I usually lean on my neighbor to the north Eric VW but he don’t know. The inside is super bright but it’s in a thicket of oak and cherry. Any ideas?
Puts me in mind of hackberry. I can't say for sure because when I enlarge the picture it gets too blurry to see the detail of the bark. Hack is very white inside with rough, warty, gray bark. If it is hack, you've got a pile of nice firewood. It burns well. But get it split and off the ground otherwise it will rot fairly quickly.
Well, here’s schlot ‘s thread on a big Hack, but Photodump stole his images....but anyone here that remembers those pics knows it’s gotta be the same species as your tree CHeath. Plenty of firewood, that I wish I didn't have.
I have some young hackberry growing in my woods. My DNR guy wants me to get rid of them. The bark in your pic looks like my hackberry.
Hackberry bark from a distance looks like a bait can full of moving squirming nite crawlers. Very easy to spot hack in my woods.
I burn a bunch of hackberry. It is pretty good wood. I think it’s better than cherry, not as good as ash but close. It dries fairly quickly, kind of stringy when splitting. Coals okay, doesn’t produce an excess amount of ash. Burns good after a year, great after 2.
I love Hackberry. Burns hot, but fast, gets the stove to temp quickly. It definitely rots faster than any other woods I’ve dealt with. Get it bucked and split asap
Definitely hackberry, good wood to burn. Stringy splitting just don’t let it sit on the ground to long!
