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Title: Help with tree ID...
Post by: Flyboy718 on February 17, 2011, 03:59:00 PM
What kinda tree is this?  I live in northern louisiana.

(http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k533/minden79/treeb.jpg)
(http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k533/minden79/tree.jpg)
Title: Re: Help with tree ID...
Post by: Shaun on February 17, 2011, 04:58:00 PM
oak of some variety
Title: Re: Help with tree ID...
Post by: aric on February 17, 2011, 06:13:00 PM
looks like red oak to me
Title: Re: Help with tree ID...
Post by: TroutGuide on February 17, 2011, 06:19:00 PM
Looks like black walnut but I need to see more of the tree and the limb does not look quite right so I guess Im no help realy.  I dont think it is red oak.
Title: Re: Help with tree ID...
Post by: okie64 on February 17, 2011, 07:03:00 PM
Hard to say. Red oaks usually have darker bark than that. Wait till the leaves pop out and it will be easy to tell.
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Post by: red hill on February 17, 2011, 07:05:00 PM
I vote for walnut, also. The bark is deeply furrowed like walnut.
Stan
Title: Re: Help with tree ID...
Post by: Balding Kansan on February 17, 2011, 07:25:00 PM
I'll put my .02 on elm.
Title: Re: Help with tree ID...
Post by: TroutGuide on February 17, 2011, 09:06:00 PM
The flowers and limb do look like elm and while the trunk bark looks a little rougher than I would expect I think I will change my vote to elm.
Title: Re: Help with tree ID...
Post by: Flyboy718 on February 17, 2011, 10:48:00 PM
I was thinking american elm...?
Title: Re: Help with tree ID...
Post by: okie64 on February 17, 2011, 10:52:00 PM
Are you gonna cut it for bow wood? Looks like a really big tree.
Title: Re: Help with tree ID...
Post by: Flyboy718 on February 18, 2011, 08:22:00 AM
Just a few limbs that look good.
Title: Re: Help with tree ID...
Post by: Pat B on February 18, 2011, 10:37:00 AM
Find something you know for sure will make a bow before you put too much work into cutting the wood. No since in cutting on a tree if the wood isn't appropriate for bows.
Title: Re: Help with tree ID...
Post by: Flyboy718 on February 18, 2011, 10:46:00 AM
Pat this one is coming down with a track hoe and will be pushed into a pit and burned, I have a favor called in to get a few 10" or so diameter limbs sawn to 8' length.  No labor on my end except loading in my truck.
Title: Re: Help with tree ID...
Post by: don s on February 18, 2011, 09:20:00 PM
i think a type of elm also. maybe winged elm.
                                 don
Title: Re: Help with tree ID...
Post by: Pat B on February 18, 2011, 11:13:00 PM
The branch doesn't have the corky wings that winged elm has.
Title: Re: Help with tree ID...
Post by: JamesKerr on February 18, 2011, 11:17:00 PM
that looks like it might be elm of some sort
Title: Re: Help with tree ID...
Post by: Flyboy718 on February 18, 2011, 11:31:00 PM
Yeah...was thinkin american elm.