Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: k-hat on December 21, 2011, 05:19:41 pm
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Anybody know what this is? It's toppled and top cut off, but about 9 feet of trunk left w roots still in ground.
(http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd374/k-hat/111221_001.jpg)
(http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/dd374/k-hat/111221_004.jpg)
Thanks!!
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Not enough info. A picture of the general shape of tree, branching pattern, etc. would be very helpful. Looks like red oak or maybe elm, but more pics please.
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Sorry, that's all i have! The branches and such have been cleared away, this is all that remains. I supposed i could go ahead and ask permission to take what's left and it oughta make a bow ;)
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By the way, this is about an 18" trunk, one side of a split that occurs right here, but the lower 8 ft or so is pretty straight and clear.
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I don't think it has enough sapwood to be red oak. My guess is black cherry. If I could see pics of the smaller branches I could say for sure.
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Cherry of sorts is my GUESS. Our oak and elm up here look nothing like that bark pattern. Grab and find out later if its firewood!
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That's my thought! Now, i need to borry a chainsaw, trailer, . . . . Hope it's still there on Monday!
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When you ask permission to cut it also ask what it is. ;)
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Every tree of the prunus family (cherry) i have come across have a faint smell of bitter almond when cut through the outer bark.
I have no experience with black cherry but it could be a quick way to determine that family of trees if it is true to all cherryvariants.
Just a thought ;)
/Mikael
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It dose not look like black cherry, red oak or red elm to me.I do not know what it is :-[
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Thanks guys, seems like a lotta folks are going for cherry. Would i treat this like a whitewood or more like an elm or osage?
Pat: love to ask, but they probly won't know! It's on a hospital grounds where they were doing some clearing, been sitn in that condition for about a month.
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I conside cherry a whitewood as far as bow building goes.
If it has been laying on the ground for a month I'd usecomsider it firewood. It doesn't take long for fungi to invade most woods.
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It definately not cherry (prunus avium) , i've made a good few bows out of it and it doesn't look like that and the bark is wrong. It's not red oak or elm either. Sorry just a lot of NOT's - i'm not sure what it IS tho!
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Its Black Cherry. I remember reading somewhere it is a fairly fungi resistant wood. Its great smokin wood if you decide not to build bows from it.
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My first guess was black cherry but I'm not sure about the bark, from the picture it could be american chestnut,
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If it was around here, i'd call it pecan.
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I have to agree Cowboy, The Bark looks identical to Pecan.
Pecan is basically identical to Hickory in properties.
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Nearly every Black Cherry I have seen, have had a "flaky looking bark'' similar to shag bark hickory
"where it looks like it is peeling off by it's self"
The bark in this particular picture doesn't have a flaky look.
Just my two cents
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I agree with Cowboy, pecan.
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Where do you live Stikman? That might help ID this wood.
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My father in law has a silver maple that has a similar looking bark
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I have been thinking Maple but there are other possibilities so hard to tell!
I find it hard to think its cherry cause if cherry is in the sunlight much it darkens fast !
Guy
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North Texas (Mckinney area). I'll have to revisit the site and see if there are some other signs of identification.
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I don't know what kind of tree it is, but for sure you are smack dab in the center of pecan country with me. :)
George
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Bark and wood looks a lot like pecan.....