Need help identifying wood

Need more info

TDaniel

>Roger, you'll have to narrow things down a bit for us to help. Where did the tree grow (state, terrain, near water, etc. So many woods look alike when spalted.

TD

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Roger Smith

>It came out of west Cullman Co. (north AL). The tree was growing in a hollow. Lots of water oaks, sycamores and sweet gums in the same hollow. The hollow only has a wet weather stream bed.

The tree was approx 16 inches. The bark is fairly easy to remove. The tree had spalted from the top down while standing. The top of the tree was gone and I was not able to see any leaves.

I want to go back when he pushes those 2 twenty inch sycamores down.

Re: Need help identifying wood

John Trant (Baltimore/DC area)

>My first guess is sweet gum but it is hard to answer without a closer view of the grain. Is the wood hard or soft? Does it decay quickly? Fiberous or does it split well?

John

Re: Need help identifying wood

Dick Hines

>If the log under the bowl is the same as the bowl I would guess gum. Gum has a center muck like the log.

Re: Need help identifying wood

Roger Smith

>It is the same as the log under the blank. You may be right about it being gum, but I do not believe it is sweet gum. The bark is very different from the sweet gum tree in my yard.

Re: Need help identifying wood

Roger Smith

>It does not split well. It leaves splinnters that have to be cut to seperate the two pieces. I do not know how long it takes to decay.

I thought the bark looks like ash, but it been too long since I did any logging.

thanks,

roger

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John Veerkamp

>Looks like standing dead elm to me. Elm is the very devil to split. I 've turned quite a bit that looks just like this.

John

Re: Sounds like Sweet Gum to me.

David Hammond, in Powder Springs GA

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