Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: FlintWalker on December 10, 2008, 11:44:26 pm
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I cut this the other day thinking it was black gum, but everything I've read says that black gum is hard to split. This wasn't, now I'm second guessing myself. The tree was tall for its diameter, maybe 25 or 30 feet.
I don't have a leaf to go with it.
I've pretty much ruled out everything but black gum or some other type of gum. Anybody else have an opinion?
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i aint the best at this,however it looks like one i cut that i think may be an as of some type.
but wait for the experts.
peace,
tim
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Beats me...fine rings and really white wood.......maybe Persimmon????
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That's what I'm thinking Shannon - Mike beat me to it but the first thing that popped into my head was persimmon. The older one's around here have bark just like that.
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Sawfiler does the wood have a "yellowish " tinge ta it ?
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It's not ash. I've worked at a sawmill for the last 14 years and know it very well. Not persimmon either. I also considered soft maple ??? I can't right off remember what it looks like.
Bob, it might have a very slight yellow tint, but more like the color of maple.
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Looks like persimmon to me.
Pappy
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Shannon soft maples have a smooth bark, especially at that size. At least up here they do.
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The wood looks like hazel, but the bark does not.
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The bark looks like persimmon but the wood looks to light to be persimmon, at least compared to the trees I have growing here.
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Looks like persimmon to me, too. Could also maybe be sourwood or silverbell. The bark does look like black gum, but like you said, it's usually hard to split. Don't think I've ever tried splitting a small blackgum though. If you can take a pic of the twigs and buds we could probably ID it for sure.
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I'll take a few pics today of the twigs and such ;) Like you said Steve, could it still be gum, just easier to split because of the size?
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I was thinking persimmon or sourwood also. See if the crown has shoots that grow straight up with a reddish (sometimes green) tint to them. Pat
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It looks like sourwood to me. At least thats what everyone calls it here.
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Agree with all others. Looks like persimmon at least what I have seen.
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What about chesnut?
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What does it smell like ?
Ralph
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Sorry, I meant to say walnut.
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Looks just like the Persimmon I cut 2 week ago. The one I cut still had the fruit on it.
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I took some more pictures today of the trunk up near the top and of the twigs. There was no fruit on it or on the ground around it and compared to all the other persimmon trees I've looked at, (thousands) the limbs seem fairly easy to break. I could be wrong, but I just don't think it's persimmon.
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Saw, my 2cents is sweetgum. LOOKS LIKE MY NEIGHBORS TREE BEFORE HE CUT IT DOWN LAST YEAR.but it put out little porcupine looking balls. Dismount
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I have to agree with dismount, Looks like Sweetgum to me,too.
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It could be sweetgum. I don't recall seeing those little spiney balls anywhere around it though. As best I can remember, sweetgum prefers low areas. This was cut on a ridge. I guess anything is possibe though ???
I have a sweetgum on the edge of my place. When it stops raining, I'll go take a look at it and compare the two. Thanks for your opinions :)
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Looks like serviceberry to me?.....I've got a couple growing on our lot in south Texas. Splits easy. The berries fall off and disintegrate....the birds love 'em too.....so you might not be seeing them.
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The twigs and buds look like a fruit tree to me.
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I've never seen serviceberry that big and with such rough bark and it don't split easy. Of course
everything is bigger in Texas eh ;) :) No idea Shannon, but if you decide ya don't want it send a stave to me
I will try it ;D
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Looks like sassafrass to me. Finding a root would make it obvious.
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looks like persimon. sourwood that size has smooth bark.
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looks like persimmon (common?), if so it will be light compared to woods such as maple, oak, hick, or blk locust. How about dog wood, probably not with the smooth bark on that one top part.
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It's not sourwood is it? We have trees that look like that here and I think thats what the old timers call it.
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dogwood
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For sure not dogwood or persimmon. One of the log buyers at work said sourwood and one said gum. When some of the others where I cut it bud out and get a few leaves, I'll figure it out.
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can you find another living tree and take a pic of it in full view?
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I do not know but it looks alot like a member of the Aspen family. If so it would not be a wood I would like to try and make a bow out of.
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Could it be blue beech or rock elm?
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cottonwood???