in the pics, but pretty sure it’s not an oak
