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Title: What's this ???
Post by: Fla._Deadheader on February 27, 2004, 01:27:40 PM

Got a Florida log that has some nice spalt. Need to know what it is. Here's the pics.

(https://forestryforum.com/images/04_01_03/bark1.jpg)

(https://forestryforum.com/images/04_01_03/bark2.jpg)

(https://forestryforum.com/images/04_01_03/bark3.jpg)

Title: Re: What's this ???
Post by: LeeB on February 28, 2004, 02:20:49 PM

Hackberry perhaps? Is the wood kinda creramy colored? LeeB

Title: Re: What's this ???
Post by: Fla._Deadheader on February 28, 2004, 02:44:49 PM

Thanks LeeB. I was thinking Hackberry. Wood is off white and has been down for a long while. Looks Grey now, kinda??? ;D

Title: Re: What's this ???
Post by: LeeB on February 28, 2004, 09:34:02 PM

turns grey with blue stain. pretty prone to it. hackberry is a member of the elm family. not very stable. likes to move while drying. LeeB

Title: Re: What's this ???
Post by: Fla._Deadheader on February 29, 2004, 04:40:11 AM

Thanks Lee. I used to make cross ties with it, in Ar. ;D :D

Title: Re: What's this ???
Post by: crosscut on March 12, 2004, 12:36:47 AM

hackberry?? in fl wow i feel like i a newbie where have i been all this time not sure what it really is fl but cut plenty of them usually in sandy scrub growin hand in hand with a turkey or blackjack oak prime firewood here but seldom find a long straight enough log to saw

Title: Re: What's this ???
Post by: Bud Man on March 15, 2004, 03:15:33 PM

Sugarberry

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