What is this wood?(no pic)

[Bowtie]

cotonwood has a real thick bark, thick grains in the bark. Sometimes cottonwood has a darker core than the outer core. I dont cut cottonwood, as it isnt very good for firewood. But, cottonwood usually doesnt grow without some lower branches.

 

[sawinredneck]

I just got back from some training at salina, LEO stuff. What does cottonwood look like inside? And we do have a lot of hackberry around too. Mostly trying to overtake are pasture... Does cottonwood cut like steel? Cause this stuff ate my chain today. Looks like I was cutting hedge all day, except not all nasty and sticky.

Now you've got me.............................. Cottonwood cuts like butter, ussually.

 

[sawinredneck]

cotonwood has a real thick bark, thick grains in the bark. Sometimes cottonwood has a darker core than the outer core. I dont cut cottonwood, as it isnt very good for firewood. But, cottonwood usually doesnt grow without some lower branches.

Down here it does, at least along the streams and ponds.

And yes, Hackberry will take over a pasture in a heartbeat if not kept in check!

 

[Bowtie]

I believe hackberry is about the easiest bark to spot. The way the bark has narrow furrowed ridges and greyish color are kind of a giveaway. Hackberry is prone to different colored streaks in the inner wood, and hackberry has a little bit of a distinct smell, though not like walnut. Maybe Im crazy, I smell wood sometimes...opcorn:

 

[MOA]

I will try to borrow a camera and get a picture. Guess I have to move forward with time. The bark on this is pretty thin, but it is pretty small still. The bark on a 18" cut today was maybe 1/4 to 1/3" thick. The more i look at pictures it looks like a mulberry that went up. All the branches turn up and come off one trunk, does not split and branch out. we dropped a 25' and had about 15' to the first barch, and there werent many of them.

 

[sawinredneck]

I believe hackberry is about the easiest bark to spot. The way the bark has narrow furrowed ridges and greyish color are kind of a giveaway. Hackberry is prone to different colored streaks in the inner wood, and hackberry has a little bit of a distinct smell, though not like walnut. Maybe Im crazy, I smell wood sometimes...opcorn:

You nailed the bark very well!! Much better than I could have! It will eat chains, but not like Hedge, as he described. It has an almost vanilla like smell to it (It's not just you) and look for the purple or black "viening" or "marbling" on the larger pieces.

 

[Bowtie]

Mulberry usually has thin bark like that. Mulberry also has a distinct yellow inner wood with sometimes distinct rings. Also. mulberry is a hardwood that is hard on saw chains.

 

[Bowtie]

I cut mostly mulberry and locust...awesome firewood!

 

[sawinredneck]

Mulberry usually has thin bark like that. Mulberry also has a distinct yellow inner wood with sometimes distinct rings. Also. mulberry is a hardwood that is hard on saw chains.

And is also hard to distinguish from hedge sometimes. But Hackberry at the sizes he is talking about, would have a very thin bark as well. We need pics, :help:

 

[sawinredneck]

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/DENDRO/DENDROLOGY/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=26

 

[habanero]

MOA, the way you describe it splitting makes it sound like sycamore to me, but sycamore is easy to identify. Maybe you have some kind of hybrid growing there. What part of Kansas are you in?

 

[goof008]

Cottonwood also has a distinct smell, and not a good one! It does split nice....but there are alot of knots...at least the one I took down was full of them. It also had a branch as low as 5 feet up, but it was standing alone in the yard.

 

[kevinj]

Boy if it's that tough to split,
my guess would be American Elm.
(Ulmus americana)

 

[MOA]

Ilive just south of topeka 15 miles. It is not sycamore. The bark does not look like the hackberry in the pic. Not at all. The bark is a gray with deep furrows that are smooth on the top, and alot of cross furrows too. I will get a pic by next wednesday. I just have to get the time off. I didnt mean for this to be a huge mystery, just trying to figure out if it was worth aging. Green it burns like crap.

 

[sawinredneck]

And you are sure it's not Elm?

 

[ropensaddle]

wood

well sounds like mulbery, osage, hacklebury have been ruled out
tulip tree is yellow and diffuse porous but splits like liquidambar styraciflua L or sweetgum. have you seen any fruit left under it
pods anything of use Kentucky coffee tree but woods not
yellow and sweetgum is not either elm,gum,hard to split

 

[btlook1]

It does sound like Mulberry

Did I miss the part where he said it was kinda yellow like Hedge? I live in S.E. Ks and I do cut some mulberry when I come across it. However it's mainly hedge and hackaberry for the fire place. Far as I'm concerned Hedge is the best firewood known to man....especially if it's set for a couple of years...Just my opinion! I'm pretty curious now...

 

[MOA]

I will have a pic up thursday. Hopefully.... If I can get them on here.

 

[MOA]

I was going to post a pic, but I found out what it is. Mulberry. My grandma identified it. And I got it to split today too. Just needed to dry some. The big peices were still hard tho, but it was in the 70's tell the ran today. I will still get a pic for you guys if you want tho. Tomorrow.

 

[habanero]

All the mulberry I have ever seen was a dark yellow color, almost halfway between yellow and orange-not the light yellow you described. But then the only mulberry I have ever been around was small stuff in fence rows and such so maybe the wood gets lighter in the bigger trees.