What kind of wood is this ?

[Bruno of NH]

Hi Folks,
My friend brought over 3 logs for me to mill on Saturday morning.
It was cold and windy in the lower 30's.
He wanted it sawn all live edge.
What kind of wood is this?
Thanks Jim / Bruno of NH

  

  

  

  

  

 

[Bruno of NH]

It was very heavy and sawed hard with a 7 degree band.
Thanks Jim

[mikeb1079]

sure looks like walnut to me...

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Don't know your Oak species where you live but sure looks like a type of Oak.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Don't know your Oak species where you live but sure looks like a type of Oak.

[rwepinetree]

It almost looks like Elm to me.

[SILVERTOOTH]

Everything about it looks like butternut, but butternut is quite soft and light.

[red oaks lumber]

looks more like a hickory or pecan. first thought white oak but, bark didn't quite look right

[GAB]

looks more like a hickory or pecan. first thought white oak but, bark didn't quite look right

I think it is bitternut hickory also called smooth bark hickory.
My experience is it saws hard.  I have gotten as few as 3 cuts with a new or resharpened blade (ReSharp).
Gerald

[cutterboy]

The wood looks like hickory but the bark does not. At least the bark does not look like that of a shagbark hickory. Here is some shagbark hickory I sawed.



 



 



  

 

[drobertson]

It does look like some sort of nut tree, hickory type as mentioned, the severely angled limb knots resemble a hickory type. Now cutterboys looks like handle stock! man that is straight grained!

[WDH]

Red oaks is right.  It is hickory. 

If you don't believe me, look at the parenchyma in the latewood.  It will be apotracheal  :D. 

[Tree Dan]

Black Cherry :new_year:

[WDH]

Tree Dan,

You obviously don't believe me  ;D. 

[Dave Shepard]

Red oaks is right.  It is hickory. 

If you don't believe me, look at the parenchyma in the latewood.  It will be apotracheal  :D.

Another sesquipedalian diagnosis from Dr. WDH. :D

[MSSawmill]

Red oaks is right.  It is hickory. 

If you don't believe me, look at the parenchyma in the latewood.  It will be apotracheal  :D.

Another sesquipedalian diagnosis from Dr. WDH. :D

Ummm... Yeah! Exactly what these two said. My thoughts exactly! 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

look at the parenchyma in the latewood.  It will be apotracheal  :D.

:P

[JoeB]

Mockernut here in west jersey.

[5quarter]

WDH...you know, I was doubting you, so I took a closer look at the parenthesis in the late wood and it was severely apocryphal, just like you said.

Poston...looking at picture books ain't gonna help ya figure that one out.  ;) :D

[SwampDonkey]

Wow, that shagbark sure makes nice lumber. ;D

I was thinking hickory for the original post as well. ;)

[WDH]

sesquipedalian?

Now that is good  ;D. 

[red oaks lumber]

you guys and them big words make my head spin everytime danny texts me some big word i have to google it to even get in the right parking lot let alone the ball park :D :D

[terrifictimbersllc]

hickorus luciferamus

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

sesquipedalian?

Now that is good  ;D.

I love it when Y'all talk dirty.  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[Dave Shepard]

Hey, it wasn't me that suggested looking up someones parenchyma!

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Hey, it wasn't me that suggested looking up someones parenchyma!

:D

[Cedarman]

Danny is very, very hard to stump.  It almost takes trickery.

[Dave Shepard]

We might have to resort to the computer printed wood patterns to stump him. I think I saw some bird's eye pine veneer on the table of a pizza joint once. :D

[Bruno of NH]

If the wood might be hickory how much does it go for per bf .
Thanks Jim/Bruno of NH

[fat olde elf]

Go Danny !!!! You ARE the man !!!!

[cutterboy]

If the wood might be hickory how much does it go for per bf .
Thanks Jim/Bruno of NH

Get the same as you would get for red oak.

[SwampDonkey]

If it were like that shagbark log, I'd go for more. ;D

[WDH]

Hey, it wasn't me that suggested looking up someones parenchyma!

If you google it, you could get slapped  :D. 

[Tree Dan]

Tree Dan,

You obviously don't believe me  ;D.

My glasses were full of sawdust :D
That Shagbark throws great heat...I gota go read up on this more :P

[dgdrls]

It was very heavy and sawed hard with a 7 degree band.
Thanks Jim

Hickory, and yes it's very heavy!! 

  

   looks like the same species I first sawed on my LT-10

[Southside]

The wood looks like hickory but the bark does not. At least the bark does not look like that of a shagbark hickory. Here is some shagbark hickory I sawed.



 



 



  

 

Cutterboy -

I got to find me a place where trees grow with a nice label on them like that !!!

[WDH]

Probably pignut hickory.  Pignut bark is sometimes a little scaly, sometime not, but never shaggy. 

[Dave Shepard]

When I first started running a sawmill, I got an old ash log out of the junk pile to make some blocking. It sure didn't saw very well. Apparently some pignut can also look like ash. :D

[SwampDonkey]

Some ash can look like chestnut to I suppose. :D ;)

[bugdust]

Here in these parts it's called "scaly bark hickery." A fellow asked me to saw 3 logs of this a couple years back. He had cut 1 year before and left it to dry. All I had on site were ten degree blades. First log dulled 2 blades. Gave up on the last two.

[cutterboy]

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Cutterboy -

I got to find me a place where trees grow with a nice label on them like that !!!
[/quote]

What? Your trees don't grow with labels?????  ;D

My father used to love to teach his grandchildren about nature. He had a long trail through the woods of his farm and he labeled the names of trees along the trail so his grandkids could learn to identify them.  My dad is gone and the farm is now mine and I cut trees in the woods and sometimes I take one he had labeled.

[nas]

Definitely looks like bitternut hickory.  I have lots of it in my woodlot

Nick

[WDH]

If it is, the buds will be sulfur yellow. 

[Birchwood Logging]

Looks like butternut-white walnut to me