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The Wood ID Thread ( or name this wood type )

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Wow, so many hardwoods that I've never seen, this thread is quite interesting, even if I could not ID any of them!

I must say that the boxelder looks like it could be fun to spin on my lathe!!!

I feel deprived of hardwoods, having grown up in the PNW.

Have fun!
 

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I have been told it is called "red beech" as opposed to straight grained "white beech", it is being famed of being practically un-splitable.

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The little I have I had to noodle down to fireplace size, my axes couldn't get through the rounds.

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Wonder if muscle wood is what we call hornbeam here.
Hop hornbeam is referred to as “ironwood” sometimes..

Kevin? Do your beach trees get 5-6’ across up there?

We had some monsters in the Charlotte MI area..

We’re those American also?
 

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Hop hornbeam is referred to as “ironwood” sometimes..

Kevin? Do your beach trees get 5-6’ across up there?

We had some monsters in the Charlotte MI area..

We’re those American also?
Yep they're monsters.
Wonder if muscle wood is what we call hornbeam here.
Yep that's its given name. Musclewood is just a nickname because it looks like it has muscles
 

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Yep they're monsters.

Yep that's its given name. Musclewood is just a nickname because it looks like it has muscles
My grandfather burnt 1 big beach tree for 2 years..

He had his “wood lot” logged.

While the guys were there, he had them drop 1 “mother beach” tree.
Not for a log, but for firewood..
It had such a massive canopy, nothing else could survive within a 70’ diameter..

The lower main’s were damn near 24” in diameter..

It was like a tree condominium for a bow stand.
 

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My grandfather burnt 1 big beach tree for 2 years..

He had his “wood lot” logged.

While the guys were there, he had them drop 1 “mother beach” tree.
Not for a log, but for firewood..
It had such a massive canopy, nothing else could survive within a 70’ diameter..

The lower main’s were damn near 24” in diameter..

It was like a tree condominium for a bow stand.
LOL it's pretty cool when you're 50 yards from the woods and you're in the shade
 

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Yep they're monsters.

Yep that's its given name. Musclewood is just a nickname because it looks like it has muscles
We have American and eastern hornbeam I forget which is which. But one is the muscle wood. The other has shaggy bark although the leaves look the same and they are about the same size. We have some big beeches here too but they are almost always hollow once they get big.
 
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