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  1. FatBoy85

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    Picked up this tiny- off- the- roadside load on our way home today. My lady smells menthol. I smell a kind of walnut but it's not definitive or loud like a fresh split would be. Inside grain looks like maple. Tiny tree it wasnt more than 6 inches at the most wide. IMG_20221009_203126.jpg IMG_20221009_203125.jpg IMG_20221009_203123.jpg IMG_20221009_203120.jpg
     
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    Hickory maybe? Got any leaves?
     
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    Hackberry? The one pic holding the round looks like hack bark.
     
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    no this was some tree that came down a long time ago long dried up in a pile
     
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    I live in WA so I'm unaware of such trees of that kind natively.
     
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    Honestly I was thinking this was apple with the silvery skin on it, thinking it was turning mature or some other kind of fruit tree...I guess I'll burn it and see if it smells pleasant. Thanks for the input.
     
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    I'm cutting Hackberry now. The heart wood is dark but the rest is very light yellow. Reminds me of red maple but yellow-er.
    The pics above made me think of hickory.
     
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    The flakyness of the bark in the first picture makes me think of some sort of conifer— pine, fir, etc. Menthol smell kinda goes with that…
     
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    Theres a couple conifer type trees on our property that first pic reminds me of. Dang things either try to behead me or flip the zero turn over backwards :)
     
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    Looks like Siberian elm to me.
     
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    I had a bit of winged elm years ago. Oddest stuff I'll have split. Like it was resembling a hard wax yet it was 500 times harder to split it
     
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    I just split some Hackberry, and it was bright white with views of grey in side. It's not Hackberry.
     
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    Agreed
     
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