Any thoughts on this type of log? It has “spotty” bark towards the base and then smooths out towards the top.
Hackberry. Good wood. While you are in the right area for sugarberry I don't think it's sugarberry because, from the pictures I've seen of sugarberry, the bark in your picture is too rough to be sugarberry. Sugarberry has a smoother bark. They are the same family of tree and both grow in your area.
I stand corrected on the subject of sugarberry bark. Thanks for the pictures. I've never seen one in person and the only pictures I have showed a smoother bark.
Hackberry. As Eric stated a rare tree around here. On my bucket list to scrounge to just to say i did.
Definitely Hackberry, not many folks around here care for it. It’s usually stringy when split, charts say about 8 months to dry but I believe 18-24 months is best. Mine was still 25% - 26% after 12 months. As others have said get it split & stacked off the ground. After 36 months it seems to deteriorate quickly.
Hackberry, tons around here and they like wet areas. will decompose quickly if left on ground long, and you will want to split with splitter rumor has it that for some time after ivory was illegal, they made the white piano keys out of it
Here is a pic of a young Sugarberry. The bark is just starting to get chunky. another peculiar feature on this tree is the almost straight line of epicormic sprouts along the trunk.
That last pic look like a beech around here. That is cool with the in line sprouts. Never have heard that word before. Learned more yet again on FHC.
Hackberry grows like weeds around here, fence lines are full of them. They are on the softer end of the hardwood scale. As others have said stack it up off the ground. Here is a spalted Hackberry bowl someone made for me. I just gave him some pieces to turn. He comes back with this.
I be knowin a few $10 words. Trying to do a little to elevate the FHC brain trust. Looks like Virginia is the northern limit of native range for Sugarberry on the East coast.
