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Offline S.C. hunter

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Tree ID
« on: February 12, 2018, 07:44:50 pm »
Hi Guys,
 Is this Hackberry, maybe. Sorry no leaves right now.
  Steve
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2018, 07:54:07 pm »
Looks like sugarberry, which is  a hackberry.
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2018, 07:55:53 pm »
Thanks Jim,
  how does it do as a bow wood.
    Steve
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2018, 08:23:55 pm »
S.C.  The Wood Database doesn't differentiate between Hackberry and sugarberry (not Serviceberry), evidently the properties are basically the same. It should like steam bending, wide limbs.
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2018, 09:04:20 pm »
Quote from: Hrothgar on February 12, 2018, 08:23:55 pm
S.C.  The Wood Database doesn't differentiate between Hackberry and Serviceberry, evidently the properties are basically the same. It should like steam bending, wide limbs.

The woods may be similar, but the trees are very different.
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2018, 08:34:19 am »
Hrothgar,
Did you mean serviceberry?  Or sugarberry? Just wanted to be sure, thanks for the reply.
 Steve
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2018, 08:40:12 am »
Surely it was a slip up.  Serviceberry is nothing like Hackberry.
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2018, 09:10:02 am »
Lots of bows is what that is!
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2018, 07:54:57 pm »
Sorry S.C. that should be 'sugarberry'.
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2018, 05:31:10 am »
Where are you SC hunter? I am in Upstate. I will look at my tree when it gets light. I have something like that in my yard and always thought it was some ornamental mulberry, or something. It is too pretty to cut down but one day I my take a limb. :BB
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2018, 06:30:42 pm »
Hi guys,

   Hrothgar,   thanks for clearing that up, your info, helped a lot, Did some research, basically it's called Hackberry in the northern states, and sugarberry in southern states.

 Morgan, Yes that would make plenty of bows, for sure. I don't have permission to cut the trees in the picture yet, but know where some more are.

 Chief Rid, I'm in upstate S.C. too, in Anderson. Where are you?    I find these trees scattered, usually just 1 alone, some are huge. I cut one last year, not really knowing for sure what it was, looking forward to it drying out. I hear good things about it.
   Steve
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2018, 07:55:25 am »
That could be hackberry.Some saplings have less defined furrowed bark when young.
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2018, 08:11:15 am »
BowEd,
   That's right, the further up the tree the less warty looking the bark.  I cut one last year about  8" dia. got 2 sections 6 foot long. the bottom was all bumpy, the top was pretty much smooth.   The tree's I posted are the same way, just cant see much of the top of the tree in the pic.
   I'm looking forward to trying it as a bow.
    Steve
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2018, 08:18:07 am »
S.C. hunter....What type of heartwood is in there?Color wise I mean mostly.
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Re: Tree ID
« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2018, 08:28:20 am »
Quote from: S.C. hunter on February 14, 2018, 06:30:42 pm
Hi guys,

   Hrothgar,   thanks for clearing that up, your info, helped a lot, Did some research, basically it's called Hackberry in the northern states, and sugarberry in southern states.

 Morgan, Yes that would make plenty of bows, for sure. I don't have permission to cut the trees in the picture yet, but know where some more are.

 Chief Rid, I'm in upstate S.C. too, in Anderson. Where are you?    I find these trees scattered, usually just 1 alone, some are huge. I cut one last year, not really knowing for sure what it was, looking forward to it drying out. I hear good things about it.
   Steve

 While names may be used interchangeably, Sugarberry and Common Hackberry are two distinct trees.
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