I’ve never seen hickory that consistently dark with that much sapwood. Nor with that bark. But then again, I live in the south, so maybe them yankee pignuts do look different than our pig’s nuts.
Could be. I wasnt really looking that closely at the bark until Eric Wanderweg brought it to my attention in the pics. I have to go back soon to help him split it all up on his hydro so ill give it a much closer inspection. All i know is that it was the easiest splitting hickory ive ever hit with an ax or maul. It was well below freezing the night before so im thinking the wood froze up which helped.
Whatever it is, and same applies to Brad's hickory, those are really awesome looking splits. As for the split wood grain pattern, I have seen a similar look when I split sugarberry, which is a cousin of hackberry. Which has nothing to do with this other than it made beautiful splits like that! Wood is so cool!
In my pictures of the walnut above, the wood looks nothing like the wood in this post. In the original pics, if the round next to the wood is the same wood. That round looks like hickory. The bark looks hard and scaly, like a chainsaw could glance off of it. In the very upper left corner, it's starting to curl up, like it would peel off in a strip. I've seen hickory multicolor, just not that pronounced. Here's a couple screen grabs, zoomed in on the bark. Just another clue when hickory is cut green, sap will ooze out the edges for couple days. Just my thought...
That could make some really nice looking boards. I would love to run across some like that in log length.
Went out to split some an this is what has happened. Seems like some of it split easy then I get some that are really stringy
It’s not Hickory or other power house “hardwoods” the end grain looks too “soft”. Looks like firewood to me!
