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Offline k-hat

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another tree id question
« on: December 21, 2011, 05:19:41 pm »
Anybody know what this is?  It's toppled and top cut off, but about 9 feet of trunk left w roots still in ground.





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Offline Shaun

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Re: another tree id question
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2011, 05:28:23 pm »
Not enough info. A picture of the general shape of tree, branching pattern, etc. would be very helpful. Looks like red oak or maybe elm, but more pics please.
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« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2011, 05:30:45 pm »
Sorry, that's all i have!  The branches and such have been cleared away, this is all that remains.  I supposed i could go ahead and ask permission to take what's left and it oughta make a bow ;)
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« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2011, 05:32:44 pm »
By the way, this is about an 18" trunk, one side of a split that occurs right here, but the lower 8 ft or so is pretty straight and clear.
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« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2011, 05:39:58 pm »
I don't think it has enough sapwood to be red oak.   My guess is black cherry. If I could see pics of the smaller branches I could say for sure.
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« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2011, 05:45:51 pm »
Cherry of sorts is my GUESS. Our oak and elm up here look nothing like that bark pattern. Grab and find out later if its firewood!
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Re: another tree id question
« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2011, 05:47:20 pm »
That's my thought!  Now, i need to borry a chainsaw, trailer, . . . .   Hope it's still there on Monday!
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Offline Pat B

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Re: another tree id question
« Reply #7 on: December 21, 2011, 05:59:19 pm »
When you ask permission to cut it also ask what it is.  ;)
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Re: another tree id question
« Reply #8 on: December 21, 2011, 10:05:34 pm »
Every tree of the prunus family (cherry) i have come across have a faint smell of bitter almond when cut through the outer bark.
I have no experience with black cherry but it could be a quick way to determine that family of trees if it is true to all cherryvariants.
Just a thought  ;)

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« Reply #9 on: December 21, 2011, 10:27:06 pm »
It dose not look like black cherry, red oak or red elm to me.I do not know what it is :-[
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Offline k-hat

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Re: another tree id question
« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2011, 02:03:35 am »
Thanks guys, seems like a lotta folks are going for cherry.  Would i treat this like a whitewood or more like an elm or osage?

Pat:  love to ask, but they probly won't know! It's on a hospital grounds where they were doing some clearing, been sitn in that condition for about a month.
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« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2011, 02:20:58 am »
I conside cherry a whitewood as far as bow building goes.
  If it has been laying on the ground for a month I'd usecomsider it firewood. It doesn't take long for fungi to invade most woods.
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« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2011, 05:09:30 am »
It definately not cherry (prunus avium) , i've made a good few bows out of it and it doesn't look like that and the bark is wrong. It's not red oak or elm either. Sorry just a lot of NOT's - i'm not sure what it IS tho!
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Offline okie64

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« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2011, 10:02:20 am »
Its Black Cherry. I remember reading somewhere it is a fairly fungi resistant wood. Its great smokin wood if you decide not to build bows from it.
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Offline Hrothgar

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« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2011, 11:12:35 am »
My first guess was black cherry but I'm not sure about the bark, from the picture it could be american chestnut,
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