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47fivewindow · Mar 11, 2016

I was cutting back the brush along the field edges
when I decided to cut this leaning tree down.
interesting pattern in the wood. Does anyone know
what this is?

ray_woods · Mar 11, 2016

Maple Tree? Ambrosia Beetle.

ray_woods · Mar 11, 2016

Looked at it closer looks like it's rotting. Sap pockets in trees like a cherry tree will have a similar appearance. Fun to guess at.

47fivewindow · Mar 11, 2016

I am near Annapolis Maryland. I don't recognize this tree as anything indigenous. It splits like gum ,has a bark kind of like a maple. I think I'll try to find a piece big enough to turn a bowl.

dlbuck · Mar 11, 2016

I am thinking Box Elder.

47fivewindow · Mar 11, 2016

Thanks Mr Buck. I looked it up and it is a match. It seems we are on the edge of its range.

ed in cny · Mar 11, 2016

It's box elder. With all the pink/red it sells for good money. The use it for knife scales and turkey call pots a lot. Could be worth something if it's just a snag your going to buck up for fire wood. Put it on Craigslist if you want to see it sell for something more that fire wood. Not much color from this picture but could be more within.

Ellis Kinney · Mar 11, 2016

Here in Northern Ky. the box elder is a trash tree. It will grow a little and part of it will die, and then new shoots come off the trunk. Every tree is like that. I have always wondered if farther north or south they grow better. Ellis

RBoots · Mar 11, 2016

Nope, same old trash tree in MI. I've been trying to eliminate them along the roads in the townships I take care of. Cut 'em, chip 'em, spray the stump to prevent regrowth. I hate them, every time the wind blows, if it isn't an ash tree, it's a boxelder down and blocking a road.

Ross

RBoots · Mar 11, 2016

Yep, those guys are right, it is a boxelder. Sometimes it does have nice looking wood, but it stinks when you cut it, and stinks when you burn it. They are a relative of Maple trees, and run a ton of sap when you cut them in the spring.

Ross

mtny · Mar 11, 2016

We call em red heart ash or box elder.

ditchwitch · Mar 11, 2016

Hey 47, You can cut that tree into smaller pieces and sell them on Ebay, I have always called that box elder . Wood turners like that type of wood to turn on there lathes like myself. Just fYI

1Plowboy · Mar 11, 2016

It's called Spalting, start of decay. Turns some beautiful stuff. Looky here.
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Rkh · Mar 11, 2016

Just took boxelder down-they have a bug called boxelder bugs that leave a mark on white sidings. It also was cracking my blacktop.

Bonnan · Mar 11, 2016

Ellis, same type growth up here in Western PA. Garbage tree.

Ivan in Mich · Mar 11, 2016

Take a piece of it and sink it in the water for a year and have lumber sawed out of it. There is a bacteria in it that will turn the wood all different pastel colors. I had a japanese customer that I sawed lumber for a lot and that is what he taught me .. He made many great things using it and the colors in the wood set his work apart from everyone elses in the craft shows. There was no smell to it after this was done

SweetFeet · Mar 11, 2016

A slice of that would make a neat table/stool top... or a neat shelf.

2x4 · Mar 11, 2016

I have to think that is White Ash.

T in NE · Mar 12, 2016

On cedars I've found that if I slice into the top of the stump so the picloram and crop oil mix can pool on it, I get a better kill. I've also done a plunge cut into stumps that grew around the fence wire and filled the hole with spray, rather than fix the fence.

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