This came from the pecan score. When I was stripping it out I thought it was a nice straight red maple. Didn’t bother looking at buds, because I was in logging/hoarding mode. Structure like a woods maple. While splitting I was looking at the ends and noticed that ain’t red maple wood. Reminds me of Bradford, but bark doesn’t look right. Bark on lower trunk is different from higher up. Does it look familiar to anyone? Because of all the Pecans I’m wondering if it’s an old orchard that may have had some fruit trees.
Looks like sugar maple from here with that rough textured bark and grain color. Here's one I took down in December:
This has turned out to be my single best score ever for diverse heavyweights.Pecan, Pignut, Sugar Maple, Northern Red Oak and White Oak. I’m feeling rich! There was one big straight tree which I thought was a Red Oak and it turned out to be Blackgum. It was buried in English Ivy, so I didn’t find out until I got into the canopy and started cutting. Tall straight 24” diameter log went to the dump.
Nice tall straight forest-grown sugar maple like that is the best way to get it. You did really well at this score for sure I've gotten sugar maple yard trees in the past and although they still burn well, the extra work involved in processing, coupled with the problematic way it ends up stacking makes me steer clear of yard trees if my willpower can hold out
Yes I got a couple of behemoth yard sugars that were chit to split and stack leaving a bad taste in my mouth for it. Pecan splits 10x easier than Hickory, so that’s good news.
Yeah nice straight ones are sweet to process. Gnarly yard ones a dime a dozen in these parts and I avoid them for the most part, unless I can pick out the easy to split wood.
