Re: dang this tree
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08/13/19 07:59 PM
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Looks like an Elm, possibly American Elm!
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Re: dang this tree
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08/13/19 08:04 PM
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If it is indeed in the Elm family it's nearly worthless for fire wood, as it stinks when burned and leaves lot's of ash. The trunk doesn't look like elm to me tho, more like a Beech.
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Re: dang this tree
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08/13/19 08:26 PM
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Bark looks similar to a beech?
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Re: dang this tree
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08/13/19 08:54 PM
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Leaves look like elm and if you are using it for firewood, I hope you have a hydraulic splitter or you may have another winter burn just in axe handles. That stuff grows like a cork screw and I have had axes at near 90 degree to me when the axe head followed the grain and I was left holding the handle. Wood splitting nightmare.
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Re: dang this tree
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08/13/19 11:05 PM
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elm burns great , never notice any smell in good wood stove all the smoke goes up the chimney, burns hot enough to hardly smell anything from any wood.
elm has decent BTU and that's about all I worry about.
I do use a hydraulic splitter.
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Re: dang this tree
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08/13/19 11:13 PM
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An elm variety and looks like firah wood.
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Re: dang this tree
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08/14/19 12:09 AM
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Looks like beech to me. The bark is so covered up by lichens you can't see the smooth bark. It could be beech I suppose but if he lived there very many years I think he would have noticed some beech nuts sometime or other. The leaves do look right. It's that trunk that's throwing me off. I have shot many a squirrel out of beech trees. It's one of my favorite mast trees as many critters use them for feed. Where I come from, many an old woodsman carved their names or initials in that smooth bark.
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Re: dang this tree
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08/14/19 12:46 AM
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Leaves look like elm and if you are using it for firewood, I hope you have a hydraulic splitter or you may have another winter burn just in axe handles. That stuff grows like a cork screw and I have had axes at near 90 degree to me when the axe head followed the grain and I was left holding the handle. Wood splitting nightmare. Aint that the truth!
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Re: dang this tree
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08/14/19 02:09 AM
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don't think is beech, bark is lots darker than the other beechs here. and i have never seen it have nuts on it or under it.
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Re: dang this tree
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08/14/19 06:34 AM
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water beech or grey hysop or muscle wood but maybe a huge iron wood.
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Re: dang this tree
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08/14/19 07:30 AM
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Mussle wood. They don't put on nuts that I'm aware of.
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Re: dang this tree
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08/14/19 08:15 AM
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i say water beech honestly but things go by different names to different people and places.
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