Ironwood Close Up for Ohio Woodburner

[thewoodlands]

Hope this helps.

Zap

 

[ohio woodburner]

Thanks Zap. Spring must have came early. :lol: I've been looking in the woods for some ironwood and don't believe I've ever seen any. I guess i really knew what it looked like. Thanks now i will have something to reference.

 

[berlin]

Eastern hophornbeam, smaller tree with leaves that somewhat resemble those of elm (if i remember correctly). Good hard wood, usually find those trees around the edges of the forest, around small streams and rocky rivers.

 

[thewoodlands]

Eastern hophornbeam, smaller tree with leaves that somewhat resemble those of elm (if i remember correctly). Good hard wood, usually find those trees around the edges of the forest, around small streams and rocky rivers.

This Ironwood (hardhack) are found up with the pine,cherry and hard maple. The brook is down the hill a good distance.

zap

 

[pybyr]

I've been looking in the woods for some ironwood and don't believe I've ever seen any.

Until you really know how to spot it, it's an inconspicuous tree-- it grows more slowly than most other hardwood species, and so ends up as a sort of understory, and then gets shaded out and dies.

It's wonderful firewood; it's also astonishingly rot-resistant. I've found fallen logs of it that are covered in moss to the point that you'd think that it'd fall apart-- only to find that it's still quite solid and dry inside- and still makes good firewood.