Sure looks like it to me...best BTU's I've ever had in my stacks! Too bad I wasted half of it up the chimney in my old smoke dragon furnace back then...I would be really interested to see how my Kuuma runs on it now!
I get mostly bitternut. Shag is well regarded. I find all Hickories to be 'pinchy' on the saws. Let us know how the new splitter likes it.
There are a couple trees on my property that always make me do a double take when walking past them. I know they're red maple, but to me they look like shagbark hickory.
Yes. Great find Dave. I could go for another hickory score myself. Somehow this thread hasn't shown up and I'm just seeing it now???
Fooled me as I REALLY had to study the pics carefully to say its not SBH. Maybe its a new variety??? Shagbark maple?
Older Red Maples (Acer rubrum) can develop a shaggy, exfoliating bark that superficially resembles the shagbark hickory (Carya ovata), often creating a "trickster" effect where the two are confused.
Yes sir, they do, and I've seen several silver maples that look very similar, too. Lacking leaves for a positive ID, if you can see the finer branches you can tell the difference between them. Maples have opposite branching, like ash does, where fine limbs grow out directly across from each other on the stem, like a cross. Hickory doesn't do that, because it has alternate branching.
