Wood Identification

[Pat Patterson]

My neighbor just gave me a load of wood, beautiful with a lot of crotch and spalting but I am not sure what it is. I think beech what do you folks think?

Thanks,
Pat

 

[Arnold Beauchamp]

Hackberry

 

[Steve Nix]

Hackberry

 

[Dean Center]

Go Apple Knockers!

 

[Pat Patterson]

Thanks for your quick and accurate responses! I have spent the last hour looking at pics on the internet and you are spot on!

Dean. How in earth does someone is MT know about the world famous Appleknockers?

 

[Robert Satterfield]

Lots of folks in all sectors know of the Appleknockers!

 

[robo hippy]

Hmm, bark looks wrong for hackberry. My first thought was mimosa/silk tree, which does have a smooth bark. I can't turn it any more, started to react to it.

robo hippy

 

[Dean Center]

Illinois state basketball tournament back when it was all one class, maybe 1963 or 64?

 

[Randy Anderson]

I've cut down and turned a fair amount of hackberry and it reminds me of it but, the stuff I've turned has bigger bumps/warts on the bark. The spalted wood looks like what I've turned that has spalted so my vote would be hackberry but, maybe a different variety.

 

[Pat Patterson]

I've cut down and turned a fair amount of hackberry and it reminds me of it but, the stuff I've turned has bigger bumps/warts on the bark. The spalted wood looks like what I've turned that has spalted so my vote would be hackberry but, maybe a different variety.

One thing I noticed when looking at bark pics is that it seems to vary depending on age and probably variety. btw Anyone living near So Ill can stop by and pick up a few pieces.
Pat

 

[Pat Patterson]

Illinois state basketball tournament back when it was all one class, maybe 1963 or 64?

Figured as much. I was in High School 63-64 but did not know the story until I moved from Chicago to Cobden in 1973. I have come to know a few of the Team and in their 70's their still home town heroes.

 

[John Jordan]

100% hackberry.