Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Jakesnyder on July 05, 2019, 02:17:32 pm
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I live in south west pa and ideas?
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Guessing just off of the leaves, but it looks like a hickory to me.
Is it heavy or really light weight?
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It's not as dence as the hickory around. It's hard tho. My finger nail wont dent it
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My thought was white ash
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Hickory Dickory Doc, The Mouse Ran Up The Clock....You older guys remember that?
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The clock struck one... the mouse ran down... hickory dickory dock. You think its hickory donald?
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Yes, I do my friend or Pecan...Any hulls in the area from a bigger tree...Ash looks similar though...? If I could only smell them leaves I could tell you...Hickory puts off a strong perfume when you crush the leaves...
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Looks a lot like ash to me.
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Either way it will make a bow! Hopefully one day
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If the leaf is compound...all of the little leaflets are attached well... and the limbs are alternate, being nearly impossible to bend until they break...it's likely hickory, but if the leaves are compound the branches are also opposite, like the leaves... it's likely ash.
http://www.emeraldashborer.info/documents/E-2892Ash1.pdf
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Looks like green ash to me
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My first thought was ash. Ash also has compound leaves.
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Yes, ash leaves are also compound and opposite, but the terminal leaflet on an ash is SMALLER than the other leafets.
Terminal leaflet on hickory is bigger than other leaflets. There are very many kinds of hickory, of which pecans are a member.
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Ash.
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Ash
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I thought ash to , but I don't have hickory so not sure about it.
Bjrogg
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Bark looks like Bitternut Hickory. Ash bark has a softer quality to it. Bitternut bark kind of looks and feels like a typical rough sinew backing.
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I don't know but I live in eastern PA and all the ash around here is dead or dying from the ash borer. Maybe it hasn't hit western PA as bad.
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I say it's hickory. Pignut (or Mockernut maybe?). That sapling would make a Great bendy handle bow!! Cherokee style flatbow, or maybe something like a Sudbury where the handle is rigid but not too high.
For those suggesting Pecan: Pecan is not very common that far north (Pennsylvania right?), and its compound leaves have many more leaflets (To me it looks kinda like a wimpy Black Walnut leaf, they're both usually much longer and have more leaflets than hickories). Also the bark on pecan is usually rougher looking from what I remember living in Tallahassee and Quincy, FL, where it was/is very commonly planted in rural areas.
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Bitternut is in the "Pecan" part of the Hickory family. They even form hybrids although other hickories less closely related will also cross.
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The leaves AND bark look like our Ash here. Does not look at all like our Pecan.
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Bitternut hickory(Carya cordiformis) and pecan (C. illinoensis) are 2 different species of hickory. This is from Michael A. Dirr's, "Manual of Woody Landscape Plants" a textbook from my horticultural studies. He also says that the bitternut nuts are so bitter that squirrels prefer other hickories over them.
We don't have enough ash trees here for me to to be familiar with and the few that are here have been attacked by the emerald ash bore.
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I cant say for sure what it is, but I live in sw pa also and most large ash are dead, but I can still find a good many that size still alive.
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Slice a small stem and see if it is spotted. Thats how I tell between ash and hickory
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An end cut of the wood will also answer. I still think it's hickory.
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again... Maple, Ash, and Dogwood have opposite branching... hickory is alternate.
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It has opposite branches so ash. Now to determine if it will make a bow. It has a whitish under the leaves so I'm thinking its white ash. Anyone agree?