What should I do with these

[goose63]

 

 

Some nice Hackberry should saw them and into what or leave them untill some one want's the lumber from them

[fishfighter]

Don't know. Can you get a picture of the bark? Reason, just want to see if it is the same I have here in the south. Always was a trash tree around here. Not even good for fire wood. :D

[goose63]

fishfighter up here it's DanG good fire wood I will get a picture of the barck in the morening for ya

[ozarkgem]

Leaved it lay for a yr and spalt.

[Kcwoodbutcher]

I let most of my hackberry spalt. It's the only way I make money with it. Those logs are too big to spalt anything but the outer surface and ends. When I work bigger logs for spalting I'll cut it and then dead stack it for several months. This way I can get a more even spalting. You may have to pry the boards apart with a crowbar but it seems to work.

[ozarkgem]

I let most of my hackberry spalt. It's the only way I make money with it. Those logs are too big to spalt anything but the outer surface and ends. When I work bigger logs for spalting I'll cut it and then dead stack it for several months. This way I can get a more even spalting. You may have to pry the boards apart with a crowbar but it seems to work.

What size range do you leave whole to spalt? I got some to cut and plan on leaving them stacked. When you cut them are you sawing them into boards or just spliting the log and restacking them together

[fishfighter]

fishfighter up here it's DanG good fire wood I will get a picture of the barck in the morening for ya

Heck, as firewood, it doesn't have any BTU's and goes up in a flash. Just a waste of time splitting and stacking. :D I have way to many hardwood trees for firewood. ;D

[sandsawmill14]

we cut it into rr ties  ;D but far as fire wood ours burns so hot it will melt a stove down if you dont mix it with something and pops worse than hickory but it does burn up quick i like it in cold weather though you know when its 20-25 degrees ;D

[ladylake]

Up here cold is -20 to -25 or worse.  Steve

[sandsawmill14]

Up here cold is -20 to -25 or worse.  Steve

my coffee would freeze up there :D :D :D

[fishfighter]

we cut it into rr ties  ;D but far as fire wood ours burns so hot it will melt a stove down if you dont mix it with something and pops worse than hickory but it does burn up quick i like it in cold weather though you know when its 20-25 degrees ;D

Heck, we might see about 5-7 days of winter at those temps. :D

[goose63]

Up here cold is -20 to -25 or worse.  Steve

my coffee would freeze up there :D :D :D

You guys better drink the coffee fast

fishfighter here is a picture of the bark and end grain



 


 

It has a red tint in it

[LeeB]

Doesn't look like the hackberry I'm familiar with.

[sandsawmill14]

Doesn't look like the hackberry I'm familiar with.

x2  i will look and see if we have any on the yard in the morning and if so i get a pic of ours

[fishfighter]

Not the same here. Let me go get a picture.

This is what we call a hackberry.



 

Leaves



 

[Tom the Sawyer]

Around here, most of a hackberry log will be white or a bit yellowish with a small, darker center.  The bark is warty in both hackberry and sugarberry.

[sandsawmill14]

Tom that sounds like what im used to seeing the bark is smooth as beech with warts all over   some logs are just about covered with warts and just small patches of smooth bark while others are almost completely smooth with just a few warts around the butt end of the log the inside looks as you described

[fishfighter]

Yep, that is what we call hackberry as in the pictures I posted.

[goose63]

 

 
Now I'm not sure if this is Hackberry.

But this is


 
This one has been down for a year



 
Still standing

and the leave's

 


 

What ever the wood is  it's sold I think showed pictures to a wood worker and he love's it

[Kcwoodbutcher]

I let most of my hackberry spalt. It's the only way I make money with it. Those logs are too big to spalt anything but the outer surface and ends. When I work bigger logs for spalting I'll cut it and then dead stack it for several months. This way I can get a more even spalting. You may have to pry the boards apart with a crowbar but it seems to work.

What size range do you leave whole to spalt? I got some to cut and plan on leaving them stacked. When you cut them are you sawing them into boards or just spliting the log and restacking them together

I just slab them at 9/4 then dead stack them  I can edge them or resaw them later as needed.

[5quarter]

Hackberry has an irregular heart,  but the sapwood is very white. I quarter saw a lot of it and use it for drawer boxes. If you want the white to remain white, you need to saw it and get it drying fairly quick, otherwise it will grey stain. once that happens, its only good for building things that get painted. The standing tree in your pictures is definitely hackberry. The one on the trailer is something else.
                 
Fishfighter...that doesn't look like the hackberry we have here.

[goose63]

 

 
This is 1 of the 3 log's that were on the trailer not sure what it is but the wood worker wants it

[fishfighter]

Hackberry has an irregular heart,  but the sapwood is very white. I quarter saw a lot of it and use it for drawer boxes. If you want the white to remain white, you need to saw it and get it drying fairly quick, otherwise it will grey stain. once that happens, its only good for building things that get painted. The standing tree in your pictures is definitely hackberry. The one on the trailer is something else.
                 
Fishfighter...that doesn't look like the hackberry we have here.

Some trees have a lot more warts on them then others. The one in the picture had very few warts. Most of the hackberry trees here grow on fence lines or at the edge of woods.

[sandsawmill14]

the pic fish posted is  southern  hackberry without question  but i dont know how many kinds of hackberry there is ??? could be like red oak and be 50 different kinds  :D :D :D

[5quarter]

the pic fish posted is  southern  hackberry without question 

I figured it was something like that...thanks.