What kind of tree is this.

[JHbowhunter]

I have a few of these.  Tall and straight with very few branches.  . Impossible to split with a maul. No knots - just very stringy - worse  than elm. Looks like should split with one whack but no way. 

Edited January 17, 2023 by JHbowhunter

[JHbowhunter]

Here is an ash and red oak for comparison. The dead oak got hung on mystery tree so dropped  it then it got hung on a dying ash. Dominos. 

Edited January 16, 2023 by JHbowhunter

[Bucksnbows]

Looks like tulip poplar 

[JHbowhunter]

3 minutes ago, Bucksnbows said:

Looks like tulip poplar 

Probably not even worth burning?

[Alltickedup]

Looks what I generally call gum. 

[Tarhunt]

1 minute ago, JHbowhunter said:

Probably not even worth burning?

We burn it all of the time. It burns hot but, burns very fast. 

[Greybeard]

Easy to tell if it's a tulip.  Look for leaves on the ground that look like the profile of a tulip.

[Monster Marine]

I’m aiming for sweet gum..

gum tree……. Do u have thousands of balls around the tree

 

very similar to tulips 

they both grow straight 

then again im no scholar could be tulip

lol

everything is worth burning pine for camp fires 🔥 

Edited January 16, 2023 by Monster Marine

[Trophy8]

Gum tree. Poplar would split with ease.

Bark appears tight, tulip/ poplar bark is more porus.

Does burn well, just a PIA to split

Edited January 16, 2023 by Trophy8

[Woodsman416]

Not tulip poplar. I can split that with the side of my hand!

[JHbowhunter]

Doesn’t look anything like gum trees I find pics of?

[JHbowhunter]

Come to think of it when I glass trees from stand - I look at these and see the spiny balls. So it probably is sweet gum. But very few branches because the oaks crowd them out.  Pic I see are very leafy but those are in the open 

[Monster Marine]

Here’s a gum tree …

if any doubts the spikey balls are the giveaway 

[tick trawler]

Could be pignut hickory?

 

 

[Livesintrees]

Pignut hickory. I have a couple monsters by me. Dropped one that was massive this massed winter.