Is this ash, what do you think? We have very little ash around here far as I know but thinking this I found at the town dump is ash. From only about a 6"dbh tree. Such white wood, about as white as I have ever seen. Sent from my SM-G960U using Tapatalk
It is not. Looks like red mapleish to me. Sorry for the bad news. The basswood ive cut...when you damage the bark, its a brownish color underneath.
Has anyone split Hophornbeam? I don’t see it often, but that’s the first thing that came to mind looking at the bark.
IMO It is not hop hornbeam and it is not red Maple. It definitely resembles basswood from images I found online.
Ostrya virginiana is American Hophornbeam Carpinus carolinana is American Hornbeam and has smooth bark aka Ironwood
Yes, the blue beech is what I call musclewood. Ironwood to me is the non-smooth one that looks kinda like the wood in this thread.
That may be true in Michigan. What I know for sure is there is only one Carpinus caroliniana and it has many common names, but it has smooth bark. Hophornbeam does not have smooth bark
Looks like basswood to me. I deal with a ton of ash, and a certain amount of basswood too. I don't go out of my way for basswood, but sometimes it makes itself needing to be dealt with, like when it blocks my trails. I'll process it if it is easy to get to, and I have to cut it.
Yes, I process enough ironwood, hophornbeam. The bark looks like a small version of shagbark hickory, and so does the heartwood. It gets dark at the center.
