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  1. HDRock

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    This stuff is hard

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  2. Frank and Beans

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    I can't say that I have ever cut anything that looks like that, but it sure is a very pretty wood.
     
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    Shagbark?

    Gary
     
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    I got nothin.
     
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  5. HDRock

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    It could be hickory but it isn't Shagbark
     
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    It looks to me like a slow-grown black birch. Does it have a strong wintergreen smell?
     
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    That one has me for sure.
     
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  8. Backwoods Savage

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    Knot hickory or better known as a not-hickory.
     
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  9. Eric VW

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    Hope your splitter can get thru it, cos if not we'll have to revoke your Man Card!:rofl: :lol:
     
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  10. Red Elm

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    Not much to go on, and would be a big one for here, but I'm thinking redbud.
     
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    Whatever it is I'm sure it is terrible firewood. Bring it over to my house and I will dispose of it for you. :D
     
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    Wow thats pretty!
     
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    Looks like a big old dogwood.
     
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    Definitely not shag.

    Idk, but it's pretty.
     
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    No, no Wintergreen smell. Not much of a smell to it, kind of smells like oak but it is piled in with a bunch of red oak.
    Whatever it is it is definitely harder than the red oak I was cutting
     
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    Didn't get a chance to split a piece today but took a close up
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  17. Horkn

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    Some sort of locust?
     
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    Got me, I don't know what it is, we will see how it splits with the x 25 and take a pic
     
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    Those visible rays say Oak (some kind) to me.....
     
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    Sap wood says mulberry, Heartwood says locust, my brain says confused lol.

    I turned the brightness up on my phone and the color of the sap wood isn't quite on par with mulbery. I can't wait to learn what it is.
     
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