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Online Holmes

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Re: unknown logs
« Reply #20 on: May 04, 2010, 05:54:41 am »
Could it be chinese chestnut?  Holmes
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Re: unknown logs
« Reply #21 on: May 04, 2010, 08:53:37 am »
By golly, my Dear Holmes, I think that you have got it  8).
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Re: unknown logs
« Reply #22 on: May 04, 2010, 11:56:02 am »
As Sherlock Holmes would say " it is elementary my dear Watson". ;D
The tree service person said it was chinese chestnut, but I never complely trust those guys. ;)
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Re: unknown logs
« Reply #23 on: May 04, 2010, 02:40:14 pm »
There ya  go, I can go with that I suppose. ;)

Pre-commercial thinning pays off. :)

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Re: unknown logs
« Reply #24 on: May 04, 2010, 11:47:37 pm »
Absolutely no doubt about it.
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Re: unknown logs
« Reply #25 on: May 05, 2010, 03:01:03 am »
I'll have to show ya an upper on butternut. :D

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Re: unknown logs
« Reply #26 on: May 05, 2010, 02:12:53 pm »


Butternut here, is a more ash gray color, but similar bark pattern. The squirrels have been using this as a perch to shell spruce cones. :D  The tree grew on a sugar maple ridge on back of the farm.

Pre-commercial thinning pays off. :)

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